How Dare This Person Compare The Late Great Winston Churchill To Jimmy Savile And Hitler.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1028842/ITV-Good-Morning-Britain-Piers-Morgan-Winston-Churchill-Jimmy-Savile-Susanna-Reid-GMB

/// Piers went on to question Kehinde exactly why he chose to “live in this country” if he didn’t like it. ///

Good for you Piers.

[anotheoldgit]

Rockrose

/// Why?
They both had huge egos! But our huge ego won the war! ///

Don't you dare associate yourself with winning the war, you wasn't even around during those horrendous years.

[maggiebee]

AOG and danny13 - is there really any need to insult people for having opinions? You're just as bad as the person you're slating on here.

[ummmm]

For goodness sake, AOG, you were conscripted, you didn't volunteer, you ain't no hero!!

Don't be so rude!

[AuntLydia]

How Dare This Person Compare The Late Great Winston Churchill To Jimmy Savile And Hitler.

Because he is black and knows there will be no 'backlash' as he will cry 'racist!'

Because he lives in a FREE country where free speech is allowed, thanks to previous Governments fighting for civil liberties

Because Hilter did not win the war!

[Deskdiary]

"Well I just did, so obviously I do."

I am genuinely shocked. Rockrose appears to feel it is fair to draw a comparison between Churchill and a man who was responsible for the murder in horrendous ways of 6,000,000 Jews.

Crass doesn't even begin to cover such a ridiculous comparison.

[AuntLydia]

//For goodness sake, AOG, you were conscripted, you didn't volunteer, you ain't no hero!! //

How dare you? Millions of young men gave their lives , conscripted or volunteers, it does not matter, so you can type in your rubbish without fear of being arrested for descent.

[dannyk13]

maggieB. It was not me nor AOG who gave to the insults perpetrated by Kehinde. Also bear in mind that were it not for the man you call a warmonger you would not be enjoying the freedom that you have now..

[jno]

I can't see where he compared Churchill to Savile; can anyone explain?

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// AOG....and you moan about rudeness. Your comment to RR is bang out of order! ///

I notice that you didn't seem fit to chastise your friend, with the rudeness that she first showed towards the older members of AB.

[jackthehat]

AOG wasn't conscripted into the war, he was too young.

His military experience comes from doing his National Service later.

Much as I dislike hearing things like that which appear to run the country down, there is no doubt that Churcill was not as saintly as some like to think. Yes, we owe him much for leading us through the war years but there are a great many of his opinions and actions with which I am uncomfortable.

[Mamyalynne]

They invite guests on these shows who have controversial views to get reactions like this and the publicity does the show no harm.

[AuntLydia]

AOG : or what she said about you! Pot kettle black springs to mind

[dannyk13]

jno, paragraphs 2 and 5 in the link.

[AuntLydia]

jackthhat I know Churchill was not a 'saint' He was a war monger he sent thousands to their death defending the UK. That's the difference: Defending, not Attacking.

[sp1814]

Historical figures aren’t deities.

They are not perfect.

The Hitler comparison is probably made because of Churchill’s role in the Bengal Famine, where Churchill was blinded him the human suffering that led him to make decisions that prolonged and aggravated the death toll during that time.

This included deliberately halting shipments of food that might have relieved the suffering while insisting that food exports from India to Britain continue despite a famine that by mid-October 1943 was killing 2000 a month in Calcutta.

You can be a great person who makes terrible decisions, and we should be wary of people who shut down discussion of historical figures, otherwise the following threads would never have existed:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1477829-2.html (Mohammed Ali)
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Question894602.html (Mother Theresa)
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1274469.html (Dr Martin Luther King)

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// For goodness sake, AOG, you were conscripted, you didn't volunteer, you ain't no hero!! ///

Since I never divulge personal information about myself you know nothing about me, other than I served in the RAF

/// Don't be so rude! ///

Practice what you preach and I will stop being rude when others stop being rude to me first.

[jackthehat]

I am not necessarily referring to WW2.

I am certainly glad that he was our wartime leader, but he had a long and (not so) distinguished military and political career.

[spathiphyllum]

" “I’m not going to be told to feel ashamed of my country, just because you think we’re a bunch of racists.”"

Fair.