AFTER the farce and foul-up - and selfish-favouritism - over the telephone sales of World Cup tickets, the French now have another problem.
The tickets themselves, all 2.5million of them, are stuck in a huge aircraft hangar when they should be going out to fans by mail.
The reason? That endemic French curse they used to call the English Disease - a strike.
This time, it is postal employees who are gumming the works.
Socialist France has more strikes nowadays than a box of matches. And, true, they recognise something must be done.
Many of their admiring politicians think it's a Tony Blair-style leader France needs to put things right.
But if they really want the bolshies in their workplace sorting out - and those World Cup tickets moving - is not the model they need first that of another British P.M....named not Tony, but Maggie?
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