We need these voices more than ever. The English have slowly been brainwashed into thinking that the past was a Downton Abbey theme park where everyone was happy and everyone was free.
To think those days in the war and to be drafted to work in coal mines and at low wages... and to be expected to go back to the workforce post war and no recognition for decades...
*@ The Jibber Jabber*. Actually no. After a request to the War Office by Glamorgan`s Chief Constable following rioting, Churchill, then Home Secretary, sent troops into the Rhonddah Valley in 1910 to re inforce the local constabulary but never uttered threats to "shoot" striking Welsh miners (what politician would ever do that?!) or threats of any kind. The troops, it should be noted, behaved very well, committed no acts of violence (though it must be said their presence inhibited further strike action) and the locals were in fact more relaxed with them than they were with the Constabulary who one historian has described as acting rather "like an army of occupation".
@@norman7527 Of course, Churchill made no such deadly threats or any actual verbal threats towards the striking miners of any kind, and no politician blessed with any sense of political self preservation then or now, would ever do so. I didn`t know Churchill personally (possibly you did?) so can`t argue the point of whether, in private, he was "pompous" or not. As to being a "fat drunken slob", he certainly became over time well padded. However, he was never seen to be drunk either in the House of Commons, in public generally or in social situations. I will though let the Historian Sir Robert Rhodes James, a Churchill contemporary, answer your charge of Churchillian drunkenness. He refers to "....the malicious and ludicrous exaggeration of his drinking which ignores all the testimony to the contrary by those who worked closely with him, including a secretary (Jock Coleville) who was with him for thirty years, and Historian Desmond Morton whose association with Churchill went back to the First World War, during the inter war years and throughout the second...."
@@hugglescake Sadly, you`re confused in both centuries and sexes. The remark is if course attributed to Marie Antoinette, and almost certainly she didn`t actually say it either...
We need these voices more than ever. The English have slowly been brainwashed into thinking that the past was a Downton Abbey theme park where everyone was happy and everyone was free.
And the whites were privileged.
Fascinating
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To think those days in the war and to be drafted to work in coal mines and at low wages... and to be expected to go back to the workforce post war and no recognition for decades...
And didn't churchill threaten to shoot striking Welsh miners because they dared to ask for a fair wage?
He did, can confirm and worse.
Churchill, was an elitest pompous fat drunken slob
*@ The Jibber Jabber*. Actually no. After a request to the War Office by Glamorgan`s Chief Constable following rioting, Churchill, then Home Secretary, sent troops into the Rhonddah Valley in 1910 to re inforce the local constabulary but never uttered threats to "shoot" striking Welsh miners (what politician would ever do that?!) or threats of any kind. The troops, it should be noted, behaved very well, committed no acts of violence (though it must be said their presence inhibited further strike action) and the locals were in fact more relaxed with them than they were with the Constabulary who one historian has described as acting rather "like an army of occupation".
@@norman7527 Of course, Churchill made no such deadly threats or any actual verbal threats towards the striking miners of any kind, and no politician blessed with any sense of political self preservation then or now, would ever do so. I didn`t know Churchill personally (possibly you did?) so can`t argue the point of whether, in private, he was "pompous" or not. As to being a "fat drunken slob", he certainly became over time well padded. However, he was never seen to be drunk either in the House of Commons, in public generally or in social situations. I will though let the Historian Sir Robert Rhodes James, a Churchill contemporary, answer your charge of Churchillian drunkenness. He refers to "....the malicious and ludicrous exaggeration of his drinking which ignores all the testimony to the contrary by those who worked closely with him, including a secretary (Jock Coleville) who was with him for thirty years, and Historian Desmond Morton whose association with Churchill went back to the First World War, during the inter war years and throughout the second...."
"Let them eat cake" he said.
@@hugglescake Sadly, you`re confused in both centuries and sexes. The remark is if course attributed to Marie Antoinette, and almost certainly she didn`t actually say it either...