Greatest British Prime Minister

[Sanfran327]

Who gets your vote as the greatest British Prime Minister of all time?

For me, it's Lord Palmerston all the way.

[Icterus galbula]

You're being idiotic.

Lord Palmerston couldn't hold Pitt the Elder's codpiece.

[Sanfran327]

You're being idiotic.

Lord Palmerston couldn't hold Pitt the Elder's codpiece.

Listen here, mister. I'll knock you out cold if you keep up that kinda talk.

Pitt the Elder... pfffft.

[TGO]

Gotta be Pitt the Elder. He kicked France's ass, with a little help from Lt. Col. George Washington.

[Lucky Jim]

One day shortly after the Second World War ended, Winston Churchill and Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee encountered one another at the urinal trough in the House of Common’s men’s washroom. Attlee arrived first. When Churchill arrived, he stood as far away from him as possible. Attlee said, “Feeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?” Churchill said: “That’s right. Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.”

FTW. (Heh. I do like some wit.)

[DuffMan]

I'm going to have to side with Barney on this one.

[Lucky Jim]

I'm going to have to side with Barney on this one.

Poor Moe.

[BaltimoreTerp]

I knew I heard this before somewhere

[weams]

Benjamin Disraeli Gears

[scOtt]

OOOO! The full album!

[Barnaby Graves]

Clement Attlee lead them through a period of time, after the war, when they were totally broke and starving. That's pretty impressive.

People like Margaret Thatcher a lot. I think she had her ups and downs. They had quite a lot of social unrest under her but they also decisively won the Falklands War which bolstered the UK's prestige and all that.

I don't know enough about the UK, but I could pick my top 5 presidents pretty easily.

[eb45]

I only know from about 1880 on, but for that timeframe I'd say it's Attlee by a fairly comfortable margin. I don't think it would be much of a stretch to compare him to FDR.

[Can_of_corn]

I only know from about 1880 on, but for that timeframe I'd say it's Attlee by a fairly comfortable margin. I don't think it would be much of a stretch to compare him to FDR.

Not everyone would say that was a compliment.

[square634]

I only know from about 1880 on, but for that timeframe I'd say it's Attlee by a fairly comfortable margin. I don't think it would be much of a stretch to compare him to FDR.

Yesterday in a heart physiology lecture in med school, the British lecturer spent roughly the last 20 minutes on a thesis that the Cold War was caused by FDR's loss of mental faculties during the Yalta conference due to chronic hypertension.

I kid you not.

[eb45]

Not everyone would say that was a compliment.

Well then they'd certainly disagree with me then, wouldn't they?

Yesterday in a heart physiology lecture in med school, the British lecturer spent roughly the last 20 minutes on a thesis that the Cold War was caused by FDR's loss of mental faculties during the Yalta conference due to chronic hypertension.

I kid you not.

I'm taking a history of Soviet Russia class right now. It'll be interesting to see what the Cold War gets blamed on from that perspective. I've never heard the heart physiology perspective, though. That's pretty great.