LOL
"social progressive"? If it was up to him, women would never have had a vote. Ethnic minorities were nothing but colonized wage slaves.
  Do you know what an imperialist is?
Churchill was an imperialist warmonger.
And he had no respect for the average Brit whom he thought was too stupid to cast an intelligent vote.
 Read some of Orwell's books to get a powerful perspective on the squalor ordinary Brits were afflicted with in the 30's and 40's, due to the imperialist policies and attitudes of Britain's aristocracy.
  The Brits, we are often told, fought two world wars to "save democracy" but they actually had no democracy.