This news isn't to unexpected. After Phoney Tony against his normal "im not going to stick my neck out on anything" political policy went dashing off into Iraq head first is anyone surprised at this.
Fortunately we had more than 1 squadron of Spits and a lot of Hurricanes too otherwise they would have been swamped on the first day! And we would all be speaking German!
We were swamped on the first day, organizational issues and the destroy bombers orders accounted for it check out some BoB history books from your local PL.