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Comment: France lags behind on local swimming pools despite headlines
Columnist Sarah Henshaw misses the 'comprehensive coverage' for local pools she enjoyed in the UK
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Comment: The time is ripe for another widespread protest in France
Columnist Simon Heffer looks at the burgeoning Bloquons tout movement and the failure of the government to take decisive action
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Letters: Professionally fitted solar panels are uneconomical in France
Reader has €1,600 installation that saves him €30 per month
MPs should look to history
Expats’ right to vote
The MPs opposing expats’ right to vote after living abroad for more than 15 years seem, broadly, to argue on:
• Inconvenience and cost.
• Loss of interest in the UK and failure to bring one’s family abroad on relocating.
How can one put a price/cost on democratic rights?
No wonder people lose interest in the UK and politics when MPs have such an appalling mindset! Taxation without representation has had a major historical impact on the UK. It is as wrong now as it was then.
Laurance Beckett - Charente-Maritime