Reply to: Scotland to join euro

[Churchill]

Scottish fiscal policy in Europe to Hatton via a few pages on WWII military strategy.

All part of the game.

[minestrone]

Scottish fiscal policy in Europe to Hatton via a few pages on WWII military strategy.

[vetran]

why wasn't he grabbed at Dawn in a heavily planned police strike like all the other white collar criminals?

[Churchill]

Blast from the past...

POLICE last night charged Derek Hatton with conspiring to defraud an insurance company and the theft of a motorised horsebox.

The 48-year-old former deputy leader of Liverpool City Council was charged after being questioned for almost 10 hours at Wavertree Road police station in the city. Mr Hatton went to the station voluntarily.

[Doggy Styles]

Good god! Imagine what Nazi-Scouser offspring would be like.

[shaunbhoy]

Good god! Imagine what Nazi-Scouser offspring would be like.

[Doggy Styles]

Wasn't his (step)sister married to a Scouser and lived in Liverpool?

Good god! Imagine what Nazi-Scouser offspring would be like.

[minestrone]

Wasn't his (step)sister married to a Scouser and lived in Liverpool?

No wonder he was so angry.

[darmstadt]

I think the Nazi thinking was that Britain would eventually fall into line and work with them in some respect. Old Adolf quite respected us and invasion was not top on his list.

Wasn't his (step)sister married to a Scouser and lived in Liverpool?

[shaunbhoy]

Playing what-if scenarios can go on forever.

Good game. I'll start...................what-if you ever stopped acting like a completely clueless twunt all of the time?

[minestrone]

I think the Nazi thinking was that Britain would eventually fall into line and work with them in some respect. Old Adolf quite respected us and invasion was not top on his list.

[BlasterBates]

Not really true is it. The channel was a no go area for the Royal Navy because of the Luftwaffe. It was also a no go area fro the Kriegs Marine because of the RAF, hence the reasons for the Battle of Britain. Whoever had air superiority could cross the channel.

Well I learned this from a German history programme, which included interviews with German officers, so I think it is true.

The "Kriegsmarine" was a joke, very few ships, who spent most of the war hiding. There were only two or three ships of note that spent most of their time hiding from the Royal Navy.

For the Luftwaffe to have been a threat to the Royal navy they would have needed air superiority; they didn't have it and didn't even get close, and even then it isn't enough. Air superiority in the Soviet Union did them a fat lot of good. The idea that the Luftwaffe would destroy all Britain's planes with factories producing them on weekly basis, is rather stretching fantasy.

The DDay invasion was a magnitude of 10 compared to what the Germans could have possibly achieved.

[Churchill]

Rubbish.

The Royal Navy were tucked away in Scarpa Flow which was inaccessable by the Luftwaffe bombers, but they were only ever 24 hours from action in the channel.

If the RAF sat at base making tea all war, then Operation Sealion would still have been a disaster for the Germans. The Royal Navy would have smashed the invasion flotilla. They would have taken a pounding themselves for sure, but it would be a turkey shoot.

In fact if the Royal Navy sat in Scarpa Flow drinking rum all war while the RAF were on permanent tea break leaving only Dad's Army to protect England, then Operation Sealion would still have been a disaster for the Germans. Why? Because they planned to use river barges to cross the channel. These would have sunk in anything over sea state one and most of the Wehrmacht would have drowned in the channel before Churchil could finish his breakfast.

Scapa Flow

[swamp]

Not really true is it. The channel was a no go area for the Royal Navy because of the Luftwaffe. It was also a no go area fro the Kriegs Marine because of the RAF, hence the reasons for the Battle of Britain. Whoever had air superiority could cross the channel.

Rubbish.

The Royal Navy were tucked away in Scarpa Flow which was inaccessable by the Luftwaffe bombers, but they were only ever 24 hours from action in the channel.

If the RAF sat at base making tea all war, then Operation Sealion would still have been a disaster for the Germans. The Royal Navy would have smashed the invasion flotilla. They would have taken a pounding themselves for sure, but it would be a turkey shoot.

In fact if the Royal Navy sat in Scarpa Flow drinking rum all war while the RAF were on permanent tea break leaving only Dad's Army to protect England, then Operation Sealion would still have been a disaster for the Germans. Why? Because they planned to use river barges to cross the channel. These would have sunk in anything over sea state one and most of the Wehrmacht would have drowned in the channel before Churchil could finish his breakfast.

[shaunbhoy]

Because that seems to be the sum total of your life achievement.

If my achievements in life are diametrically opposed to what you regard as successful, then I will deem my life to have been worthwhile.
And as for apples falling from trees, if any of your offspring look like offering much, you might want to grab hold of your Polish gardener and ask him to chip in with their School Fees.