"Is the PM proud of our role at the Battle of Agincourt?"
An absolutely genuine question put to Keir Starmer's spokesman at the morning lobby briefing just now
An absolutely genuine question put to Keir Starmer's spokesman at the morning lobby briefing just now
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Disband the lobby and create a new style Q&A
and name and shame any numptys and their publication
Does your employer know that when you enter a room, the collective IQ of that room lowers by 60 points?
Thinking back now
I suppose you were just stating your views
What was it all for
For the weather or the Battle of Agincourt...
I can dream.
Not the best morale booster we could give the Navy....
Both the Telegraph and Mail omit the fact the boat was originally to be called the Ajax.
https://archive.ph/Fcm5s
Grant Shapps and Gavin Williamson think 'Achilles' is too 'woke'.
https://archive.ph/2025.01.27-135647/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/27/navy-chiefs-under-fire-renaming-hms-agincourt/
So let’s wade through this nonsense, shall we?
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/woke-nonsense-grant-shapps-hits-out
#Britain won tactical Battles for some time. But at a strategic level, it lost the 100 years war to #France.
#Shakespeare did not write a play about #Castillon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hundred_Years%27_War_battles
Scotland stood firmly beside our French ally, often at great military cost when launching "second front" campaigns to relieve pressure on the French, and by the Scottish army in France in the 15th Century.
Scotland and France trying (and failing that time) to control their colony is not as good a look.
And Scotland and France would not have formed the Auld Alliance in 1295 if it had not been for the English invasion of Scotland.
And anyway, who is covered by ‘our’ given that Scotland was firmly on France’s side at that point and the Welsh were ambivalent…
But my family were very much of 'that lot' and living there quite happily back then so I'll just keep quiet and nod sagely...
And how many 'locals' married into our family in the hundreds of years between landing in Normandy and leaving for England & then between then and now?
This tallies with the apparent lack of "Norman" Y chromosomes in the modern population.
https://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/18/high-court-rules-for-french-at-agincourt/
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I suspect they've moved on in the last 570 yrs or so, and have more current & important matters to ask about.
Who else names their naval vessels to offend their allies?! Just us, pathetically still bathing in a far past glory?
Japanese battles I'm tempted to give you: do these help cement the warm bond between US and Japan? Interesting no JS Pearl Harbour, nor USS Hiroshima?
Missing Ancestors Paradox
(I presume the newly named submarine is intended to be fully immersed, yes?)
Then there is is question of "our". Which "we" is he to answer for? Just England, perhaps?
Was that 14.15 Eurostar he was actually querying but googled plunked him
And oh boy, she has THOUGHTS on Belisarius’ use of trenches at Dara!
Who am I kidding. It's just an excuse to post a picture of HMS Achilles (at the time INS Dehli) from my Dad's photo collection. 😁
".....and what do YOU think that role was.."
Then I'd speed dial mary beard for a dressing down of piss poor history knowledge from moronic right wing journalists.
Read about King John.
The UK would not exist for another 292 years after the battle of Agincourt
Because money and not starving to death.
And both monarchs present claimed to be the rightful king of France anyway
In 1415, Nicholas Haywode Esquire indented to serve with 2 archers. In the absence of evidence to the contrary we can assume they were present at the battle
What a storm in a teacup
I trust the reporter handed him a copy of The Face of Battle while asking it.
You either get tired of wearing shit encrusted trousers, or they rip from the encrusting to the point of falling apart as rags.
I hope journalists follow up on all this.
Although I would now be interested to hear someone ask Starmer's spokesperson if he approves of Henry V's killing of prisoners of war, just to see him squirm
What are these people on?
Maybe the 878 Battle of Edington, between Dane Gutherum and Alfred the Great.
The Dutch part of my family still raise a glass on 9th December to the Dutch Dragoons routed the Royalists.
Also seen it called the Reading Fight.
🙄
An equally appropriate question in my opinion.
Crecy & Agincourt were about bows.
However, #Castillon was about cannon.
Bit like drones now.
Guys, we can’t even agree how to spell the place.
At least we all know how to spell Achilleus, damn, Ἀχιλλεύς, damn damn…
The drugs aren't working.
To the 'Rostbif' I bet the so-called journalist was from kGBNews of some other little englander gammon news network
What was the response?
Idea now dropped.
“…if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to go make; when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in a battle shall join together at the latter day, and cry all, ‘We died at such a place’“(HV. IV.I, 134-138)
Oh, yes. I know my history of England.
The Battle of Agincourt was the trigger for the despatch of the Scottish Expeditionary Force in 1419 to help our French allies against the Plantagenet aggression, helping them weather the storm (at great cost to the Scottish forces).
https://archive.vn/5qMlQ
Aren't journalists serious anymore?
What a waste of opportunity to ask questions that may affect the public.
Disgraceful