To think that William Hague is not the 'Greatest Living Yorkshireman'

[ForalltheSaints]

David Cameron may respect William Hague, and indeed some of the things he has done as Foreign Secretary are to be applauded, but surely the PM has lost the plot in suggesting he is the Greatest Living Yorkshireman?

Several have been suggested and you may think of others

Michael Parkinson
Michael Palin
Alan Bennett
Brian Blessed
Geoffrey Boycott

and that is without a separate thread for Greatest Living Yorkshirewoman (it is possibly Jessica Ennis-Hill).

Yanbu. DC is so offbeat it's comical. He's like a walking stereotype of why not to use private schools.

Forallthe I see your Jessica Ennis Hill and raise you Judi Dench.

Btw I do have kind of a grudging fondness for William Hague (in a best of a bad lot kind of way) but he's definitely not the greatest living Yorkshireman. That would be my dad.

It is Alan Bennett, without any doubt.

Alan Bennet for me too.

Geoffrey Boycott . Don't tell him that, he already thinks he's the world's greatest man.

Patrick Stewart needs to be added to that list. Can we add women? The Brontes could be added then, too.
Does William Hague really trump Ted Hughes?

Alan Bennet is brilliant. Though for My greatest living Yorkshireman award goes my DP. ;-) sorry if that puts you off your cornflakes folks!

Gah! Just realised it's living Yorkshireman! I'm sticking with Patrick Stewart.

Charlotte Bronte is not living but is very great!

I'd add Adrian Moorhouse to this for swimming.

Can we add Micheal Palin and Patrick Stewart? Not sure where they would go but certainly above Hague.

Sean Bean

Seriously Geoffrey Boycott - just no - boring.

What about astronaut Helen Sharman, first Briton in space and first woman on Mir Spacestation?

Just another piece of shite to come out of DC's mouth

I thought he was Welsh?

Christ no immediately disqualified for being a Tory twunt.
Another Bennet vote, or Palin (as my df is no longer here)

David Hockney too, think he used to be Alan Bennett's partner.

Brownlee Brothers?

Ben Kingsley is from North Yorkshire.

My DH, DS1 and DS2 come before William Hague IMnotso-HO

I think he achieved a lot as Foreign Secretary and was (allegedly) great to work for. All the others mentioned so far are in sport or the arts. Why is that better?

My first thought reading the thread title was Ohh Geoffrey Boycott won't like that!

Is he fuck!

That's an insult to Yorkshiremen if he is.

Which he isn't.

I'd vote for James Martin if I could be sure he's from Yorkshire, but he never mentions it.

You could chuck a brick in the centre of eg Sheffield and be sure to hit a better Yorkshireman than William Hague. And I say that as a Lancastrian.

just about any man I've ever met from yorkshire is better than Hague.