Public transport strikes in London and France this week told everyone what they already knew but many had yet to feel: austerity will hurt. At the sharp end of public sector cost-cutting are the people who drive trains, collect rubbish and bury the dead. Their resistance could bring the new “age of austerity” to a grinding halt.
本周，倫敦和法國公交運輸業舉行罷工，這傳遞了人們已經知道的、但很多人尚未切身感受到的一個信息，那就是：勒緊褲腰帶的滋味不好受。公共部門削減成本下手最狠的地方，就是那些火車司機、清潔工和殯葬工人。他們對政策的抵制，可能會令新的“緊縮時代”戛然而止。
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