Mc G of H, your yanking my chain. Do you need the complete speech to prove you wrong. The point is your going on assumptions,all soldiers overwhelmingly voted labour,some job that as no elections over the war period were held.

What idiot is going to divide their country politically to win an election during war time? Do know nothing, elections are suspended during times of war, a coalition government is put in to run the country.

I'm now getting a grasp of were you may have been educated,not an attack on you,just an indictment on your educators who as you do, use half truths to make a point.

Churchill had many enemies, but not one can now say he was wrong wrt Russia, Read his speeches here's the link http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html do the search. You might learn.

I don't find them convincing. I somehow doubt that what kept people fighting at the time was confidence in victory, but rather determination and hope, and a refusal to accept defeat.

Defend that, the British army was raring to go,they knew they could beat the Germans, to go to war with your reasoning is just plain nonsense. Do you know the period your talking about, how could the British people be so defeatist in the first year of the war?