"Jim, I have been reading the History of this all my adult life."
Boys own and Hotspur history doesn't count - your entire input into these discussions are glened from the web - you show no knowledge of having read a single serious book (don't count BNP and Ukip handouts as reading)
You have recently gleaned quotes from four historians - three establishment mouthpieces and fourth one poorly digested by you.
A typical example of your selective and half-digested technique was Max Clifford, but a better one was your magnificent selection of Christine, who you used to exonerate Britain from blame for how the Irish Famine was handled, only to find she was a staunch supporter of the 'Irish Holocaust' school of thought - can still see the skid-marks and smell the burning rubber from your u-turn.
Let's not disturb Colonel Mainwaring while he's still up to his neck in muck and bullets on the Somme - who knows, if we're good he'll move on to Waterloo an then - Battle of Hastings maybe.
War gaming knows no bounds
Jim Carroll