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Chamberlain was the saviour of the UK but you Septics are far too stupid to know that!!
From Quora:
Back in 1935 and Chamberlain started pressurising for an increased defence budget, in response to the Imperial General Staffs 1934 revision of the likelihood of a war within the next 10 years being recast as “likely”
In the 1936 Budget he was roundly attacked as “scaremongering” when he drastically increased the defence budget again.
Those budgets provided the very things that Churchill depended on for survival in 1940, the Chain Home Radar system, Dowding's Integrated Air Defence System and the Spitfire are the obvious ones.
What gets lost is the myriad of subtle changes he also made, the Government funding of a Spitfire factory at Castle Bromwich, the “Shadow Factory” system he forced through (where major arms companies were made to show other companies how to make components in wartime so that production could be ramped up quickly - by war's end, BSA in Birmingham had over 160 Shadows making components for them)
He had the rationing system designed and books pre-printed and the organisation behind it set up, distributed a gas mask to every man woman and child in the country.
He tried hard to arrange an anti-German alliance of the UK, France, Poland and Russia, that failed as the Poles would not countenance Russian Troops entering their country if they were attacked by Germany.
What is supremely ironic is that Churchill had the gall to complain Britain was unprepared for war, when he was the one who helped put us there.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of all that.
Chamberlain was trying to buy time for the British to build up their military.