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Silent Hunter
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« on: November 30, 2004, 04:07:07 AM »
It's James Callaghan for me.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2004, 11:08:11 AM »
Probably Callaghan as well
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« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2004, 05:35:55 PM »
Palmerston!
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2004, 05:54:23 PM »
John Major
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« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2004, 03:52:44 AM »
Mori asked 139 academics who they thought was the best PM and came up with this list- top 20 from top to bottom.

Clement Attlee, Lab 1945-51
Winston Churchill, Con 1940-45, 51-55
David Lloyd George, Lib 1916-22
Margaret Thatcher, Con 1979-90
Harold Macmillan, Con 1957-63
Tony Blair, Lab 1997-
Herbert Asquith, Lib 1908-16
Stanley Baldwin, Con 1923-24, 24-29, 35-37
Harold Wilson, Lab 1964-70, 74-76
Lord Salisbury, Con 1895-1902
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Lib 1906-8
James Callaghan, Lab 1976-79
Edward Heath, Con 1970-74
Ramsay MacDonald, Lab 1924, 1929-31, 31-35
John Major, Con 1990-97
Andrew Bonar Law, Con 1922-23
Neville Chamberlain, Con 1937-40
Arthur Balfour, Con 1902-05
Alec Douglas-Home, Con 1963-64
Anthony Eden, Con 1955-57
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2004, 06:43:58 AM »
Lord Melbourne Cheesy
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2004, 08:07:50 AM »
Call me a heretic... but I can't stand Churchill
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« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2004, 11:43:35 AM »
I deleted my post on the ranking of PMs and put it in the new thread.

Just to repeat, that for me Henry Campbell-Bannerman is the most underrated.
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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2004, 01:11:06 PM »
Pitt the Elder!
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« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2004, 05:03:31 AM »

The Simpsons. Cheesy
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JohnFKennedy
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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2004, 01:56:38 PM »
Quote from: Silent Hunter on December 01, 2004, 03:52:44 AM
Mori asked 139 academics who they thought was the best PM and came up with this list- top 20 from top to bottom.

Clement Attlee, Lab 1945-51
Winston Churchill, Con 1940-45, 51-55
David Lloyd George, Lib 1916-22
Margaret Thatcher, Con 1979-90
Harold Macmillan, Con 1957-63
Tony Blair, Lab 1997-
Herbert Asquith, Lib 1908-16
Stanley Baldwin, Con 1923-24, 24-29, 35-37
Harold Wilson, Lab 1964-70, 74-76
Lord Salisbury, Con 1895-1902
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Lib 1906-8
James Callaghan, Lab 1976-79
Edward Heath, Con 1970-74
Ramsay MacDonald, Lab 1924, 1929-31, 31-35
John Major, Con 1990-97
Andrew Bonar Law, Con 1922-23
Neville Chamberlain, Con 1937-40
Arthur Balfour, Con 1902-05
Alec Douglas-Home, Con 1963-64
Anthony Eden, Con 1955-57


I assume those are rankings for all Prime Ministers since 1895 from top to bottom as some of those weren't really so great. I would expect Gladstone and Disraeli to be reasonably high, higher than Balfour for sure.
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« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2004, 01:57:09 PM »
Quote from: Peter Bell on December 01, 2004, 11:43:35 AM
I deleted my post on the ranking of PMs and put it in the new thread.

Just to repeat, that for me Henry Campbell-Bannerman is the most underrated.

Interesting, but would you say he was a better social reformer than Asquith and DLG?
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« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2004, 07:36:07 PM »
Churchill. You can't overrate him. That guy saved the world. He is the Gandalf of the real world.
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« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2004, 09:00:09 PM »
Quote from: Huckleberry Finn on December 04, 2004, 07:36:07 PM
Churchill. You can't overrate him. That guy saved the world. He is the Gandalf of the real world.

I don't think Churchill is underrated at all. In fact, I think he is a little overrated.

Thatcher is underrated by "old" Labour, but I think she gets proper respect from "new" Labour and the Tories.

My answer would have to be Asquith though. He's probably seventh or so on my list of favourites, but you never hear anyone talk about him.
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« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2004, 11:20:13 PM »
Lloyd-George.
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