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Mon Nov-24-03 05:08 PM
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Poll question: Best UK Prime Minister (since 1945) |
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Edited on Mon Nov-24-03 05:30 PM by Screaming Lord Byron
Since 1945. Looking at this, it's quite a shock how lousy the UK's Prime Ministers have been.
I voted Attlee, for Bevan and Bevin.
Yes, there was no room for Alec Douglas-Home.
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:10 PM
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:12 PM
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2. Stop that! That's just silly. |
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I didn't get where I am today by letting long-dead Tory Lords in my polls.
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Tue Nov-25-03 03:29 AM
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Palmerston was a Liberal PM, defecting from the tories over Catholic emancipation before building his rep as Mr gunboat diplomacy.
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Tue Nov-25-03 02:52 AM
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:13 PM
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:21 PM
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4. Sadly, despite having a better than average educated |
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audience here at DU, I doubt there are any native born Americans who would have heard of more than five or six of these guys.. (myself included)...
So, perhaps the Brits, Canucks, and better informed Europeans might enlighten us to the various attributes/achievements of each...
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:22 PM
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I refuse to participate in a poll without him.
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:25 PM
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If I had to include Gladstone, then I would've had to include Disraeli, Lloyd George, MacDonald, the list would've been as long as yer arm.
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:22 PM
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6. Actually, to be honest, the reason you don't know many of them |
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:27 PM
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Geez. How'd you miss him?
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:28 PM
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9. Post 1945! OK I'll change the header. |
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:37 PM
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Mon Nov-24-03 05:38 PM
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11. Yeah, the one truly socialist British Government. |
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In the proper sense of the word.
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Mon Nov-24-03 07:38 PM
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what the UK needed to heal itself after the war.
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Mon Nov-24-03 07:27 PM
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12. Post 1945, Churchill doesn't rate |
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Great in war, mediocre (at best) in peace.
Harold Wilson was seriously underrated - and he gave medals to the Beatles, didn't he?:D
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Tue Nov-25-03 02:57 AM
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Churchill is garnering votes based on his WW2 leadership, not on his postwar prime ministry, which was nothing spectacular. He was a leader made for war; peace quite simply didn't suit him (which is probably why the Conservatives were voted out in '45 in the first place).
And yes, Harold Wilson put The Beatles on the Queen's Birthday Honours list (or some such list) for MBEs (Members of the British Empire).
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Mon Nov-24-03 07:40 PM
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14. Who voted for Thatcher???!!!??? |
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Tue Nov-25-03 03:02 AM
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18. Possibly someone who doesn't know anybody else on the list. |
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Tue Nov-25-03 10:09 AM
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25. Heck, I've met Margaret Thatcher and even I wouldn't vote for her. |
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I don't think there's ever been a more anti-labor, pro-corporatist PM in England.
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Tue Nov-25-03 10:11 AM
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26. You met her? Did you wash your hands afterwards? |
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Tue Nov-25-03 03:20 AM
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19. none of the above, except perhaps Attlee |
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the rest, particularly Thatcher, Eden, Blair, and Churchill competing in a race to the bottom.
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Tue Nov-25-03 03:31 AM
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21. Atlee supporter reporting for duty! |
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As to the worst, Ted Heath is disliked for the 3 day week, stagflation etc across the political spectrum.
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Tue Nov-25-03 04:19 AM
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Right bloke, right time.
Who voted for Thatcher? Fucking hell.
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Tue Nov-25-03 07:35 AM
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Tue Nov-25-03 10:06 AM
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24. Good to see so many votes for my guy. |
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I thought Blair might sneak it, sadly.
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