Old anglos love the shit out of that genocidal freak, can’t confirm if this has spread to the last couple of generations as I was lucky enough to escape from TERF island at a young age
People liked him up until recently when his genocidal tendencies were made into a big issue - asking whether he should have a statue or not.
Now it's just Tories and the unaware who like him.
He is certainly not held in high regard in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. I had two Indian classmates in college walk out when a history professor started praising Churchill. They thought it was incredibly weird.
It sure is nice how I can bring up how much of a shitbag he was whenever a lib tries to quote him to argue a "point". That "Democracy is the worst system except" grinds my gears.
I'm Irish and most people here absolutely hate him, and I mean absolutely, some rich people view him positively and that's just further proof how the Irish bourgeouisie share the interests of their fellow parasites in England more than they share interests with the Irish working class
Yes. My history teacher would also go on about him like he was a hero then start singing "britain rules the waves" it was unhinged.
People like him in the same way people like the queen. They're told they are good and never question it beyond that.
I watched a Danish film just this week in which the protagonist is a high school history teacher who seems to spend the entire school year talking about how great Churchill was. (Another Round, 2020)
Voted greatest Briton in a public poll by the BBC in 2002 (advocated for by a Labour MP, no less). The only person Tories love to jack off to the memory of more is Thatcher.
I'm not British, but I've seen Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and I remember a running gag that, whenever Jim Hacker said something he thought made him sound like a great leader, he started "subtly" doing an impression of Winston Churchill.
Folks hated him at the time, (remember he was never officially elected and lost by a landslide in the election immediately after the war) the contemporary love of Churchill is the product of rigorous propaganda and wartime nostalgia (typically sounds like this "grumble grumble blitz spirit grumble grumble bring back conscription.")
