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Old 12-10-2019, 20:23   #1241
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Re: Brexit Development(s) Discussion

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Marathon bars are now called Snickers - Topic bars have been around since the Sixties.

Boris is not, and never will be, a Churchill - you demean the memory of a great man by equating him with a proven liar, adulterer, and philanderer.

btw, not to undervalue Churchill and Britain’s contribution to the Allied War effort, but he did not "win the war for us" - Britain won the war as part of an Alliance of nations, and Russia had a major part in taking on the Nazis, bogging them down on the Eastern Front, draining men and materiel from the Western Front.
Whoops! Yes, you are right about the Snickers! I like them too, by the way!

I do acknowledge your pulling me up on the Churchill comparison, but you know, I have heard quite a few people making exactly the same comparison. Churchill was not regarded as a safe pair of hands until, faced with Hitler's aggression, he was the only person who seemed to know what to do.

Say what you like about Boris, who of course is a much younger man than Churchill was when he took on Hitler, but at least he knows how to take Brexit by the horns, and I have absolutely no doubt that he will deliver Brexit. Who else could succeed against all the odds?

As for adultery and the like, I would like to point out, without accusing anyone of anything, that people were aloud to get away with far much more in those days than they can now. Politicians are put under the spotlight now like anything before - we have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Your other point about how the war was won I don't disagree with, but surely even you would acknowledge that the person who led the charge was Churchill. The US only became involved after Pearl Harbour, and Russia after the Nazis invaded. It was Churchill who started the resistance.
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