tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post6817351599504599669..comments2024-03-17T22:59:24.273+00:00Comments on Peter Household - things that have interested me: Did Churchill call democracy a bad form of government?Peter Householdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04537256881744236389noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post-74925481865258544102014-05-15T00:45:12.043+01:002014-05-15T00:45:12.043+01:00Very true. Apart from the welfare state and the Na...Very true. Apart from the welfare state and the National Health Service, decolonising vast swathes of the British Empire, including India, and nationalising major industries. All in all I suppose Attlee’s achievements were pretty meagre really. Still, Britain had just been through a destructive war so maybe that's a mitigating factor.Peter Householdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537256881744236389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post-32679062122886815562014-05-14T22:24:15.883+01:002014-05-14T22:24:15.883+01:00Yes, but his successor didn't accomplish much ... Yes, but his successor didn't accomplish much that was positive for the British people and Churchill was back in a few years later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post-64755296885949788532011-03-30T16:38:23.953+01:002011-03-30T16:38:23.953+01:00I was at college with a Cockney who said he had it...I was at college with a Cockney who said he had it from his parents that Churchill was booed when he toured the East End in the Blitz. He was consistently anti-working class and anti-Irish. He hammered the South Wales miners. Some people decided to overlook this during the war, but afterwards asked themselves if this was the man to build a new society with a health service and everything, and they got back the resounding answer NO.Peter Householdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537256881744236389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post-1696853969779620512011-03-30T16:06:21.999+01:002011-03-30T16:06:21.999+01:00Interesting Pete. How do you rate Churchill as a ...Interesting Pete. How do you rate Churchill as a speaker? I borrowed a CD from my Dad of several of his (Churchill's, not my Dad's) wartime speeches, and I have to say, despite his background, politics and apparently obnoxious personality, they were truly electrifying. Putting them in the context of what the country was facing and going through it was hard to imagine a better leader for that period in our history. His use of language was fantastic. Strange that he was kicked out of Downing Street straight after the war, you'd have thought he would have been popular.Nogginnoreply@blogger.com