No, I’m sure there must be some decent people living in France.
However, certainly the politicians, the fishermen (who seem to think that they still own our territorial waters) and no doubt the French media all come across as being anti-British.
I suppose that is only to be expected, for two obvious reasons:
we, their cash cow, have left their control and obliged them to somehow create their own financial benefits;
I believe they are still upset about how we, throughout history, have embarrassed them by beating them in almost every conflict we have had with each other!
(Please note that nowhere in this polite dissertation have I used the word Grenouille, in English!)
When we visited our (English) friends in their small house in the Loire valley several years ago, I remember we went boating.
Some of the French girls seemed to be quite amused by my knotted handkerchief on my head, in the style of Monty Python’s Professor Gumby, so they do have a sense of humour.
I’m not bothered about a US-UK deal. In fact, I’m growing rather tired of America trying to dictate to us. They may not have noticed, but we are now an independent country.
If they don’t particularly like it, they can take all their military assets from our country and try to get some other country to let them base their military there instead.
I’d also suggest that we could manage quite easily to avoid involving ourselves in their military excursions in the South China Sea and elsewhere.
Actually, I’m not sure from that article what connection there is with us upsetting the French, though I’m not particularly averse to that anyway!
Neither Biden or Pelosi understand the GFA or the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Biden always plays up to his 50% Irish heritage but never mentions his 50% English heritage. There again, funding the IRA through NORAID is something he might want to keep quiet about.
I wouldn’t have bothered answering but in fairness much of your post is a bit extreme and deserved to have the improbabilities pointed out.
No.
There’s a considerable difference between doing some British immigration checks on French soil and having an actual border in France.
We’re under no obligation to buy from them either and I’m sure the Dutch would love to sell us more electricity than we already buy from them, not to mention that Ireland imports between 8% and 10% of their electricity from us in the UK. See below.
Tell that to the Irish when we flick the “off” switch and tell them that it’s because of their French pals.
We could just kick them out if we want.
Or even just confiscate it as a damages payment.
We would certainly not be inviting them to build more.
Oh no they don’t.
That’s why they’re spitting feathers.
Here’s what Daniel Hannan thinks as covered in the comments section of The Telegraph for those that are able to access that:
" France, after all, is one of the few countries in the world capable of projecting global naval force, and has significant territories in the Pacific. Why was it not considered a core ally?
Much of the answer has to do with Macron’s bellicosity towards Britain over the past four years. Again and again, he strained the patience of other EU leaders by picking fights even when there was no European interest at stake. From military satellites to the Irish border, he took up needlessly hardline positions for their own sake.
His objection to equivalence in financial services has arguably hurt EU firms more than it has London banks. His petulant questioning of AstraZeneca’s efficacy fuelled vaccine hesitancy in Africa, and almost certainly caused needless deaths.
On two occasions, first during the Brexit talks and then during the fisheries clash with Jersey, he threatened to cut off cross-channel electricity supplies – the kind of aggression we associate with Vladimir Putin. None of these things, to phrase this as gently as I can, is the act of a reliable ally."
My take is that the cancellation of the subs contract was less aimed at the French but became necessary in view of the Chinese threat in the Pacific region.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about anyway, because it was alwaysperfectly obvious that France coudn’t be involved.
Just imagine what the group would be called combing F and AUKUS.
Yes really.
Personally I would rather go with what’s happening and the reality of the here and now as seen by Sir John Redwood and many others than go with the opinion of a disgruntled faceless person on an anonymous internet forum.
If somebody really just wants to be disgruntled that’s fine as is having a different opinion, but IMHO life is too short to devote any more of it in grumbling ineffectually.
