Well, this is quite something from the TV chap who does the nice Coast documentaries.
He certainly doesn't hold back on the tried and tested references to WWII.
Perhaps cobblers are best advised to stick to thier last:
Ultracrepidarian
Definition: one who is presumptuous and offers advice or opinions beyond one’s sphere of knowledge
The meaning of this word comes from a story in antiquity, in which the famed Greek painter
Apelles one day heard a
cobbler criticizing the way he had rendered a foot in a painting. Apelles then said to the shoemaker something very cutting and witty about how he shouldn’t presume to judge beyond his station. The exact remark has, unfortunately, been lost in time, but since the Latin phrase
ultra crepidam means “beyond the sole,” we may imagine that Appeles used this, or something similar, in his rebuke. Hence, an
ultracrepidarian is one who, as a shoemaker might, goes “beyond the sole,” and offers advice on matters they perhaps should leave alone.
