Best recent British PM?
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If "recent" = "the ones I've lived through", my similar list for Canadian PMs would go back to Lester B. Pearson. If I'd been born a couple of months earlier, it would have been Diefenbaker.
Would be fun to do polls for other countries too!
EnglishEdward
Deity
Probably David Cameron.
For starting to return sovereignty to the people, in three referendums.
For starting to return sovereignty to the people, in three referendums.
Zardnaar
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Not exactly an exciting bunch?
So it's John Major through to Gordon one of those pick your poison?
So it's John Major through to Gordon one of those pick your poison?
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Feels like picking the best turd from an outhouse.
Zardnaar
Deity
The one with corn!!
With this in mind, gonna pick Brown I guess.
Only if you want to be disabused of the idea that Canadians are polite people. When it comes to our own politics, we're not particularly nice about it.
Zardnaar
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Heh its kinda relative.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
I picked Thatcher, but I was torn on Brown since he sold Britain’s gold and saved the world. That’s quite an achievement.
MrCynical
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It says something that the only ones I don't have a serious problem with are Brown, and possibly Major. That merely ranks them as forgettably meh, rather than notably good. Blair was arguably most effective, at least for Britain itself, but it's hard to overlook Iraq.
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Hmmmm, can I take the first half of Blair? ie, before Bliar inflicted the Dodgy Dossier on us?
If not, I'll probably have to go with Major. Not so much him but rather his cabinet was heavily influenced by One Nation Tories like Clarke and Heseltine who understood the importance of manufacturing and an national economic policy.
Because otherwise we have a needy dork with a messiah complex, a morose plotting Scot, a posh wanker, a narcissistic joke, a lettuce head, and a differently colored posh wanker.
If not, I'll probably have to go with Major. Not so much him but rather his cabinet was heavily influenced by One Nation Tories like Clarke and Heseltine who understood the importance of manufacturing and an national economic policy.
Because otherwise we have a needy dork with a messiah complex, a morose plotting Scot, a posh wanker, a narcissistic joke, a lettuce head, and a differently colored posh wanker.
If we extended it to those I've lived through I'd have been able to vote for Harold Wilson and would've. Of the more recent ones I went for Brown.
Heath is the furthest back I can remember, I was very young during Wilson's 1st stint as PM.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
I must say I am a bit surprised by the rehabilitation of Tony Blair here. I remember him (on this forum) before the Iraq invasion and he was responsible for gutting everything and making Britain into a fascist police state.
First memory I have of Blair was seeing him on C-SPAN (a non-commercial American cable network dedicated to political affairs) in the House of Commons talking about Railtrack.
First memory I have of Blair was seeing him on C-SPAN (a non-commercial American cable network dedicated to political affairs) in the House of Commons talking about Railtrack.
