by Captain-Socialist » Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:19 pm
You know, I honestly don't know. The correct leftist thing nowadays is to glorify Attlee as the great anti-Thatcher but he isn't really that remarkable of a individual, though maybe that was part of his appeal, he was something of a everyman despite having a quite elite background. I'm not really sure you can point to a certain element of his premiership that is uniquely a result of his inspired leadership, rather than a collective achievement of the movement. Perhaps that's what a really good socialist leader should be...
I also find it a bit odd that Churchill is always getting tops for being a war leader but Lloyd George is basically forgotten in popular memory, even with the recent fad for all things World War One. Probably something to do with the Nazis being a more convincing enemy than Kaiser Bill.