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Great PMs of the 21st Century

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  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    I thought it was new monetary systems that came along every 40 years.
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • lemontart
    lemontart Posts: 6,037 Forumite
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    Great Prime Minster of the 21st century - Martin Lewis for Pm
    I am responsible me, myself and I alone I am not the keeper others thoughts and words.
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    Have we forgotten the modern China? Whilst they are supposedly communist, their free market structure has to be based on some level on Thatcherism.
  • WGreen
    WGreen Posts: 11 Forumite
    Great PMs of all time? Gold and Silver, they are the best monetary PMs.

    Plat and Paladium and some say Rhodium are PMs but not monetary PMs. They do not have 6000yrs of monetary history.

    Copper is a monetary metal but not a monetary PRECIOUS METAL. That title only goes to gold and silver.

    OH PM sorry now I see what you were........oh nevr mind.
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    I wonder if we could recruit the retiring manager of a well-known Manchester football club to lead us out of the mire...

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • after the first world war those who returned didnt do so to a country fit for heroes,in 1945 the election of the Attlee govt ensured that for many life was better and they felt they had fought to achieve something
    i dont rate churchill as a great pm nor thatcher,they both destroyed for the sake of it,in churchills case dresden in her case the mining industry
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    woodbine wrote: »
    after the first world war those who returned didnt do so to a country fit for heroes,in 1945 the election of the Attlee govt ensured that for many life was better and they felt they had fought to achieve something
    i dont rate churchill as a great pm nor thatcher,they both destroyed for the sake of it,in churchills case dresden in her case the mining industry


    how did thatcher destroy the mining industry?

    hint: look up the employment figures and coal production for each decade from 1950 and post them up for us.
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    TruckerT wrote: »
    If Great PMs arrive at roughly 40 year intervals, then the next one should be due in the 2020s. What will he or she have to do in order to qualify as a Great PM?

    This thread is not about the past, it is about the future.

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    As it's likely we won't recognise him/her as "Great" until after the events, it follows that we are unlikely to know what made them great until they have done it.
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    This thread is not about the past, it is about the future.

    TruckerT


    Looking at the current crop. Farage appears to be writing history. The rest will disappear into oblivion as non-entities.
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