How highly do you rate Boris Johnson in regards to Prime Ministers of the last 45 years?

[JC544D]

How highly do you rate Boris Johnson in regards to Prime Ministers of the last 45 years?

[noodlezoodle]

Dead last and it's inexplicable to me that he's still in post. I didn't think you could be utterly useless AND utterly corrupt and have your party support you regardless.

What Thatcher did was evil and broke the fabric of society, but I think in the long term Brexit will be even more harmful.

[deydododatdodontdeydo]

@ssd

Not all of Britain voted for him.

Of course not. But that's how elections work (in this country). It's quicker than writing "due to the first past the post system, a majority of MPs were elected by the British electorate (those registered to vote and those who chose to vote) which belonged to the party which Boris Johnson was leader of".

[leotardrock]

@decentchap

On the Kelvin political scale - 273.15 (absolute zero)

His wife is worse. Thatcher had balls, if no recognisable conscience.
Blair was a committed liar.
Major was another adulterer but some of him was good if just 'grey'.
Hague, who could tell ?
What was the name of the 'grey woman' before the Buffoon.
They are all sh1t in some, sometimes major ways,

Agree & actually when John Major is interviewed now he seems positively statesman like!

Because we have all got used to Johnson stuttering and mumbling through his speeches looking like a tramp! (No offence to tramps)

[donquixotedelamancha]

Agree & actually when John Major is interviewed now he seems positively statesman like!

Major was a solid, workmanlike PM who kept the ship steady despite inheriting a very difficult position (the opposite of May).

Compared to the shit of the last decade he looks like a fucking genius.

[TooBigForMyBoots]

The worst. His conduct is that of an abuser and as PM he is gaslighting, abusing and draining the whole country.

[HRTQueen]

I think the worse PM

He had no conscience, no integrity and every step of his has been about his ambition. I was so angry when he decided he would champion Leave purely an ambitious move for him.

I may have disagreed with many policies of other PM’s but I do not think any have been so totally devoid of integrity

I recognise that he is charismatic and i find it fascinating that so many people know what he is but still want him as our PM I just don’t understand it

[ArcheryAnnie]

Absolute last, worse even than Thatcher.

[user1471453601]

I started saying today to my daughter that I never, in my 71 years, "thought I'd ever see ... ". She, as a card carrying member of the Labour Party said " Yes Mum, a worse PM than thatcher. You tell me that at least once a week'.

I do, usually, but not limited to, after PMQs.

[BottlingBurpsForGrandma]

I think John Major, Theresa May, Gordon Brown and Margaret Thatcher were all principled politicians who brought something to the table - ideas, life experience, patriotism or whatever. I don't think Johnson, Cameron and (to a lesser extent, perhaps, though a war criminal in thrall to Bush) Blair are in the same league. Slippery, conniving Aaron Burrs who'd sell their own grandmother for a vote.

[Boood]

Top to bottom, I’d say it goes Major, Blair, Brown, Thatcher, May, Cameron, Johnson. Not old enough to comment on Callaghan.

[BanjoKnickers]

Second worst to Theresa May, who was truly truly abysmal. We've had a bad run.

[Hawkins001]

@JC544D

How highly do you rate Boris Johnson in regards to Prime Ministers of the last 45 years?

I would like to study the results if the people being asked were quite well versed in politics and political parties histories ect, otherwise how do you expect to achieve qualified answers ?

[RogueBorg]

@Hawkins001 I am old enough to remember them all, studied politics at uni and worked in Westminster for two decades.

He is the most contemptible appalling PM I think we’ve ever had. A truly dreadful man on every measure.
I LOATHED Thatcher so to think in my lifetime we’ve achieved something worse is desperate. He was elected to “get Brexit done” and for no other reason. I will never forgive those who put these reptile in such a position of power.

[Hawkins001]

@RogueBorg

@Hawkins001 I am old enough to remember them all, studied politics at uni and worked in Westminster for two decades.

He is the most contemptible appalling PM I think we’ve ever had. A truly dreadful man on every measure.
I LOATHED Thatcher so to think in my lifetime we’ve achieved something worse is desperate. He was elected to “get Brexit done” and for no other reason. I will never forgive those who put these reptile in such a position of power.

Most impressive, with your wisdom, are the leaders more figure heads ?
Where would you say the real power lies so to speak ?

[RogueBorg]

I wasn’t trying to impress you with wisdom 😄, just filling you in on a bit of background so you knew I had a little knowledge 😊.

Whether the leaders are figure heads or not definitely depends on the individuals involved but they set the agenda and I think that Johnson is almost certainly totally in charge and is quite feared judging by what happened last week.

[dizzydizzydizzy]

Johnson who wins last place. Hands down.

[Hawkins001]

@RogueBorg

I wasn’t trying to impress you with wisdom 😄, just filling you in on a bit of background so you knew I had a little knowledge 😊.

Whether the leaders are figure heads or not definitely depends on the individuals involved but they set the agenda and I think that Johnson is almost certainly totally in charge and is quite feared judging by what happened last week.

It puzzles me at times when news reporters ask the general public what their views are of x, which yes gives a general perspectives, but how can any useful conclusions be drawn, if majority has not studied the event in detail to offer a more qualified answer.

[Smokeybacon72]

The worst by far and I say that as a working class Scot. He continually lies, is corrupt and has no sense of the true magnitude of being Prime minister

[Noisyprat]

I think it's a draw with Blair. I've always had Blair as by far and away the worst based on many things but mainly the Iraq war however Boris has shown himself to be right up there.

[RogueBorg]

@Hawkins001 its very tricky I know. Look at Brexit - a massively complex political decision given to people who then, in their millions, googled “what is the EU?” the day after the referendum.

The need for good political education is desperate. People in the UK often believe we elect our PM (we don’t) or that councillors and MPs are connected, or don’t understand the links between church and state or the role of the RF, or what taxes are used for what services. It desperately needs teaching in secondary schools.

[ZenNudist]

The utter worst.

[GreenLunchBox]

@leotardrock

@decentchap

On the Kelvin political scale - 273.15 (absolute zero)

His wife is worse. Thatcher had balls, if no recognisable conscience.
Blair was a committed liar.
Major was another adulterer but some of him was good if just 'grey'.
Hague, who could tell ?
What was the name of the 'grey woman' before the Buffoon.
They are all sh1t in some, sometimes major ways,

Agree & actually when John Major is interviewed now he seems positively statesman like!

Because we have all got used to Johnson stuttering and mumbling through his speeches looking like a tramp! (No offence to tramps)

😃😂

[RogueBorg]

@Noisyprat a draw? 🙄

[Hawkins001]

@RogueBorg

@Hawkins001 its very tricky I know. Look at Brexit - a massively complex political decision given to people who then, in their millions, googled “what is the EU?” the day after the referendum.

The need for good political education is desperate. People in the UK often believe we elect our PM (we don’t) or that councillors and MPs are connected, or don’t understand the links between church and state or the role of the RF, or what taxes are used for what services. It desperately needs teaching in secondary schools.

Then theirs the political battles we don't see, and the you scratch my back on this issue ect. As lovely as the public can be, at times with some major complex issues it is a pickle of what's best, at least until the public were up to speed on various political issues of the day.

[carefullycourageous]

The absolute worst, he is systematically destroying democracy, parliament and any reputation the UK had.

I want him gone from Downing Street.