Indeed. I'd love to have done it, merely to see his reactio, even if he dished out a beating.

"What'd you say, mate? You f***in want some!?"

"Why did you attack him?"

"Well, your honour..."

I avoid political debates on here because they tend to become childish.

No doubt that despite the fact that many hated churchill when I was a kid growing up----" Every time he opens his mouth we get bombed" was the mantra he did very well in uniting this country. Fortunately I survived the bombing,the street I lived in was badly bombed)

Chamberlain would have been a disaster and nobody with leadership qualities other than Churchill was around at the time.

it was interesting to watch some of the programme where Fatty Soames ( cannot recall his christian name) passed comment on the funeral gesture when the cranes in the london docks lowered their jibs.

Only to be advised later that the dockers hated Churchill and only lowered the jibs for special payment.

Mixed feelings about him were perhaps the reason that he lost the post war General election.e

Finally can you imagine any of the current political lightweights being able to carry out Churchill role.

Because he besmirched his own name. He was a tyrant in his own right...and a great leader in a time of war. Too many people like to simplify the world wars into battles of freedom of speech when no, freedom of speech and human rights didn't exist back then and where ultimately enforced after the war and after Chruchill had drifted out of power and before he drifted back in.

Churchill was less interested in defending mine or your rights then he was in holding onto what was left of a rapidly dwindling British Empire.

But, that's the beauty of hindsight, i suppose. Would i have opposed the man in wartime Britain, absolutely not. That doesn't mean he's immune from scrutiny, though.

Why is it necessary to besmirch all of the other nations who fought alongside us in World War II, including those who were right there at the very start of WW2 by claiming we fought alone?

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It is one thing to discuss Churchill and wartime Britain after the event but so many things went on during those times that censorship and propaganda removed so much of the truth.

We heard of Coventry and the London docks,even more bombs fell on South London--but we never heard of the bombing which Hull suffered, possibly the worst in the country and yet people living through those dreadful times were kept in ignorance of those facts.