Winston Churchill: Difference between revisions

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Switched political parties twice in his very long career (Conservative to Liberal, then back again). A very much beloved British Prime Minister, he is famous for his [[Deadpan Snarker|constant wit]] (e.g. Bessie Braddock MP: "You, sir, are drunk!" Churchill: "And you are ugly. Tomorrow morning, madam, I shall be sober."), his cigar-smoking (his scowl in the famous portrait, shown above, is because the photographer took his cigar away) and the Victory salute ("the bird" inverted, although ''he'' didn't invert it.)

Winning a world war (and funding the invention of the [[Tank Goodness|tank]]) will get a lot of people to forget your less popular policies, and some were very unpopular. He resigned from the War Cabinet in [[World War ~~One~~]] after the failure of Gallipoli and his opposition to Indian autonomy played a large part in his isolation in the 1930s. Furthermore, [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|his second term as Prime Minister is generally regarded a lot less favourably than his first; the general rule is that he's considered a fine wartime leader, but not very suited to peacetime.]] In 1943, while PM, he did nothing to solve a [[wikipedia:Bengal famine of 1943|famine in Bengal]], which eventually killed 4 million people—instead expressing disappointment that Gandhi was not killed by it, however given that the war was getting increasingly desperate at that time, his distraction was somewhat understandable. He was also a noted racist, like most leaders and people at the time, believing that one should not help the Palestinians from subjugation by Israel, because "a superior race naturally conquers an inferior one", and supported the use of non-lethal gas on rebellious Iraqis and other "uncivilised tribes" who had been attacking those under nominal British protection.

Winning a world war (and funding the invention of the [[Tank Goodness|tank]]) will get a lot of people to forget your less popular policies, and some were very unpopular. He resigned from the War Cabinet in [[World War I]] after the failure of Gallipoli and his opposition to Indian autonomy played a large part in his isolation in the 1930s. Furthermore, [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|his second term as Prime Minister is generally regarded a lot less favourably than his first; the general rule is that he's considered a fine wartime leader, but not very suited to peacetime.]] In 1943, while PM, he did nothing to solve a [[wikipedia:Bengal famine of 1943|famine in Bengal]], which eventually killed 4 million people—instead expressing disappointment that Gandhi was not killed by it, however given that the war was getting increasingly desperate at that time, his distraction was somewhat understandable. He was also a noted racist, like most leaders and people at the time, believing that one should not help the Palestinians from subjugation by Israel, because "a superior race naturally conquers an inferior one", and supported the use of non-lethal gas on rebellious Iraqis and other "uncivilised tribes" who had been attacking those under nominal British protection.

[[Officer and a Gentleman|He'd been in the army before going into politics]] and was also a [[Intrepid Reporter|war correspondent]]. As well as his Nobel Prize-winning book on the [[Second World War]] (not the most reliable source, but an invaluable memoir), he wrote [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a history of the English-speaking peoples]] and a largely forgotten political thriller called ''Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania''.

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*** I think the fact that military intervention in the USSR could only be considered and not acted upon is summed up by the name of the British plans for such an eventuality: Operation Unthinkable

* In the film,''[[The King's Speech]]'', about the abdication of Edward VIII and the ascension of George VI to the throne, Churchill was played by [[Timothy Spall]].

* Ken Follett's [[Doorstopper]] novel ''Fall of Giants'' features Churchill during [[World War ~~One~~]].

* Ken Follett's [[Doorstopper]] novel ''Fall of Giants'' features Churchill during [[World War I]].

* On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', after Leslie had to pull down her pants on TV to prove her innocence in sex scandal, she says this in a [[Confession Cam]]:

{{quote|''"It's gotten a lot harder to work in government. You think Winston Churchill ever had to pull his pants down and show his butt? No. But would he have? Yes. Now ''could'' he have? Well, maybe not towards the end of his life. But he would have. Because he loved his job."''}}

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