The fall of the Tory party

I feel positively abstemious lol

In 1935 he spent four times the annual average salary on booze alone.

His MP salary would typically only cover 70% of his annual booze bill.

600-odd bottles of booze!
My
Word

There are historians who legit argue that he was not an alcoholic. I shit you not.

Even taking into consideration that there are half bottles of champagne, it's still 534…
Average of 1.5 per day. What a role model!

Hold my beer, oh, er

Yup. No objective criticism of Churchill allowed in quite a few circles.

Surely a true patriot would have drunk more (London) gin?

Why do I try to listen to PMQs every week?! I'm just left absolutely seething.

Churchill as a idyllic war time prime minister hero figure has over shadowed all his numerous short coming before and after.
He's almost become mythical.
He was a product of empire and held many grotesque view of the empires 'subjects' and even disagreed against democracy itself.
He was never able to get over the fact he was ousted so quickly after WW2 which he saw as a stab in the back by british public. He's opinion on working class british were incredibly ungrateful.

Ten + years ago Braverman's rhetoric would have been sat on the edge of a Question Time panel getting laughed at by the audience.

I know, not even attempting to answer the question, all whataboutery and the usual bingo of “Corbyn”, “union bosses” and, albeit it later, “world leading”.

Absolute bollocks but I still listen

To get an idea of Churchill's annual alcohol consumption, here's what

he ordered in 1908, the year he married Clementine

He probably had guests over a couple of nights at least.

Anyway, he was a snobbish, bigoted, cruel, murderous, racist twat who made some terrible decisions, but he was quite witty and made a few rousing speeches while we were waiting for the Americans, so, history's greatest Englishman.

On the upside, his country house makes an excellent café stop on a Kent ride 👍

The letters his family and friends exchanged worrying that he might convert to Islam are wild.

We agree about vermouth, only tried it for the first time last year, yum. otherwise, evil bastard

There was always a group of upper classes that like Churchill where groomed to administrate and run parts of the empire that adopted customs of locals to gain trust but mostly power and influence. This happened very frequently in india. Lawrence of Arabia was a famous example in the middle east, but others like stjohn philby converted as well and was almost certainly an agent and involved in all sorts of skullduggery, the politically consequences of which still reverberate today.

Average of 1.5 per day. What a role model!

Now you put it like that, it doesn't seem that bad.

Maybe he’s in some parallel universe

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Its the alcohol equivalent of 7.2 pints of Stella 365 days a year

its going well if your a disaster capitalist.

Yep

but not great even for JRM

https://www.ft.com/content/b1f1ee82-ec02-43b3-b317-9d77df759d88

Spot on. Otto English's chapter on his mythology in Fake History is pretty eye opening.

“rebalancing the UK as a global economy”
wtf does that mean?
It’s total weirdowank
And he looks like he’s been at the Stella as well
Maybe, what, three pints in?