Lots of contenders here. In fact just about all of them had serious failings of one sort or another.
An aide memoire below. Many of these are before my time or only vaguely remembered.
Clement Attlee 1945 – 1951 Labour
Winston Churchill 1951 – 1955 Conservative
Anthony Eden 1955 – 1957 Conservative
Harold Macmillan 1957 – 1963 Conservative
Alec Douglas-Home 1963 – 1964 Conservative
Harold Wilson 1964 – 1970 Labour
Edward Heath 1970 – 1974 Conservative
Harold Wilson 1974 – 1976 Labour
James Callaghan 1976 – 1979 Labour
Margaret Thatcher 1979 – 1990 Conservative
John Major 1990 – 1997 Conservative
Tony Blair 1997 – 2007 Labour
Gordon Brown 2007 – 2010 Labour
David Cameron 2010 – 2016 Conservative
Theresa May 2016 – 2019 Conservative
Boris Johnson 2019 – present Conservative
Some negative points that I recall..
Wilson
Allowed growth of union power to the point the unions were pretty much calling the shots
Heath
Tried to curb union power failed dismally. 3 day week and power cuts.
Wilson again then Calaghan Allowed union excesses to continue
Thatcher Destroyed the unions and most of our manufacturing too.
Major Ineffectual. Signed Maastricht treaty without any referendum allowing the United States of Europe.
Blair Promised everything gave us PFI destruction of the Public finances, opened the floodgates for mass migration, support for Bush and flagrant lies about WMD lead to the current mess in the Middle East and the waves of illegal migrants and Jihadis.
For my money a sure winner in this competition.Brown Blair's chancellor - destroyed our public finances leading to the austerity years
Cameron useless, just useless
May Her failure to properly honour the referendum result has left us with a very poor Brexit treaty.
Johnson A complete chancer who looks like not lasting til the next election but as there is no other obvious talent around probably will. Biggest let down is the Net Zero targets nobody voted on.
my choice is Blair as well, although Heath and Brown are contenders
Blair is the worst and he still keeps popping up and polluting our tv! :waiting:
mines is [surprisingly to some] Ted Heath, who sold us down the river and started the rot that has continued since...
I'm with the majority, TB.
I think Blair just shades Wilson. Two leaders who walked into No 10 with high hopes , and left with corruption and failure
Margaret Thatcher lost us our industry and our decently paid working class jobs. Ted Heath put us into the Common Market/EU and didn't tell us the truth. Tony Blair finished everything else off, lied and caused war and unrest in the middle east/lumbered us with eastern Europeans and god knows who else from all corners of the earth, changed the make up of the British people for all time. So Blair gets the No 1 spot, no contest, evil little man who has made a fortune out of contacts etc. since leaving office but instead should be tried for war crimes - who says crime dosen't pay?
If asked , who was the best of the list, I would suggest ' None of the above' would be a popular answer.
Majority vote seems to be Blair, I'd go along with that . I had such high hopes when he became PM too.
Quote from: Alex on February 27, 2022, 12:24:10 AM
Majority vote seems to be Blair, I'd go along with that . I had such high hopes when he became PM too.
I did too, I remember thinking what a lovely breath of fresh air he was, I can't believe how wrong I was. :cry:
there was nothing wrong with Tony Blair that never having gone into politics wouldn't have cured!
Mike
Blair and Brown were John Smiths Desciples, the worse thing that has ever happened in politics was the death of John Smith... the country embraced this bright young pair...mmmm... deffinately a big mistake he was more tory than tHATCHER...
He was a good politician though. He lied his way successfully through three elections and few others have managed that.
Quote from: Raven on February 27, 2022, 07:27:27 AM
I did too, I remember thinking what a lovely breath of fresh air he was, I can't believe how wrong I was. :cry:
And me. I never voted Labour in a GE before Blair, and I haven't since.
is there a truth out there why Wilson resigned :?:
Quote from: crabbyob on February 27, 2022, 06:39:00 PM
is there a truth out there why Wilson resigned :?:
The noises at the time were onset of dementia
Mike
well thats better than commrade Harold, which was what i heard
Harold wasn't in charge, he did what the unions told him.