Stupidest PM comment since we helped Napoleon whap George Washington's backside?

[steepholm]

This simply isn't the kind of thing David Cameron should be making a "slip of the tongue" about. For someone in his position, especially, forgetting what happened between Dunkirk and Pearl Harbour is like not knowing one's ABC.

But, since 1940 has evidently been forgotten, are we now doomed to repeat it?

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[papersky.livejournal.com]

Over two years. September 1939-December 1941 is two years and 2 months.

If you count from the fall of France in May 1940, then yes, a year and a half.

I've run into US ignorance about this before -- write alternate history if you want to find out how much history people don't know -- but I'd have thought British people knew it.

What do they teach them in Eton!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I was thinking specifically of the "standing alone" period - but either way, Cameron was way off!

[sheenaghpugh]

"What do they teach them in Eton!"

How to think they have a right to rule the world and look down on everyone else. Very little else, but then unfortunately they need very little else...