The 10 Most Controversial Prime Ministers 

Your videos has some bad research! The Tory party became defunct in 1834. The PM's you refer to were Conservative members! Lloyd George was controversial, and had nothing to do with Suffragettes. It was because his name became mud after being found out to be up to his eye balls in the cash for honours scandal, and taking back handers to push things through parliament. The conservatives wanted out of the coalition after he forced through the Irish Home Rule bill against the wishes of parliament. Neville chamberlain was no coward! The policy of appeasement was started by his predicator, Stanley Baldwin. Chamberlain knew the country was up to its eyes in debt, and had little funds to rearm. He had seen the blood bath WW1 had become, and wished to avoid this at any cost. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, he admitted he had been wrong, and was on record than he no longer believed appeasement was a plausible way to avoid conflict at any time. He dies shortly after from cancer. Anthony Eden was a Controversial PM because of the Suez conflict, but he was right to enter into military action. Eden and Nasser met previously when Eden was foreign secretary, and saw in him the same danger to freedom than Hitler and Mussolini had coursed in the 1930's. Lieutenant colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (Pronounced NAZ SIR) illegally seized control of British and French assets, and had blocked off and claimed ownership of the British owned Suez Canal. Despite pleas to the UN and NATO, no help was forthcoming because the US saw a spike in demand for Texas and Alaskan oil, boosting its income. Eden conspired with the French and Israeli leaders to course a incident that would allow the UK to invade and take back control of British assets and the Canal, as its closure had lead to a massive hike in European oil prices. UK Oil stocks were mainly from the middle east and relied on the Suez Canal for shipment. Eden was forced to withdraw UK forces after the USA threatened to enter the war on the Egyptian side. It was not the drugs Eden was under that warped his judgement, but you are correct that he had a botched operation some years previous that left him in chronic pain for the rest of his life. Alec Douglas-Hume was not chosen by the Monarch! He was appointed as leader by his predecessor, Harold Macmillan. The Queen was duty bound to call Hume to form a government based on the recommendation of her Prime Minster. The conservatives loss of the 1963 election had nothing to do with this, and was namely because of the Profumo affair, and because of the closure of the railways, which was down to Conservative Minister Ernest Marples appointing Doctor Richard Beaching to publish a twisted and inaccurate report on the railways that would recommend mass closures. Marples befitted from this, being a shareholder in the civil engineering company that were appointed to build the new motorways, and in some cases, the demolition of railway infrastructure on closed lines. He fled the UK in 1975 to Monaco, to escape prosecution for tax evasion, and corrupt business practices. You could have chosen some other Prime Ministers to. Despite being the greatest Prime Minster in British History, Sir Winston Spencer Churchill was a very controversial character, both before, during and after his appointments as Prime Minister. John Major stabbed his predecessor in the back to steal the leadership of the conservatives, promising to carry on Mrs Thatchers tough stance on Europe. Those Eurposceptics then voted for him as they did not trust Michael Heseltine, who wanted to hand the UK over to Europe lock stock and barrel. Despite promising not to, he caved in to every EEC demands and helped set up the European Union. He then took us into the Newly formed EU against the wishes of parliament, even sacking many of his own MP's who stood up for their constituents wishes. After he was kicked out as PM, was found to have been in a long term romantic affair with fellow MP Edwina Currie. Gordon Brown, was made leader by his predecessor Tony Blair, managed the worst peacetime financial crash due to his time of chancellor failing to control the banking sector and selling off things such as the UK gold reserves to fund Blair's massive give-aways. Promised to hold a general election, and when the polls came back he would loose big time, changed his mind, and even after loosing the 2010 election, tried to cling onto power. After leaving Westminister, reports came out about allegations of bullying against him.

@@James_Rivett long list my G

All of which would be preferred over the witch

Not to mention the utterly bizarre career of Ramsey McDonald.

Absolutely agree about Peel. If controversy is about being loved and loathed in equal measure, then Palmerston, Peel and Thatcher would head my list. But the first two would require a little more research. Of recent PMs, I'm surprised that Cameron isn't on the list. The darling of 'one nation' Tories, he failed to control the ERG. Hence Brexit which, by all academic measure, has been a disaster. Worst of all, he unleashed the entirely destructive force of English Nationalism by allowing the Scottish referendum. On the vexed subject of referenda, 'once bitten; twice shy' should have been his guide. It wasn't. On the other hand, I'm sure that unlike, say Johnson, Blair and Truss, he had at least some worthy human characteristics. Best wishes

They just like to show their political biases on the channel for woke points.

The issues is that many of them did some other things of note.

she inspired some very steamy dreams of mine

and don't forget Ernest Marples (Who appointed Doctor Richard Beaching) made it big time financially as it was his construction company that built the motor ways and, in some cases, contracted in the dismantling of redundant railway infrastructure. After being ordered to sell his shares in Marples Ridgway due to breaking of parliamentary rules, tried to sell them to his partner (Reg Ridgway) on the condition he could buy them back at the same price when he left parliament. After the Attorney-General blocked this, he sold them for a nominal fee to his wife! He was the transport minister who was as bent as a nine-bob note, who did a runner in 1975 to escape prosecution for tax evasion, embezzlement, and corrupt business practices. Many claim it was only the pledge to stop the Railway Closures that lead to Labours victory, but this was also helped by the Profumo affair.

I'd wager the BBC are more likely have manipulated the charts to support it rather than hinder it, they are the weapon of the left.

Maybe cos it was disrespectful

@@candythomson844 Not as disrespectful as the shite she did while alive.

@@CompaSystem yeah but still it's still a dead person wae a grieving family

@@candythomson844 No it was not thatcher was a horrible person

Truss was and is not up to the job. Thats it.

Her plan was trickle down economics, it would never, ever, have worked. The biggest financial institutions planet wide called it an outdated foolish plan from the 80s, long debunked as bollocks lol.

That’s such a stupid argument. She needed to come up with the right plan for the current time. It doesn’t matter at all if it would have been right before 2020 because we’re in 2022

​@@lowersaxon Liz Truss was simply set up for failure the moment that she was elected as Prime Minister and the leader of the Conservative party by the tories, and much of her policies really failed and backfired big-time, of which she failed to delivered the mandate to the British public and the Conservative tories, and all in all, the UK is in a total economic mess.

A bit like how my plan to insulate my home with dry straw would have worked if I hadn't done it whilst the house was on fire?

Mine too. Can't stand hearing it

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And the relaxing peacefully in heaven himself Railway storytelling legends: The Reverend Wilbert Viear Awdry (jThe thin clergymen) and the reverend Teddy Boston (The fat clergyman). Also his still living son Christopher Awdry

Churchill was good at winning wars, and that was about it. The queen didn't lead. She just sat on a golden chair in one of her many palaces, wore a hat made out of diamonds and listened to people talk about how great she was.

@@andrewwebb7584 Well seeing as how Britain found itself needing to survive the two biggest wars in human history, it's quite lucky it had access to a prominent man who was good at winning them! As for the queen, I think you underestimate the importance of her exercise of soft power at peril to the truth. Agree to disagree, I guess.

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Attlee was a horrible PM. He deconstructed the british empire and enacted large scale nationalization which crippled the economy for decades

And ever since poverty has grown significantly, even with the hard work of the Blair/Brown governments to stop it and stagnating income has caused serious economic issues which are all coming home now.

@@mitchverr9330 That's been the case since the fall of the British Empire. Britain was vastly built on industry that profited but since the Great War and further loss from WWII the economy never recovered. People demanded work equality that Capitalism didn't need to surrender to because they could exploit abroad instead. While the movements did make progress they were being led by political career people that lost touch with the working person and pushed things too far. That is why Thatcher was able to do what she did. The MP's knew she'd take the heat and was disposable. Like every Tory of the time she was infamous for Tax movements including the unpopular School Milk. But that aside the main break in the economy is the lack of exports to buy imports. We have the worst business cases for production and that's why we need to invest in projects where we can supply what is in huge demand. Also we've had set backs from Brexit adapting to the Pandemic and War in Ukraine.

@@ChimpManZ1264 Please don't mention school milk ever again. I can still remember being forced to drink downright foul, stinking full-fat milk at primary school. 🤮

@@ChimpManZ1264 indeed. Had Britian been able to transition to a regular post empire economy with an investment in new industries, England would be in a much better position. Thatcher was right in weakening the unions, but she did nothing to bring new opportunities.

@@ChimpManZ1264 They need to sort the economy before it’s too late, people are left in their homes with no electricity or gas and it’s winter too, lives will be lost and it isn’t fair but the UK Parliament are a bunch of selfish evil people who only care about themselves and not their people. As long as they have their fancy clothing, heating, food and electricity they don’t care but Britain is becoming a mess and the government aren’t taking action at all.

Every month a new one. lol.

I want to know why we thought we should've gone to war with Germany, even though we ourselves weren't under threat? It takes one hell of a hypocritical narcissist to think we should be the world's policeman, especially after we'd invaded a third of the world! And you know what the punchline is about us going to war with Germany in 1939? Hitler was copying Britain!

@@white-dragon4424 Well its not that much different than the First World War, France had a military pact with the Czechoslovak Republic and in turn the UK had a pact with France

@@mjc8281 WWI was simply madness, for the world to go to war because of an assassination!

@@white-dragon4424 "The poor old ostrich died for nothing"

@@mjc8281 Especially seeing that WWII was a result of WWI, and the Cold War (and nuclear weapons!) was a result of WWII. All of that due to one assassination!

Down the pub? Stuck in a pig? Who knows?

And Emilie because only one of her siblings survived The steam engine Holocaust committed by doctor Beeching

Gordon’s only surviving sibling is the flying Scotsman

Inspirational for the wrong reasons

You mean the bombing that failed and out of his control

@@hunterblackforesthy5980 I think he should have remained where he was until the following election as he was an excellent chancellor and could have dealt with the financial crisis much better.Who knows if Labour might have won in 2010 if Blair and Brown were still at the helm

The economic issues were not his fault, caused by private bankers, he deserves more credit for preventing us going bankrupt

​@@scl190 people really expect one man to control private bankers and a global recession

@@scl190 he should have remained as chancellor a job he was good at and let Blair stay as PM.

Why Rishi he was good

In the span of a week she caused the UK government to gain a ~£30 billion hole in its spending which is going to require massive cuts to services to fill properly, cuts that will cause a lot of death most likely (as is the tory cuts of the 2010s have been estimated to have caused premature deaths in the low hundreds of thousands according to the governments own reports which they have suppressed). Then theres the spike to mortgages on top, near collapsing the pension sector.... All within around 5 days including a weekend when markets are closed.

She was completely out of her depth. Incompetent and weak. The chaos she’s caused will take years to recover from and she takes no responsibility for it. Im not a Tory by any stretch of the imagination, but I don’t trust Starmer. I worry he’s just like Blair, self-important and out of touch. But barring a massive scandal, he’ll be pm in a couple of years

Eh?

He was a hero who wanted peace. Churchill was a warmonger who turned down multiple peace offers from Germany.

@@WakaWaka2468 “shut up!”snapped James it’s not funny

@@WakaWaka2468 bullshit “ you can’t reason with a tiger 🐅 when your head is in the Tiger’s mouth”

Oliver cromwell was lord and protector

@@kernowpictures2002 🤫Sraw Rats 🐀. Just calm down, and drink another cup of herbal tea 🍵to go with those magic mushrooms 🍄. Before you give yourself a heart attack.......

Sold off all the council houses undervalued for fast £ and then didn't replace them.

Before Thatcher Britain had a manufacturing industry.

Chamberlain deserve the controversy not Maggie Thatcher the witchy milk snatcher

Yep. Even Thatcher realised that was a privatisation too far.

Well Thatcher did start the whole privatization project and would certainly continued doing so had she remained in office.

Amazing. Every word of what you just said is wrong.

@@darth_kal-el And that's why you supplied all the references to show it rather than just a simple assertion.

@@darth_kal-el He is 100% correct, in fact Blairs government went on to expand privatisation, including many services used by the NHS and JobCentre

@@spiritualanarchist8162But Network Rail isn’t private. The government literally bragged about lowering prices for tickets. So it’s private but the government controls prices?

Had Cancer didn’t he? So resigned. Then Callaghan took power till 79

@@scl190 No, he just resigned.

@@scl190 Wilson resigned as he was starting with dementia

​@@scl190yep. That's why he resigned in '76

Liz Truss was simply set up for failure of ruling as Prime Minister, the moment that she was elected in that position by the Conservative party.

She had all the time she needed we found out

Dizzy Lizzy

And now she’s not even an MP, very embarrassing

Honestly, I thought it was going to be Chamberlain with Thatcher #2. Then again, it is a list of "most controversial" and not just "worst."

Should have been Blair. After all...he is a modern war criminal that never told the truth in his entire life, and should be in the cells under The Hague.

@@DarklordZagarna why would chamberlain be the worst?

@@DarklordZagarna if it was worst, Truss would be No. 1 followed by Heath lol.

​@@what-uy7go BC he could stop ww2 from happening but he didn't

The crown ain't historical accurate

@@hunterblackforesthy5980 But he wasn’t right?

@@Victor-07-04 no he wasn’t. A rogue group in MI5 had tried to dig dirt up on Wilson, but could not prove anything. By the time he resigned in 1976, Wilson had been suffering from Alzheimer’s which further added to his paranoia.

@@hunterblackforesthy5980 it actually is pretty accurate

I think Blair is actually the worst PM we’ve had, certainly in living memory. His supporters say “ok his wars were bad but…..”, however I feel this attempts to sweep them under the carpet. Blair openly lied about WMD and when exposed tried to justify his actions. He is a war criminal, who knew he would get away with it. Plus his introduction of tuition fees after promising he wouldn’t and his blatant lie about fully intending to serve a full term shoe his complete disregard for honesty.

@@WSFM agree to disagree but fair view. Not a war criminal though, can’t be a war criminal with Parliamentary backing.

@@malsimons No, he’s still a fucking war criminal you dickhead

​@malsimons "Can't be a war criminal with Parliamentary backing.", by that logic there are no war criminals. Crimes against humanity and crimes of war are derived from international law, so actually Blair is a war criminal for invading Iraq.

Don't like her but she's my fav female prime minister so far

Not to mentioned that the pensions in the UK, was nearly wasted away thanks to that terrible tax cuts that she made and it's a good thing that the Bank of England intervened to save the pensions.

Palmerston was a Confederate-sympathizing shitbird, but he didn't actually bring the UK into the war, so he could have been worse. But really, none of the prime ministers before Baldwin can honestly be said to have been elected democratically, given the artificial disenfranchisement of so much of the population during that era. Salisbury was PM into the 20th century and he wasn't even elected at all.

@@DarklordZagarna Thanks. My point exactly.

He wasn't prime minister. That office didn't exist for another century.

I find it a bit funny that Oliver and Olivia are almost always amongst the top British baby names, alongside George, William, Elizabeth, etc, but neither name seems to have ever been used by the royal family…I wonder why 😂

He was lord and protector

He was Lord and protector

@@Dim4323 don’t you understand sarcasm and comedy?

Privately yes, publically not really

Not these days. The monarch is not supposed to be involved in politics

​@@WSFM And it's a reason that monarchs are only symbols and heads of state, unlike the president (that served as both head of state and head of government in other countries like the US🇺🇲 and the Philippines🇵🇭).

We have already had Boris.

Not Thérèse Coffey. Just no.