Vous exagérez sur « l’image déplorable de la France à l’étranger » à cause des grèves. Je vous conseille de méditer ce petit extrait d’un article publié dans le quotidien britannique The Independent qui ironise sur les privilèges vilipendés des grévistes et la géniale politique de réforme de notre gouvernement :

« The argument to scrap these »privileges" goes on to explain that they cripple the economy, making everyone worse off. So presumably the French should be more like the British, because we’ve been far-sighted enough to have much worse pension schemes, and our working week is on average 2.63 hours longer than the French one. So obviously that makes us better off. But even we’re lagging behind truly modern economies, like Burma, where there are no pensions and people are forced to work all day and night or be whacked with a stick. They’re rolling in it, the jammy bastards. Seeing as the new government in France is determined to smash the culture of unearned privilege, Nicolas Sarkozy must be familiar with the characters at the top of the French rich-list. The No.1 spot in this list is a surprise, as you would imagine it must be occupied by a train driver from Lille with lots of stubble, but it turns out that it’s Bernard Arnault, chairman of Christian d’Or, who’s worth $21bn. He must be in a really outdated union. It can appear to be a miracle that anyone in France could get that rich, because the place is often presented as a basket-case in which businessmen can’t set up the slightest project without provoking a demonstration involving 10,000 burning pigs being dumped in their garden. But the French economy has grown at a similar rate to the rest of the Western world over the last 10 years, with one main difference, that the richest one per cent haven’t become three times richer in real terms over the last 10 years, as they have in America and Britain. Some of the strikers appear to have grasped that when a government proposes cutting pensions, closing 200 courts, cutting 11,000 primary school teachers and privatising parts of the university system, these aren’t random flights of madness but part of a pattern. And surely any policy that says, « The way we run our railways is outdated - let’s run them more like the system they have in Britain », can’t be allowed to succeed."

Et pan pour nos chers gouvernants néo-cons* à l’anglo sdaxonne ou à la birmane !

* c’est pas une insulte, c’est de l’américain ! ouaf, ouaf !