Hello historians! I recently listened to the "Start the Week" BBC Podcast in which British commentator/historian Andrew Roberts asserted that the slogan, "no taxation without representation" was hypocritical because American colonists were "instructed" not to accept representation if the British offered it. I had never heard that before and was wondering if someone could point me to some support for it in literature.

As an American educated in the American education system, I was surprised that this British dude was saying that the slogan currently on my license plate was perhaps not a legitimate complaint. I'd like to hope this was just a salty imperial apologist and he made it up (haha), but it looks like he's just introducing a factor I have never previously heard and that makes me bristle a bit. Hmmm.