Best UK Prime Minister (since 1945)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Since 1945. Looking at this, it's quite a shock how lousy the UK's Prime Ministers have been.

I voted Attlee, for Bevan and Bevin.

Yes, there was no room for Alec Douglas-Home.

[grytpype]

1. LORD PALMERSTON!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Stop that! That's just silly.

I didn't get where I am today by letting long-dead Tory Lords in my polls.

[T_i_B]

20. Actually

Palmerston was a Liberal PM, defecting from the tories over Catholic emancipation before building his rep as Mr gunboat diplomacy.

[gemini_liberal]

16. PITT THE ELDER!

;-)

[genius]

3. David LLoyd George

He was a Liberal.

[hlthe2b]

4. Sadly, despite having a better than average educated

audience here at DU, I doubt there are any native born Americans who would have heard of more than five or six of these guys.. (myself included)...

So, perhaps the Brits, Canucks, and better informed Europeans might enlighten us to the various attributes/achievements of each...

[jeter]

5. Gladstone

I refuse to participate in a poll without him.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Hey man, Post - 1945

If I had to include Gladstone, then I would've had to include Disraeli, Lloyd George, MacDonald, the list would've been as long as yer arm.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Actually, to be honest, the reason you don't know many of them

is that they were shite.

[dvddrone]

8. Disraeli

Geez. How'd you miss him?

Elizabeth

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Post 1945! OK I'll change the header.

[tinnypriv]

10. Attlee

Bring on that NHS, baby!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Yeah, the one truly socialist British Government.

In the proper sense of the word.

[Minstrel Boy]

13. my vote too

what the UK needed to heal itself after the war.

[saoirse]

12. Post 1945, Churchill doesn't rate

Great in war, mediocre (at best) in peace.

Harold Wilson was seriously underrated - and he
gave medals to the Beatles, didn't he?:D

[elperromagico]

17. Right on both counts

Churchill is garnering votes based on his WW2 leadership, not on his postwar prime ministry, which was nothing spectacular. He was a leader made for war; peace quite simply didn't suit him (which is probably why the Conservatives were voted out in '45 in the first place).

And yes, Harold Wilson put The Beatles on the Queen's Birthday Honours list (or some such list) for MBEs (Members of the British Empire).

[terrya]

14. Who voted for Thatcher???!!!???

[elperromagico]

18. Possibly someone who doesn't know anybody else on the list.

That's just my guess.

[TahitiNut]

25. Heck, I've met Margaret Thatcher and even I wouldn't vote for her.

I don't think there's ever been a more anti-labor, pro-corporatist PM in England.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

26. You met her? Did you wash your hands afterwards?

[legin]

15. Another Attlee n/t

.

[Aidoneus]

19. none of the above, except perhaps Attlee

the rest, particularly Thatcher, Eden, Blair, and Churchill competing in a race to the bottom.

[T_i_B]

21. Atlee supporter reporting for duty!

As to the worst, Ted Heath is disliked for the 3 day week, stagflation etc across the political spectrum.

[rjbcar27]

22. Churchill

Right bloke, right time.

Who voted for Thatcher? Fucking hell.

[T_i_B]

23. Kick

:kick:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. Good to see so many votes for my guy.

I thought Blair might sneak it, sadly.