Yet more praise from the French...
This time from a bastion of English-ness Peregrine Worsthorne, even
suggesting the English media is biased against the French...
"Would you like to live in a country which has no binge drinking, no
ASBOS, no tabloid newspapers, no section of the country wanting to
secede, no litter, no obesity problems, no teenage gun culture, no
Olympic games, no soldiers dying in Iraq, little private debt and,
above all, virtually no Muslim terrorist threat?
Of course you would, particularly if, in addition, that same country
had a public service transport system, an NHS and a national
educational system that worked exceptionally well. I am referring, of
course, to France, which the UK media, in its coverage of their
elections, is writing off as the sick man of Europe, simply and solely
due to its comparatively low economic growth, as if economic growth
was the only significant test of a country's well-being."
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