"Spiv" wrote:
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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They did know how and went near to doing it, but the battle of the
Atlantic was won, so cheap and plentiful grain could be brought from
its colony, Canada, and the USA.

Canada was a British colony during WWII?

Yes. Independence in 1948, for most of Canada and Newfoundland in 1959.
The Canadian constitution was given back in 1982.

It says this further down the thread.

You've said many things in this thread,
but very few of them are correct.

100% correct. Now focus.

The British Army was overwhelmingly supplied by UK produced arms.

But not completely, the UK still had to import arms.

The UK could make all it wanted.

It could not make all it wanted during WWII.

Not in the early part.

Did you stop attending school 8 or 9 years before you were 15?