Official thread for the biggest historical mistakes of Britain

[PM-Junkie]

Teaching foreigners to play football, cricket and rugby.

...and then picking them to play for England

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Scraping Concorde

Scraping it against what?

[BrianSnail]

Scraping it against what?

Charles de Gaulle airport.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

The biggest historical mistake of recent times was for the Tories to eject Maggie.
The next biggest mistake was for the electorate to vote for Labour and Tony Blair which history is now showing is ruining our country with massive debt and a catalogue of other failures such as uncontrolled immigration.

Maggie was becoming an electoral liability and the Tories have always been primarily a party about doing and saying anything to retain power. Maggie wouldn't have won the 1992 election, so the Tories did the right thing (for them if not for the nation) by ditching her in 1990.

I'd have liked to see her try coming back in 1997 and explain how all the tax rises and the massive deficit (yes, the Tories handed a deficit over to Tony) were the products of fabulous Tory economic management.

[blacjac]

I'm afraid you are wrong. Our greatest mistake was not to make Satanic ritual compulsory in school.

Nicky G returning to CUK

[rephlex]

the biggest mistake BY FAR has got to be putting all the work done for Enigma under the official secrets act.

most of the enigma folks left for the USA , worked for IBM and other U.S. tech companies and the rest is history. (hello silicon valley...)

[Peoplesoft bloke]

the biggest mistake BY FAR has got to be putting all the work done for Enigma under the official secrets act.

most of the enigma folks left for the USA , worked for IBM and other U.S. tech companies and the rest is history. (hello silicon valley...)

Indeed - and wasn't it that "great" leader Winston Churchill who ordered all the equipment to be smashed up and records destroyed?