Comment on with friends like these . . . by Simon Heffer
(03/05/2003)
Could you please inform Simon Heffer, the next time you speak to him, that the French banned British beef as a result of the British Christmas time ban of French turkey a few years previously.
If he cares to research the matter more thoroughly, he may find more reasons for France’s actions towards its neighbour, rather than a presupposed Inferiority complex that is surely an alien concept to anyone but Mr Heffer.
Simon
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