[Politics] Who was the best British Prime Minister of the last 60 or so years?

Randsta · May 23, 2018

Not sure but the ones on my lifetime (6) I can not vote for anyone of them!

The Clamp · May 23, 2018

Tony Blair was head and shoulders above the rest in my lifetime. He led the country through the last few years of the greatest decade since the 60's and implemented countless policies to improve the UK and the lives of those living here.

Eeyore · May 23, 2018

looney said:
He did it on the sly, its common knowledge. If you haven't heard of it by now your not listening.

You're not really answering my question. Educate my ignorance.

KingKev · May 23, 2018

SeagullinExile said:
He took us to war on the back of a lie. End of.

UN weapons inspectors had said for years that Saddam had no WMD.

They were proved correct.

Blair and Bush went to war for regime change, which is illegal. They weren't even backed by the UN.

War criminals the pair of them.

Other than Wilson and Callaghan, maybe Brown, I don’t think any of that list would have done anything different re Iraq. Thatcher probably wouldn’t even have referred the decision to parliament....remember the Belgrano?

Weststander · May 23, 2018

KingKev said:
Other than Wilson and Callaghan, maybe Brown, I don’t think any of that list would have done anything different re Iraq. Thatcher probably wouldn’t even have referred the decision to parliament....remember the Belgrano?

A silly comparison.

The Belgrano - in the midst of a war, name a single micro-scale tactical decision put to the House of Commons for a vote.

Mo Gosfield · May 23, 2018

Goldstone1976 said:
Yesterday, I reviewed an application from a chap with a 1st from Durham. In a 3 paragraph covering letter, he had 22 spelling/grammatical mistakes. Durham, FFS.

Aside from anything else, how dumb (arrogant?) do you have to be to not use a spell-checker?

Precisely.
Apparently well educated but also semi-literate. Something wrong somewhere.

Harry Wilson's tackle · May 23, 2018

Thunder Bolt said:
My biggest grouch is his 'university for all'. policy. Polytechnic colleges were great, and we need technical training in this country far more, than degrees in media studies. Kids were going to uni, getting into debt, and ending up doing office jobs.
We needed more apprenticeships, and on the job training paid for by firms, with kids earning as they learned.

Then of course the war.

Yes. And giving financial incentives to all 'religious' schools. The reason I left the party. Still the best though. And 'no plan B, but let's gamble everything anyway, ok I'm off' Cameron the worst.

Blue Valkyrie · May 23, 2018

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Yes. And giving financial incentives to all 'religious' schools. The reason I left the party. Still the best though. And 'no plan B, but let's gamble everything anyway, ok I'm off' Cameron the worst.

Yes, Cameron was indeed a disgrace for opting to spend his time shooting in the countryside near Chipping Norton with his mate Clarkson, rather than sort out the mess he made of the country.

symyjym · May 23, 2018

Wow, that's scary. 23.73% believe Blair was. :lolol:

Simster · May 23, 2018

I've just realised I voted Major but forgot it was him who was responsible for the train carnage over the past 2 decades. Sorry, take a point off his score.

Harry Wilson's tackle · May 23, 2018

Brighton Lines said:
You're not really answering my question. Educate my ignorance.

Did you really expect an answer? In English? You'd have better luck with Dick Whittington's cat. Or Mrs Slocombe's pussy. :lolol:

Mo Gosfield · May 23, 2018

Biscuit said:
[emoji1303] yeah, always winging about not being able to afford a home and being trapped in rented.. bloody snowflakes.

Not like the generation before them, with their jobs for life, affordable housing and retiring on full.. they had it tough. [emoji848]

Ah yes, I remember those halcyon days....... strikes and three day weeks and higher exam standards and lack of credit and 15% or more interest rates and rampant inflation and less stringent employment law, when individuals were sacked on the spot and when research and information couldn't be obtained at the touch of a button and when calculators weren't allowed in exams and when teachers and parents hit you and when you had to queue for hours to get into a football match.

wallyback · May 23, 2018

More interesting i think would be a poll for the best prime ministers we never had:

Michael Heseltine
John Smith
Ken Clark
Neil Kinnock
Hugh Gaitskell
Enoch Powell
Tony Benn

Harry Wilson's tackle · May 23, 2018

SeagullinExile said:
He took us to war on the back of a lie. End of.

UN weapons inspectors had said for years that Saddam had no WMD.

They were proved correct.

Blair and Bush went to war for regime change, which is illegal. They weren't even backed by the UN.

War criminals the pair of them.

Nonsense. Complete and utter. Blix was never allowed to inspect properly by Saddam. This went on for 10 years in defiance of UN resolutions. Colin Powell outlined the situation eloquently. He persuaded me the intervention was correct (I was instinctively against it before that). There was no need later to 'sex up' the data later (that was a crass error) just as there would have been no beed to doctor the VAR footage of Murray's goal. Separatly had Blair not backed Bush it would have been the end of him (you can imagine the Sun and Mail headlines). Perpetual smearing of Blair by the left is one of the reasons labour will never get in again for the forseable future. Tories will read your post and 'love your work'. :nono:

Mo Gosfield · May 23, 2018

wallyback said:
More interesting i think would be a poll for the best prime ministers we never had:

Michael Heseltine
John Smith
Ken Clark
Neil Kinnock
Hugh Gaitskell
Enoch Powell
Tony Benn

Cyril Smith
Leon Brittan
John Profumo
Alan Clark

Giraffe · May 23, 2018

Margaret Thatcher by a long long way. The only one in my lifetime to make significant changes to this country for the better. If we had a second and a third I'd have big Dave C second for allowing us the right to vote and ditch the EU and also for bringing in gay marriage, and John Major for being decent, dealing with Ireland, and sticking one (or several) in Edwina.

Giraffe · May 23, 2018

wallyback said:
More interesting i think would be a poll for the best prime ministers we never had:

Michael Heseltine
John Smith
Ken Clark
Neil Kinnock
Hugh Gaitskell
Enoch Powell
Tony Benn

You really must add William Hague and Michael Portillo to that list. WIlliam Hague would have been a great Prime Minister right now. He was just around at the wrong time.

Crispy Ambulance · May 23, 2018

Giraffe said:
You really must add William Hague and Michael Portillo to that list. WIlliam Hague would have been a great Prime Minister right now. He was just around at the wrong time.

And Tebbit.

Goldstone1976 · May 23, 2018

wallyback said:
More interesting i think would be a poll for the best prime ministers we never had:

Michael Heseltine
John Smith
Ken Clark
Neil Kinnock
Hugh Gaitskell
Enoch Powell
Tony Benn

I had £50 at 75/1 on Heseltine being “the next Prime Minister” the day after he resigned over Westland. For this reason I couldn’t possibly vote Major (though I wouldn’t have anyway)...

maltaseagull · May 23, 2018

Albion_Dave said:
It's hard to judge Prime Ministers that were in power prior to being born.

I am amazed that they could do time travel too!

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