good idea to have one. this seems like a good time. take his popularity, right? take the thanks of a grateful nation and lock in the gains, politically, for himself and for his conservative party. victory in europe, v.e. day, was in may. the election that he called was held in july. and in that election, winston churchill got clobbered. it was amazing. churchill's conservative party lost 160 seats in parliament. churchill lost his job as prime minister. the labor party, instead, won a majority in parliament. clement atly was installed as a new prime minister, replacing churchill. it was the first time the labor party had ever gained a majority in the british parliament, and it happened right after the end of world war ii. you want to talk political shock. that was a political shock. in the united states, this is the picture in the political science dictionary next to the definition of political shocker. this happened just three years after churchill's debacle in 1945. this was 1948. deeply unpopular democratic incumbent, president harry truman. he was widely expected to lose as he ran for re-election.