The timing is bad, following today’s nice Guardianunlimited article about them, but I would like to make contact with the “Led by Donkeys” brigade, if only to congratulate them, but also to pass on to them (and you ?) my own version of what they are doing, which comes from much the same need and frustrations as theirs. This is extremely random, but I hope it gets through in some way.
Its task? To remind people of “the Brexit predictions of our leaders, rendered as massive billboards”. And so, in the context of Brexit, the “Led by donkeys” Twitter account. The phrase, however, is still vivid and used. By the summer of 1918 the British army was probably at its best ever and it inflicted crushing defeats on the Germans. Naturally, some generals were not up to the job, but others were brilliant rarely in history have commanders had to adapt to a more radically different technological environment… Despite this, within three years the British had effectively invented a method of warfare still recognisable today. In fact the incident was made up by historian Alan Clark.ĭuring the war more than 200 generals were killed, wounded or captured. This saying was supposed to have come from senior German commanders describing brave British soldiers led by incompetent old toffs from their chateaux.
The phrase ‘lions led by donkeys’ made Dan Snow‘s list of top myths about the First World War.
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