Churchill appears to have influenced the worst elements of the Tory Party (e.g. Eden, Thatcher, Cameron, IDS, Osborne, May, Johnson) to this very day, based upon the ideas of Darwinian
Genetics, and Galtonian Eugenics.
CHURCHILL AND EUGENICS (International Churchill Society)
EXCERPTS:
When he was Home Secretary (February 1910-October 1911) Churchill was in favor of the confinement, segregation, and sterilization of a class of persons contemporarily described as the “feeble minded.”
"a letter from Churchill to Asquith, written in December 1910, stating that “The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate.”
“The improvement of the British breed is my aim in life,” Winston Churchill wrote to his cousin Ivor Guest on 19 January 1899, shortly after his twenty-fifth birthday. Churchill’s view was reinforced by his experiences as a young British officer serving, and fighting, in Arab and Muslim lands, and in South Africa. Like most of his contemporaries, family and friends, he regarded races as different, racial characteristics as signs of the maturity of a society, and racial purity as endangered not only by other races but by mental weaknesses within a race
When the commission reported in 1908 to the Liberal Government-which had come into office at the end of 1905, and of which Churchill was a Cabinet Minister-it recommended compulsory detention of the mentally “inadequate,” as well as sterilisation of the “unfit,” so that it would be impossible to have children and thus perpetuate what were then seen as inherited characteristics.
Between 24 and 30 July 1912, a month after the Second Reading of the Mental Deficiency Bill in Parliament, the first international Eugenics Conference was held in London, and was attended by four hundred delegates. Churchill was a Vice-President of the Congress, and Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was one of its directors, as was Charles Eliot, a former President of Harvard, and the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, Sir William Osler.
See also CHURCHILL AND THE STERILIZATION ISSUE
THE TEN GREATEST CONTROVERSIES OF WINSTON CHURCHILL'S CAREER
EUGENICS ARCHIVES
RACIST WARMONGER
RATIONAL WIKI
THE REAL WINSTON CHURCHILL
FROM THE CRIMES OF BRITAIN
And there's still lots of Eugenics in the Conservative Party today
THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY'S EUGENICS PROBLEM
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