The jury is out with Cameron, but Brown was a bull in a china shop I agree. Selling off our gold to the lowest bidder. Spin a wheel and find a better leader.

Thatcher ineffectual? Whatever you think of her, she was anything but.

Edited by derben (31 May 2015 10.23am)

Anthony Eden
Alec Douglas Home
John Major )
Gordon Brown )

Winston Churchill was sadly virtually senile but because the post war years were very difficult for all leaders and his war efforts I will exclude him.It has to be said though that lots of people detested Churchill even during the war years.

The more you look at the list of post war Prime Ministers, the more you have to think they were a sorry bunch in terms of getting things done (whether you agree or not with what they were actually trying to get done.

The top three who did get their things done, I would say are:

Attle
Blair
Thatcher

Sure, but Home was ineffectual enough to lose the 1964 election,being no match as a politician for Harold Wilson, and Eden certainly showed that (Suez debacle) a relatively short time in office is more than long enough to make a serious attyempt at being effectual that ends up being incredibly ineffectual in the round.

Several mentions of this man. I suspect if you asked anyone in Northern Ireland whether he was ineffective, they may disagree as he was the one who started the peace process; practically single handed as he had to stand up to his entire cabinet. Not bad for a boring ex banker.

There was also the cone line.