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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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As there seems to be a lot of confusion over which PM is responsible for what and who got us into the mess we're in today, I thought it would be a good idea to list them all so we'll know once and for all who fucked up the country.
Now, bear with me here, any ONE of the men (and woman) on the list below could have changed whatever legislation the previous 'listee' had made during their term in office. Could have! In some cases, did - but in most, didn't.
The list shows each PM's name, Party, and years in office, plus a few brief events that happened during his or her Prime Ministerialship.
As you can see clearly, none of them are responsible for 400 years of Irish suppression, nor are any of them solely responsible for soaring unemployment, the NHS ups and downs, nor the housing market going up the swanee every ten years or so.
It's quite easy to see, even from these very brief details that politicians need to change with the times in which they find themselves, and if they remain mired in the past then the country remains mired in it also.
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Note: Contrary to popular belief, the old Tory Party are NOT the current Conservative Party.
When the Conservative Party split in 1846 on the issue of Free Trade, the protectionist wing of the party rejected the term Conservative. They preferred to be known as Protectionists or even to revive the older term 'Tory' as an official name. However, by 1859, the Peelites (Peel's Conservative supporters) joined the Whigs and Radicals to form the Liberal Party. The remaining Tories, under the leadership of the Earl of Derby (a former Whig), and Disraeli (once a Radical candidate for Parliament), adopted the 'Conservative' label as the official name of their party.
Similarly, The Liberal Democrats are NOT a revamped version of The Whigs either, as the Liberal Party can trace it's roots back to 1859, whereas the Whigs go way back to 1721 and beyond.
The Whigs were almost exclusively made up of the aristocracy. The Liberals were not, although did have aristocratic patrons.
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Here we go then:
British Prime Ministers Since 1721:
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Sir Robert Waypole, Whig, 1721-1742
Spencer Compton, Whig, 1742-1743
Henry Pelham, Whig, 1743-1754
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Whig, 1754-1756
William Cavendish, Whig, 1756-1757
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Whig, 1757-1762
John Stuart, Tory, 1762-1763
George Grenville, Whig, 1763-1765
Charles Watson-Wentworth, Whig, 1765-1766
William Pitt the Elder, Whig, 1766-1768
Augustus FitzRoy, Whig, 1768-1770
Frederick North, Tory, 1770-1782
Charles Watson-Wentworth, Whig, 1782-1782
William Petty, Whig, 1782-1783
William Cavendish-Bentinck, Whig, 1783-1783
William Pitt the Younger, Tory, 1783-1801
Henry Addington, Tory, 1801-1804
William Pitt the Younger, Tory, 1804-1806
William Wyndham-Grenville, Whig, 1806-1807 (abolished the slave trade)
William Cavendish-Bentinck, Tory, 1807-1809
Spencer Percival, Tory, 1809-1812
Robert Banks-Jenkinson, Tory, 1812-1827
George Canning, Tory, 1827-1827
Frederick John Robinson, Tory, 1827-1828
Arthur Wellesley, Tory, 1828-1830 (Catholic Emancipation Bill)
Charles Grey, Whig, 1830-1834 (Abolished slavery throughout the B.Empire)
William Lamb, Whig, 1834-1834
Arthur Wellesley, Tory, 1834-1834 (headed caretaker govt until Robert Peel was located)
Sir Robert Peel, Conservative, 1834-1835 (minority govt, resigned)
William Lamb, Whig, 1835-1841
Sir Robert Peel, Conservative, 1841-1846 (repealed Corn Laws triggered by Irish Potato Famine)
Lord John Russell, Whig, 1846-1852
Edward Smith-Stanley, Conservative, 1852-1852
George Hamilton-Gordon, Peelite, 1852-1855
Henry John Temple, Whig, 1855-1858
Edward Smith-Stanley, Conservative, 1858-1859
Edward Smith-Stanley, Liberal, 1859-1865
John Russell, Liberal, 1865-1866
Edward Smith-Stanley, Conservative, 1866-1868
Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative, 1868-1868 (1st Jewish PM)
William Gladstone, Liberal, 1868-1874
Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative, 1874-1880 (Public Health Act 1875)
William Gladstone, Liberal, 1880-1885 (Irish Coercion Act, Kilmainham Treaty)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Conservative, 1885-1886 (Legislated for homes for working class)
William Gladstone, Liberal, 1886-1886
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Conservative, 1886-1892 (Free Education Act 1891)
William Gladstone, Liberal, 1892-1894
Archibald Primrose, Liberal, 1894-1895
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Conservative, 1895-1902 (Workmens Compensation Act 1897)
Arthur Balfour, Conservative, 1902-1905
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal, 1905-1908
Herbert Henry Asquith, Liberal, 1908-1916 (Old Age Pension Act 1908, N.Ins. Act 1911, WW1)
David Lloyd George, Liberal, 1916-1923
Andrew Bonar-Law, Conservative, 1922-1923
Stanley Baldwin, Conservative, 1923-1924
Ramsey MacDonald, Labour, 1924-1924 (minority govt)
Stanley Baldwin, Conservative, 1924-1929 (Gen Strike 1926)
Ramsey MacDonald, National Labour, 1929-1935 (governed with support from Cons & Libs, expelled from Labour Party)
Stanley Baldwin, Conservative, 1935-1937
Neville Chamberlain, Conservative, 1937-1940 (WW2)
Winston Churchill, Conservative, 1940-1945 (WW2)
Clement Atlee, Labour, 1945-1951 (NHS founded N.Ins extended)
Sir Winston Churchill, Conservative, 1951-1955
Sir Anthony Eden, Conservative, 1955-1957
Harold Macmillan, Conservative, 1957-1963 ("Wind of Change" speech)
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Conservative, 1963-1964
Harold Wilson, Labour, 1964-1970 (Decriminlised homosexuality, Devalued Stirling)
Edward Heath, Conservative, 1970-1974 (Joined E.C., 3-Day Week)
Harold Wilson, Labour, 1974-1796 (North Sea Oil)
James Callaghan, Labour, 1976-1979 (Lib0Lab Pact, Winter of Discontent)
Margaret Thatcher, Conservative, 1979-1990 (Right to Buy, Miner's Strike, Anglo-Irish Agreement, Poll Tax)
John Major, Conservative, 1990-1997 (Black Wednesday, Citizen's Charter, Sunday Shopping, National Lottery)
Tony Blair, Labour, 1997-2007 (Death of Diana, Belfast Agreement, Human Rights Act, dev. Scotland & Wales, Fuel protests, Cash for Hnours scandal, top-up fees for Uni.)
Gordon Brown, Labour, 2007-2010 (London car bombs; Glasgow Airport attack; foot-and-mouth outbreak (2007); national floods of 2007; child benefit data misplaced; Donorgate; Northern Rock nationalisation; Treaty of Lisbon; 42 Days detention; 10p Tax rate; Financial crisis of 2007–2010; Parliamentary expenses scandal; arrest of Damian Green; 2009 flu pandemic; national floods of 2009; Chilcot Inquiry.)
David Cameron, Conservative, 2010-incumbent (Hung parliament; leading a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. U.S. Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill; Cumbria shootings; Bloody Sunday apology.)
Total Prime Ministers per party:
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Tory: 12
Liberal: 11
Whig: 19
Conservative: 26
Labour: 9
Other: 1
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... I bet you would pay wprkers in wishy coins too instead of coins of the realm, obviously with higher prices in the truck shops 
