well that’s all a big ol’ speculation as who knows if/when Hitler would have tried to invade Russia or if they would have come to some form of agreement had Britain been invaded.
Just winding up xylo at this point, but yeah I think Churchill’s belligerence in this case was probably the sole thing worth praising and even then it was just contextually convenient.
Let the Black and Tans run riot in Ireland. Fuck him.
yeah I’m sorry to have upset him but please don’t think that condemning Churchill as a shit is disrespecting or diregarding the sacrifices millions of people around the world made in the fight to end fascism, still let’s not pretend we wouldn’t have been perfectly happy to leave the Nazis to their own devices had they not invaded Poland.
Well yeah as Bamnan posted upthread his belligerence in places like Greece and India and South Africa had hideous results, so, yes in the case of it being towards Hitler it was useful but otherwise not particularly praiseworthy.
£5 - Pankhurst £10 - Bowie £20 - Turing
No, Stalin deserves a higher denomination.
Have they airbrushed him to make him sexier like they did with Jane Austen and the tenner?
There’s no need for cash any more anyway. Get rid of em altogether.
in the realms of a textbook or history course, yeah sure, but money is basically the oldest form of state propaganda, much less harmful to propagandise scientists, philanthropists and artists than “complicated” politicians.
Card twats are dreadful, though. I prefer reddies.
He’s earmarked for the state distributed red profitability tokens
it’s all about apps these days
Pre-contactless era I’m with you, no excuses for not just paying the exact amount required in about a second with no fucking about in the year 2017
…also he was a bit of a twat
Guys! Xylo wants Churchill on tenners! Get him!
me!
you?
Needs more Florence Nightingale. Ohhh yeah.
Give it five years and we’ll all just be internet banking through our phones for everything. Even some wrong uns ask for paypal these days.
at last we’ve found some consensus!
