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Who wins the Title of the Greatest Prime Minister of the UK
Which Prime Minister in the history of the UK has done the most for the country and did that person have an easy task during their time in office?
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Being the right man at the right time Churchill.
Very unpopular I know but Blair was ok.
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Jim Callaghan - Sunny Jim, we had a great summer in '76 forget the rest.
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Churchill
The man the time and all that.
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Clement Attlee.
I'd give Lloyd George an honourable mention.
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Clement Atlee, it is often said that while Churchill was the great orator, Atlee was the man doing the work, then to achieve what was done in the immediate aftermath of WW2 puts many to shame.
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In 1759 he was chosen by the Duke of Newcastle to be a Lord of the Treasury and continued in the same office under Lord Bute and George Grenville until 1765. He had shown himself such a ready debater, that on the fall of the first Rockingham ministry in 1766, he was sworn of the Privy Council and made Paymaster-General by the Duke of Grafton. His reputation for ability grew so high that in December 1767, on the death of Charles Townshend, he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer.
With a temper that was never ruffled and a perpetual quiet humor, his popularity with both the House of Commons and the people continued to increase. When the retirement of the Duke of Grafton was necessitated …no better successor could be found than the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord North succeeded the Duke in March 1770 and continued in office for 12 of the most eventful years in English history.
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Originally Posted by
bensherman
Clement Attlee
Seems to be a popular choice - who would have been the second choice?
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Maggie has to be up there with the greatest, if only for crushing Scargill like a grape.
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Originally Posted by
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Being the right man at the right time Churchill.
Very unpopular I know but Blair was ok.
Churchill did do well puling the country together for the war. Blair? Not in the UK, he was born in the wrong country and given too much head. He would have been more suited to living in Iraq and losing it.
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Originally Posted by
Toodles McGinty
Clement Attlee.
I'd give Lloyd George an honourable mention.
Fair enough. What about William Gladstone - guess he would have been a bit of a controversial figure today.
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Originally Posted by
justbecause
Maggie has to be up there with the greatest, if only for crushing Scargill like a grape.
NO,NO, a million times NO, Scargill was collateral damage in Thatcher's quest to destroy the trade union movement, she was a destroyer, never a constructor, production and manufacturing could go to the wall and hand the economy to the financiers.
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“She basically came along and correctly diagnosed a huge problem with British society which was that its socialist state had become dysfunctional beyond any means of repair, that the unions had basically choked large amounts of economic activity. the private sector was slowly declining but the public sector was growing bigger even as its efficiency was declining. Britain was basically becoming … a Eastern European country.”
She did inherit a basket case.
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Churchill. The manner in which he lead the country was amazing, a true leader.
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