.and now have some difference though you are right !..to which it must be added that there are very few Frenchmen not willing to recognize that the part played by Britain in 1940 was both an admirable and very effective component of the final result. JR
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain
Yes think other europeans pull us down.
Britain looks pretty good at the moment slightly semi detached from the rest of the EU, it will even better if the whole thing collapses/or we withdraw or are kicked out.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen 1:1
I found this attack on us by Napoleon rather amusing: 'The United Kingdom has no industry any more': Sneering Sarkozy attacks Britain on French TV | Mail Online
Do a little bit of digging around and you can get to this little piece: Industrie : le Royaume-Uni devant la France - LeMonde.fr
It seems that Napoleon thinks he can get re-elected and part of that strategy is to be overly dismissive of the British. Maybe the French are stupid enough but judging by today's headline in Le Monde.fr : Actualit la Une, I think not. It is interesting though who slags us off and derides us and who doesn't. Seemingly it is everyone slagging us off except the Irish and the Germans.
Sarkycosy is too child like, he will eventually spit his dummy out and take a tantrum.
"According to Eurostat, the sector of the economy (including energy) was in 2007, 16.7% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the UK, against 14.1% for France and 26.4% for Germany. Other data that contradicts the statement of Mr. Sarkozy: in absolute terms, Britain is the sixth largest producer of industrial goods, behind the United States, China, Japan, Germany and Italy. But ahead of France."Originally Posted by angelman
Although it is a cliche Sarkozy probably picked up from this country, where this view is prevalent but factually wrong.
It is a little unfair on Napoleon Bonaparte to compare him to Sarkozy, whose bungling foreign policy debacles make more like hapless nephew Louis Napoleon. He was eventually went forced into exile in Chistlehurst, Kent. So he should be nicer to us (with his wife's eye for a British rock star I'm sure she would like to come here too).
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