Who cares? A mucky “journalist,” plying his mucky trade, and catching out a mucky-minded politician. Yet another non-story, though, with your record on here, it’s perfectly understandable why you’re fascinated by it.

So what.

Mk 19? surely you mean mk14 edgar.RM689 was a yucky blue colour in the 60s,think it was the rolls-royce house colours of that time.

True, sorry about that; should have stopped and thought about what I was writing.

It would be a great colour if one was restoring a Triumph Spitfire….and wasn’t concerned with restoring it to stock configuration.

And if you’re not too concerned about it not being powered by a Rolls-Royce engine.

Quite possibly the difficulty (even impossibility) of carrying out “blind” riveting; some of the skins on the Mk.I Spitfire wings and tailplane were retained by countersunk screws, not rivets.

[I]”I opine for keeping the team, but in a smaller format”.
The Red Arrow?

The Red Darts pub team.

bad mouthing the Yanks and building up the UKup the UK…jingoism works both ways.

Even though it suits you to believe otherwise, I see WWII as a partnership which actually worked, and is why I viewed with deep misgivings the idea of Scotland leaving; too many Scots seemed to have a Hollywood “Braveheart” view of independence, and couldn’t look past a repeat of Bannockburn.

Returning to Scotland, after only two days, we have the usual suspects going on about how nothing has changed/will change, and how you can’t trust the politicians’ promises made before the vote; welcome to the real world, folks, as an ex-girlfriend was fond of saying, “promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken” (and she broke hers.)

Seriously, the UK could not have won WWII on its own. .

You really should broaden your horizon beyond American history books; we had Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand (plus sundry other little countries across the globe) to help.
Try reading “Britain’s War Machine,” by David Edgerton; it’s published by Oxford University Press, in the U.S., and you might find it illuminating (if you remove your stars-and-stripes-coloured glasses, first.)

But what do I know, I only majored in American history in University

Perhaps you should have done world history?

If no Moderator can throw any light on what seems to be an unwarranted admonition them, perhaps some other person/s can.

I fear, John, that you don’t understand the system.
It’s perfectly acceptable for someone to insult this nation and its people; it’s perfectly acceptable for someone to include THAT four-letter word in their pseudonym; it’s perfectly acceptable to use offensive language and (inadequately) “hide” swearwords with asterisks.
However, if you defend this nation’s reputation, using normal, everyday words and language, you break the site’s rules.