Those who have read Marsha Johnston’s account of the state of public opinion in France on the subject of telecommunications in today’s page two will have noticed that the people most keen to have a mobile phone are agricultural workers: this of course is because French farmers are the only citoyens that don’t have to worry about the cost – they know that all they have to do is form a convoy of 50 tractors and dump a few loads of ordure in front of the Elysee Palace and the government will rush to hand them all mobile phones, with free telephone calls for life.
