[Politics] Which British Prime Minister had the most profund effect on your life?

[Lenny Rider]

Might upset a few on here, but for me its Maggie, she abolished the closed shop policy with the Unions, which allowed me to pursue my hobby of sports writing in the local press.

In the old days the only NUJ members were allowed to have published articles and reports with a by-line.

Granted, that said she also did a lot of bad things.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

I’m not sure this thread will last long before removal to the bear pit

When England was the whore of the world Margaret was her madam
And the future looked as bright and as clear as the black tarmacadam(EC)

The next one hopefully is my answer to your question

 

[WATFORD zero]

The current one, and not in any good way.

Luckily he arrived too late to cause me massive problems personally, but my kids and their futures (and therefor most profound effect on me)

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

I think pretty much every PM in my lifetime has contributed somehow to my general contempt for politicians.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

The Borg Queen who had a golden opportunity to deliver a successful EEA Brexit and blew it.

 

[dsr-burnley]

Margaret Thatcher. Having gone through regular school closures, 3 day week, and having candles permanently to hand because you could never be sure when the power would go off, it was Mrs T who was in charge of reducing union power to the point where life was no longer at the whims of trades union bosses.

 

[schmunk]

Clement Atlee, via Nye Bevan, for creation of the NHS.

 

[Chicken Run]

Might upset a few on here, but for me its Maggie, she abolished the closed shop policy with the Unions, which allowed me to pursue my hobby of sports writing in the local press.

In the old days the only NUJ members were allowed to have published articles and reports with a by-line.

Granted, that said she also did a lot of bad things.

None of them!

 

[Napper]

Tony Blair , took over and the country was into a new exciting era. Ladettes were vogue and life was great.

Did a pretty good job too

 

[Giraffe]

Cameron - gave us the opportunity to leave the EU, which we took. Lovely.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Neville Chamberlain for me, great guy, great days.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Thatcher and not in a good way

 

[Questions]

Tony Blair , took over and the country was into a new exciting era. Ladettes were vogue and life was great.

Did a pretty good job too

I'd agree if it wasn’t just for that blip in being complicit in the murder of tens of thousands innocent Iraqis

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Hard question to answer as it depends on if you look at positives or negatives ..... so I'll do one for each.

Positive - Thatcher, her polices allowed me ( after she had left ) to get on the housing ladder and to become a property developer.

Negative - Blair, although not directly responsible, managed to crash my property development business and I was also made redundant for the first time under his government and realised the government, regardless of colour, gives **** all help to those that fall on hard times.

 

[arewethereyet?]

Cameron - gave us the opportunity to leave the EU, which we took. Lovely.

Pre pandemic i would not have agreed with you as sure we were better as one union, however given the utter farce that is ensuing with the vaccine debacle over there I’m so glad we are out. Yes our PM has made mistakes but he has certainly got the vaccination roll out brilliantly done.

 

[Goldstone1976]

I suspect Churchill. He was PM during the war. Lose that, and i think my life would have been radically different.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Thatcher. Great for breaking the union stranglehold over the country, but dis some awful shit too.

Blair. For a sensible kind of socialism.

 

[vegster]

Might upset a few on here, but for me its Maggie, she abolished the closed shop policy with the Unions, which allowed me to pursue my hobby of sports writing in the local press.

In the old days the only NUJ members were allowed to have published articles and reports with a by-line.

Granted, that said she also did a lot of bad things.

Maggie for me too, her " Deregulation " sent my company in to a slow downward spiral which ended in a redundancy and subsequently a much poorer paid career in a de-unionised industry.

 

[Poojah]

Not really his fault (well, not entirely), but it's hard to see past Boris Johnson on this one, isn't it? I took my 4 year old daughter out for a walk the other day, and we got chatting about all sorts of things. Then she turned to me and said, "Daddy, you know that man with the funny hair who said we're not allowed to see grandma...".

After a bit of prompting, she managed to get his name right. I had no idea who Maggie Thatcher was when I was her age, I think I actually thought she was Moira Stewart for some reason. You forget the simple ways that kids see things sometimes. All she knows is that this man has told her she can't do the things she used to do, to see the people she loves.

I wonder what the legacy for politicians will be from all of this in the eyes of today's very young people?

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Clement Atlee, via Nye Bevan, for creation of the NHS.

Without Atlee, Bevan wouldn't have had the chance to implement Beveridges proposals.