FIDELMA Cook may well have felt “an enormous feeling of pride” when she saw president-elect Emmanuel Macron strutting his stuff at the Louvre and she is entitled to never live again in Prime Minister Theresa May’s “strong and stable” Britain (“Vive la France. I would never want to live in Theresa May’s Britain”, Herald Magazine, May 13), but having also seen political matters at first hand in France over the last few months I think that many French voters, including my fairly large circle of friends, voted for Mr Macron as the lesser of two evils.

In my opinion many French voters did not have a lot of time for either of the candidates and only voted for Mr Macron, who many believe doesn’t stand for anything, to avoid the embarrassment and catastrophe of having a racist President.

The “new boy” will be unable to do very much unless his candidates at the National Assembly elections in June have considerable success.

Although Brexit has put the UK is in a bit of awkward spot, France is politically and economically a lot less strong and stable than us at the moment.

W MacIntyre,

32 Dunlin, East Kilbride.