Posted on 01/23/2015 9:37:49 AM PST by the scotsman
'On Thursday, the Magazine looked at the greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career. Here, the BBC's world affairs editor examines how an all-too-human politician became a great wartime prime minister.'
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He did hold his own constituency in the 1945 election. His party was dumped and thus he lost power. I clearly remember that election as a small boy. The awful postwar years of WW1 were fraught with unemployment in Britain. The hard line old Tories were known to be unyielding to the unemployed. Not Churchill though.
The leftists dealing on pure emotion as usual, said the Conservatives would bring back unemployment and misery. All lies of course. People had been so happy with the full employment of the WW2 years, now they were scared. The famous cartoon of the "Sunday Pictorial" showed a gaunt woman kneeling down scrubbing a floor. Nothing to do with unemployment. The theme was hammered home -Conservatism equals unemployment.
The Conservatives under Churchill got back in power after five years hiatus. I got back from National Service overseas under a Conservative government. There was absolutely full employment under their new regime. The public had been coerced with pure fear.
Please excuse the ramble.
H. Upmann Sir Winston Cigars are my favorite!
That is interesting. I never understood the politics in Britian regarding Sir Winston. I do know he had a LOT of enemies who slandered him. One even read a letter of correspondence where his sister asked jokingly if he had converted to Mohammedism, and started a rumor that Winnie was a Muslim. Amazing!
Not a ramble at all. Very informative. Thank you.
A little thought would have told them if you vote for a welfare state, you just might end up on welfare.
Had he emerged under the modern MSM, Churchill would have been lucky to get elected to Congress.
One of my all-time favorite movies....Albert Finney WAS Churchill....
The Gathering Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXHo6uPq-uY
I recently found and purchased an early edition of his small book on painting which he claimed as a frequent pastime. He had a great feel for perspective and foregrounds as in landscapes....but his essay on the personal experience of painting...particularly en plein air is both inspiring and motivational if one paints as either an amateur or professional.
I love hearing such “ramble” :)
I'm an avid reader, but have never read a Churchill biography - which one would you suggest?
(I know there must be a dozen or more).
Barack Hussein Barry Soetoro Obama:
How a worthless socialist loafer became ensconced in the now denigrated White Hut to sink America.
Martin Gilbert.....Churchill A Life
Gilbert was the official biographer and did an 8 volume biography. The title above is an updated 1 volume distillation with new material added. Not sure if it is the definitive bio but it would probably come close.
1945 British General Election, Woodford, Essex.
Winston Churchill (Conservative 27,688 votes. A Hancock (Independent). 10.488.
A majority of 72.53%. The political party actual designates the leader, not the public, of course.
I would agree with xp38, Gilbert’s is the definitive.
The Last Lion by William Manchester
3 Volumes
1-Visions of Glory 1874-1932
2-Alone 1932-1940
3-Defender of the Realm 1940-1965
A masterpiece......just finished it last month.
Years ago I read “The Last Lion”...maybe time to get it off the book shelf and read it again.
My Favorite (which may be apocryphal, but it fit my impression of him to a “T”):
LADY ASTOR: “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea!”
CHURCHILL: “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it!”
Hahahaha...Everyone LOVES that one!
I greatly enjoyed “The Last Lion” by William Manchester, but will read the Gilbert version suggested.
I’ll be it would have! He was a man who enjoyed those things...the symbolism as well!
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