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Greatest Brit Political Figure?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:37 pm
by supsim96
David Lloyd George?
Keir Hardie?
Ramsey MacDonald?
Margaret Thatcher?
Clement Attlee?
Winston Churchill?
Harold Wilson?
Hadrian?
Boudica?
Benjamin Disraeli?
William Gladstone?
Pitt the Younger?
William Wilberforce?
Oliver Cromwell?
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Re: Greatest Brit Political Figure?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:49 pm
by Meatus
Clement Attlee
Re: Greatest Brit Political Figure?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:50 pm
by Meatus
Could soon Be Alex Salmond!
Of course then we wouldn't be British!
Re: Greatest Brit Political Figure?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:54 pm
by Sam Slater
Gladstone or Wilberforce for me. Gladstone gave us the same voting rights as the upper classes while Wilberforce spent a good art of his political career trying to abolish the slave trade; both massive steps in individual freedom.
Re: Greatest Brit Political Figure?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:59 pm
by max_tranmere
Tory: Winston Churchill
Margaret Thatcher
Enoch Powell
Labour: Clement Attlee
Barbara Castle
Dennis Healey
Frank Field
Lib: Paddy Ashdown
Other: John Hume
Re: Greatest Brit Political Figure?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:01 pm
by Meatus
Margaret Thatcher???
You have got to be fucking kidding?
Re: Greatest Brit Political Figure?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:04 pm
by Meatus
The kind people
Have a wonderful dream
Margaret On The Guillotine
Cause people like you
Make me feel so tired
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
And people like you
Make me feel so old inside
Please die
And kind people
Do not shelter this dream
Make it real
Make the dream real
Make the dream real
Make it real
Make the dream real
Make it real
Re: Greatest Brit Political Figure?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:15 pm
by max_tranmere
Steven Patrick Morrissey was visited in his home by MI5 over the writing of that song (fact!).
Re: Greatest Brit Political Figure?
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:16 pm
by Jonone
Meatus, check out 'Tramp The Dirt Down' by Elvis Costello.
Best political figures .. the unsung heroes .. the MPs who are there for people in the constituencies, who listen, and who do their best to act on what they hear and effect positive change on a local level.