{"id":143442,"date":"2015-02-09T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143442"},"modified":"2015-02-09T17:13:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:13:03","slug":"britains-cruelest-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/britains-cruelest-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Cruelest Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winston Churchill<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a video marking the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill\u2019s death last week, Prime Minister David Cameron hailed him as \u201cBritain\u2019s greatest ever prime minister\u201d and said: \u201cWe owe him everything.\u201d So on goes the whitewashing propaganda of the great paternal warrior to cover up the venal reality.<\/p>\n<p>In Winston Churchill\u2019s only novel, \u2018Savrola\u2019, written in 1899, and dedicated to the officers of his regiment the 4th Hussars, the title character is described as \u2018vehement, high and daring\u2019, the sort of man who could \u2018know rest only in action, contentment only in danger, and in confusion find their only peace\u2026 Ambition was the motive force, and he was powerless to resist it\u2019. Young Winston could have been describing himself.<\/p>\n<p>In her diary, Beatrice Webb recorded sitting beside Churchill at dinner: \u201cFirst impression: restless, almost intolerably so\u2026 egotistical, bumptious, shallow minded and reactionary but with a certain personal magnetism\u2026 More of the American speculator than the English aristocrat. Talked exclusively about himself and his electioneering plans\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having changed political parties four times during his career, Churchill was clandestinely known by some MPs in the House of Commons as \u2018the shit house\u2019 \u2014 an abbreviation of his initials WC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/02\/09\/britains-cruelest-prime-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnce in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.\u201d \u2014 Winston Churchill In a video marking the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill\u2019s death last week, Prime Minister David Cameron hailed him as \u201cBritain\u2019s greatest ever prime minister\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}