Cameron: America are 'our oldest and staunchest ally'?

Our staunchest allies have been Australia and New Zealand, they were with us right from the start of both world wars, Cameron needs to keep his mouth closed when he does not know what he is talking about.

Well, we have many old allies, but allegiances seem to split and shift from decade to decade and century to century, depending on who we were at war with and for what reasons. The Prussians were even our allies at Waterloo, so they were allied to us before America. Going back to the Holy Wars, we were even allied with France and Spain, Italy and others - long before anyone even heard of America.

BUT with regards to 1940.... RELUCTANTLY, even I have to admit that the Yanks did actually take part in the Battle of Britain - not many though LOL and they flew for Great Britain under the ROUNDEL and not the STARS and bloody Stripes....... The Royal Air Force roll of honour for the Battle of Britain recognises 595 non-British pilots (out of 2,936) as flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit of the RAF or Fleet Air Arm between 10 July and 31 October 1940.[74][75] These included 145 Poles, 127 New Zealanders, 112 Canadians, 88 Czechoslovaks, 28 Belgians, 32 Australians, 25 South Africans, 13 French, 10 Irish, 7 Americans, and one each from Jamaica, the British Mandate of Palestine, and Southern Rhodesia.

So, there's a few old allies in that lot that we can mull over.

wessex, that wasnt speculation that was fact, there was a very strong anti-British feeling during WW2, not much has changed it seems. 1940, that was when we were junior partners in a war we stood alone in according to cameron. I would also say Portugal has been a long time ally of Britain, Poland WAS, until we let them down. We all know he is just kissing ar$$$e, sickening man he is. Maybe we should quickly lock the door whilst he is the US, dont let the fool back in.

History is not Cameron's strong point but in brown nosing he obviously got a First. Portugal is recognised as England's oldest ally and France as Scotland's.

what a load of old bolloxs, no they are not, what the hell is he playing at. They have been slagging us off for heavens knows how long, that US thing about we won the war for the limeys crap, and that some misguided fools in US giving money to the feckin IRA, and besides which the loan Churchill secured from US wasn;'t paid back until 2006, the interest being enormous. They only do things when it suits.

For someone who did PPE and who allegedly got a First at Uni Cameron's grasp of history is decidely shaky.

England's oldest and staunchest ally is usually cited as being Portugal. England signed a treaty with Portugal in 1473..

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cac...

our oldest continual ally is Portugal an unbroken agreement dates back to the early 18 century.

David Cameron is the new Tony Blair, of course he's going to make a **** of himself.

oldest and staunchest.

I wouldn't consider France or Holland a "staunch ally" of anyone but themselves.