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Old 1 Week Ago: 7th November 2009 17:39 #1 
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Winston Churchill or Tony Blair(excluding his 21st century arse up).
 
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Originally Posted by Stalin
Winston Churchill or Tony Blair(excluding his 21st century arse up).
Churchill. Are you serious. Yes he won the war but apart from that he was useless. He couldn't make a decision and he wanted to use Machine guns on the striking miners.
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Default Re: The best Prime Minister of the 20th century?
 
Tony Blair apart from Rising House prices and the Iraq War, but was good for the NHS, Education if you're 'working class' etc.

Shame everyone hated John Major ; simple man, never got your head in a twist, was cool and safe.
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Definitely not Thatcher.
 
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Churchill. Are you serious. Yes he won the war but apart from that he was useless. He couldn't make a decision and he wanted to use Machine guns on the striking miners.

I'm sorry but had he not "won the war", we'd be living in a Nazi world. Churchill did something Chamberlain could never have done, and without him there's no way the UK could've won the Battle of Britain. Fair enough the vast majority of his policies were questionable, but he kept us up, and for that reason alone he was one of the best PM's of the 20th century, there's no doubt about it.
 
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Default Re: The best Prime Minister of the 20th century?
 
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Tony Blair apart from Rising House prices and the Iraq War, but was good for the NHS, Education if you're 'working class' etc.

Shame everyone hated John Major ; simple man, never got your head in a twist, was cool and safe.

Blair good for education? Care to expand?
 
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Definitely not Thatcher.

I second this.
 
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Originally Posted by Alphanumeric1927
Churchill. Are you serious. Yes he won the war but apart from that he was useless. He couldn't make a decision and he wanted to use Machine guns on the striking miners.

Oh, yes, that bit of minutiae.
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Clement Attlee
 
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Clement Atlee

NHS, National Insurance, nationalisation of the utilities, the Post-War consensus,
 
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Clement Attlee

I forgot about him.

Attlee, Churchill or Blair.
 
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Clement Atlee.
 
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Gordon Brown?
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Blair good for education? Care to expand?

This, also Blair good for the NHS
 
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Thatcher.
 
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Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Thatcher and David Lloyd George. In that order.
 
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