Can you bank on Winston?
A little peep into Britains history......
Can You bank on Winston?
Mrs Fry
Why, oh, why
Has Winston Churchill made you cry?
On our fivers you appeared serene
Smiling back to back with the queen.
Until dubious Churchill usurped your spot,
Got civil rights activists angry and hot.
Now you’re a woman with a spotless reputation
Held up as a shining light of the nation.
To have you replaced by such a man
Whose beliefs mirror those of the Klu Klux Clan,
Is a sad indictment of our country
One could question the Bank of England’s effrontery.
Whilst you did good all of your life
Churchill’s fame is based on lies.
His radio speeches were Norman Shelley
What a pity at the time there was no telly.
He stole his “on the beaches speech”
From Robert Emmet, what a plaigerous leech.
His writing got him a Nobel prize,
His 3 ghost writers were very surprised.
As an artist he committed the ultimate sin,
Forging works by Charles Maurin,
To fund his drink habit and keep his home,
Churchill’s misdemeanours would fill a tome.
His genocide started 1897 Afghanistan,
Where he gleefully murdered many tribesmen,
He burnt crops and villages, filled up wells,
Made the life of Afghani’s a living hell.
Close to home he waged war on the Irish,
Via the evil “Black and Tans”,
Who indiscriminately brutalized,
Child, woman and man.
In Wales in Tonny Pandy,
He got soldiers to fire on the crowds,
Who had supported the starving miners,
By voicing their protests outloud.
He ordered the British Army
To fire on Greek folk,
On the streets of Athens
The death toll really was no joke.
Winston had British soldiers steal India’s rice
To sell in the Middle East for a very low price,
4 million Indian people starved in Bengal state
Whilst Churchill quaffed champagne
And made out he was great.
Then he forcibly “borrowed” India’s money
To finance the second world war,
As a human being Mr Churchill
Was rotten to the core.
And then...
Churchill stole Iranian oil,
And revelling in his autocracy,
Levied illegal taxes on Iran,
Then overthrew her democracy!
In Iraq he deliberately bombed the civilian population,
Advocated unleashing poison gas on the entire Iraqi nation!
He wrecked mayhem in South Africa,
Kenya and Pakistan,
Dominating the world with British Ayrians,
Was his avowed and fascist plan.
Churchill despised socialism,
Equality and democracy,
Believed in the power of money
Had no time for meritocracy.
So Mrs Fry,
My oh my
Winston Churchill has made me cry,
For this murderous monster
To be named “greatest Brit”,
Makes me want to
Swear and spit.
I’m ashamed to be British,
See us through the world’s eyes,
As a country whose history
Is based on cruelty and lies.
Don Matthews
Mon 24th Jun 2019 08:31
Eve. Thankyou for this. You sent me researching on this 'great' man and found this:
The actor Richard Burton, when preparing for his role as Churchill in a television drama, famously wrote for the New York Times:
In the course of preparing myself . . . I realized afresh that I hate Churchill and all of his kind. I hate them virulently. They have stalked down the corridors of endless power all through history. . . . What man of sanity would say on hearing of the atrocities committed by the Japanese against British and Anzac prisoners of war, “We shall wipe them out, every one of them, men, women, and children. There shall not be a Japanese left on the face of the earth”? Such simple-minded cravings for revenge leave me with a horrified but reluctant awe for such single-minded and merciless ferocity.
For this iconoclasm, Burton was barred from future work at the BBC, accused of having “acted in an unprofessional way” and evidently regarded as having committed treason. Yet his query touched on something about Churchill that has often embarrassed British sensibilities, so that it is generally not talked about: his gung-ho fondness for imperial slaughter. Everywhere one looks, one finds Churchill dripping blood from his mouth. He was fanatical about violence.