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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 11 June | 95 comments (95 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

this is a local problem in a small country. It annoys me that a local dispute makes national news here, you wouldn't hear about a strike on the glasgow tube. the idea that it's international news is just plain daft.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jun 10th, 2009 at 04:57:35 PM EST
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You wouldn't here about an Italian train strike this Sunday either (well, actually you just did. Details about who may be on strike are here.)

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Jun 10th, 2009 at 05:03:05 PM EST
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Perhaps (none / 0)

it's news because "supposedly" people in the UK don't go on strike...?

by Nomad on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 04:57:51 AM EST
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or becuase train strikes in London (none / 0)

actaully have an impact on bankers, who still take public transport (or maybe are unhappy that on such days roads are even more clogged than usual and their Bentleys and taxis are very slow...)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 06:23:40 AM EST
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Re: or becuase train strikes in London (none / 0)

More likely, London strikes have an impact on the local NYTimes correspondent, unlike those in Scotland. Does that newspaper have people in Glascow ?

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 07:58:22 AM EST
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