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Originally posted by Biggles@12 June 2004 - 12:03
In the current climate of spin and stage management of politicians, I suspect Churchill's love a good glass of malt and tendency to say what he thought would preclude him from rising through the ranks of most poltical parties.
I think the analysis would be "the people like him, but he is too big a risk".
The question is, whose loss is it?
Even given the "Great Man" phenomenon, odds are we would have seen more of his sort were we not so incapable of discernment as to what matters and what does not.