Thatcher, the worst Prime Minister Britain ever had.

well said, complimentary. It's the paper of choice for the cognoscenti. It's the paper of aspiration, which is why Blair and Brown didn't like it.

The Daily Mail is also another great read, with us lovely ladies reading it a lot, it is the only paper with over 50% female readership!
It's second only to the Sun in readership figures. It's a kind and caring sort of paper. It's lovely readers collectively gave in December 2010 donations, which totalled £100.000 for the NHS elderly! So if your elderly or a woman read the Daily Mail!

Kerstina. Why are Sun readers ignorant? my sister's children could read it at age 6! They are very intelligent! Plus it's got boobs, the men they love it!

He dumbed down education and slowed down social mobility. He was anti aspiration, he was pro nanny state.

Blair never got aspiration, he was exactly the same as every other progressive. He made sure he didn't increase income tax, but he made up for it with all his stealth taxes. He introduced rules, regulations and red tape to hamper business. He didn't stop the working time directive. The only reason he remained in power for so long is because capitalists like Murdoch used the power of the media to back him. He flew over to court them. But it had nothing to do with aspiration or helping the people. When Murdoch turned on him and Brown, his time was up.

Yes I suppose so but it is so depressing that those people who read the Sun (ignorant ) are the ones that can be swayed in which ever way Murdoch wants them too.

Nevertheless, kerstina, it seems that Sun readers are the key "swing" demographic - more Sun readers are floating voters than readers of any other paper.

Whether the Sun follows them, or they follow the Sun, is a bit of a thorny question - but the fact is, they are the ones that politicians have to chase!

1st ever delivered to longfingernails .I would love to know your background .I am working class but will never read the Sun you are just so patronising.

Blair really got "aspirational" Britain. No party leader since has really done so.

Cameron is a male Thatcher! Or a puppet. Problem is we no longer make anything to export...nation of shopkeepers! Thanks Thatcher and to your son...oh DC not related just made from the same cloth! Trample the weak then blame them for everything! Happy days

This Spitting Image sketch says it all

Not many people where I grew up remember the Thatcher era as a time where we took foreign holidays and started our own businesses. More like dole queues, school buildings which were falling down, and a deep sense of anger and injustice.

And if it turns out that Cameron et al aren't (quite) as bad as her, then thank goodness for small mercies.

Thankfully, though, Red Ed has about as little chance of understanding Sun readers as I do of understanding Mongolian.

Blair really got "aspirational" Britain. No party leader since has really done so.

Cameron's biggest danger is that he doesn't carry the "Thatcher Tories" with him. That means manual labourers and their families, those who work in small businesses, etc - people who voted Labour in the 70s, and started voting for Thatcher in 79.

She wasn't afraid of carefully calculated populism - but sadly, Cameron probably thinks it is not the done thing, or something.

Thatcher was the finest PM since the second world war.

She redefined Britain and made her Great Britain once again. She smashed the menace of the unions, she conquered the demon of inflation, she made us a world power. She won the Falklands, she was instrumental in winning the Cold War, and she let people buy their own homes.

Under her PMship it became normal for ordinary working folk to take foreign holidays, to own their own cars, to start their own businesses. She gave people more chance than they ever had before to make their own way in the world.

What a wonderful woman. Of course, by gushing about her like this, she would no doubt write me off as a "wet" :)

Sadly, Cameron is too much of a "Tory" and not enough of a Thatcherite. His instincts are with the Times, not the Mail and Sun.

Yes, the worst. Evil, evil, evil.

And the current shower were young during her reign, and thought: "That looks marvellous, I think I'll become a Tory". Which says it all.

Many people had had enough of blair and brown - taking this country to an illegal war was the last straw for most people. Its very sad that they didnt both step down before the election, because labour had achieved many good things which were drowned out because people were fed up of those two.

Sorry am not usually so full of bile.

Blair just brings it out in me.

I'm no fan of Thatcher, but I'd rather her than that liar Blair. He allowed Brown free reign at the treasury, thus letting the bankers almost bankcrupt this country.

But it is Blair's total belief in his own bull shit [God given don't forget- according to his book] which meant he took Britain to an illegal war, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and British soliders. The UN disagreed with him, the rest of Europe disagreed with him, millions of people in the UK disagreed with him. But of course Blair just knew it was the right thing to do.

His smug face makes me feel sick.

UQD - a party would want a large number of people unemployed as this would increase competition for jobs and therefore lower wages - desperate people working for peanuts, and fat profits for people at the top to get rich.
Hence the tories voting against minimum wage.

though his predecessor Earl of Grafton is pretty widely agreed to have been rather rubbish and corrupt so surely he must be in th erunning?

Lord North is surely in the running for the worst prime minister ever. Or are you only prepared to consider ones you remember op?

He was the first ever prime minister to be forced out afetr a vote of no confidence following disasterous rout at Yorkdown leading to the loss of the colony.

Ivanhoe has lost the plot and is even getting his left & right mixed up.

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