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30 Jun 19
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Uh....oh ! (Queue Nationalist Meltdown !)
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7196665/Sir-Winston-Churchill-GAY-claims-historian-TV-comedy-star-Charlie-Higson.html
Britain's lauded war leader Winston Churchill may have been gay, according to astonishing claims by author and TV comedy star Charlie Higson.
As a Sandhurst cavalry officer in his early 20s, Churchill was accused of ‘behaving like Oscar Wilde’ and cavorting with fellow officers.
But according to Higson, Churchill’s mother intervened and helped him avoid charges at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
‘He married Clemmie but there is a possibility that he might have been homosexual,’ Higson told an audience at the Chalke Valley History Festival.
‘In his early 20s he was accused of behaving like Oscar Wilde with some cavalry officers but his mother managed to help him get the case quelled.’
According to Higson – one of the main writers and stars of BBC sketch show The Fast Show – Churchill cut a glamorous and dashing figure as a young man and enjoyed musical hall entertainment and drinking cocktails.
‘He would get drunk and show off like young men do,’ he told the festival, which is sponsored by The Mail on Sunday’s sister paper the Daily Mail.
In 1893, Churchill was admitted to Sandhurst. Higson said: ‘He liked many of the aspects of Army life, he liked horse riding, he loved playing polo and worked very hard at Sandhurst and was one of the top ten graduates from there in his year.’
Churchill had hoped that his politician father Lord Randolph would be proud of his achievements at Sandhurst but his father died shortly after he left the military academy.
‘I think Winston spent the rest of his life trying to impress his dead father and prove that he could make something of himself and was someone worthy to carry the Churchill name,’ said Higson.
The star spoke of Lord Randolph’s rise as a British statesman – he held offices including Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons – before his career was cut tragically short when he died at the age of just 45.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7196665/Sir-Winston-Churchill-GAY-claims-historian-TV-comedy-star-Charlie-Higson.html
Britain's lauded war leader Winston Churchill may have been gay, according to astonishing claims by author and TV comedy star Charlie Higson.
As a Sandhurst cavalry officer in his early 20s, Churchill was accused of ‘behaving like Oscar Wilde’ and cavorting with fellow officers.
But according to Higson, Churchill’s mother intervened and helped him avoid charges at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
‘He married Clemmie but there is a possibility that he might have been homosexual,’ Higson told an audience at the Chalke Valley History Festival.
‘In his early 20s he was accused of behaving like Oscar Wilde with some cavalry officers but his mother managed to help him get the case quelled.’
According to Higson – one of the main writers and stars of BBC sketch show The Fast Show – Churchill cut a glamorous and dashing figure as a young man and enjoyed musical hall entertainment and drinking cocktails.
‘He would get drunk and show off like young men do,’ he told the festival, which is sponsored by The Mail on Sunday’s sister paper the Daily Mail.
In 1893, Churchill was admitted to Sandhurst. Higson said: ‘He liked many of the aspects of Army life, he liked horse riding, he loved playing polo and worked very hard at Sandhurst and was one of the top ten graduates from there in his year.’
Churchill had hoped that his politician father Lord Randolph would be proud of his achievements at Sandhurst but his father died shortly after he left the military academy.
‘I think Winston spent the rest of his life trying to impress his dead father and prove that he could make something of himself and was someone worthy to carry the Churchill name,’ said Higson.
The star spoke of Lord Randolph’s rise as a British statesman – he held offices including Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons – before his career was cut tragically short when he died at the age of just 45.
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Just as well we did not know this in 1940...we could not have had someone Gay leading us into War
  Especially as Adolf was definitely Hetero Leopard |
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No he wasn't !
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/07/books.booksnews |
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I see Leopard..I am wrong again, Hitler was gay
This world is getting harder and harder for Homophobes  |
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oh Err Missus harder n harder fink parp
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If David Irving didn't reveal him as gay then I'm confident he wasn't.
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There are a few on this forum who are cuddy wifters ...
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You don't have to hide anymore Geordie......embrace your sexuality !
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(I'm not Gay btw)
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But neither am I homophobic.
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(I'm not Gay btw) says the leopard but you know they can't change their spots
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 At school we used to sing Hitler only had one ball Which was partly true, one of his testes was only partly distended. Would have given him a lower than average sex drive...well half as much lool |
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I always thought that the other ..... is in the Albert Hall
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Alice Roberts the other day on her great new series about historic towns was saying that James VI of Scotland (and I of England as he united the thrones) was probably gay or bi and kept his fancy man in a bedroom above his bedroom accessed via a secret door to a stair in his wardrobe
 I believe every word that lovely woman says, she's as infallible as His Ickeness himself (conspiracies be upon him). Roberts never said though that he was a bi sexual shape shifting lizard-man. As she's not totally ****ing nuts. |
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Well, he used to be a liberal
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I remember his quote, I may be drunk but in the morning you are going to wake up with a sore arse.
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So Churchill was Gay....kuh !
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We shall go on to the end, we shall bum them in France,
we shall bum them on the seas and oceans, we shall bum with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall bum them on the beaches, we shall bum them on the landing grounds, we shall bum them in the fields and in the streets, we shall bum them in the hills; |
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boris,s hero a bumboy
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So the evidence is basically nill but people with axes to grind believe what they want to believe.
BTW what sort of education system do we have that produces people who think a comma and an apostrophe are the same thing? |
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They are the same thing, just at different heights on the page.
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It just shows you the mentality of people, posting **** from tv or news papers,...as for school, dictation,..
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When you're at the bottom of the well all you have left is to try and bring people down to your level. Can't remember who I'm quoting. It was either Gandhi or Boycey. True though for some. |
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"They are the same thing, just at different heights on the page."
There's a Father Ted sketch in there I think! |
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I might have mixed that speech up with an Owen Jones one at a mongmentum rally.
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Wonder if Owen follows a rigorous hygiene regimen?
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Surprised they haven't tried to claim Churchill was black yet.
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Well he was called Winston
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