Question for Brits on here: Is it common knowledge in the U.K. that Churchill lost miserably in the 1945 general elections, and that he was widely despised by the British working class?

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British involvement in WW2 was so bizarre and self defeating. Never did a nation fight so long and hard and sacrifice so much in a war they could have easily avoided, against a nation that initially never directly threatened them and continually tried to negotiate a peace, all for which the British achieved no tangible benefit and in fact dramatically weakened their power, wealth, and global position despite "winning" the war.

I'm curious what modern day Brits think of this? Do any of them honestly think they in any way benefitted from their involvement in ww2, or was all the sacrifice written down as some moral crusade of good against evil?