Rank the Prime Minister
So, who - in your opinion - are the top 3 prime ministers since the war?
no need to slag off people's choices, just interested to see what you think and whether many people have leaders from both parties.
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In my lifetime:
1. Harold Wilson
2. Tony Blair
3. Ted Heath0 -
In my lifetime:
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John Major preferred cricket to actual politics, I guess he was the best one for that reason9 -
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John Smith oh fuck he died0
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You're oldLeuth said:In my lifetime:
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John Major preferred cricket to actual politics, I guess he was the best one for that reason21 -
Atlee. All the others were disasters in one way or another.1
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Enoch Powell was a wise man with a lot of really cool things to say9
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Blair
Callahan
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One post war Prime Minister played cricket for Middlesex when he was a young man .Leuth said:In my lifetime:
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John Major preferred cricket to actual politics, I guess he was the best one for that reason0 -
Absolutely agree. His quote I reproduced was very astute though.iainment said:
He was an apalling man who hid the vileness of his beliefs behind his facility to sound like a man of reason. He was a wolf in sheep's clothing, covering himself with classical allusions.Leuth said:Enoch Powell was a wise man with a lot of really cool things to say
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I heard him speak once. I wasn't overly impressed by his oratory or intellect.iainment said:
He was an apalling man who hid the vileness of his beliefs behind his facility to sound like a man of reason. He was a wolf in sheep's clothing, covering himself with classical allusions.Leuth said:Enoch Powell was a wise man with a lot of really cool things to say
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1 Alan Curbishley
2 Lennie Lawrence
3 Chris Powell
Fuck politics.1 -
Paul Eddington
Michael Sheen
Hugh Grant6 -
Seriously Hugh Grant is the best we've ever had as he told President Thornton to fuck offshirty5 said:Paul Eddington
Michael Sheen
Hugh Grant0 - Sponsored links:
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Jack Tunney
Gorilla Monsoon
Roddy Piper1 -
Atlee - created the country will live in ie NHS, Nuclear weapons0
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Thatcher
Attlee
Churchill0 -
Eenie
Meanie
Minie
Damn no room for Mo!0 -
Atlee
Brown
The rest have all been bastards or a let down.
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soapy_jones said:
Eenie
Meanie
Brown
Damn no room for Minie or Mo!0 -
Clem Attlee by a country mile. He inherited a run down country, broken by six years of war, and attempted to rebuild a nation. He had to keep things running during one of the worst winters ever (1946-7). His government also gave us the NHS.
Harold Macmillan: The last of the one nation Tories. I remember very well the general election of 1959. When he said 'you've never had it so good' people agreed with him. Definitely a patrician, but you used to see his kids on the 92 Southdown bus from East Grinstead to Chelwood Gate on their way to Birch Grove, where he lived. No official car. He made them take the bus.
Harold Wilson: The last of the intellectuals at no.10. A profoundly decent man, who had to deal with constant sniping from the security services. He kept the Labour Party together and had to deal with the original 'loose cannon' his deputy, George Brown. His government started the Open University.
Honourable mentions for Ted Heath and 'Farmer' Jim Callaghan.6 -
Derek Trotter
Rodney Trotter
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Very good analysis and I would agree that Clem Atlee was by far the best PM since the war and up there with 'of all time'.FiveGoalSummers said:Clem Attlee by a country mile. He inherited a run down country, broken by six years of war, and attempted to rebuild a nation. He had to keep things running during one of the worst winters ever (1946-7). His government also gave us the NHS.
Harold Macmillan: The last of the one nation Tories. I remember very well the general election of 1959. When he said 'you've never had it so good' people agreed with him. Definitely a patrician, but you used to see his kids on the 92 Southdown bus from East Grinstead to Chelwood Gate on their way to Birch Grove, where he lived. No official car. He made them take the bus.
Harold Wilson: The last of the intellectuals at no.10. A profoundly decent man, who had to deal with constant sniping from the security services. He kept the Labour Party together and had to deal with the original 'loose cannon' his deputy, George Brown. His government started the Open University.
Honourable mentions for Ted Heath and 'Farmer' Jim Callaghan.
I have Wilson top based on my lifetime - far too young to remember MacMillan!0 -
2010 University of Leeds / Mori Poll of post war leaders
# Prime Minister Years in Office Political party
1 Clement Attlee 1945–1951 Labour
2 Margaret Thatcher 1979–1990 Conservative
3 Tony Blair 1997–2007 Labour
4 Harold Macmillan 1957–1963 Conservative
5 Harold Wilson 1964–1970, 1974–1976 Labour
6 Sir Winston Churchill (1940–1945), 1951–1955 Conservative
7 James Callaghan 1976–1979 Labour
8 John Major 1990–1997 Conservative
9 Edward Heath 1970–1974 Conservative
10 Gordon Brown 2007–2010 Labour
11 Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1963–1964 Conservative
12 Sir Anthony Eden 1955–1957 Conservative1
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