“I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, though he may have lain there for a very long time.”
– Winston Churchill, UK prime minister and honorary US citizen (by act of Congress). Voted greatest Briton of all time in 2002 BBC poll.
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@[email protected] He wasn’t a very nice persoon.
@[email protected] Understatement of the century :)
But the key point is that it’s not just him. Almost half a million British people voted him greatest Briton of all time just two decades ago.
There’s a reason the west has been unabashedly arming a genocide in Palestine for the past year.
@[email protected] They do respond well to the whip, don’t they?
@[email protected] @[email protected] he was contemplating sending the navy to Liverpool to break the strikes too. Utter asshole of a person.
@[email protected] typical of gingers
@[email protected] he mostly shines in comparison to the other world leaders of the time. Which doesn’t say much.
