Mayor of London Boris Johnson believes he has found a way to create a new generation of Churchillian leaders. Released alongside Johnson’s new book, The Churchill Factor, is an app for mobile devices that provides what former Prime Minister Winston Churchill would have decided in any given situation. The Think Like Churchill app is intended to help people make daily decisions.

“[The] app lets you do things that a book or a television program cannot,” Mayor Johnson claims. “This app adds to our understanding of Churchill.”

Although the app is intended to bring history to life rather than serve as a problem-solving tool, it still highlights an Achilles’ heel in British society. Perhaps one of the greatest failures of the modern British state is its inability to reproduce the character of Churchill in its modern leaders.

Throughout its long history of victory in war and success in parliamentary democracy, Britain has had a constant stream of great leaders. Whenever a crisis arose, an individual was there to best the challenge. From Sir Francis Drake to William Pitt, Horatio Nelson to Lord Kitchener, Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher, the void was filled and the day was saved. Yet, today we see no leader stepping forward to face the new and complex issues confronting the United Kingdom.

Will Labor Party leader Ed Miliband be able to reconcile Britain’s tenuous relationship with Europe more effectively than Prime Minister David Cameron? Is there an individual who has the solution to the epidemic of teen drunkenness, the out-of-control immigration problem, or the scourge of Islamic State? The options seem as forlorn and hopeless as a squirrel crossing the interstate at rush hour.

While Mr. Johnson can be commended for recognizing the need for Churchillian wisdom, it obviously cannot reverse the decay of family culture or the erosion of society’s morals. The vital fact of history is that great leaders are born from great nations; and great nations are built by great families. There’s no app for that. Winston Churchill was raised in the Victorian Era when the British Empire was ascending to its apex. He lived and breathed what that empire represented to the world: individual freedom, rule of law, fair play, education for the masses, and free trade. At this time, the traditional family flourished within British society and produced the men who would build the worldwide empire through politics, war, commerce and culture. The British Empire made its fair share of mistakes, but it did inspire the greatest leader of the 20th century to save Western civilization from the grasp of a Nazi tyrant.

Today’s Great Britain and its army of wayward and purposeless youth are the byproduct of a nation that has rejected its great heritage and the ideals of family that once produced strong leaders. The Prophet Isaiah foretold this for the last days: “For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away … The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them” (Isaiah 3:1-4).

No direction from a technological device can begin to replace the character built by a lifetime of family instruction and inspiration from a great nation. Winston Churchill said in 1935: “In these days dangers and difficulties gather upon Britain and her empire, and we are also conscious of a lack of outstanding figures with which to overcome them.”

There has never been a greater need than today for a Churchillian type leader in Great Britain. But Bible prophecy states that there will be no political watchman as Britain faces these end-time crises. What is the solution? Where can you turn for the answer? Read our free booklet Winston S. Churchill: The Watchman to find out.