Okay - What if Winston Churchill rose from the grave and took over as leader of the UK ?

Question

Looking at todays society and the problems we face (Yob culture, Iraq, climate change, Europe etc etc) how would he solve these problems?

(Please don't say 'if he rose from the grave he would be a Zombie and would eat their brains' etc etc - I'm talking about him taking over leadership of the country as though he was alive and in his prime)

Answer 1

Great question! I think for a start he's have no trouble at all taking over leadership of the Tory party - no doubt about it with the current quality of leadership.

Churchill, whilst a great and strong leader, was a fundamental realist. This is why I doubt whether he'd see the troops in Iraq as actually achieving anything in their current form. He'd paint "bringing our boys home" as a partiotic act - removing them from a foreign land we can never hope to tame.

On the subject of climate change, he'd see the realistic truth - that no matter how much we do nothng will change unless the US changes, and unless we stop Chinese growth in its tracks. Yes, we should be concerned about local environemental issues. We should not worry about global problems we can't do anything about.

Churchill would be ambivalent to Europe in its current form, as he would see it as a talking shop and as being dominated by minority economic interests. He'd demand reform - calling for the end of the CAP and structuaral reform - expressing his ideological support for European integration, but also threating to pull out if there was no change.

Answer 2

Before the war Winston Churchill was known as a war monger, however when war came he was a perfect leader, I would think he would bring back national service, then as we had so many troops doing nothing would go to war on a grand scale (like all of the middle east), just my opinion, remember at the end of World war 2 he wanted to go into Russia etc to finish the job? however this was vetoed by everybody else.

Answer 3

Churchill is not a man of our times.

He would be an embarrassing anachronism in our modern times without the military nous to understand the situations in Afghanistan and Iraq, or the political tact to suck up to the rest of Europe and America.

Maybe that's not such a bad thing after all.

Answer 4

“i don't admit… that a great incorrect has been accomplished to the purple Indians of united statesa., or the black human beings of Australia… by ability of the certainty that a miles better race, a greater robust grade race… has are available in and further its place.” Churchill to Palestine Royal fee, 1937“i don't comprehend the squeamishness bearing directly to using gas. i'm strongly in favour of applying poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes” Writing as president of the Air Council.

Answer 5

I feel sure he'd pull out of Europe and take a strong line on immigration. I reckon if he were to come back he would be in great shock at the state of the country.
Even though he was born upper class, he would be more in touch with the common man than any of our party leaders nowadays.

Answer 6

Churchill was a man for his time. he would not understand modern society so he wouldn't have an earthly idea of how to solve our current problems. Don't forget he didn't want India/Pakistan to become independent. Interested to see, however, the answer to say that he wouldn't listen to the EU. Churchill was all for European unity!

Answer 7

Sir Winston Churchill if you don't mind;anyway he was half American so some people might object,I think everybody would be petrified of a reincarnated prime minister and I don't think it would go down too well.

Answer 8

Okay - he would go online to Yahoo Answers and ask and answer questions about History in the History category.

Answer 9

Ah Churchill, the architect of Gallipoli and Narvik. What a genius.

Answer 10

The British would hate Him and He would not want to be associated with the modern populace.