French snub the Queen over D-Day 65th
 

You steely-eyed killer chappies do miss some things! I was incensed at this but there was no sign of it on this forum so I thought I'd do it meself:

D-Day snub to Queen: Palace fury as Sarkozy refuses to invite royals to 65th Anniversary - and Brown won't act | Mail Online

Especially this:

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The slight irony with making Obama the centre of the party is that De Gaulle insisted that all coloured (over 3,500 Morrocan and Algerian) French troops in 2nd Armoured Div were kept out of sight during the division's entry to Paris. Reference

Sarkozy isn't stupid, though. He's worked out that he needs the US more than he needs the UK, which given our rather broke status both financially and politically, isn't hard to work out.

Ironic to say the least. When the French pulled out of NATO, De Gaulle demanded that all American Forces be removed from French soil immediatly.
President Johnson cabled back,..............'does that include all the dead ones?'

Send for Sharpe.

Hmmm,

I'm not sure this isn't just an example of well bowled Palace spin to avoid spending too much time with the French - that seems eminently sensible to me.

......Hornblower, Aubrey and Maturin.......

Her Maj could take their national flag, white on a white background. It is is long time since we have dug the French out of the oudoure conversely it a long time since we gave them a good kicking as well.

Obviously Presidents only - oops, as you were, Mr. Broon!

Sarkozy's idea of a joke - just to remind gloomy G that he isn't a head of state.

I'm thinking of organising a bit of a do in Normandy that weekend. Just a few mates by the coast, some tinnies and few bottles of Vino collapso. Knowing that HMQ loves a decent BarBQ when in the North do you think We should extend an invite to Betty and Phil? Strictly BYOB! What is the protocol? email or phone?

All welcome - except the Frogs !

Reading the Daily Mail is bad for your blood pressure.

Who reads it? I only ever look at the pictures!

When the festivities are over Obama and Sarkozy can settle down to an evening of watching 'Saving Private Ryan', and 'Band of Brothers'. No chance of being reminded of the despised Brits' participation in the liberation of France there.

Some feedback from US (and French) PPruners would be welcome on this thread

Ah yes, and in the last battle scene along comes a Panther tank about to be Tom Hanks's nemesis until itself is blown up by a Mustang actually flown for the film by....now, who was it again?.......:rolleyes:

Considering what the French did to their own Royal family two centuries ago, I think it's a smart move :E

Obama Sarko D-Day love in
 

Madame SV brought this subject to my attention having seen the Mail's headlines while in town this afternoon..
Her reaction - assuming the Mail story is true (!) - was that she thought it was an insult to the UK.. Gordon Broon may be many things but one thing he is not is a Head of State. It seems incredibly insensitive of the French not to invite the Brits at HoS level..
Madame is as bemused by it all as the rest of us.

sv

I too was speechless that the sacrifices made to liberate the Occupied Countries could be so callously treated, but then Browns lot didn't think the 65th Anniversary should be a special commemoration in any way. No thought that it could be the last time most of them will be around or fit enough to make the trip again.
What is it with Labour that in the last 10 or so years, all they have done is make us a laughing stock to the rest of the world?
Selling of the gold reserves, Blair thinking he's UK President, MP's claiming every penny they can gouge from us and then squealing about bankers bonuses, military ordering fiascos where the object seems to be how to throw away as much money as possible on projects which the man in the street would have pointed out were false to begin with, morale at rock bottom in all walks of life and to cap it all,most of the cabinet are of Scottish persuasion and just seem to be p1ssing all over the rest of the UK.
Still, I suppose the French need to have something to celebrate, how they carried out a strategic withdrawal and then came back when the nasty Germans had gone away.
Remind me again just how many French troops were rescued from Dunkirk as well as our own? And what about Marshal Peestain? What did he do in the War Daddy?
The sooner Her Maj tells Broon to go, the better. What did we do to deserve them?

I'm surprised you are all surprised . . .

They're politicians - 'nuff said.

Also just another expenses claim.

Bring Maggie (and Tarzan) back... god we were respected back then.

French Snub The Queen
 

I'm also surprised that Obama's political savvy seems to have deserted him on this occasion..
A phone call reminder to Sarko to get his ducks in a row wouldn't have gone amiss..

sv