Who has been the UK's worst PM?

Tony Blair he sent my son and daughter inlaw to wars that we didn’t need to be at I couldn’t have lost him like a few of his friends parents did and now we got all them young fighting age men turning up in dinghies

Tony Blair definitely

Start a new thread, Kand- it will be interesting. Do we keep it to twentieth and twenty first century ?

Looks like Tony Blair has won.

Maybe the question should be - ‘who has been the UK’s best PM & why?

It’s far too easy to criticize.

David Cameron for setting up the EU referendum..
And next worse Liz truss who will be toxic

I have absolutely no doubt Thatcher and her policies were the root cause of many suicides.

I have often thought to myself who on earth would want the job of PM? What a lot of stress, hassle and upset. I think John Major was weak personally.

Why are we making comparisons with Trump? Why is he given so much publicity. Burying his wife at his golf course for a tax break!! The less press he receives the less likelihood of him being re-elected.

Tony Blair did take this country into a bad war, thats true but he also did a lot of good like the disability legislation that made it possible for me to work.
Boris is the worst by far, he's about to pack the Lords with his own pals, has given away billions in PPE & broken the law in doing so, I can't count how much damage he's done to the country

Biscuitmuncher

As I believe America thrived under Trump. Thatcher was the pure embodiment of evil

A lot of homelessness, excessive energy, water, transport and poverty are the result of Thatcher’s policies. Cameron comes in second for the EU fiasco and p…..g off leaving chaos in his wake

Johnson. Liar from start to finish with his eye only on the main chance. Bexit? Why has his father and Nadeen Dories father been nominated for peerages. I heard or read his father if going to take French citizenship. How does that work?

Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher joint 1st place.
Tony Blair due to war crimes and Dr Kelly's suspicious death.
Margaret Thatcher because of the ruination of the unions, took free milk from little children, ruined our industries etc.

Neilspurgeon0

volver Blair sent our soldiers to Iraq knowing that there were no WMD and knowing there was no plan for after the fall of Hussain. That led DIRECTLY to many deaths. Look at Dr. Kelly, look at the current HE situation in UK, look at where many of our inner city wards are today.

Just open your eyes and l?k

I thought at the time, that either Blair was too easily convinced about the WMD, hence a bit thick, or that he was a liar. Either way, he wasn't what one expects in a PM.

But thanks for the history lesson about a time I actually lived through, much appreciated. Do try not to be so bl**dy patronising.

How about this...

Thatcher initiated a war with Argentina even though there were ways to resolve the problem without conflict. But it suited her to be a wartime leader.

Brown was elevated to the position of PM even though it was well beyond his capabilities and did not suit his temperament.

Johnson used the Brexit situation to get himself into a position of power he is manifestly unsuited for. He then completely under-reacted to the pandemic and caused the deaths of thousands. Although I wouldn't be so ignorant as to call him a murderer.

Just open your eyes and look.

For me BJ closely (very closely) followed by Blair !

cameron and osbourne caused so many deaths with their benefits cuts /bedroom tax, where are they now?
thatcher also, privatisation of everything,why didn't she privatise herself? but then she did with her after speech career.she also got away with it for 12 years. blair with bush and the war was equally bad,but the destruction was not in our back yard. boris was just a disgrace,who was the worst?
they were and are still all self interested personality disordered individuals. Why do i sometimes despair........

Definitely not Blair, he was elected twice. He did lots of good things. He will be remembered badly for the Iraq war.

volver Blair sent our soldiers to Iraq knowing that there were no WMD and knowing there was no plan for after the fall of Hussain. That led DIRECTLY to many deaths. Look at Dr. Kelly, look at the current HE situation in UK, look at where many of our inner city wards are today.

Just open your eyes and l?k

Tony Blair. Margaret Thatcher was the best one, contrary to what some people insist. We need her now!

Boris - a deceitful liar, vacillating and unreliable. Abandonning children cannot be excused. He has abundant knowledge but little understanding and doesn't realise the difference.

Since 1945 all PMs have made mistakes - that is par for the course in any difficult job. Even Attlee failed to abolish public schools, Churchill was mostly playing cards in his final period in office. Eden made a poor judgment over Suez. Macmillan messed up over Profumo. Thatcher had to struggle with inflation inherited at about 17% using extreme economic measures. Blair made one error on Iraq which the Left have spent the past 20 years obsessing about and trashing his many achievements during the Corbyn fiasco. Cameron made a poor decision about the Scottish referendum. May never got a grip. Johnson's sins are multiple - manipulation of Brexit to get the job, wasting resources in the pandemic, protecting Patterson, a crude 'solution' to Brexit and generally treating the public as fools.

Johnson gets my vote.

I know we're not supposed to question other posters views, (apparently), but really Neilspurgeon0, have you read any of the other posts at all?

You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but there are several posts completely disproving some of the things that you write.

As for "destroyed British life", that's just a very odd thing to say. Any examples? And I'm not sure we are allowed to call people murderers without any proof?

Tony Blair

Blair without a shadow of a doubt. Lying, manipulative, murderer who has destroyed British life, the armed forces and our Higher Education sector

Totally agree about Blair Lovetopaint037.
If I remember correctly when Labour left office in 2010 satisfaction with the NHS was at an all time high.
I think if you have views that are left of centre then Thatcher stands for the destruction of socialist principles about the way society should work. She did however have principles of her own and a work ethic.
For laziness and ineptitude combined with cynical abuse of power then Johnson has no rivals in my opinion.

Definitely Johnson who was never fit to be PM and should have remained as a lying, self serving journalist.
Thatcher was heartless (destroyed mining communities by closing mines but putting in nothing to replace them). The Falklands War was her attempt to save her political backside. It cost so many lives on both sides and when there was a service in St Paul’s she was angry that the Archbishop talked of the loss of Argentina's lives as well as our own. Yes, reminds you of Johnson who couldn’t wait to sound grandiose in Ukraine.
As for Tony Blair, yes he made a mistake by supporting Bush but he had a long term in office in which he built new hospitals and brought the waiting lists right down to a very acceptable level. Within months of the Tories regaining power they started closing down A&E’s and centralising services.He was a brilliant speaker and kept the Labour Party unified. Yet it is the war that everyone remembers and I know it was terrible but his career was more than that.