…might be condemned to embarrass themselves—and perhaps their whole country—in front of the world.

This past weekend the nation of Australia grimaced in sheer humiliation while their GWB-esque Prime Minister and clown car operator, Tony Abbott took a tour of Scotland. Forgetting his own nation, Australia, was once a British Protectorate, he vilified the cry for Scottish independence.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has swaggered up to the plate with the kind of spectacular gaffe that may well dominate the news cycle for days to come. In a recent interview with The Times, Abbott was drawn into a question about the upcoming Scottish Independence Referendum, and it didn’t go well.

Australia became an independent nation (i.e. mostly free of the United Kingdom/British Empire) in 1901, and you’d think a prime minister might remember that. As for Scotland’s independence, well, I heard Braveheart is very popular there.

Okay, fine, Braveheart was ridiculously historically inaccurate, and really not at all related to the current question of independence. Speaking as a movie rather than a history buff for a moment, though, that’s still an iconic scene.