How ironic that at a time when a politician with a most undistinguished past is about to become our unelected prime minister, the politician whom he claims most to emulate is having his somewhat racist past made public (How Churchill helped engineer the Windrush scandal, 18/06/19). David Olusoga`s revelations about Churchill being determined in 1951 to link the newly-arrived West Indian population to "social problems", and even considering a racist election slogan, show how British history has been manipulated by politicians to hide the truth about our past from the people.
A prime minister who has written pseudo-history books about Churchill, and thereby contributing to the myopia which governs our history, is the last thing this country needs in these divided times. Hopefully, Olusoga will set his sights on getting the 1.2 million files hidden away in Hanslope Park, and going all the way back to the Crimean war, opened. The sooner it is accepted that our past is no more "glorious" than any other country`s, the better.
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