IIRC it was the Tories who expressed horror at Speaker Mick Martin’s expenditure on gold ambellished flock wallpaper for his Grace and Favour apartment in the Palace of Westminster… at least that was for a well renown and respected world heritage site - Downing Street is a tatty little grossly overly extended block of terraced houses 
Living in France I am more concerned at the mess Macron is making. His handling of Brexit, Covid, vaccination and the EU has been abysmal. Even his father has called him a self serving politician.
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Macron’s?
Part of me wants to ask, but the rest of me thinks asking would be the worst idea I’d had today…
Also
I’m glad no one asks my father his opinions on how I do my job, I hate to think of his reply 
Would you like to give any examples of how Macron has made a mess of Brexit Elena? BTW, lies from the Telegraph and Mail don’t count.
BTW, Johnson’s Dad was a remainer (and a total bastard, but that’s beside the point) so I guess he’s not too impressed with his lying son 
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Yes his handling. He was obstructive from day one. He had a chance to show reason and leadership and to work as a buffer between the U.K. and Brussels and negotiate. He decided to try to be the Napoleon of Europe. Just look at the mess in France with Brits trying to get cartes and driving licences. The vaccine rollout in France is a disaster because he just could not accept that the U.K. made an effective vaccine and France failed. His comments have added to the mistrust and reluctance of the French to have the AZ or any vaccine.
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Not his job, that’s Barnier’s.
We aren’t bothered about it and they can’t vote.
I don’t think so.
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Well we will agree to differ.
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We aren’t bothered about it and they can’t vote.
Who?
I don’t think he was obstructive enough - I would hope he would have pointed out the inevitable disaster Brexit has proved to be.
In terms of Carte de Séjour there has only been an agreement in place for 2 months - it will take a while to sort out but there is progress and will be sorted by deadline. For Driving Licences there is no reciprocal agreement yet with UK.
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With all due respect Elana, you’re spouting twaddle. Stop digging would be my advice.
BTW, you are a guest in France and if you are so unhappy here you know what you can do…
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Don’t waste your time Mat. She’s a Mail reader
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No not a guest. I took up French citizenship in 2017. Hence why I am more interested in what happens in France and not the U.K.
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Ha ha ha. You could not be further from the truth. Never read the Mail. I joined this forum years ago and stopped following it with others members I knew. We became bored with the tiresome comments and nastiness of some members. Five years on, I got the short straw to do a test run to see if things have changed. I would say they have not. So not for me.
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This forum remains a very useful resource - and if you make statement of opinion be prepared to have your views questioned - there is nothing wrong with debate.
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British people. Those of you who have opted for citizenship aren’t statistically significant I’m afraid, and the difficulties aren’t earth-shattering so the government isn’t going to be making more of an effort to make things easier - brexit-related admin is a pain for you but that really isn’t our problem.
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What was your previous name on SF?
@james @cat
SF is now a very different place to what it might have been 5 years ago. I joined in 2012 and the Team have made significant efforts to maintain the site and bad eggs have been dealt with swiftly and appropriately in all the time I have been here.
You’re not actually referring to AngloInfo by any chance are you? Now that was really a den of inequity…
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Surely those who have opted for citizenship can pay just as much attention to Brexit as any other Français or Française?
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Of course they can be the emphisis changes because there is a certain feeling of certainty after the feelings of impuissance that brexit has caused.
You have hit a spot. Most of the posters on here left the UK for a “better” life so it is in their interest to compare the UK unfavourably with France, hence the “thank goodness I don’t live in the UK now” posts. I was very amused by the “go back home comment”. That wouldn’t have been out of place said to a black person living in the UK.
For what it’s worth I moved to France but just to live somewhere different, not better. Sadly, as we really liked living there, personal reasons obliged a return to the UK.
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