Setting the record straight on a British hero

I must admit that until today I had not heard of Mr Ross Greer MSP.

That is in no way a criticism of the young parliamentarian.

His current 15 minutes of infamy within the Westminster media bubble was to point out that the late Winston Churchill was a “white supremacist mass murderer”.

This set off Captain Gammon who demanded satisfaction at dawn. Well on daytime TV.

In fairness, he seems well able to handle himself.

Today, against the odious Piers Morgan, the Green Party MSP more than held his own.

Of course, Mr Greer committed the cardinal sin in British politics of not being historically illiterate about the crimes of Empire.

His tweet was entirely factually correct and he could back it up on live TV.

Any forensic analysis of the established data would establish Winston Churchill’s racist credentials.

Moreover, his attitude towards inflicting civilian casualties was beyond doubt.

He was a strong advocate of “terror bombing”.

This was a term Churchill himself used to describe the first operations of the newly formed RAF in the British confected polity of Iraq.

Defenceless Kurdish villagers had to be bombed into submission to accept the new British imposed dispensation in Mesopotamia.

When it came to the affairs of the Indian subcontinent during his wartime premiership newly declassified documents show Churchill for what he truly was.

His racist fingerprints are all over the Bengal Famine of 1943.

There was no Wannsee conference in Whitehall over what was happening in Bengal.

However, Churchill didn’t see the starving, dying Bengalis as worthy of consideration.

In fact, he was rather sanguine that there would soon a few million less of them.

Throughout the Bengal Famine, India was a net exporter of food.

People starving to death in a country under British rule while food is taken from there to serve the needs of Britain.

Hmmm… now that DOES sound familiar!

Of course, none of this is breaking news if you are Indian or Irish.

We know about the reality of the British Empire and what a monster Churchill was.

It is the average Brit who is ignorant of the true sociopathic nature of the “greatest Briton”.

Therefore, I wasn’t surprised to see some of the Famine Song fraternity weigh into back up Mr Morgan on Twitter.

 

 

 

 

Young Mr Greer MSP has done the state some service…

Maith thú!

10 thoughts on “Setting the record straight on a British hero”

  1. The air brushing of history in general always falls to the victor, this has been done to an extreme level regarding Churchill. The excellent book “Churchill, Hitler and the unnecessary war” by Patrick J. Buchanan, reveals the truth about not only Churchill, but the events leading up to WW2.

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  2. He was very beloved in my home town of Dundee i jest of course , my father lived in the same close as Brian Cox who played him recently His uncle saw him being carried in a chair up the steps of the caird hall ” I remember him coming up the stairs. There were four guys carryin’ him’ and he shouted ‘How much did he pay ya?’ “They shouted back, ‘A quid!’ And he said, ‘I’ll give you twa if you drap him ! ” He stirred up our large and proud irish population by sending troops to there homeland , He was rarely seen during his term from 1908-1922 , and when he did he flashed his wealth despicable man

    In a letter to his wife during his tenure he wrote, “This city will kill me. Halfway through my kipper this morning an enormous maggot crawled out and flashed his teeth at me.

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  3. Can’t understand why if churchill was a white supremacist and a mass murderer why him and Adolf did not get along. Funny that isn’t it.

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    • It was a conflict between an established empire and aspirant imperialists.
      Churchill was a huge admirer of Mussolini and stated that publicly.

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      • Was he really, when did he state that, was it before Benito committed any war crimes or crimes against humanity, surely you are not saying that he said that for example in ww2 when the allies were fighting and dying in the fight against the italians , you see Phil generalized statements like that one that you make can be very misleading, what about the statement he made at the end of the war to the American congress, that “our victory was a victory for Christianity”. now that was a great statement and a true one.
        Now dont get me wrong I have no love of Winnie Churchill or for what he stood for, his view of the world was first and foremost King and Empire and deal with anyone or thing ruthlessly who gets in the way, BUT he was the right man in the right place at the right time, most people then and now know that, no surprise then that he lost the general election even though he was seen as a hero who helped save Britain and free Europe.
        Thems the facts.

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      • Churchill as well as being an anti semite was an admirer of hitler of whom he said in his book ‘ Great Contemporaries’ published in 1937 “If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as admirable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations”

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