Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "France braces for chaos as 'Yellow Vests' to take to the streets on Saturday | #EuronewsNow" video.

The outcome of these protests may come down to who is killed first. If a police officer is killed or badly injured the protest will likely lose momentum. If however, the huge police display of force leads to the death or injury of one or more protesters, then the government may fall. It is very sad that it has come to this, but the government has lost control and will use increasingly deadly force to regain control. The French population is waking up to the real cost of EU membership, as Macron's reform and austerity policies are a requirement of the EU. Macron is systematically dismantling France's social compact with a view to provide a low wage, low pension, work force to compete with the third world economies. That may be one of the reasons for bringing so many from the third world to France. The French must understand that globalisation means they are competing with the most exploited in the world and this requires an averaging down to that level.
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@gleeart globalisation has started a race to the bottom. There may well be argument for simplifying employment regulations in france, but if its people want high quality regulations they cannot be open to globalisation. The global super rich elite have a business model that manufactures in low wage, low regulation economies and export to the rich and decadent west. The bulk of the profit is kept by the facilitator of this trade. Corruption ensures the environment suffers and the polluter does not pay from he damage this trade creates. It is a nonsense that products that could be made locally are shipped around the world to meet demand. Apart from the environmental and social damage that results, globalisation, by concentrating production in a few centres, reduce the resilience of the world to withstand natural disasters. The west has made a critical error in delegating high technology production to the far East. It is now dependent on the likes of China for most of its electronics. Worse for the eu, is it is also dependent on the US for its critical software, particularly the computer operating systems. These are all failings produced by globalisation.
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@gleeart I see the federalist of the EU as nothing more than a microcosm of globalisation. It is no longer paranoid to consider globalisation as the federalisation or the world, with a view to producing a world government. Such a government would be a servant of the global super rich elite. The evidence is in the every increasing wealth gap between the super rich and the rest. Certainly the world's wealth is concentrate in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals, with more than 50% of the world's wealth in the hands of 1% of the world's population.
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