[Politics] Worst PM since Thatcher

[Cotton Socks]

Truss however she wan't even fit to wash Thatchers M & S knickers

I heard they were C & A

If she knew a good dope dealer, which seems likely, I'm sure the boys would have been all over her like a dose of fresher's regret.

She was probably alright at uni and you wouldn't have to have been completely wasted to sleep with her. They probably wouldn't use it as a claim to fame now though! That's not misogynistic as it works for Johnson as well. Substitute Y fronts and Churchill, for Knickers and Thatcher. Just grim!

 

[Rdodge30]

The answer is Truss and the framing of the question is irrelevant… since Thatcher?….try since the turn of the twentieth century (I’m not familiar with Prime Ministers of the nineteenth century but I’d hazard a guess Truss still wins)

 

[Klaas]

I voted Johnson but it was a touch choice

 

[Curious Orange]

That is a tough list to choose from!

I'd have chosen Brown, but for the fact the damage he caused was actually when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer - PPP, pensions raid, selling the gold reserves etc.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Theresa May getting away with murder here, literally. She started the Hostile Environment which is still having an effect especially with the Windrush scandal, albeit she was Home Secretary at the time. She forced Amber Rudd to take the blame.
She called a rush general election, bribed the DUP to support her, drew hard red lines on the Brexit deal, tried to invoke Article 50 without a Parliamentary vote, until taken to court. Her dancing was atrocious.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

For me Truss by a country mile but Johnson 2nd worst ever . Since 2016 when Cameron stepped down been a total shit show

Slightly unfair on May, who in my view tried to do things right.
i went for Truss - totally nuts - with Johnson not far behind getting everything done, but badly, while ly8ng through his teeth all the time.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Truss and each time I see my mortgage payment it will remind me of her and also remind me to slam the door in the face of any Tory candidate that comes knocking for my vote at the next GE ( maybe preceded by a swift kick to the nads area depending on my mood ).

 

[Hotchilidog]

The Tories have been running a very competitive who is the worst PM competition since Thatcher and while May, Johnson, Truss (wtf!) and Sunak have all been outstanding candidates Cameron is the winner for me. CMD’s premiership over saw the vicious period of austerity, a pointless an ill thought war in Libya and then the coup de grace that was the Brexit referendum that laid the foundations for this country basically not having a functioning government since 2016. That ludicrously ill equipped PR man has left a legacy that has caused this country great harm from which we have yet to recover.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Truss by a country mile

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The Tories have been running a very competitive who is the worst PM competition since Thatcher and while May, Johnson, Truss (wtf!) and Sunak have all been outstanding candidates Cameron is the winner for me. CMD’s premiership over saw the vicious period of austerity, a pointless an ill thought war in Libya and then the coup de grace that was the Brexit referendum that laid the foundations for this country basically not having a functioning government since 2016. That ludicrously ill equipped PR man has left a legacy that has caused this country great harm from which we have yet to recover.

He ran away from being an MP, so a coward, but suddenly decided to accept a peerage to be able to act as Foreign Secretary without having to face questioning in the Commons. Coward to the core.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

That is a tough list to choose from!

I'd have chosen Brown, but for the fact the damage he caused was actually when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer - PPP, pensions raid, selling the gold reserves etc.

True, but Truss does kind of even trump that….

Callaghan was pretty dreadful as well but pre Thatcher.

 

[tedebear]

Cameron built the bonfire. Johnson lit it and Truss burned the entire thing down spectacularly....Whats weird is I had forgotten Teresa May had been PM, and I keep forgetting Sunak is now in charge, I guess I'm surepticiously thikning they bought nothing to the table either way....

 

[Exilegull]

Cant decide they are all bad. Even Tony Blair. An insufficiently could of run the country when he did the economy was exploding with or without him but he didnt do much in terms of turning the good times into long time prosperity

 

[mickybha]

At least we didn't get Corbyn tf

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Impossible! Cameron, Johnson and Truss all in the frame but in the end I would probably vote Johnson as he told the biggest lies and conned the most people.

My only distraction from this horrendous decision making nightmare was trying to find the logic behind the order the OP has used to list the candidates!

 

[Westdene Seagull]

That is a tough list to choose from!

I'd have chosen Brown, but for the fact the damage he caused was actually when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer - PPP, pensions raid, selling the gold reserves etc.

You could add the school and hospital PFI to that list. While the previous Tory government 'invented' it, Brown rolled it out with vigor while chancellor.

 

[The Mole]

Johnson was a complete disaster - he’s done more damage to fulfil his own ego. Truss would have been close given the destruction she left in her wake after 49 days but her redeeming factor was the she was goi to scrap IR35.
Cameron would be next for calling a referendum we didn’t need to try to unite the Conservative Party (it didn’t even do that).
May was a poor politician but she was dealt an impossible hand and I don’t think she’s a bad person just misguided in certain areas. She genuinely wanted to do her best.
Blair was doing well until Iraq which was awful.
Brown and Major will probably be judged well by history - both given very difficult tasks.
Sunak never had a chance

 

[vegster]

Johnson for me. Truss was genuinely awful but she was propelled in to the position of leader by the complete lack of anybody credible left. Johnson is by far the worst simply because he had lied and blustered his way in to the position then continued to lie and bluster when he realised he couldn't do the job.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Slightly unfair on May, who in my view tried to do things right.

People often say that about May, but as far as I can tell it's based on a vaguely conciliatory approach to agreeing a brexit deal, that actually drove far harder to the right than might have been necessary and proved to be totally ineffective. Totally obsessed with immigration but with an acceptable facade that stops her being lumped in with some of the other far right nutjobs who we'd want nowhere near running the country.
I expect she'd make quite a good MP for somewhere nice and leafy and pointless in the home counties.

And yet even taking that character assassination at face value, she's clearly not the right answer to the question "who's been our worst PM since Thatcher".

 

[Rookie]

Truss for me because I don’t think we will ever know how close the economy was to completely imploding rather than just the absolute mess she got it into.
Sunak is just a rich weasel and the sooner he has gone the better.
Special mention to Blair - a self centred bloke who gambled with the countries credit card and rode the good times built on sand