Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
Phew well done Winnie, it was only 1300 lives!!
They would have been seized by the Germans or Italians. 1300 lives yes but during a world war.

Churchill wasn't all good, no man really is but he made tough decisions. He was the right man for the occasion, in peace time he wouldn't have been and his swift defeat in the polls following the war shows that.