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  Ahhhh Howard- the point is Winnie was noticbly 'tiddly' as you put it.
  
  One evening as he left The Commons MP Bessie Braddock said 'Winston, you're drunk' Madam, he replied 'you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober'.
  
  I agree he was not what most of us would call a drunkard, he actually wrote in his book 'My Early Life', 'I have been brought up to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.'
  
  But then he also once said
  'No-one can say that I ever failed to display and meet a proper appreciation of alcohol'.
  
  Yes, indeed these are different times and the extent of Reckless' drunkenness may or may not have been accurately reported but what I am certain about is that he is not unusual in or out of parliament. Any of us could have done exactly the same and I simple deplore a lot of the attitudes I have read here. I have more than on one occasion been worse for wear, when I should not have been and if you have not been so too then you have not lived!

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