Kemi Badenough seems to have taken over Jacob Rees Mordor’s portfolio as minister for Brexit joy and has been highlighting the blessing of Brexit life. Apparently we are now allowed to export honey to Saudi Arabia.
Unfortunately, we only consume 10% of British honey the rest is imported. Much of imported honey comes from China where it has been micro filtered to prevent identifying it as coming from areas of heavy metals where it is banned in the EU. Also’ it is now practically impossible to import queen bees from Europe to start hives off earlier to get a reasonable harvest.
I have two passports. I’ve just been re-registered to vote in the uk as a british citizen. I have a french passport, I can vote (and have) as a French national at my mairie for several years.
If you are a british national living in france you can only vote in the local elections. As a french national, you can vote for president! I expect that is what they meant.
I think the issue would be have been voting in European elections twice, which is no longer relevant for British citizens. However for those with dual EU nationalities, can they vote twice for MEPs I wonder?
Ha ha but joking apart, is it actually illegal then? To vote in England for the MP and also for the MEP and then to vote in France for the Council and the MEP, I mean. They sent me the forms so, like a good little democrat, I used them.
I think the minky was a self-employed businessman - the beggar (John Bluthal) told Clouseau that “he does not tell me what to play, I don’t tell him what to do with his money”… so not belonging to either the beggar or to Clouseau.
Is it just coincidence that Sunak chose to have a General Election on the day that celebrates the outcome what was one of Westminster’s biggest all time cock-ups. But then what do you expect from a party that clung to power despite having two of the worst leaders ever.
I’m still hoping we’re going to see a gigantic spaceship above the White House before Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith go off and give them a computer virus.
Here in France I will be getting a good night’s sleep on July 4th. The nightmare will be in November with which unfit POTUS my countrymen have settled on…if it is settled in November.
The Tour de France passes near us and cycles through Cluny.
They had to resurface the road in where lorries and cars turn to the tip and a concrete business.
They had to resurface a 4km stretch not far from us in 2022 when the tour came through as it was in such bad condition. It had been used since the October 2018 floods as a diversion due to the bridge in Villemoustaussou being destroyed. All vehicles including artics used the small country road and had gradually destroyed the surface.
Our road into Cluny is used as a diversion when they close the N79. Heavy traffic is supposed to take a long diversion, but, of course, they don’t and our road is suffering and we get heavy traffic noise in the night if the window is open.
The surface of our small road is now much worse than before and they have not finished the work to make it all dual carriageway.
I think resurfacing the road for the Tour is fairly standard, they did it for a road upstream from us a few years back. The road’s not a difficult stretch , but it looks fantastic on TV with drone footage. Ironically the following year they closed it to lay fibre.
It’s a route I use a lot outside the tourist seaso/early morning/lunchtime, but otherwise avoid, convoys of French and Dutch campervans nervously negotiating its narrow twistiness.
Inspector Clouseau is on his way to make the arrest…
