Stradageek wrote: ↑28 May 2022, 8:30am
So as not to start another thread, I'll throw this question out here:
Who is/was worse as prime minister?
Margaret Thatcher - megalomaniac
Boris Johnson - venal mendacious narcissist
Too close to call?
Is it just recent ones then? In all events, you forgot that Tony Bliar. Why should he be included in your list, despite not having the full Tory label (only the one on his underwear)?
Now, what are the criteria for judging "the worse as prime minister". Personally I would put "direct or root cause of most needless deaths" high on the criteria list, perhaps at the top. By that measure, the Bliar is the worst of the those three, despite Thatcher doing a Falklands, not to mentioning oppressing and depressing swathes of British folk with her destructions of their incomes, communities and well being; and Bokum's casual neglect of care, with some positively stupid policies too, that have killed thousands with Covid who could and should have been better protected.
The Thatcher-Thing and Bokum are probably a root cause of many early deaths via policies that punish the poor, the young and even many of the erstwhile middle classes. But Bliar was complicit in invading another country for no reason other than his cod-Christian Crusader fetish and desire to be in the gang of Big Bully USA.
Mind, Bokum's not done yet. If he gets desperate enough, he'll start a war to make himself popular, in the time-honoured fashion of nasty politicians who have run out of popularity. One can imagine The headlines of the gutter press already ...... .
Cugel
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