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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
At this time of the year, the circus is a not
uncommon sight in many of the towns
and villages in France. However, before
taking along your kids and handing over
your euros, please take a moment to
check out the state of the animals.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
Dear Editor,
Oh dear, Ron Ruppe (‘Forever Young’, June issue). “Sensitivity
training”? “French News’ should investigate… affront to
octogenarians”? You just have to be of the generation which
gave the world Political Correctness, the Nanny State, control
freaks, “training” for everything imaginable (a bit of paper for
every job, a job for every bit of paper), and “Let’s make
everything bland, boring, banal and bureaucratic”. I’ll bet you
are forever saying “They should do something about it” too.
I’m discouraged from going to Britain because of so many
people like you there, and now you’re in France!
R Flower, by email
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
Hello there,
We are at last FREE, after a two-year
court (civil) case that we won in
November 2006 after our new house had
to be demolished…
What a struggle, certainly on the
personal and psychological level – and the
financial cost came a good second as
well.
Don’t think that after you have won
the court case (procès) it is the end. Oh
no! You have to go into the phase of
execution of the ruling. It took us another
six months to get paid and blackmailed
(‘chantage’ sounds more polite) by all
your defenders for the last two years who
want to take a last bite at your
euro pie.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
Dear Editor
No, we did not all arrive here
with romantic ideas of an
idyllic life allied to a
successful business without
being able to speak the
language or apparently any
other relevant skills because
we are not all as simpleminded
as David Mold (May
Letters). There appears to be a
new wave of Brits arriving in
France who believe that all
their inadequacies (and Mr
Mold appears to have more
than his fair share) will
somehow evaporate once they
arrive in France and a new
prosperous sunlit lifestyle will
emerge, as if by osmosis. I
could go on, but Mr Mold and
his ilk make me weep so that I
begin to wish that I were
anything other than British.
My advice, Mr Mold, is go
home: make a success of some
business venture, if you can;
learn the French language, if
you can and then return when
you have something to offer
the French nation, rather than
looking for handouts. If you
elect to take this advice, I
doubt you will be back!
John Huband, 86200 Maulay
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
Dear Editor,
I feel impelled to comment on
the letter from Clair Whitmer
(US Guys, May issue) on gun
control.Who could argue with
her premise “don’t sell guns to
crazy people”? The handgun
ban in the UK applied to all
revolver and pistol firearms,
.22 calibre included, except
for black powder weapons
which, because of their rather
laborious loading process,
were excluded. Following the
Dunblane atrocity, the British
Prime Minister ordered a full
study on handgun possession
in the UK. The media were
short of material at the time
and begin to jerk him around.
Perhaps because he was new
in the job, he caved in and
before the publication of the
report, he announced a
complete ban. So much for
due process!
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