He also sent the few troops the englanders had left after Dunkirk, along with 'commonwealth' troops ie poor ignorant saps from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and India out to the deserts of North Africa to protect the route to India & oilfields in Nth Africa. He didn't give a toss about ordinary englanders, he wanted to make sure the rich got richer. Right at the time when the nazis were taking ahold of western europe & at their weakest when england shoulda been helping set up resistance groups etc he walked away. This made it possible for nazis to build the atlantic wall ensuring that getting back into france was about 57 times harder than it could have been.