Clement Attlee of course

LORD PALMERSTON!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyZ7oU0tUR8

Yeah, I was kinda thinking Pitt the Elder too.

The next one :)

In all seriousness I quite like the one we've got. A better man than the others in my lifetime. Outside of my lifetime I am not equiped to judge.

Without a doubt it would be FU - Francis Urquhart

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill, 4th June 1940. Nuff said?

here are some more gems by that humanitarian churchill:
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I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes.

I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.

Should Germany merchandise (do business) again in the next 50 years we have led this war (WW1) in vain.

We will force this war upon Hitler, if he wants it or not.

Germany becomes too powerful. We have to crush it

This war is an English war and its goal is the destruction of Germany

The war wasn't only about abolishing fascism, but to conquer sales markets. We could have, if we had intended so, prevented this war from breaking out without doing one shot, but we didn't want to

Germany's unforgivable crime before WW2 was its attempt to loosen its economy out of the world trade system and to build up an independent exchange system from which the world-finance couldn't profit anymore. ...We butchered the wrong pig
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i also know that he intentionally starved india to kill off people there and reduce its population, but i am too busy and lazy to look up a quote for that, if anyone can find one i will appreciate it.

Harold Wilson.

Only Americans say Churchill.

Also Nigel Bevan

I hope one day when we mature we'll celebrate peace and not war .... while Churchill was safely ensconced in his bunker puffing on his cigar and getting pissed many men women and children were fighting and dying throughout the world.
Isn't it always the case that the Manager gets the glory but the foot soldiers do all of the work.
Some of the toughest times came after the war, trying to build a land fit for heroes. Clement Attlee and Nye Bevan .... that was pure genius compared to anything Churchill achieved in his lifetime.
If you want to know about Churchill check out the Yalta Agreement .... certainly not his finest hour.

in before someone says Thatcher

I have to +1 Nigel Bevan, Welshmen everywhere will be hopping mad to see such a racial slur

I was gonna say Pitt the Elder as well...

Glad that some people realise Churchill was a wanker. Tempted to say Attlee, although a big part of this is bevan and the reforms that would have happened with a different labour leader... Still probably the best by a fair bit

Attlee, undoubtedly.

Campbell-Bannerman was also radical, for his time

Churchill the philanthropist, that was him. Oh how those Russian POWs must have laughed when they heard that Churchill had negotiated to send them back to Stalin.
The morning that boat docked would have made the POW detainee centres in Kent look like holiday camps....

Churchill was a pragmatist, which is definitely what was needed in that particular situation.
He'd seen sh*t in South Africa and Afghanistan way back at the beginning of the 20th century. He saw the first concentration camps conceived by the Boers. He certainly was not a sit-behind-your-desk-and-jack-off politician. Please don't diss him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-K%C3%A9bir

Great work by Churchill

Thatcher because she turned at least 66% of the British population against the Conservative Party.
Rich man cool: poor man no cool. We screw you.
Why the f*ck they've been voted in again is difficult to comprehend.
The present incumbent is obviously a complete dick.
I'm talking from China. I see you're f*cked up from this distance. Worth a thought?

Atlee.

atlee

Definitely Walpole. The Licensing Act really put those accursed stage players in their place, and established the power of the Lord Chamberlain. Shame about the War of Jenkins' Ear, though.

I'm going to go with Lloyd George. Not as much for wartime (and especially not for his hand in the way Europe was set up post-WWI) but definitely for helping set up the social safety nets in the UK. And for being the only Welshman to be PM.

Thatcher

Being 18 years old the only prime ministers I can actually remember are Blair, Brown and Cameron/ (Clegg)

Well I dislike Blair, war and labour, Dislike Brown, I mean, seriously does anybody like him? And while I am a conservative I can't say I love Cameron either.

I never studied politics in school but I know that I am quite right wing.
So Thatcher it is. I like her ideology.

Numptyboy4:
'Lloyd George was my father. My father was Lloyd George.'
Those who know little should say little.
Those who know more should say less.
ps Not quotes, apart from the first.

Winston Churchill it has to be. No contest. Absolutely no contest. Close.

Outside of te modern era (B,B&C), I only know Churchill and Thatcher. I'd probably lean towards Thatcher. She and Ronald Readon did some awesome work together.

Wait, Britain has prime ministers? I always thought they just had a bunch of guys in top hats and wigs sitting in a room and smoking cigars. Then Guy Fawkes decided to blow up the Royal Cigar Factory, b/c he hated cigars.
And a King, of course