TSR best (post-war) PM tournament: Pool C
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Who was the best British (post-war) prime minister? (Pool C)
Gordon Brown45%
Edward Heath27%
Rishi Sunak9%
James Callaghan18%
Total votes: 11
Welcome to the TSR best (post-war) PM tournament!
This is Pool C
This is Pool C
TSR is asking the question: Who is the best (post-war) UK Prime Minster?
We're holding a tournament of UK Prime Ministers and asking you to vote to determine which was the most significant in history. We are currently in the group stages of this tournament, and this is Pool C.
All the other groups are linked at the bottom of this post, and there's a hub thread here if you're interested in reading more.
The PMs in Pool C are:
Gordon Brown
He was the 52nd Prime Minister and was the leader of the Labour Party from 2007-2010. As Prime Minister, Gordon Brown oversaw the devolution of powers in Northern Ireland, the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and the world's first ever Climate Change Act. Gordon Brown became MP for Dunfermline East in the 1983.
Bonus facts: Brown was Britain’s longest-serving modern Chancellor of the Exchequer and made the Bank of England independent.
Edward Heath
Edward Heath is the 47th UK Prime Minister who served as the leader of the Conservative Party from 1970-1974, a troubled period which came to be seen as reflecting the failure of post-war consensual Conservatism, and produced a backlash in his party that brought Margaret Thatcher to the leadership in 1975. Before this, in 1950, he became Conservative member of parliament for Bexley in 1950, minister of labour in 1959 and lord privy seal in 1960. He became Conservative Party leader in 1965 and played a role in taking the UK into the European Community, in 1973.
Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak is the 57th and current UK Prime Minister and has been the leader of the Conservative Party since 2022. He is also the first Hindu UK Prime Minister and worked as chancellor under Boris Johnson during the COVID pandemic. Prior to becoming involved in politics, Sunak worked as an analyst for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs between 2001 and 2004.
James Callaghan
James Callaghan, was a British Labour politician and served as Prime Minster from 1976 to 1979, years dominated by economic recession and industrial militancy which contributed to the election of the Conservatives and Labour's exclusion from office for the next 18 years. He also served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and in 1945 was elected Labour member of parliament for Cardiff South.
You can vote in Pool D here!
(edited 9 months ago)
Original post by Talkative Toad
He is also the first BAME and Hindu UK Prime Minister
First Hindu PM, certainly, but the first minority ethnic PM was Benjamin Disraeli.
Original post by AngryJellyfish
First Hindu PM, certainly, but the first minority ethnic PM was Benjamin Disraeli.
I'll change that then, thanks, good to know
Original post by Trinculo
Pools like this are how you get goats and cartoon characters getting elected.
This is simply a pool containing 4 of the 17 post-war PMs. I didn't categorise these PMs intentionally, it was simply done at random
.Jim Callaghan, for improvements to the UK benefits system, and tenants rights.
These are all horrendous PMs.
I find it difficult to rate anyone below Gordon Brown, the man who was so arrogant as to claim he had broken the economic cycle and so dishonest as to continually redefine the parameters for economic tests. But...Rishi Sunak might just have it in the bag as one of the worst PMs ever. Utterly dishonest and untrustworthy, plotted to remove two legitimate PMs. Lost a leadership election and then colluded with the scum media to remove Liz Truss in a coup. Also clearly a Remainer.
Heath was a crap PM, but under Callaghan the dead went unburied and mountains of rubbish accumulated in the streets due to letting the trade unions hold the country ransom.
The least bad of a terrible bunch - Ted Heath.
I find it difficult to rate anyone below Gordon Brown, the man who was so arrogant as to claim he had broken the economic cycle and so dishonest as to continually redefine the parameters for economic tests. But...Rishi Sunak might just have it in the bag as one of the worst PMs ever. Utterly dishonest and untrustworthy, plotted to remove two legitimate PMs. Lost a leadership election and then colluded with the scum media to remove Liz Truss in a coup. Also clearly a Remainer.
Heath was a crap PM, but under Callaghan the dead went unburied and mountains of rubbish accumulated in the streets due to letting the trade unions hold the country ransom.
The least bad of a terrible bunch - Ted Heath.
The results seem to be close on this one, and remember that you can vote for multiple people here.
22 hours left to vote.
The results are in:
Gordon Brown
Edward Heath
James Callaghan
4th place goes Rishi Sunak
This means that Gordon Brown and Edward Heath will go to the next round and other prime ministers have been eliminated.
Gordon Brown Edward Heath James Callaghan 4th place goes Rishi Sunak
This means that Gordon Brown and Edward Heath will go to the next round and other prime ministers have been eliminated.
(edited 9 months ago)
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