If you have done it for handling, then you should have connected it through to the front strut tops mate, as you wont even get half the improvements (in fact probably not even a quarter realistically although that is of course a guess) without doing so, the rear of the clio is a dirty great beam and the strut tops make no different at all at the rear to handling as they only support the shock and not anything that effects the geometry. There is of course some flex in the cabin section of the shell, but as you have only joined to that once near the front at the bottom and not high up at the front as well, you are going to do little to really make that more rigid either.
If you were to take data the front strut tops and rear beam mounts and front wishbone inner mounts as your points of interest (as its the relationship between those that effects the handling) you will find that a dash dodger cage with no ties forward and no ties to the A pillar will do very little to improve the movement of those points relative to each other, where as a "proper" (apologies for using an emotive word that therefore makes yours sound improper, but handling wise thats the reality) cage will do a lot to keep those points firmly located relative to each other during hard cornering.
From a safety point of view, its a worthwhile enough investment, as although the chances of you ever getting badly hurt in a clio on a trackday while properly strapped in are very slim, yours are even slimmer now.
I do indeed spend my life on here constructively critisising others efforts, as its a good way for people to learn about their cars if someone like me explains why something might be good at one thing and not so good at another thing.
Your car and your opinion is the only one that matters though ultimately so I have no idea why you are taking my comments so personally when they arent aimed at you personally.
And BTW while you are sat there taking it all personally, here is a picture of my car:
And you can see that many of the criticisms I just made of your car are true of the cage in my mk1 clio currently as well, as although it does locate a bit further forward as its not a dash dodger, crucially it doesnt tie into the a pillars, and it doesnt tie into the front strop tops.
At some point I will probably improve upon that situation by tieing it in better, but for now Im happy with it being there for safety improvements and cause I like the look of it.
So if it helps mate, just re-read my comments and imagine I am talking about my cage not yours when you think I am being nasty to you. FLOL
The "you are only doing it for looks" was paretly meant as joke though by the way, this was given away by the "lol" at the end of the sentance, sadly these little acronyms we use dont always do a 100% perfect job of providing context to what we are saying,
