I get kind of incensed when people deface Churchill's statue, or verbally spit on so many of those who gave *their* lives to give the punks, etc, the freedom to behave in such a loutish way. It wasn't what many of those men and women went to war for, not at all.
Is it not bad to deface anyones statue?
however his record as a wartime leader has to be seen in relation to his record as a peace time leader.,and home secretary.and other positions of office.
Churchill was a good wartime leader,and was the right man who was needed at that time.
However in his dealings with   DeVelera,[irish neutrality],he gave the impression to Develera of untrustworthiness,because of Churchills history[including his involvement in the irish free state peace treaty],this was[imo] a reasonable assumption on De veleras part,
a great opportunity to unite Ireland was missed,Churchill must take a lot of the blame.