Showing posts with label Winston Churchill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winston Churchill. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2020

More political correctness bullshit. Even the UK has this problem. Politically correct assholes are everywhere.

A statue of Winston Churchill may have to be put in a museum to protect it if demonstrations continue, his granddaughter has said.

Emma Soames told the BBC the war-time prime minister was a "complex man" but he was considered a hero by millions.

She said she was "shocked" to see the monument in London's Parliament Square boarded up, although she said she understood why this was necessary.

It came after protesters daubed "was a racist" on the statue last weekend.

Ms Soames said it was "extraordinarily sad that my grandfather, who was such a unifying figure in this country, appears to have become a sort of icon through being controversial."

"We've come to this place where history is viewed only entirely through the prism of the present," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

I found this Winston Churchill quote in a comment at the New York Times. The article was about why Trump might win the election in November.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

-- Winston Churchill

UPDATE:

According to somebody who wrote another comment, Winston Churchhill never said that.

What Churchill really said was "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time."