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Question: More consequential Prime Minister?
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Margaret Thatcher		  
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Tony Blair		  
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« on: January 17, 2015, 07:38:03 PM »
Which British Prime Minister changed/affected the UK more in your opinion Thatcher or Blair?
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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2015, 07:44:26 PM »
Quote from: hangfan91 on January 17, 2015, 07:38:03 PM
Which British Prime Minister changed/affected the UK more in your opinion Thatcher or Blair?

Thatcher is the correct answer.
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2015, 07:55:20 PM »
Prime Minister using her majorities to deeply change things vs. Prime Minister wasting his majorities doing nothing, because he was a corporate lackey.
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« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2015, 05:58:32 AM »
Quote from: Charlotte Hebdo on January 17, 2015, 07:44:26 PM
Quote from: hangfan91 on January 17, 2015, 07:38:03 PM
Which British Prime Minister changed/affected the UK more in your opinion Thatcher or Blair?

Thatcher is the correct answer.
^^

How is that even a question?
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« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2015, 06:05:01 AM »
Attlee
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« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2015, 06:07:49 AM »

Attlee vs. Thatcher would have been a far more relevant poll.
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« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2015, 06:53:21 AM »
Without a doubt, the answer would be that bloody woman (Thatcher).
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« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2015, 07:21:24 AM »
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« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2015, 11:00:44 AM »
Quote from: MaxQue on January 17, 2015, 07:55:20 PM
Prime Minister using her majorities to deeply change things vs. Prime Minister wasting his majorities doing nothing, because he was a corporate lackey.

This. Obviously Thatcher.
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« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2015, 11:32:38 AM »
Quote from: MaxQue on January 17, 2015, 07:55:20 PM
Prime Minister using her majorities to deeply change things vs. Prime Minister wasting his majorities doing nothing, because he was a corporate lackey.

Indeed. I have no sympathy for Thatcher's policy and little sympathy for her as a person, but I can't deny her being effective in pursing her program.

Which makes Blair less harmful, but that's another side Tongue
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« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2015, 11:54:48 AM »
If by "change" you mean destruction of the welfare state then Thatcher, if anything else Thatcher.
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« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2015, 12:22:30 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2015, 12:25:36 PM »
I thought this would be a multiple choice question, with a debate. A bit disappointed therefore. Thatcher is the obvious answer. Throw in Churchill, Attlee and a few others and this becomes interesting.
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« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2015, 12:36:03 PM »
Thatcher (alas), but it's a mistake to completely underplay the significance of Blair's government, though most occurred during its first term. There were major constitutional changes (devolution to Scotland, Wales and - a restoration in this case - London, the partial reform of the Lords, etc) some not unimportant social reforms (viz. the ending of discriminatory policies against homosexuals), and significant investment in the welfare state, particularly in its physical infrastructure. And, of course, the end of the civil war in Northern Ireland.
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« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2015, 01:58:57 PM »
Thatcher is the right answer, but to echo what Al said, the Blair government was not unconsequential either.
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« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2015, 06:44:46 PM »

IMO David Lloyd George pips both (and Churchill) for consequentiality.
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