"Not true. Of course it was not."
For ***** sake Keith, the only response you can make to nowadays is to deny what you have written and when you are challenged, to scurry behind a carefully edited selection of quotes from a carefully selected bunch of 'historians', which in themselves are a total waste of time as they have been so misrepresented by your distortions as to contradict what they have actually said (as in the case of Gary Sheffield, who is an advisor to the programmes which have cut the legs from under all your arguments to date)
The 'Christmas' claim was not a Government statement, but neither was it just a rumour among the troops - it was part of the recruitment campaign that conned young men into giving their lives for 'their Empire'.
That, like every other recruitment campaign throughout history, is what statements and lies like that are designed to do.
Of course - you never mentioned any of this in your earlier postings, did you - after all, you have told us that you only made claims on - what was it?
"1: That Britain had no choice but to resist the German onslaught;
2: That the British people overwhelmingly understood and accepted that;
3: That the British army was not badly led."
You're a lying little bollix Keith, and so bad at it you are unable to stick to your own story
Keep on being "infallible" - it's what makes you what you are!!
Jim Carroll