D-Day: The alliance then and now

From The BBC

Not content with just using US Memorial Day for their anti-American rants, The BBC's Paul Reynolds decides D-Day commemorations provide another good opportunity to have a go.

"It is naive to think that the US and UK found it all easy. By May 1945, Churchill's private secretary, Jock Colville, wrote in his diary about how unpopular the Americans were.

"Some Britons, he felt, sympathized more with the defeated Germans."

Wonder which Britons he refers to? No names eh, Reynolds? And here was me thinking that we were commemorating fallen heroes instead of pointing out differences.

Some commentators go beyond being realistic and become almost sceptical.

Dr Gary Sheffield, of King's College, London, said: "The alliance with America was a historical accident. Britain had traditionally been allied to France but that ended with the French defeat in 1940.

Did you catch that? The whole thing was an accident!

Ever wonder why the BBC is so anti-American? Here is one answer for you.

An alternative to the transatlantic alliance is a closer European alliance.
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