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No, you're misunderstanding. It's not about the troops themselves, it's about the units that got them there - the beach parties, beachmasters, naval vessels and landing craft - which were largely British for every beach. As I said above, over 3,000 of the 4,000 landing craft and crews therein...

Um, well shall we say that wasn't clear? But fair enough.

Mate, you started the thread titled "Theresa May's last day", not me. To coin a phrase "nothing has changed".

It's just practicality. The US is their biggest market, so they tailor it for US audiences. It's why it was quite brave of Christopher Nolan to point blank refuse any American (acting) involvement in Dunkirk. One of the old tricks by those who wanted to be vaguely accurate was to have a big...

The amphibious assault element was largely carried out by the British too, they are the ones who took the Americans in. It's no biggie, I don't have a problem really with that portrayal, but as a matter of historical accuracy, it was mostly the British/Commonwealth forces (i.e naval/marine) who...

Not really. Unless the government falls then the Conservative Party Leader will be the Prime Minister. The rest of it doesn't alter that in any way whatsoever. You're over-complicating it by trying to read what you want into it. She is standing down as party leader today, she is still Prime...

Which she will do when there's a Prime Minister to replace her. This isn't complicated.

Well that's ridiculous. You want her to stand down today before there's a Prime Minister to replace her?

On historical films generally (this is a bit of an off topic aside, I know) a few years back I was at a promo event done in conjunction with Tourism Australia about the upcoming film "Australia" - which was of course, terrible - and they had this American 20th Century Fox PR person come out to...

Well, since you started off with "Bye Theresa" and she's not going anywhere today, she's literally just changing from Conservative Party Leader to Acting Conservative Party Leader... I don't know why you feel the need to make a point on her effectiveness. It was just a factual post.

A good thread by the way - since we often see people talking about how it was all about Russia.

I might be imagining it (confirmation bias etc) but wasn't Churchill: The Hollywood Years partly inspired by that?

It's not her last day. She steps down as Conservative leader to become acting Conservative leader until that election is complete. She stays on as PM until there's a winner.

Can't remember whether it was the producer, writer - but someone behind it did yes, and it seemed pretty genuine. Real veterans had a right to be outraged, but the rest of us the reaction should just be more a roll of the eyes and a shake of the head. It's a terrible, terrible film...

The last bit of that is slightly unfair - the note at the end about it being the RN who had done it was put in precisely because of the reaction to it, rather than to re-inforce some kind of insult. To be fair to the film, the historical inaccuracy in that sense was no more barking mad than...

Could be worse, could be U-571 ;-)

You can make a good case for saying D Day was Britain last day as a superpower. Despite the Saving Private Ryan rendering of it, D Day was largely a British/Commonwealth operation, with the vast majority of the ships and the landing craft being British and Canadian. The scale of the naval side...

I would love to believe City's owners believe in an open meritocracy and equality of opportunity across football, but the cash grab for more overseas TV rights suggests otherwise. I suspect City are thoroughly in favour of FFP once City aren't under the microscope. Sadly. On the flip side...

West Indies are going to cause everyone problems with this pace attack. Still....snigger at the Australians.