The BBC have got an interesting story which argues that a higher percentage of British passengers died on the Titanic compared with Americans. Researchers suspect that this is because Brits were more “gentlemanly” and queued politely for lifeboats, whereas Americans were more “individualist”. Husbands would put their wives in lifeboats and then go to the back of the boat and have a cigar while the ship sank around them.
So if Hong’s boat sinks with SCDC on board, we now know that the first in the lifeboats will be Rob and Erin. Meanwhile Our Glorious Leaderess will be up on the top deck, surrounded by stiff upper lips, leading a rousing rendition of “Rule Britannia”, while the icy cold waters of the South China Sea lap gently over her flip flops.
