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  Ross - did you not read my posts properly. I am not suggesting that DHB are a struggling small employer.
  
  My lack of sympathy for the strikers is simple:
  1/There are many people working for small firms that are in far more difficult circumstances that those employed by DHB. They cannot strike because their jobs would disappear as their employers go bust, they need to, and do, take a more intelligent and constructive approach. These are far more deserving than those striking to defend working conditions and pensions that are far superior to what they enjoy.
  
  2/ I have a principalled objection to strikes anyway. They do not achieve anything and are only destructive. To strike at a time when the ecoonomy is in such difficulties and Dover itself even more so makes it worse.
  
  Incidentally DT, the house in France is a family one in which I have invested a stake and in which my father in law lives. It is not wholly owned by me though we do talk about it as 'our place in France'. There is much about the rural French lifestyle that is indeed to be admired but it also demonstrates how their overly socialised system destroys jobs and prosperity. They need to encourage more of a spirit of individualism and enterprise, getting rid of red tape and excessive taxation without losing what make their rural lifestyle attractive. All is certainly not idyllic in France and their cities have exactly the same problems that many of our towns and cities face though we are in some ways further down the road.

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