Britain's worst PM?
Nueva Inglaterra
07-03-2006, 00:30
After pitying the person who started up the other PM poll, I thought it would only be reasonable to start up a proper thread about the worst British Prime Minister. For me it has to be Blair, as he is an unprincipled, power-hungry tit who only thinks of himself, and not his country.
Post away!
Europa alpha
07-03-2006, 00:32
Blair has done bad and good things... i reckon they cancel out.
For me its STILL thatcher, Chamberlain a close 2nd
Nueva Inglaterra
07-03-2006, 00:34
Blair has done bad and good things... i reckon they cancel out.
For me its STILL thatcher, Chamberlain a close 2nd
What was so terrible about Thatcher? She crushed special interest groups, which although damaging to them benefitted the country as a whole.
Neu Leonstein
07-03-2006, 00:38
And Attlee still doesn't get a mention...
Zolworld
07-03-2006, 00:44
And Attlee still doesn't get a mention...
Thats cos he was the best one we ever had. I had to go with Thatcher. Chamberlain was inept but Thatcher was evil. She fucked up the economy, destroyed the mining and steel industries, the NHS, the trains, basically everything that rich people can do without and poor people need. Kinnock tried to warn us but no one listened.
Oh, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie... for how long shall we be forced to postpone our jigs upon your final resting place? A stroke, that's all we need...
Shasoria
07-03-2006, 00:57
So sad that people choose Blair over Chamberlain as Britain's worst PM.
Yeah, sympathizing and appeasing Hitler is so much better than bringing a handful of troops into a faulty war.
Typical nutjobs, so caught up in the moment they can't see past their own noses...
Neu Leonstein
07-03-2006, 01:00
Yeah, sympathizing and appeasing Hitler is so much better than bringing a handful of troops into a faulty war.
Hindsight is a great thing.
And everyone was sympathising with Hitler back then. Even Churchill mentioned it that he thought if Britain was ever in such a dire situation as Germany was, he would hope it could find a leader as great as Hitler.
Kellarly
07-03-2006, 01:11
As another has said, Lord North
http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page165.asp
Skinny87
07-03-2006, 01:16
Hindsight is a great thing.
And everyone was sympathising with Hitler back then. Even Churchill mentioned it that he thought if Britain was ever in such a dire situation as Germany was, he would hope it could find a leader as great as Hitler.
Exactly. Sixty years after the event, Chamberlain still gets 'The Guilty Men' treatment. The man truly and faithfully believed that appeasement was the correct thing to do, to save lives and prevent a war like the Great War, only one in which millions more died. There is the famous story of his plane going over London and of Chamberlain imagining the bombs falling on it. He tried to defend his country - perhaps not in the best way, but he did what he believed was right.
To the person who slated Chamberlain - did you know that when it became apparant that Hitler could not be appeased, it was Chamberlain's actions that rallied the bulk of the Conservative Party behind Churchill's National Government - that without his selfless actions said government never would have been formed? The man saw the error of his misguided but hopeful ways and tried to rectify them as best he could.