Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "How did Churchill lose the 1945 general election?" video.

@OutspokenSeeker Gold medal to Alex P for stupidest post of the day.
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@bobbybeard1497 You miss that Thatcher privatized many of those council houses, a tremendously popular move all around.
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There had been seven by-elections during the war -- all of them, whether the National candidate was Conservative or Labour, won by Commonwealth, the Communist-Independent-Labour alliance. In 1945 that alliance dissolved and the Communists evaporated. Ebbw Vale, 90+% Chapel Methodist but 99% Communist in the 1920s ("Thank God for Methodists," is somewhat dubiously attributed to Lenin), elected the left-wing but strongly anti-Communist Aneurin Bevan. This video makes no mention of the Empire. Long story short: Churchill favoured it, the British peoples opposed it. The economic analysis that the Empire ran at a loss, a machine through which the British upper class milked the workers, was widely accepted.
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@lordpolish2727 The Empire never had a heart. The Empire was a vicious and destructive machine which sent illiterate English soldiers to winkle rubies out of the walls of the Taj Mahal with their bayonets, and to subdue more civilized peoples in the Gold Coast and East Africa. It ran at a loss, British workers subsidizing British toffs. "The winds of change," MacMillan's admission that the Empire was dead, was 1960.
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@josephteller9715 "Churchill was pretty much not involved in the election and his party's line was the failure, not any specific action by him" Utter nonsense. Exactly 180 degrees incorrect. Churchill campaigned actively right up to Potsdam and tried to claim credit for the Beveridge Report. The 1945 defeat was a referendum on his fatuity.
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Matt, Your "history" "teacher" is a fool and a half-wit.
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