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All of royalty, all of the members of parliament, and 90% of the UK population had the same views as Churchill at the time. Go back a few years further and people were burned at the stake because of not conforming to religious beliefs in vogue at the time.

History is there to be judged and to be learned from. We do, thats how society progresses. We have come a long way in a relatively short period of time.

People can judge Churchill unkindly if they like, but circumstances brought him to be the PM at a time of war when we would absolutely have been overrun by the Nazi's if not for him. That doesnt make him a saint, it makes him the right person for the time. Nothing more, nothing less.