Greatest British Prime Minister

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Greatest PM

Winston Churchill
9
38%
Clem Attlee
7
29%
Harold Macmillan
0
No votes
Harold Wilson
0
No votes
Ted Heath
0
No votes
Jim Callaghan
0
No votes
Margaret Thatcher
4
17%
John Major
0
No votes
Tony Blair
4
17%
Other
0
No votes
 
Total votes : 24

Greatest British Prime Minister

Postby MichaelReilly » Thu Nov 17, 2016 12:08 pm

Launched in response to the US Presidents thread. I thought I'd see what your opinions are, and what your opinion of what 'greatest' actually means. The number I could enter is limited, so I skipped pre-war ones, the previous 3 PMs and some other's who I felt nobody would actually vote for.
Down with this sort of thing
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Re: Greatest British Prime Minister

Postby Aquinas » Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:00 pm

I voted Churchill for his wartime leadership. If I had been allowed a second vote, it would have gone to Attlee.
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Re: Greatest British Prime Minister

Postby jamescfm » Thu Nov 17, 2016 4:08 pm

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Re: Greatest British Prime Minister

Postby 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.
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Re: Greatest British Prime Minister

Postby Autokrator15 » Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:25 pm

Attlee didnt revert the war time economic meassures and used them for his socialist vision.

I voted Churchill. A hero who's contributions to Britain are unmeassurable. Though Margaret Thatcher would be my second vote for her economic liberal policies and making Britain stronger whilest ending the choking grib the Unions had on the government and the countries economy.
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Re: Greatest British Prime Minister

Postby Hrafn » Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:34 pm

Churchill, for his leadership during the war. And his many witty quotes.

Thatcher is overrated IMO. Yes, she did close down some inefficient industries and push through some brutal and unpopular yet necessary economic reforms, and she did talk about climate change before it was mainstream. But she also set in motion the housing price carousel and generally facilitated a cancerous growth of the unproductive financial sector that is eating up the productive economy. She replaced one unsustainable system with another unsustainable system. She was probably the most effective destroyer of family values and other traditional values. I don't get why so many who consider themselves conservatives idolize her.
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Re: Greatest British Prime Minister

Postby Autokrator15 » Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:21 pm

Hrafn wrote:Churchill, for his leadership during the war. And his many witty quotes.

Thatcher is overrated IMO. She was probably the most effective destroyer of family values and other traditional values. I don't get why so many who consider themselves conservatives idolize her.



I disagee. Though I'm a liberal so i prefer individualism and not family values. I also liked her hatred for socialism.
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