Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Churchill was an idiot" video.

  1. Nonsense. He was elected to the position of Prime Minister by the House of Commons, and led a Coalition Government, most of whose members were far from being yes men.
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  2. Churchill held no government position between 1929 & September, 1939. 'Hitler tried to sue for peace?' Really? have you any proof of that or are you simply chanting to myth of the disgruntled neo?
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  3. Most people who claim to speak for 'most of us' actually do nothing of the sort.
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  4.  @TheSlimbee  Bullshit.
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  5. In short, yes it did. The Anglo-French treaty with Poland promised support in the event of an attack by Germany, but made no similar guarantee where the Soviet Union was concerned.
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  6. Perhaps you are unaware that when Churchill visited Onassis' yacht, he was in his mid 80?
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  7. Except that the British & French treaty with Poland stated that they would declare war on Germany if Germany invaded Poland. It was an attempt to end further German military agression and prevent a wider European war. In point of fact, Germany between 1933 & December, 1941 never declared war on anyone. The arrival of tanks, troops, aircraft, (and einsatzgruppen) was usually the first warning the victim had of what was happening.
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  8.  @hrearden6993  Do you really think that, having already invaded Czechoslovakia, Germany would not have invaded Poland next? The Franco-British treaty was made to warn Germany of the consequences of such an invasion. Unfortunately, hitler simply did not listen.
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  9. I assume that you mean you watched social media nonsense like this, and simply fell for it?
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  10. If you truly are 88 years of age, then you should surely know that Churchill only became Prime Minister in May, 1940. Thus, he didn't drag the UK into anything.
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  11.  @sextoncardew903  Perhaps you might explain how Churchill, or anyone else, could have brought the war to an end more quickly? I am being historically accurate. Churchill had been a critic of both Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain, as he consistently warned of the threat to European peace evolving in German after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. Was he wrong in his judgement? Perhaps you don't understand the concept of Cabinet responsibility?
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  12.  @sextoncardew903  I assume you don't consider a First in History, as I have, suggests that I know any accurate facts?
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  13. You certainly don't need to scratch far below the surface to determine what many of the people who post on here are all about.
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  14. Your knowledge of Churchill is rather lacking, little chap.
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  15.  @raykeane9345  Churchill was not 'shunned' by the population at large, although his warnings about Germany rapidly re-arming after 1933 were viewed with some alarm by people still recovering from the horrors of WW1. Was he wrong about that, by the way? Politically, he was an outcast, as his party continued to follow a policy of appeasement, and what he was saying was not what his leaders wanted to hear. Churchill did not 'send the Black & Tans to Ireland.' The Prime Minister at the time, was David Lloyd George, and the force was actually sent by him. Certainly, Churchill played a role in the recruitment process, as the Royal Irish Constabulary was becoming increasingly incapable of controlling the unrest. However, as the Canadian historian David Leeson wrote, "The typical Black and Tan was in his early twenties and relatively short in stature. He was an unmarried Protestant from London or the Home Counties who had fought in the British Army. He was a working-class man with few skills".] The popular Irish claim made at the time that most Black and Tans had criminal records and had been recruited straight from British prisons is incorrect, as a criminal record would disqualify one from working as a policeman. Moreover, the popular claims made about their atrocities confuses them with another force, the 'Auxilaries' who were attached to the RIC as a counter-terrorist unit, and bore some responsibility for such actions. As to India, Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. In terms of racism, certainly his views would have been unacceptable today, but were the generally held ones at the time of his birth in 1874. Indeed, they were not quite so extreme as another prominent figure from the time, a lawyer who held that Africans were a lower form of human being, and should never be given the right to vote. His name, by the way, was Mohandas K. Gandhi. In short, you aren't missing much, if you prefer myth to accurate historical facts.
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  16. 'Made peace with Germany?' After Germany had, without declaration of war, invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Belgium? Exactly what sorts of terms might Britain have expected? The sort Halifax recommended, negotiated by Mussolini? Oh, and Churchill did not choose the Soviet Union over Germany. He simply worked on the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend.' Montgomery, by the way, simply waited until he had superiority in men, equipment, supplies, and intelligence, before embarking on a campaign. Only a fool, such as the Desert Fox, willingly commits his forces to something far beyond their capabilities. Montgomery did what any sensible commander would do. Not very well informed, are you?
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  17. Perhaps you don't know that Churchill had no involvement in the planning of the Gallipoli campaign? He proposed it as an alternative to the impending carnage on the Western Front, to relieve Turkish pressure on Russia's southern flank, and to influence neutral Eastern European states to join the war on the allied side. Potentially, it might even have driven the Ottoman Empire out of the war. Certainly, Kitchener thought in similar terms, and after the war Kemal Ataturk said that Turkey was on the verge of surrender when the allied warships were withdrawn from the Dardanelles. Be that as it may, Asquith authorised the operation, not Churchill, and the planning was in the hands of the army and navy. When it failed, Asquith needed a suitable scapegoat, and Churchill fitted the bill. Not for nothing was one of Lloyd Georges first acts when he replaced Asquith returning Churchill to the government.
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  18. Churchill wasn't even in government when Britain declared war. The ignorance of some of you people is really quite remarkable!
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  19. His spells of depression were intermittent, and he was, at worst, a high functioning alcoholic whose decisions were not impaired by it.
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  20.  @JagdeepSandhuSJC  I'm sorry to hear that, Jagdeep owd lad. Still, I am sure you will get over it.
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