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Question: Who was the best Prime Minister, of those listed below?
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Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative) (1963–1964)
 
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Harold Wilson (Labour) (1964–1970, 1974–1976)
 
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Edward Heath (Conservative) (1970–1974)
 
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James Callaghan (Labour) (1976–1979)
 
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Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) (1979–1990)
 
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John Major (Conservative) (1990–1997)
 
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Tony Blair (Labour) (1997–2007)
 
#8
Gordon Brown (Labour) (2007–2010)
 
#9
David Cameron (Conservative) (2010–Present)
 
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« on: August 30, 2014, 08:43:00 AM »

Who was the best Prime Minister, of those listed?
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« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2014, 09:02:25 AM »

Wilson. The rest are all pretty bad.
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2014, 09:02:39 AM »

Wilson.
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2014, 09:05:07 AM »

Thatcher, although I prefer Major on a personal level.
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2014, 09:21:50 AM »

Certainly Thatcher was the most impactful.  She'll be the one still remembered a century from now when only history students ever know about the others and only historians care about the others.
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2014, 09:24:23 AM »

Certainly Thatcher was the most impactful.  She'll be the one still remembered a century from now when only history students ever know about the others and only historians care about the others.
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2014, 11:48:25 AM »

Wilson was the best, but I can't dispute the fact that Thatcher was the most consequential since Attlee or even Churchill (during his first term).
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« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2014, 12:20:44 PM »

Probably Wilson. 
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« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2014, 01:08:22 PM »

Wilson
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« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2014, 04:57:52 PM »

Wilson was the best, but I can't dispute the fact that Thatcher was the most consequential since Attlee or even Churchill (during his first term).
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« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2014, 05:59:00 PM »

The Iron Lady.
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« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2014, 05:59:41 PM »

Wilson was the best, but I can't dispute the fact that Thatcher was the most consequential since Attlee or even Churchill (during his first term).
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« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2014, 06:53:08 PM »

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« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2014, 11:01:21 AM »

I have to go with Wilson for the best, but I'm warming to Cameron depending on how the rest of his tenure goes.

You can't possibly be serious.
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« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2014, 11:37:50 AM »

Brown's Premeirship is underrated (though his Chancellorship, in retrospect, was subpar). Although he was devastated by outside events, a cabinet full of awful people and his own personality; he was the only world leader who competently handled the Great Recession. A much better person than Blair, who is just an awful person in every way; despite doing some good things.

Everyone else, aside from Wilson, was lousy for different reasons.
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« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2014, 07:08:13 AM »


On a side note, how'd Gordon Brown outpoll Tony Blair?
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« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2014, 12:25:19 PM »


That's almost definitely a result of the Iraq War. Right-wingers go with Thatcher and those on the left are not very forgiving of Blair's role in the Iraq War.
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« Reply #17 on: September 01, 2014, 12:54:48 PM »

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« Reply #18 on: September 01, 2014, 01:43:42 PM »

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« Reply #19 on: September 02, 2014, 11:29:10 PM »

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« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2014, 08:01:34 AM »

Because Blair was friends with the evil war criminal George Bush.
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« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2014, 10:20:53 AM »

Blair has tarnished his legacy with his post-office behaviour. If it wasn't for Iraq and the weirdness of his post-office life, most people would probably look at him with some respect. Even if I do agree with a lot of New Labour's moves, I cannot bring myself to say Blair is "great" knowing what we know about him.

Brown probably gets pathos votes, because he is (probably) a more genuine person than Blair.
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« Reply #22 on: September 03, 2014, 03:07:10 PM »

Margaret Thatcher greatest legacy may be in a few days the loss of Scotland, I fail to see how a woman, who alienated previous very loyal part of the country, to such a degree, that large part of the population, no longer want to be part of the state, can ever be seen as a good PM.

She was a lousy PM who was saved by the black gold and a bunch of moronic Argentinians.
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« Reply #23 on: September 04, 2014, 06:20:12 PM »


Frankly, it's astounding that a man who's now the retainer of a Central Asian dictator has received any votes at all.
Not really, considering this is the Atlas Forum, where being liberal is all you need to be considered a hero.
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« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2014, 09:22:02 AM »

Thatcher.
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