Given they voted him out of power in a landslide defeat immediately after the war perhaps they might not see it as negatively as you may think.
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After which they voted him back in again.
Indifferent.
Churchill was brought into power because of his hard stance against the Nazis. A lot of his beliefs were well known and not well supported before the war.
He was the leader the country needed during the war but not one to lead a nation during a time of peace.
I do agree, he was the right man at the right time. Personally I thought him as like a fish out of water during peacetime.
Who 'better' for the Mail to ask for his views on BLM than Bernie 'I admire Hitler. He got things done' Ecclestone? 
Wasn't his mate and business partner caught dressing up in SS uniform(s)?Who 'better' for the Mail to ask for his views on BLM than Bernie 'I admire Hitler. He got things done' Ecclestone?
Yes, mate - Max Mosley.
Knew you'd know.
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Did they? Wanna hazard a guess at which party received the most votes in the 1951 election?
Hint: it wasn't the one Churchill was the leader of.
Don’t think anyone gives a stuff who got the most votes in 1951 ...It’s the amount of seats that wins an election.
Hint: it was the one Churchill was the leader of.
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Ludicrous. This is literally PC gone mad
If you're using the 1951 election as evidence of Churchill's post-war popularity, the fact that a larger number of people voted for his direct rival in that election is very relevant. It directly refutes the argument you were trying to make by referencing it.
Unless your argument was that the number of seats a party leader won in a FPTP election is a better measure of their popularity than the actual number of people who voted for them. But that would be a ridiculous argument, because by that metric Churchill was less popular in 1945 than Corbyn was in 2019.
Where did I say Churchill got the most votes?
I said “they voted him back in” ...history tells us that Churchill won the 1951 election, nobody cares who got what.
Well according to this thread anyone who has held or uttered racist views is fair game.
Are you saying your ancestors were seats , -do you come from a long line of seats?
He was the most popular PM ever by 1945, his approval ratings if I recall correctly are the highest recorded.
He was the head of the conservative party, which was blamed for appeasement and the lack of war preparations.
Churchill was against the creation of the NHS as well which was a big factor in him not getting re-elected after the war. The people wanted it and even though he was a Great War leader the need for the NHS was powerful.
...and more critically a Conservative party that didn't back the reforms that the war weary people wanted (NHS, Social Security, etc).
If I'm not mistaken it's a war time phenomenon. I remember it being mentioned for US presidents which is why Bush father and son are for example quite high when it comes to approval ratings, in particular in terms of highest approvals.
Not sure why my earlier post was deleted. I thought it was informative since the discussion was around colonization and countries subjected to it.
Oh well.
Oh well.
Disgraceful, should be 'was'.
Tory MPs draw up new plans to protect Churchill statue
Churchill was a racist.
not as bad as Julius Caesar, though
Why are we still talking about this old decrepit Cnut?