Fav. P.M. of 20th and 21st century
Thomish Kingdom
21-02-2006, 23:21
Who is your fav. BRITISH P.M. of the last 106 years?
Thomish Kingdom
21-02-2006, 23:47
Mine is Maggie Thatcher
Neu Leonstein
21-02-2006, 23:49
Ludwig Erhardt. :D
The Vatican III
22-02-2006, 00:52
I say Maggie too
Pure Metal
22-02-2006, 00:54
*gets ready to stab the thatcherites as they vote* ;)
Lionstone
22-02-2006, 00:56
It's got to be Churchill.
Come on....
"All babies should look like me....at both ends"
And in response to one of his grandchildren asking "Are you the greatest man in the world" he said "Yes, now bugger off"
And the infamous "I may be drunk, but you madame, are ugly, and in the mornign I will be sober"
What a guy
Abbalovers
22-02-2006, 01:22
Well I just liked Major. So i voted him
Sarkhaan
22-02-2006, 01:46
Huw;)
Neu Leonstein
22-02-2006, 01:51
Why isn't Atlee on the poll, by the way? Isn't he sorta important?
Europa Maxima
22-02-2006, 01:53
Thatcher. She had her dark side, and she did cause damage, but she is definitely the best on that list. Unlike Tony Blair.
Evil Cantadia
22-02-2006, 01:58
You left off the Welsh Wizard, Lloyd George.
New Stalinberg
22-02-2006, 03:08
Churchill is easily the best. Seriously, him and Mark Twain were the best people for snappy comebacks and great quotes that will never be matched.
Woman - "If you were my husband I would give you poison."
Churchill - "And madam if you were my wife I would drink it."
Does this include Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland?
After all, they were British, and they were Prime Ministers.
Psychotic Mongooses
22-02-2006, 03:23
Does this include Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland?
After all, they were British, and they were Prime Ministers.
Why? Who pray tell did you have in mind....
(Don't say Brookborough, though was he a PM...)
Why? Who pray tell did you have in mind....
(Don't say Brookborough, though was he a PM...)
None. They all seem like sectarian bigots to me.
Was just wondering how far the question extends :)
Ludwig Erhardt. :D
Funny hearing that from a leftist. :eek:
The Archregimancy
22-02-2006, 03:47
At a rough estimate, that poll list leaves off:
Salisbury, Balfour, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Baldwin, Attlee, Eden, and Macmillan
Leaving aside for the moment that Chamberlain usually goes by his second name 'Neville' rather than 'Arthur', and that the last Labour PM before Blair is spelled 'Callaghan', and assuming we're felling charitable and count Salisbury as essentially a 19th-century Prime Minister, and then discard those PMs who served relatively short periods (oooh, say, less than five years), the poll still leaves off the following substantial and important 20th-century PMs:
Henry Herbert Asquith
David Lloyd George
Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Clement Attlee
Harold Macmillan
So it's not really that representative a poll, now, is it?
La Habana Cuba
22-02-2006, 04:05
Maggie Thatcher and Winston Churchill, just think if Great Britain had had them toghether during World War II.
Lacadaemon
22-02-2006, 04:10
Why isn't Atlee on the poll, by the way? Isn't he sorta important?
He was voted the 'best' by a bunch of historians recently.
I can only assume that they overlooked how he botched Indian independence, amongst other things. Or that they just like the labour party.
Hobbesianland
22-02-2006, 04:39
W.L. Mackenzie King
Propgandhi
22-02-2006, 05:09
your missing the canadian prime ministers
then again none of them were that good