Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing for six days. Eventually, on the seventh day, Michael the Archangel found him resting.
"Where have you been?" asked Michael.
God sighed a deeply satisfying sigh and whilst proudly pointing towards the clouds said, "Look Michael, look what I've made."
Archangel Michael look puzzled and said, "What is it?"
"It's a planet" replied God, "and I've put LIFE onto it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael.
God explained, pointing to different parts of the Earth, "Yes balance Michael. For example, this is North America and this will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, whilst this is South America a place of poverty and corruption.
"Over here I've placed a continent of white people and over here a continent of black people".
God continued "This area will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."
The Archangel, impressed with God's creation, then pointed to a small land mass and asked, "What's this one?"
"Ah," said God, "That's Britain, the most glorious place on Earth. A place blessed with beautiful lakes, rivers, streams and hills. A place where the people are modest, intelligent and humorous as well as hard working, extremely sociable and always high achieving. They will be known throughout the world as diplomats' and 'carriers of peace' and others will always look up to them as a nation of inspiration."
The Archangel gasped in wonder and proclaimed, "God, you said there would be balance in this world; where is the BALANCE?"
God replied wisely, "Just wait until you see the w***ers I put next to them in France"
(Please note, for the purpose of clarification I am not anti French, I like France and the people who live there)