Who is the greatest PM we never had ?

Scrumpy · February 25, 2022, 08:10:09 AM

klondike · February 25, 2022, 10:23:35 AM

Quote from: Scrumpy on February 24, 2022, 08:30:12 PM
That female.. I didn't say her name crabbyob.. x

Andrea Leadsom?

Alex · February 25, 2022, 10:36:29 AM

I'd go for Enoch Powell, just think how different this country would be if he had been PM. He would have controlled numbers, no doubt about it.

crabbyob · February 25, 2022, 12:33:31 PM

Im not sure about that one Alex.... he didnt say anything we didnt agree with..but where might that line end?...
by now perhaps we might all need genetic tests.... might he have finished at the African gene ?
or gone further

Michael Rolls · February 25, 2022, 01:05:54 PM

at the time, I though Enoch was right to sound the warning, but that he was over-egging the problem. Just shows what I knew
Mike

crabbyob · February 25, 2022, 01:12:54 PM

WE, Mike, lots of us...

Scrumpy · February 25, 2022, 01:21:59 PM

Quote from: klondike on February 25, 2022, 10:23:35 AM
Andrea Leadsom?

Andrea Leadsom.. !!! Yeah!! That one will do..
So much better than Margaret Thatcher..

crabbyob · February 25, 2022, 01:35:49 PM

certainly better than Theresa May

klondike · February 25, 2022, 03:10:23 PM

I suspect we have fond memories of most precisely because they never did become PM...

GrannyMac · February 25, 2022, 03:31:47 PM

Quote from: Alex on February 25, 2022, 10:36:29 AM
I'd go for Enoch Powell, just think how different this country would be if he had been PM. He would have controlled numbers, no doubt about it.

Not if Labour had got in. Migration to the UK rose sharply after 1997. Opening the EU borders has had a huge impact.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/articles/internationalmigrationarecenthistory/2015-01-15

Alex · February 25, 2022, 05:40:49 PM

Enoch Powell was my choice for the best PM we never had.

crabbyob · February 25, 2022, 07:23:14 PM

and it was a great choice..

GrannyMac · February 25, 2022, 07:45:12 PM

Of course if Enoch Powell had become PM, we might never have joined forces with the EU. He was considered to be an intellectual giant, in the running to take over from Heath, but he shot himself in the foot. His speech was widely misunderstood and he was labelled racist, he wasn't.

Scrumpy · February 26, 2022, 10:05:55 AM

I too think Enoch Powell.. The same speech today would still be heard as racist.. unfortunately...

Jacqueline · February 26, 2022, 10:58:42 AM

Quote from: Scrumpy on February 26, 2022, 10:05:55 AM

I too think Enoch Powell.. The same speech today would still be heard as racist.. unfortunately...

It should be heard as "I told you so and you didn't listen, now look at your country".