History is written by the winners and the sycophantic propaganda merchants of the time. Winnie went on to get Britain out of its' darkest hours... using the same 'win at any costs' method. We don't like to bad-mouth the man who single-handedly won the war for us, so anything slightly less heroic that he may have done in his youth, is glossed over. These days, as in the recent 'Forest Gate' incident, he would have been vilified in the press and probably forced to resign.

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