Saturday 16 February 2019

Lines of Thought

If Daniel Finkelstein would never have been born without Winston Churchill, then someone ought to have told Menachem Begin.

Margaret Thatcher had not wanted to meet that vicious anti-British terrorist at all, and she came away from their meeting wishing that she had stuck to her guns.

Churchill had been her hero, but Begin harangued her, perfectly accurately, about his refusal to bomb the railway lines to Auschwitz, resulting in the deaths of millions of Jews.

As for Jonathan Freedland's curious assertion that attacking Churchill would play badly with traditional Labour voters, who could now doubt that no one on The Guardian had ever met any?

In any case, Churchill led his party into three General Elections, he lost the first two outright, he lost the popular vote the third time, and that party, much of which had also always despised him, refused to give him a fourth bite at the cherry.

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