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And to use of chemical weapons, did someone said that "desperate times need desperate measures..." What other can you do when there's thousands of evil nazis conquered your precious island and there's nothing you can do? "We will never surrendah!! Use the gas..."
Desperate times??? That would mean the extinction of civilization in many parts of Germany and Britain! It is suicide to contemplate its use, something both sides understood (or should have!). Basically, while not as bad as nuclear weapons, chemical weapons would a extremely deadly against civilians and require the evacuation of major cities and the dispersal of the population to many other parts of the country. Starvation would result in many places, as the infrastructure would not support millions of extra people suddenly thrown into areas that are unprepared to accept them.
Beyond that the Germans have nerve gas, which would be even worse than regular chemical weapons. No gas mask can protect against it and what's worse is that the British have no idea that Germans have it. Of course if the British turn to Anthrax, then its game over. It is worse than nukes in just about every way, as it can then spread all over the continent. The collateral damage to everyone would catastrophic, truly a civilization ender. Churchill would go down as the greatest barbarian in the history of the world and would rightly put his nation in a category worse than the Nazis.
Given all this, and that the Nazis were not viewed as truly all that evil to the men in charge (Churchill's bluster notwithstanding) at this point, I do think it would come to some sort of deal before turning to chemical weapons, provided the Germans did not start it first. And really, were the Germans even going to be capable of successfully landing on British soil? Given that the cost of a heavy bomber fleet is going to be so much, the money will have to come from somewhere, which would probably be the navy. Hitler stated during the war that he wished he focused on a coastal navy, something that probably could have happened if the Germans decided to focus on building bombers instead of battleships and aircraft carriers that were never completed.