British Labour Party Removes Portraits Of Two Of Country’s Greatest Heroes

Since they cascaded to victory last summer, Great Britain’s leftist Labour Party has removed portraits of two of the most famous Prime Ministers the country ever had, the Duke of Wellington and Winston Churchill, both of whom were responsible for defeating the country’s greatest arch-enemies, Napoleon and Adolph Hitler.

“Portraits of Winston Churchill, the Duke of Wellington, and more British heroes have been removed from the Houses of Parliament after Labour’s election win last summer, it has emerged,” GB News reported. “Since the General Election, drawings, photographs and prints of historical British political leaders and monarchs have been axed across Westminster – some of which were ‘blacklisted’ in 2020. … One photograph removed from Portcullis House – the main office building for MPs – showed the Second World War leader standing at the Cenotaph in 1945.”

The Cenotaph is a national war memorial to the dead of the First and Second World Wars and the wars that have followed. It’s the site of the National Service of Remembrance every November.

Churchill was not only the leader who led the fight against Hitler from the beginning, he also was a gifted writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. Churchill had been warning for many years before World War II of the growing Nazi threat. “It is for his leadership through these fraught years of 1940-1941 – through Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz – that Churchill is best remembered,” the International War Museum notes. “Crucially, he rallied the nation in defiance of Hitler. In the words of Labour politician Hugh Dalton, Churchill was ‘the only man we have for this hour.’ This view was shared by the overwhelming majority of the British people.”

After British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pusillanimously conceded to Hitler in 1938, Churchill famously predicted, “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.”

“His finest hour was the leadership of Britain when it was most isolated, most threatened, and most weak; when his own courage, determination, and belief in democracy became at one with the nation,” Churchill’s biographer Martin Gilbert wrote.

The Duke Of Wellington, who, like Churchill, served as Prime Minister twice, is still regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history. He commanded the army that defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, and never lost a major battle.