Top 20 c.20th Prime Ministers

[Democratic Hawk]

On the basis of the responses of 139 British academics the results, in reverse order, were as follows:

20) Anthony Eden (Con) - 1955-57
19) Alec Douglas-Home (Con) - 1963-64
18) Arthur Balfour (Con) - 1902-05
17) Neville Chamberlian (Con) - 1937-40
16) Andrew Bonar Law (Con) - 1922-23
15) John Major (Con) - 1990-97
14) Ramsay MacDonald (Lab, Nat) - 1924; 1929-31; 1931-35
13) Edward Heath (Con) - 1970-74
12) James Callgahan (Lab) - 1976-79
11) Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Lib) - 1906-08
10) Lord Salisbury (Con) - 1895-1902
9) Harold Wilson (Lab) - 1964-70; 1974-76
Stanley Baldwin (Con) - 1923-24; 1924-29; 1935-37
7) Herbert Asquith (Lib) - 1908-16
6) Tony Blair (Lab) - 1997 -
5) Harold MacMillan (Con) - 1957-63 (that last Tory could have voted for1)
4) Margaret Thatcher (Con) - 1979-90
3) David Lloyd George (Lib) - 1916-22
2) Winston Churchill (Con) - 1940-45; 1951-55
1) CLEMENT ATLEE (Lab) - 1945-51

Any thoughts!

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

Personally, Churchill would be my number 1. Then Attlee and Lloyd George because they were visionary and progressive social reformers

The only one on that list I have an overwhelming disdain for are Margaret Thatcher. I might have disliked more, had I been around at the time!

I forgot to give them their scores (so I'll do it for the top 5) plus Blair:

1) Attlee: 8.34
2) Churchill: 7.88
3) Lloyd George: 7.33
4) Margaret Thatcher: 7.14
5) Harold Macmillan: 6.49
6) Tony Blair: 6.30

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

Just forget to mention, I'm glad we had Thatcher though - she's a reminder of how truly awful the Conservatives were!

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

The first twelve were reasonably good, the rest weren't worth a warm pitcher of spit.

2.) Lady Thatcher (saved the UK from the morass of socialism)

Since when was the UK socialist? We might have been moderately social democratic once over

Dave