Rank the Prime Minister

MrOneLung

Ok. So on the Cameron resignation thread there are the usual best/worst leader since Thatcher comparisons.

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.

Fiiish

bobmunro

In my lifetime:

1. Harold Wilson
2. Tony Blair
3. Ted Heath

Leuth

In my lifetime:

christ

John Major preferred cricket to actual politics, I guess he was the best one for that reason

C_A_F_C

Next week....favourite serial killers...

Alwaysneil

John Smith oh fuck he died

SheffieldRed

Leuth said:

In my lifetime:

christ

John Major preferred cricket to actual politics, I guess he was the best one for that reason

You're old

iainment

Atlee. All the others were disasters in one way or another.

bobmunro

iainment said:

Atlee. All the others were disasters in one way or another.

“All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”

Enoch Powell

Leuth

Enoch Powell was a wise man with a lot of really cool things to say

Bedsaddick

Blair
Callahan
Brown

Starinnaddick

Leuth said:

In my lifetime:

christ

John Major preferred cricket to actual politics, I guess he was the best one for that reason

One post war Prime Minister played cricket for Middlesex when he was a young man .

iainment

Leuth said:

Enoch Powell was a wise man with a lot of really cool things to say

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.

Fiiish

Leuth said:

Enoch Powell was a wise man with a lot of really cool things to say

"A broken clock is correct twice a day"
- Adolf Hitler

bobmunro

iainment said:

Leuth said:

Enoch Powell was a wise man with a lot of really cool things to say

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.

Absolutely agree. His quote I reproduced was very astute though.

SDAddick

C_A_F_C said:

Next week....favourite serial killers...

1) Ridgeway
2) Brown
3) Gacy
4) Gein
5) Blair
6) Cameron

C_A_F_C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXlyYSNAACM

SantaClaus

iainment said:

Leuth said:

Enoch Powell was a wise man with a lot of really cool things to say

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.

I heard him speak once. I wasn't overly impressed by his oratory or intellect.

25May98

1 Alan Curbishley
2 Lennie Lawrence
3 Chris Powell

Fuck politics.

shirty5

Paul Eddington
Michael Sheen
Hugh Grant

ForeverAddickted

shirty5 said:

Paul Eddington
Michael Sheen
Hugh Grant

Seriously Hugh Grant is the best we've ever had as he told President Thornton to fuck off

McBobbin

Jack Tunney
Gorilla Monsoon
Roddy Piper

Henry Irving

Atlee - created the country will live in ie NHS, Nuclear weapons

lolwray

Thatcher
Attlee
Churchill

soapy_jones

Eenie
Meanie
Minie

Damn no room for Mo!

Algarveaddick

Atlee
Brown

The rest have all been bastards or a let down.

soapy_jones

soapy_jones said:

Eenie
Meanie
Brown

Damn no room for Minie or Mo!

FiveGoalSummers

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.

Johnnysummers5

Derek Trotter
Rodney Trotter
Uncle Albert

bobmunro

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.

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'.

I have Wilson top based on my lifetime - far too young to remember MacMillan!

MrOneLung

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 Conservative