Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008
UK's greatest PM
BBC Newsnight: Who has been UK's greatest post-war PM?
Newsnight wants you to help decide the UK's greatest and worst post-war prime minister. Find out more about the 12 PMs below, then use the form to rank them in order of greatness.
Posted by ash4781 @ 07:26 PM (702 views) Add Comment
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1. enuii said...
No doubt everyone knows who will end up at No12, bet the BBC never publishes the result once their lord and master finds out!
2. Maihem said...
The BBC already had a program on this topic. They decided that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister in the last hundred years but wouldn't agree that she did the right things - only that she was very good at prime-ministering.
3. Tony Blair said...
Hear ! Hear!
Number 12 is a racing cert
4. drewster said...
Relevance to HPC?
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6. nooneo said...
@ Planning4acrash
Langauge, their may be miners present....
....bugger me Mrs Thatch did for them in '85 !
7. paul said...
No need to be rude now p4c.
Drewster runs this site.
8. Mr Gerbil said...
No.1 is a no-brainer...MAGGIE MAGGIE MAGGIE...IN IN IN!!
No.12 has no brain GORDON IS A MORON!!
The ones in between I had to think about. Eden & Heath near the bottom, Churchill near the top. The others were mediocre.
9. quiet guy said...
@planning4acrash
Drewster expressed an opinion. What is the problem? You are a frequent poster on this blog. Sometimes I find your comments interesting. Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I *really* disagree with your posting but I don't feel the need to be abusive. Please reciprocate.
10. drewster said...
I don't run this site. I'm just another blogger like you.
11. planning4acrash said...
I just get sick of petty minded people constantly making judgements about on and off topic, like were at school or something, and doing an assignment.
12. planning4acrash said...
Quiet guy. I wish you'd speak up when you disagree about things. That makes good conversation and those who offer constructive criticism are the ones I learn most from.
13. drewster said...
p4ac and others,
I don't wish to sound like a constant whiner, it's just there has been a lot of HPC-relevant news this week so for people to post "who is your favourite prime minister" just seems a bit out of place to me. This financial crisis is a global phenomenon; many people are to blame, not just our beloved Gordon.
14. beartil2010 said...
Gordon is like the icing on the cake
15. nooneo said...
Mr Gerbil @ 8
No.1 is a no-brainer....
Guess you weren't a miner, or one of the millions thrown onto the scrapheap 'cos that evil witch "had to modernise" our economy. To be honest, almost to a man (or woman) the are a feckless and self-serving bunch.
I'm to young to really know, but I suspect it's Clement Attlee. Without the massive social (council) housing builds, the start of the welfare state and the origins of the NHS, millions (more) of us would still be living in victorian slums, have absolutely limited access to doctors and hospitals and we would still be at the mercy of the monied/middle classes because there is no welfare state simply because we have no ability to fund any of the "basic" needs we are born into in life.
Whatever the problems since their foundation, the absolute need for these state functions (and their subsequent demise) have little bearing on how fundementally liberating the 1945 labour government were for my perants and millions of others trapped in almost abject poverty.
Clement Attlee - By a country mile.