Report: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed

Daily Mail via FoxNews ^ | 2-4-08 | Rebecca Camber

[atomic conspiracy]

One in four Britons don't believe wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill existed, according to a recent survey. Churchill is compared to Florence Nightingale and Sir Walter Raleigh, seen by many survey respondents as a mythical person, the London Daily Mail reported Monday. The survey, conducted with 3,000 respondents to test their general knowledge, reported other historical figures such as Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, Cleopatra and the Duke of Wellington were made up for books and films, the Mail reported. The survey, by UKTV Gold, also found that Sherlock Holmes was a real person.

[LadyPilgrim]

This is shameful!
And our own public/government schools are marching right in step.

[Fiji Hill]

Churchill is...seen by many survey respondents as a mythical person, the London Daily Mail reported Monday

Oh, well, in some ways, FDR was a mythical person.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Churchill is compared to Florence Nightingale and Sir Walter Raleigh, seen by many survey respondents as a mythical person

I don't know whether it's the writer of this article or the surveytakers, but someone needs to tell them that Florence Nightingale and Sir Walter Raleigh were not "mythical" people either, they also really existed.

[KarlInOhio]

Is there any chance that this isn’t an indication of the Brits’ lack of education but instead shows their contempt for idiots with surveys? If someone pestered me into answering it, I might have answered the same way to taunt the survey taker. Either that or eaten his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

[MindBender26]

1993, in Dallas, TX, was doing story on 30 year anniversary of JFK killing. Only 30% of high school kids knew who he was, in DALLAS.

My Black videographer then set up a story to ask Black kids who MLK was. 65% did NOT know who Dr. King was.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Well, I don’t think Al Gore is a real person.”.....I was under the impression he was a white lawn jockey.

[chaos_5]

One in four Britons don't believe wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill existed, according to a recent survey.

That is just amazing...

[chaos_5]

They may think Winston Churchill was a made up character, but I bet these very same people think "man made" Global Warming is real!

[stuartcr]

Who do think the guy in all the film strips is?

[CPOSharky]

And three of those four can’t find England on a world map.

(Which is on a par with most of the rest of the world.)

[monday]

“So? 1 in 4 Americans believes in the Global Warming fantasy.”

Sadly its worse than that. More like 3 out of 4. We also like electing retards to political office.

[monday]

“Is there any chance that this isn’t an indication of the Brits’ lack of education but instead shows their contempt for idiots with surveys? If someone pestered me into answering it, I might have answered the same way to taunt the survey taker. Either that or eaten his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

lol, I suspect you may be at least partially right. Anyone with brains and a life is going to hang up or shut the door in the face of survey takers, so the ones who do end up taking the survey probably don’t represent Britons brightest.

[RedCobra]

Unbelievable, just unbelievable. Britain is dying.