Mixed feelings

I’ve just discovered that Penelope Fillon was born near Abergavenny. For those of you not following the French presidentials, she’s the wife of Francois Fillon, the candidate for French left (right-wing in British terms). She and her husband are embroiled in a huge scandal about fictitious employment, after claiming she had never been involved in her husband’s political career, it turns out she was paid very well (some €680,000) over 15 years, as his attachée !!! A hugely damaging scandal that could inadvertently increase Marine LePen's chances (Front National=the French version of Trump) of being elected, even though she has also been involved in a similar, though less costly and flagrant scandal at the European parliament. That, combined with the abysmal rugby results  and Brexit craziness (Wales, unlike Scotland and N Ireland, voted out !) are leaving me less proud of my Welsh heritage, just two weeks after St.David’s  day.