So you don't like the French so much that you can't even admit that the share the brits asked from reparations were in no universe fair ?
It has nothing to do with not liking the British. The Brits suffered damaged too from German bombers and naval bombardments, plus of course the targeting of their naval shipping. The Brits had reasons to get their fair share too. I think the French also had reasons to get their share of reparations for damages, but the Brits should have deferred their pension requirements until later.
The French asked for reparations for damage done to civilian properties (which were almost non existant in Britain), while asking nothing else. It was British intransigence and their desire to not pay their soldiers' pensions (which the French governement never had a problem paying for it's european soliders, or even for others europeans soldiers, Alsatian soldiers in the Reichswehr or latter the Wehrmacht had their pensions paid by France) that made the reparations unsustainable and when they realized that they didn't drop their claim, they asked others whose countries where in shambles to drop theirs. Germany could have paid the reparations originally asked by France and Belgium, especially given that their industry was untouched (unlike the Northern France and Belgium industry which was destroyed by the retreating german army).
I agree that the Brits, if still insisting on the pension payments, should have deferred them too as the situation in the 1920s was so bad in Germany that to get payments without collapsing the government and German economy they'd have to defer payments and spread them out over a longer time period to ensure that Germany stabilized and then could pay reparations. The big issue as well, besides Germany losing over 2 million working age men in the war, was that they had a negative balance of trade before reparations were accounted for due to losing their trade markets outside of Europe and in Russia due to the blockade and war. Then the Allies put up tariffs against Germany so not only could the economy not import enough to function properly, it also then had to pay reparation on top of that. All reparations were unsustainable, even the just ones based on damages inflicted by Germany. Everyone needed to tone down demands and not hobble the German economy if they wanted to get paid, but France was so gungho about not just reparations but also hobbling the German economy to cripple her ability to remilitarize that Germany was forced into insane monetary policy to show the world that reparations payments were not sustainable right after the war and that Allied post-war tariff policy was killing the German economy. The German economy may have been relatively untouched by war, but the only thing Germany had in abundance after losing Upper Silesia, the Saarland, and Alsace-Lorraine was some coal, so it had to import all the materials it needed to run its economy from abroad. If you have no foreign exchange due to reparations eating up all German gold, then Germany cannot import and run its economy, because it doesn't have the raw material inputs to get exports to raise money for reparations. Unless Germany was allowed to run a trade surplus and turn that surplus over as reparations, they couldn't pay reparations without their industry grinding to a halt; for France that was partially the goal, but it was harmful to the British and US economies, who traded with Germany, as did France and other nations. It was ultimately unsustainable without collapsing the German government and economy, which meant no reparations for anyone.
And France needed the money immediately. It had it's own debts to pay (while Germany had basically none) and it had to rebuilt a whole region (some families where still living in the street in 1924, the last mine to reopen reopened in 1928). What Britain had to rebuild ?
Sure, but you get no money and in fact a vast trade/economic vacuum that takes down the world system if the German economy implodes because it cannot function without a trade surplus creating reparations. It needed to export much more than it cost to buy the necessary raw materials to run its economy and pay wages so that it had a surplus to turn over to the Allies. But Germany had a trace deficit after WW1 AND had to pay reparations. Sure France needed the money, but Germany was unable to pay without imploding its economy and taking the world with it. That's why when the German economy tanked after the Ruhr Occupation the US had to step in and offer loans to keep Germany able to pay, otherwise the world economy would have fallen into Depression over the collapse of the German economy. Germany had huge internal debts, several tens of billions of marks and if it didn't pay that back the internal economy would grind to a halt.
Britain had London bombed, several coastal towns shelled by the German navy, and much of its merchant fleet sunk, while its financial institutions had bankrolled the entire Entente war effort before the US showed up and offered a bunch of loans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_strategic_bombing_during_World_War_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Scarborough,_Hartlepool_and_Whitby