Winston Churchill

[BayBoy1]

Winston you are drunk ' madam you are ugly ,, but tomorrow I will be sober ......Who was the female MP ??? that winston was talking to

[dot.hawkes]

lady astor as i recall, not that i was evesdropping

[dot.hawkes]

oh and just googled her and her first name was nancy

[mrs_overall]

It was Bessie Braddock

http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/bulldog.html

[dot.hawkes]

oh yes that's right, I knew he'd insulted lady astor lol

[mrs_overall]

I remember Bessie Braddock - bit of a battleaxe.

Her name lives on in cockney rhyming slang for haddock.

Here's a pic of her.


http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp ?image=10307733&wwwflag=2&imagepos=1

[dot.hawkes]

Unfortunately i remember her too!!!! I was 15 when she died and was quite a TV celebrity then

[mrs_overall]

I was only a toddler at the time.

Honest!

[NoMercy]

Another Churchill quote:

Lady Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee!

Churchill: If you were my wife, I'd drink it!

[Milvus]

Lady Astor (the first female MP) and Churchill had many differences of opinion. She once said to him, after a disagreement, "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee". "If I were your husband I would drink it" replied Churchill