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Are these pundits right that Brown was the third worst post war prime minister after Eden & Home?
Author: admin | Category: After Edenhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1299797/Gordon-Brown-voted-worst-post-war-Prime-Minister-historians.html?ITO=1708&referrer=yahoo
West Side: Sorry, but Michael Foot never became prime minister.
People hated Gordon Brown because the media told them to. Also this same list suggested Thatcher was the 2nd best PM after she took away the bedrock of every British industry and forced us to be reliant on city bankers who attempt to make money without producing a product or providing a service. Brown was the captain of a sinking ship and was stuck with an unpopular and costly war, the MPs expenses scandal, a world recession and a heavily biased media.
August 6th, 2010 at 6:07 am
I would say he was the second worse next to Blair.
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August 6th, 2010 at 6:30 am
not quite, Major, Thatcher, Cameron, MacMillan, Heath and Churchill are missing from the list.
Apart from those, he was the worst.
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August 6th, 2010 at 6:52 am
No, he’s second - Blair was first, he ‘employed’ Brown.
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August 6th, 2010 at 7:00 am
i would say he was the worst.
edit nemesis. brilliant answer.
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August 6th, 2010 at 7:13 am
No - I think the panel of 100 are in error and would argue Gorgon Broon is by far the worst PM in British history. Or even the history of the World.
In a league of his own. So far down the list he shouldn’t even be on it - he should be doing penal servitude - 40 years ‘hard labour’ - for treason, crimes against the State - and being Gorgon Broon.
Most ivory tower academics live in another world - divorced from the hum-drum realities of every day life. They have the privilege of applying their cosy existence to analysing ‘history’ - with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight - making ‘wise’ observations on cause and effect - and are often of a Left-wing bent - when able to state the bleedin’ obvious.
Because what is a ‘Good or Bad thing’ (as in ‘1066 and all that’) can only really be properly assessed from a distance. And more accurately assessed with full understanding of the circumstances in which events took place.
Douglas-Home was an ‘accident’ - but I don’t think history will judge him unkindly. Eden was war-weary, made mistakes - but who doesn’t ?
But in any Court of Law - motive (intent) usually governs the verdict.
And in Gorgon Broon we can see one very brooding, sullen, self-opinionated, stubborn, bullying thug - who was never even brave enough to have his Premiership confirmed by the electorate - but was well able to undermine, disable ‘rivals’ to his long-craved for grasp of power.
So that he - and HE alone could master-mind, as an economic genius, as the Iron Chancellor who super-minded 10 years of growth - the end to ‘boom and bust’ - whilst kicking any opponents in the goolies.
Methinks ANY average voter - or GCSE History student will realise this fraudulent, figure fiddling, self deceived imposter has let us down more than any other ‘Leader’ in British history. Future generations will be repaying the huge debts Clown Brown racked up - as his legacy. And historians will agree his own pompous self-belief not only lost the 2010 election - his undermining of rivals left no suitable successor. The Labour ‘leadership’ election is between a bunch of mice - the remnants of a demasculated ‘Cabinet’ now bidding/claiming they are fit to lead.
The sullen, brooding Broon is now off the radar screen - last seen giving an irrelevant speech in Africa - claiming that his ‘Saving the World’ expertise will encourage others to believe in their future.
Should he not be arrested ???
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August 6th, 2010 at 7:51 am
he should never have made the list. And can’t see how Blair made it into top three, heavens him and his cronies have bankrupted this country, worse debt since 1940’s and with him swanning around the world with security guards paid for by British Taxpayer, yeah right?
Nemesis, that is some answer.
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August 6th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Why are you chaps beating a dead horse?
Let Brown RIP. He tried. He failed.
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August 6th, 2010 at 8:48 am
I think it’s far too early to say.
My gut instinct is to say no. However, I know next to nothing about Anthony Eden and Douglas-Hume.
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August 6th, 2010 at 9:15 am
Move him up a couple of notches and I’ll agree with you, and while you’re at it put Blair in second place. No other combination in British history has made the country have the level of debt it currently has.
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August 6th, 2010 at 9:30 am
People hated Gordon Brown because the media told them to. Also this same list suggested Thatcher was the 2nd best PM after she took away the bedrock of every British industry and forced us to be reliant on city bankers who attempt to make money without producing a product or providing a service. Brown was the captain of a sinking ship and was stuck with an unpopular and costly war, the MPs expenses scandal, a world recession and a heavily biased media.
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August 6th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Ooops
Post war - Churchill wasnt a raving success as PM. Heath got turned over by the Miners. Callaghan couldnt handle the Unions. Thatcher refused to negotiate anything with the IRA preferring to have them shot preferably on Gibraltar whilst unarmed.
shall I go on?
ps
John Major was a very obnoxious man in a grey suit with a strangled voice who was knocking off Edwina Curry whilst preaching family values (shiver) he must be on the list surely.
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