Comments by "Adam Bainbridge" (@AdamMGTF) on "Warspite: The Greatest Battleship Ever Built" video.

Britain couldn't afford to keep her. Not as a combat ship and certainly not as a museum ship. That's as much a part of her history as her service. It's important to remember and learn from. That's what history is all about.
17
@jimtaylor294 the georgious aerov (not a clue how to spell that)... She survived down to pure luck. The UK had no money to spend on frivolous things in 45. And keeping around some very very old battleships which we had nowhere to put and no money to maintain wasn't a priority. Food and housing were. I also don't understand the idea that politics had anything to do with it. She could have been saved privately. Not just money was a factor. The country was looking to the future. The war had lasted 6 years. 6 years of rationing and uncertainty. The idea that a conservative government would have kept a battleship as a museum ship is nonsense and had they tried the people would have been furious. And I'm not just speaking as someone who loves learning about history. My grandparents were born in the mid 20s and we talked about all this sort of thing while we could. I remember seeing the battle of Britain flight with them. I asked my grandmother, why is that the only Lancaster (and rather naively) asked why her generation couldn't have kept examples of Lancaster's and hurricanes for my generation. The reply was wonderful and blunt... Her generation had waited for the war to be over and were sick of seeing military "things" everywhere. They just wanted to live a better life. I guess much like every generation. Imagine being told today that sorry, you can't have universal free healthcare because we've decided to spend the money on museums.... There would be outrage. And we haven't just lived through a world war.
5
Warspite had an amazing history. But nothing on victory. For science sake, nelson died on victory. As an aside. My grandparents were young adults during and after ww2 and though both brought me up to love history. Both (I'm sure) would have been dead set against the idea of keeping a stupidly expensive museum ship at a time where they still had rationing and owning their own home was a decade long slog of working 40/50 hours a week.
4
Given what the UK left ww2 with... I'd say we are lucky to have Belfast alone
2
@amandarhodes4072 I know :)
2
@doodledangernoodle2517 and tell "but ww2 naval history" to my grandparents who were still enduring rationing years after the end of the war. Who needed nearly a decade to save for a mortgage even though they worked 40-50 hours a week. I am passionate about history. But saving her was simply not worth the cost. We are very lucky to have the IWM Including Belfast. The royal navy museum Hartlepool. Portsmouth historic dockyard and the tank museum bovingdon. And that's just the tip of a grand network of museums in the UK. I challenge you to visit them (beamish and the national railway museum as honourable mentions) and say *we should have kept her*... Oh. And I only mentioned museums in England. Let alone the other 3 countries of the UK
1