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    Nu Labour Edukasion standards

    Or maybe not

    BBC News - David Cameron criticised over World War II history slip

    David Cameron has been criticised after mistakenly saying the UK was the "junior partner" in the allied World War II fight against Germany in 1940.

    "I think it is important in life to speak as it is and the fact is that we are a very effective partner of the US but we are the junior partner," he said.

    "We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis."

    FFS Even Prescott wouldn't have come out with that!
    The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

    But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”
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    Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
    "We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis."

    FFS Even Prescott wouldn't have come out with that!
    True - Prescott wouldn't have known we were fighting the Nazis.

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      #3
      How can someone that went to Eton not know when the US joined the second world war and apparently how?
      The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

      But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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        #4
        Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
        True - Prescott wouldn't have known we were fighting the Nazis.
        I think he would have rightfully referred to them as either the "f**king Germans" or the "Bastard Krauts"!


        Funny how after the war all those Nazis suddenly turned back into peace loving Germans, wasn't it?

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          #5
          Originally posted by zeitghost
          It's even worse than Bliar's ignorance of the reasons for the Iranian antipathy towards the UK & USA. (i.e. the overthrow of Mossadeq in the 1950s).
          Not so widely known though, perhaps Dave watched Pearl Harbor on the plane.
          The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

          But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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            #6
            Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
            "We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis."
            Well, in theory we were a junior partner to the French in 1940...

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              #7
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              And unfortunately forgot the date
              Yeah the filmakers forgot how many states there were in 1941 so maybe they too forgot the dates.
              The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

              But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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                #8
                Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
                Well, in theory we were a junior partner to the French in 1940...
                Correct.

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British..._(World_War_II) - this force was there to support French operations...

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                  Originally posted by zeitghost
                  At which they signally failed, being not much good at eating cheese or surrendering.
                  And British Expedionary Force won the war singlehandedly by marching right into Berlin?

                  Blitzkrieg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                  "The group raced to the coast of the English Channel at Abbeville, thus isolating the British Expeditionary Force, Belgian Army, and some divisions of the French Army in northern France."

                  It can be thus argued that failure of BEF (and Belgian Army if you insist) to deal with invasion doomed otherwise fine French legions who had no other choice but to live the day to fight later

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                    Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
                    "We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis."

                    FFS Even Prescott wouldn't have come out with that!
                    Would Britain have won without the American involvement?

                    Probably not, or at best not as soon as 1945. This is generally accepted by most WW2 historians.

                    I think that's what Cameron means by "junior partner".

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