Dominic Sandbrook
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Appearances Over Time
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On the other hand, he was an incredibly good and enthusiastic dancer.
How did he have time with all the church and the...
Also, dancing on board ship, if you're seasick.
Sloshing all over the place.
Exactly.
Anyway, Fisher is a great character.
Everybody loves Fisher.
They're very excited that he's been brought back, rather like bringing back Kitchener to run the war office.
But actually, as with Kitchener, Jackie Fisher is a bit of a loose cannon.
He's 73 years old.
He's very autocratic.
He's very indecisive.
He's very difficult.
He spends most of his time leaking to the Tory press and saying, I hate Churchill.
Churchill's useless.
And he really hates the Dardanelles scheme.
Fisher says, this is absolutely insane.
The only way this could work is if you landed 200,000, it would take 200,000 men to secure the coastline so you could get your ships through the strait.
And frankly, we don't have enough men to send 200,000 men.
Churchill doesn't listen to him.