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Who was PM during the best of times for you?

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verdantverdure · 29/03/2023 22:44

Me?

Blair. Brown, first bit of Cameron.

On paper I earn more money now but everything's tits up isn't it? From the economy to shit on beaches to being able to get access to the NHS when needed.

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Coxspurplepippin · 28/05/2023 07:14

verdantverdure · 27/05/2023 16:45

Is anyone going to say Rishi Sunak?

If you ask the question in 30 years the people who are 18 or so now will probably say Rishi Sunak (if he's around long enough) purely because, as the OP stated, he was PM during their best times. Not because he's a great PM but because it was their best times - young, beautiful, carefree (for five minutes Grin), able to travel, party with friends, go to university. No ties, few responsibilities, self belief.

As I said upthread, Thatcher was PM during my best times, but my best times had nothing to do with her, they were to do with being young, free, single and the world being my oyster.

Chickenkeev · 28/05/2023 03:35

Blair for me in all seriousness. The work on NI 🥰

Chickenkeev · 28/05/2023 03:32

verdantverdure · 27/05/2023 16:45

Is anyone going to say Rishi Sunak?

Lol!

Callyem · 27/05/2023 19:44

Blair.

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verdantverdure · 27/05/2023 19:36

People will be paying the price for the damage done to their pension funds for a long time to come.

It surprises me that people aren't more up in arms about what the Tories have done to our pension funds.

I suppose what the Tories have done to our mortgages is the more urgently pressing matter for most of us.

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mrlistersgelfbride · 27/05/2023 17:53

Blair then Brown. It was a good time to be young. They get so much shit, but I miss them.

BluebellBlueballs · 27/05/2023 17:47

Blair.

I was too young to know the late 90s/ early 00s were not representative of how it would always be. I would appreciate them so much more now.

maskingitup · 27/05/2023 17:40

Tony Blair. Although I hated him for the Iraq war, life was much better during his administration than in any time since

SilverGlitterBaubles · 27/05/2023 17:04

verdantverdure · 27/05/2023 16:45

Liz Truss's month?

People will be paying the price for the damage done to their pension funds for a long time to come.

SilverGlitterBaubles · 27/05/2023 17:03

Waitingfortaco · 13/04/2023 11:36

Blair, definitely. That is when I worked for the civil service, bought our first house and had a baby. Sure Start centres and really good NHS support are my main experiences of this time.

Same Blair and Brown, my experience of public services while having a baby and young children was a very different experience of people today. Excellent support from local midwives, drop in clinics, babycare classes, free toddler events at local libraries, surestart centres, child trust funds.

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verdantverdure · 27/05/2023 16:46

Saniflo · 13/04/2023 11:24

David Cameron! But only because I was young and carefree and in my heyday... not because he did anything particularly good.

The early days of the coalition were probably good for us, with the Olympics and that, but it's all been downhill since then.

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verdantverdure · 27/05/2023 16:45

Liz Truss's month?

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verdantverdure · 27/05/2023 16:45

Is anyone going to say Rishi Sunak?

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verdantverdure · 25/04/2023 17:30

Dotjones · 13/04/2023 11:06

Cameron by a country mile. It's shocking really that he's the best in my lifetime. More shocking that Johnson's probably the second best though. I'd rank them as Cameron, Johnson, Blair, Major, Thatcher, May, Brown, Truss (don't think anyone can argue with Truss being the worst) with Sunak TBC.

The Johnson years were the second best time in your life?! Brexit chaos and a pandemic?

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Waitingfortaco · 13/04/2023 11:36

Blair, definitely. That is when I worked for the civil service, bought our first house and had a baby. Sure Start centres and really good NHS support are my main experiences of this time.

Saniflo · 13/04/2023 11:24

David Cameron! But only because I was young and carefree and in my heyday... not because he did anything particularly good.

Lisbeth50 · 13/04/2023 11:07

Tony Blair definitely.

Dotjones · 13/04/2023 11:06

Cameron by a country mile. It's shocking really that he's the best in my lifetime. More shocking that Johnson's probably the second best though. I'd rank them as Cameron, Johnson, Blair, Major, Thatcher, May, Brown, Truss (don't think anyone can argue with Truss being the worst) with Sunak TBC.

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verdantverdure · 13/04/2023 11:03

LateMumma · 31/03/2023 15:00

Blair absolutely

Are we declaring Blair the winner then?

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verdantverdure · 06/04/2023 17:17

Yeah, I suppose his retirement age was 66.

It would have been lovely to have had him for another couple of decades. Sad

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Blossomtoes · 05/04/2023 16:01

verdantverdure · 05/04/2023 15:51

That is some good going @Blossomtoes!

The first thing I thought when I heard Paul O'Grady had died was that he didn't even get to his pension. Sad

He got a year or so of it. But, yes, it is sad. And sad because he seemed to be a lovely guy.

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verdantverdure · 05/04/2023 15:51

That is some good going @Blossomtoes!

The first thing I thought when I heard Paul O'Grady had died was that he didn't even get to his pension. Sad

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Blossomtoes · 31/03/2023 16:36

x2boys · 31/03/2023 16:15

My mum.and Dad both worked for the Gas board and then British Gas and Did incredibly well out of privatisation ,they got some shares as employees, and were able to buy some ,they also.got offered a very generous redundancy deal.when they were both 54 ,and were then able to.take their pension at 55 ,my Dad had worked there for over 30years so.got a full.pension but my mum.had only worked their for 13 years but still.got some pension ,they will both be 81 this year and have lived off their pensions for 26 years !

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My dad was 99 when he died. He’d had 50 years of military pension, 39 years pension from his second career with a high street bank and 34 years of state pension. We used to joke that his pension providers must have hated him.

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Blossomtoes · 31/03/2023 15:22

My dad always amused me. Couldn’t wait to get his hands on BT and British Gas shares in the 80s and then moaned like crazy about buying his electricity from a French owned company. He was very grumpy when I told him he had to take the rough with the smooth 😂

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My mum.and Dad both worked for the Gas board and then British Gas and Did incredibly well out of privatisation ,they got some shares as employees, and were able to buy some ,they also.got offered a very generous redundancy deal.when they were both 54 ,and were then able to.take their pension at 55 ,my Dad had worked there for over 30years so.got a full.pension but my mum.had only worked their for 13 years but still.got some pension ,they will both be 81 this year and have lived off their pensions for 26 years !

Blossomtoes · 31/03/2023 15:22

beguilingeyes · 31/03/2023 15:15

It was Margaret Thatcher who privatised the energy companies (and everything else she could get her hands on). That's why most of our utilities are foreign owned.

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My dad always amused me. Couldn’t wait to get his hands on BT and British Gas shares in the 80s and then moaned like crazy about buying his electricity from a French owned company. He was very grumpy when I told him he had to take the rough with the smooth 😂