Steve WoodsMar 13

'The audience member added, "I feel it's a completely unnecessary move. It's obviously gonna be a cost to change it... I question where this country would be without such a great leader as Winston Churchill."'

The answer, sir, is slightly nearer to entering the 20th century than it currently is in view of the deference for dead white males.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/bbc-question-time-winston-churchill-banknote-b2937599.html

BBC Question Time audience member blames ‘radical left’ for banknotes change

The Independent
Show threadPam CMar 13
@wood5y Bank-notes change every ten to 15 years to keep ahead of counterfeiters. My biggest gripe about Churchill being on the fiver is that he should have been on the fifty instead with Turing on the fiver. Churchill hated the working class, and the majority of workers rarely, if ever see a fifty. But he was a nasty racist PoS so not surprised mr Gammon doesn't like him. And I bet he doesn't even know that Churchill took us into the European Convention on Human Rights that Gammon-head wants us to leave.
Rational Brit #FBPEMar 13
Show threadSteve Woods

@Pamela1960 Tom Jones recalled that when he was a child in the valleys, Churchill was booed in the cinemas whenever he appeared on the newsreels.

See also gunboats on the Mersey, the disaster of Gallipoli, etc.

WW2 did a lot of heavy lifting to rehabilitate Churchill's very tarnished reputation.

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Show threadPam CMar 13
@wood5y He was probably booed because of Tonypandy.
Show threadOyu F'kaMar 13
@Pamela1960 @wood5y 100% Tonypandy. Still reviled here....as I said above - second only to thatcher.
Show threadOyu F'kaMar 13
@wood5y @Pamela1960 He still is reviled in the valleys.....second only to thatcher 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Show threadSteve WoodsMar 14
@Oyu_Fka @Pamela1960 People in the valleys have very long memories.
Show threadOyu F'kaMar 14

@wood5y @Pamela1960 Possibly not this generation, but us older folk have no respect for him or his politics.

He was a racist with no respect for human life - the number of disasters he oversaw in WWII - the Pegasus bridge drop for instance....no army back up waiting - he sent those paras to certain death.

Look at how he handled the famine in Bengal - left up to 3 million starve to death, in silence, so as not to disrupt his war effort.

I certainly have no respect for him whatsoever.

Show threadSteve WoodsMar 14

@Oyu_Fka @Pamela1960 Not just WW2.

Churchill was the prime force behind the Gallipoli campaign in WW1, which saw my grandfather go abroad for the only time in his life only to serve as a target for the Turkish military.

Show threadOyu F'kaMar 14

@wood5y @Pamela1960 You're right - he was a pretty despicable character throughout his career.

My dad was in the paras in WWII, and was lined up to be in the Pegasus Bridge drop and subsequent slaughter.

Luckily for him he broke his collar bone, (playing rugby, games that they introduced to keep them on their toes until the weather was right for the drop), and thus wasn't included.

Luckily for him....and me - I doubt he'd have got back alive and I wouldn't be here typing this.