Comments by "Mike O\x27Neill" (@EllieMaes-Grandad) on "Jack Keane warns that history may repeat itself in Afghanistan" video.

NevilleC is much misunderstood and maligned. As chancellor of the exchequer, he provided money for defence R&D in the mid-1930s and he drew the line over Poland, probably knowing Adolph would renege on the deal. The people of Britain did not want war again; you must get into the mindset of the time. He handed over to WSC in 1940 when he might have resisted [it was not a clear-cut event] and being weak, not strong. He died of a brain tumour in late 1940. He did what he did in the light of the costs, blood and treasure, of The Great War, then less than a generation before; support in Britain was muted. Action the British could take against Germany would have necessitated co-operation and support from France, whose losses had been even higher and whose 1930's governments were navel-gazing socialists incapable of decisive action. Cut NC some slack, please.
1