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andrewducker) wrote2018-01-23 12:10 pm
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- English NHS accused of fiddling A&E figures to downplay extent of crisis
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Being British, all of the media I'm exposed to showed Churchill as a good (if grumpy) thing. I've been slowly learning more.
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I think the British people of the 1940's had a good handle on him given how quickly he was dumped in '45 for Attlee and socialism.
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(And I think it was David Low who drew a post-election cartoon featuring a cheerful war leader Churchill saying to a grumpy party-politician Churchill, "Cheer up, they'll forget you but they'll remember me.")
Churchill, of course, didn't get the point at all, and referred to his war victory as having been rewarded with the Order of the Boot.
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It's a pity that his warnings against Hitler were dismissed, for instance, but it wasn't just because the other politicians were obtuse. It was because, through long experience, they couldn't trust Churchill's judgment. At the same time he was denouncing Hitler, he was - in terms equally apocalyptic - also denouncing Gandhi.
And this after both major parties had agreed to move India towards self-government. Churchill was incensed about that.