British Pms

[Farriercm]

Who was the most unpopular Prime Minister of all time in the UK.

[Svejk]

Gordon?

[McMouse]

In my lifetime..........Gordon Brown.

[ToraToraTora]

Major was quite unpoplar but got a rough deal really as he left the economy the strongest in Europe just in time for his tonyness to wreck it. But I'd say Brown edges it, though Blair himself wasn't exactly top of the pops. I suspect going back a bit there are worse, still that isn't your intention with this question is it?

[royfromaus]

I don't know how you can say Thatcher, jordyboy.

She turned around the fortunes of the steel and shipbuilding industries.
O.K we are no longer the biggest and best ship builders in the world but we must come a close...er

I think as each year passes by we get closer to what Napoleon called us.

"L'Angleterre est une nation de boutiquiers."

[Prudie]

In my lifetime I'd agree with Gordon Brown. The Thatcher haters need to remember, although it may stick in their craw, that she was also considered one of the best and most popular by many many people.

[weecalf]

Not really a fair question as weare going to suggest those we remember .Churchy might not have appealed to all ,Georgiy may have had his critics .

[Sqad]

\\\\Who was the most unpopular Prime Minister of all time in the UK.\\\

Lady Thatcher.

Who was the most effective PM in the UK?........Lady Thatcher.

Who will go down as one of the most influential P.M's ?.....Lady Thatcher.

[Farriercm]

As you said weecalf according to the older generation, Churchill was not all that popular.

[sunny-dave]

I'd have thought Neville Chamberlain was pretty much 'up there' in the unpopularity stakes ...

[Farriercm]

Sqad I said the most unpopular Prime Minister not The Most Hated.

[Sqad]

Farriercm,

I am so sorry...

Gordon Brown.

[royfromaus]

Who was the most effective PM in the UK?........Lady Thatcher.



Yes, I particularly like how she used north sea oil as a great investment to enrich the lives of future Britons. She certainly put those Norwegians to shame.

[slaney]

Not really "of all time", but only since polls began, I would have said Gordon Brown, but I would have been wrong...
http://www.adambienkov.com/2013/04/was-gordon-brown-most-unpopular-prime.html

[Farriercm]

Gordon Brown was not just unpopular he was useless.

[DrFilth]

milk snatcher

[royfromaus]

Also selling over 1 million social housing homes at very generous discounts to fund the building of more houses was a master stroke.

Well it could have been if more homes were actually built.
But hey the shortage did lead to the prices of our houses to absolutely rocket.
Wooo-hooo!

Oh no wait Wasn't the housing bubble a rather large factor in the eventual financial crisis ?

[inksplotter]

The most popular was either Lord Palmerston or Pitt the Elder...

[New Judge]

It's strange that Lady T attracts so many proposals as the most unpopular PM of all time. She won three successive General Elections with 43.9%, 42.4%, and 42.2% of the popular vote. This compares quite favourably to the 43.2%, 40.7% and 35.2% gained by Labour in the three elections where Tony Blair was their leader.

What needs to be appreciated about her tenure (which nobody much under the age of 60 can really grasp) is that it began at a time when the country was virtually on its knees and whatever policies were adopted to tackle the crisis some people were bound to suffer. There is a similarity between 1979 and 2010 in that the country's economy had been wrecked by a Labour government. But there, alas, the similarity ends.

[shoota]

Thatcher was the only one who has had PMS.....