SO much for the teachers at Eton and Balliol College at Oxford University when the Prime Minister can’t do simple arithmetic.

The PM claims that Britain has seen off all foreign invaders over the last 1,000 years but as everyone knows, England was invaded by the Normans in 1066. That is a little short of his 1,000 years, and the Normans weren’t British as Normandy is in France.

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Technically Britain didn’t come into being until 1707 and the Union of Parliaments, and since then the Germans have occupied the Channel Islands and John Paul Jones (a Scotsman no less, and founder of the American Navy) invaded Wales during the American War of Independence.

Is he really trying to rewrite history as well as international law and protocol?

Alexander Potts
Kilmarnock