Adolf Hitler Saved Winston Churchill’s Political Career
The great irony of the supposedly great Briton.
In 2002, a poll commissioned by the BBC announced Winston Churchill as the greatest Briton of all time.
Given the cast of characters that the country’s produced over the centuries by way of politicians, inventors, artists, sportswomen, geographers, musicians, philosophers, abolitionists and entrepreneurs, voting for a perpetually inebriated, rabidly racist former prime minister did seem a bit strange.
But that episode was certainly a unique insight into how the English(not Scottish or Welsh) saw themselves and the wider world.
Had Winston Churchill died in the 1930s, his obituary would have described him as one of the great brilliant failures in British history.
And with good reason too.
No other British political figure’s career has been dogged by major miscalculations and blunders.
But how did it all start?
In 1904, exasperated by his lack of advancement in the Conservative party, our man proceeded to launch a ferocious attack on the leadership for their positions on the leading issues of the day.
This attack culminated in Churchill, “crossing the floor” which in British politics means dumping your…