The best PM in UK history?

Question

a) Winston Churchill
b) Margaret Thatcher
c) Tony Blair

Answer 1

It has to be Winston Churchill, by a country mile. He saved our country from becomeing a mere outlying province of a foreign empire, whose citizens would be either slaves, or at best cannon-fodder for its armies. Isn't it strange that we seem to be becomeing by slealth a mere outlying province of a foreign empire today - with no rights to make our own laws or decide our own future - the only difference being that the capital of this hostile foreign empire is Brussels and not Berlin.
Maragret Thatcher was a great PM, who courageously took on "unbeatable" enemies such as Galtieri and Scargill and cut them down to size, and totally transformed Britain from "the sick man of Europe" to the most enterpriseing nation on the continent - but she would never have had the chance to attain any power whatsoever were it not for Churchill's leadership in the war.
Tony Blair is an unmitigated disaster as PM as well as being a fraud. His government has been the most dishonest as well as the most bureaucratic in history.

Answer 2

Odd that you assume the best PM in UK history to have come in the last 67 years. Don't you know that there were Prime Ministers for 220 years before that?
In my lifetime, Margaret Thatcher was the only prime minister who achieved anything positive. All the others were just marking time, except for two disasters, Edward Heath and Tony Blair.

Answer 3

In my opinion it was Winston Churchill because:

Gifted orator & historian
Secured Lend-Lease pact with US during WW II
Inspirational leader i.e., Battle of Dunkirk
His correct views about Stalin e.g, that Stalin could not be trusted which came to be true: it was Churchill who coined the phrase "Iron Curtain"

Churchill correctly saw the disastrous implications of the Munich Pact made by Chamberlain. He emarked, "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor

Marvelous wit: many anecdotes e.g., A woman (who disliked Winston intensely met him at a party and remarked, "Well Winston I see you're drink again"
Winston replied "yes madam, and you're ugly. But tomorrow I'll be sober"

Believe that he has the distinction of giving one of the shortest commencement speeches ever,"Never give up,
never give up."

Answer 4

Sir Winston Churchill not only piloted GB through the Second World War, he saved western civilization.

That is not an exageration.

I understand he was absolutely impossible to live with 8-)

Answer 5

Churchill was a statesman, orator, author, historian and Prime Minister who rallied the British people in the Second World War and took them from the edge of defeat to victory.

Churchill’s leadership during the war is legendary. He became Prime minister when the Cabinet were on the verge of seeking terms with Hitler and Germany. But Churchill would not contemplate defeat or even a honourable truce. His saying was ‘We will never give in’. Churchill is credited with conducting the war single-handedly. He made himself Minister for War as well as being Prime Minister and delegated the running of home affairs to junior ministers. Churchill sat at his desk in the Cabinet Office, dictating memos and orders and giving instructions but letting others get on with it. Churchill’s true talent was leadership, not performance. Churchill had a bed in his office suite and habitually slept in the afternoon. He had by a side, in his office, a mixture of brandy and water, which was continually refreshed. Critics say that this put him in a continuously drunken state.

Churchill was a historian. He wrote The History of The English Speaking Peoples, an account not just of English history but also of the British Empire and United States. This work was designed to demonstrate that the British people and their colonies are a unique culture distinct from European civilisations.

Churchill was an author. His book My Early Life, although outwardly an autobiography, is in fact novel with the young Churchill as one of the characters. In the book, Churchill sits the entrance examination for Harrow but on taking the Latin paper, carefully wrote the title, his name and the question number 1. After further thought, he adds brackets to the number but cannot think of anything to write and his paper is smudged by an inkblot. Churchill’s comments on the wisdom of the headmaster in accepting him despite this is an ironic comment not on the inability of his younger self but on the educational system of the time.

Churchill was known for his eloquence and his ready wit. On being accused of being a turncoat for changing parties twice, Churchill reposted ‘anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.’ When an official criticised other writers for ending sentences with propositions, Churchill added a note ‘This is the sort of English, up with which I will not put’. On one occasion a lady heckler shouted ‘Sir, you are drunk’. Churchill replied ‘And you, madam are ugly, but I shall be sober, tomorrow!’

Answer 6

a) Winston Churchill

Answer 7

never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few-i think that's how it went!!! Churchill with thatcher a close second-not Blair hes flaming useless,hes been like a puppet on a string for whichever us president was in power,hes brought this country down.

Answer 8

Churchill

Answer 9

Churchill

Answer 10

This is a weighted question. Depends on your political leanings. you have only offered 3, 20th Century Prime ministers to chose from..if you want a true feedback..either leave the choice to the person answering..or give ALL prime ministers an equal chance