Churchill

It has been announced that a forthcoming banknote in the UK is to feature Sir Winston Churchill, that great statesman who made a political comeback in 1940 to lead the UK through the Second World war to victory.
 
A man of principle, a humanitarian who was prepared to stand up for what was right.
 
Of course, he is better remembered in the Channel Islands as the man who on the 27th September 1944, three months after D-Day, scribbled on a cabinet memo about the Channel Islands 

“Let them starve. No fighting. They can rot at their leisure.”
 
He may have meant the occupying Germans but he was well aware that it would also apply to the occupied Islanders and more so as they would be last in the queue for any scant supplies.
 
Was this the same statesman who later during a public broadcast on 8th May 1945 said 

“and our dear Channel Islands are also to be freed to-day.”
 
Not quite the same message was it.
 
But this one played better to the public, the same public who would soon, on 5th July 1945, be going to the polls to elect the next UK government.
 
Kind of makes you glad that we print our own banknotes doesn’t it.