It may just be users of the website; in which case it's not representative of overall British opinion.
There was a worldwide survey taken last year, by a real polling company, from which we can pull some opinions of the French and British about each other:
France
There has also been a sharp downward movement in perceptions of France, possibly prompted by the urban riots there: in most countries polling was conducted either during or after the rioting. Among the 20 countries polled in 2004 as well as 2005 on average there has been an 11-point drop in the perception that France is having a positive influence. Most notable were South Africa (from 69% to 31%), Canada (from 68% to 45%), and the Philippines (68% to 44%); also France’s European neighbors: Germany (77% to 58%), Italy (73% to 50%), and
Great Britain (53% to 35%). A plurality of Britons (47%) now sees France as having a negative influence in the world.http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/168.php?nid=&id=&pnt=168&lb=hmpg1#FranceFrance's opinion of Britain's influence on the world was 50% 'mainly positive', and 34% 'mainly negative'. So Britain does seem to have a lower opinion of the French than vice versa - but that may be explained almost entirely by the the riots, since a majority had a positive opinion the year before (the EU constitution vote also happened in that time period, though I don't know if that would have affected British opinion positively or negatively). The US has a very similar opinion about France to that of the UK. Britain has a similar negative opinion of the USA, almost as bad of China, even worse of Russia, and far worse of Iran. We are a criticial, grumpy lot, I'm afraid.
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