Darren Grimes

The nation that saved Europe from Napoleon, the Kaiser and Hitler, cannot now save itself from the EU because it might just possibly restrict our choice of sandwiches, in the short term, just possibly.

1/ Let's look at your claims in order: Napoleon: United Kingdom: 25,000 British and 6,000 King's German Legion (Blücher) Netherlands: 17,000 Hanover: 11,000 Brunswick: 6,000 Nassau: 3,000 More Europeans than British troops

2/ The Kaiser (WW1): Australia 412k Belgium 267k Canada 628k France 8,410k Greece 230k India 1,440k Italy 5,615k Japan 800k Nepal 200k

3/ The Kaiser (WW1) continued: New Zealand 128k Portugal 100k Romania 750k Russia 12,000k Serbia 707k South Africa 136k United Kingdom 6,211k United States 4,355k Again UK troops vastly outnumbered by other allied troops.

4/ Hitler (WW2): Soviet Union: 20,000k United States of America: 16,400k United Kingdom: 4,700k Republic of China: 4,400k France: 2,500k India: 2,400k Poland: 1,950k Soviet China: 1,200k Yugoslavia: 850k Belgium: 800k Canada: 780k Australia: 680k The Netherlands: 500k

5/ I will not dispute the UK's efforts in all three wars but your nostalgic view of history is properly warped. But if Brexit is so shit that you have to raise & distort 200 years of history to sell it then there is not much hope for it.

There's a British sandwich association?

I share your surprise.

I suspect it should properly be called the British Crap Sandwich You Buy For An Extortionate Price At A Service Station Despite It Being Made From Cheap Ingredients By Minimum Wage Workers Association, but their PR department vetoed it

Don’t know what’s worse - his hyperbole or the fact Newsnight didn’t challenge it ...

And the fact that it's *on* Newsnight.

@Newsnight doesn’t challenge the EU it only insults leaders of countries that have an issue with the EU eg Emily Maitless insulting Hungarian Minister about law change!

They don't want to bite the hands that feeds: http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=84760 …

I liked the “we live in a World that is global”... but you can only buy sandwich fillings from countries in the EU.

The best avocados are from Israel and Chile, by the way. #Justsaying