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Post by Sir John on Apr 16, 2013 15:02:00 GMT -5
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Post by boxcar on Apr 16, 2013 16:24:13 GMT -5
Churchill stated, “If by the time you are twenty, and you are not a Liberal, you have no heart.
If by the time you are forty and you are not a conservative, you have no brains”.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Apr 17, 2013 7:15:14 GMT -5
Was that Churchill? I thought it was in the bible.....
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Post by Sir John on Apr 17, 2013 13:44:09 GMT -5
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Post by boxcar on Apr 17, 2013 14:29:36 GMT -5
Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?"
I believe Mr Addison got it wrong.
At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government.
He returned to government as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Air. After the War, Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative (Baldwin) government of 1924–29
So pre WW1 a Liberal and post WW1 a Conservative.
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