who won battles and or wars, can on occasions depend on which country is writing the history books, my nephews and neices spent the first ten years of their life in england and learned they had won certain battles with the french, imagine their surprise when moving to france and attending french schools the learned the french had won those battles.       DeGaulles specches are no more out of touch than some of Churchills, the truth of the matter is that the British Bulldog[ Churchills words] was in effect a toothless poodle without some other assorted dogs of different nationalities] the UK   could not have won the second world war without the help of a number of people,who included in no particular order of importance, de gaulle and the french resistance, America, Soviet union,and others.
if you wish to criticse the french, would not a more appropriate criticism be of Vichy France? and the FASCIST COLLABORATORS. One thing De Gaulle was not, was a fascist collaborator.
if you want to blame someone for the EU, why not blame Edward Heath one time Conservative prime minister,
De Gaulle, against the UK joining, I would have thought you would have liked him for that, you being in favour of the uk leaving
                                                        
        
1967: De Gaulle says 'non' to Britain - again
The French President, Charles de Gaulle, has for a second time said he will veto Britain's application to join the Common Market.
He warned France's five partners in the European Economic Community (EEC) that if they tried to impose British membership on France it would result in the break-up of the community.

All five - Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and Germany - have said they would support negotiations towards British membership.

Only France remains opposed.
Back to the original thread.
I nominate UffaFox he sang songs of the sea[ often classified as folk songs].