Current Affairs The worst post-war Prime Minister

[peteblue]

Could never really understand why Thatcher taking milk is the devil, whereas parents who breed such that they can't even provide milk for their offspring are working class heroes.

It was the best thing she ever did. Those of us who had to drink the stuff during the summer, after the milk had been warming up for a couple of hours, hated it. I remember once missing a morning and going into school for the afternoon, the teacher had saved my bottle of milk, on the windowsill under the full heat of the sun, which I was then expected to drink. The winter was just as bad, having to unfreeze the bottles by standing them around an old stove, terrible stuff......

 

[peteblue]

Or a state pension funded by people who probably won't have one when they reach the same age?

Oi, you leave my beer tokens alone.......

 

[Eggs]

..not sure if that means MacMillan, Wilson and Heath were the best.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

..not sure if that means MacMillan, Wilson and Heath were the best.

Wilson Rd 2 probably is a decent candidate for worst stint at #10 - completely lost his appetite for Leadership, his party very divided, economy in the bin, MI5 up his ringpiece.
It was only 2 years, though, before he resigned, so when discussing Wilson the prime minister you're generally talking about his first one in the 60s which was decent AFAICT.

 

[Eggs]

Wilson Rd 2 probably is a decent candidate for worst stint at #10 - completely lost his appetite for Leadership, his party very divided, economy in the bin, MI5 up his ringpiece.
It was only 2 years, though, before he resigned, so when discussing Wilson the prime minister you're generally talking about his first one in the 60s which was decent AFAICT.

...MP for Huyton, of course.

 

[tsubaki]

Or a state pension funded by people who probably won't have one when they reach the same age?

The worst thing about that is how the provision for the elderly was when their parents were still alive - removal of the link between pension and earnings, no (or much less of a) winter fuel allowance, no free buses, no free TV.

 

[peteblue]

Wilson Rd 2 probably is a decent candidate for worst stint at #10 - completely lost his appetite for Leadership, his party very divided, economy in the bin, MI5 up his ringpiece.
It was only 2 years, though, before he resigned, so when discussing Wilson the prime minister you're generally talking about his first one in the 60s which was decent AFAICT.

Wilson was head and shoulders above any Labour leader that followed him......

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Wilson was head and shoulders above any Labour leader that followed him......

In terms of personal ability he was head and shoulders above the vast majority of PMs we've ever had, going back to the nineteenth century. Very academically gifted man who was also a great public communicator - not in the sense of being a flamboyant orator [in fact he was on the telly late 70s fronting chat shows and completely bombed], but being ahead of his time in being able to encapsulate and deliver a message very effectively.

 

[degsy]

..not sure if that means MacMillan, Wilson and Heath were the best.

Least worse, MacMillan nailed with his...'never had it so good' speech in 1957- he was right then and the next 12/15yrs did nothing to change things.

 

[degsy]

Wilson was head and shoulders above any Labour leader that followed him......

As was the Labour party, down hill since then

 

[Westend Blue]

End of the day wether if it’s thatcher, may, Blair or Cameron the gross ineptitude by the scum in Parliament House has killed the UK outside of London