William FitzOsburn and the Battle of Normandy

William is often compared to Margaret Thatcher, but I often think about this in the same way that Thatcher when she heard that the Falkland Islands had been invaded. Do you imagine that that's any sort of comparison that he was stood somewhere in a council chamber and said can we do it and his councilors said we can do it? We certainly get the sources telling us that there was some pushback and it's interesting that at the start all of these sort of vessels were on the same kind of level. Nobody is picked out above anybody else but in the later sources William FitzOsburn who was the steward of Normandy who was one of William's oldest childhood friends comes forward as quite