Poll: Which Prime Minister does the UK prefer?

[SuccessAndBiscuts]

Brown. I mean he was asked to Captain the Titanic after being hit by the iceberg. Same boat Obama is in, but hes a much better captain.

Except he was chancellor of the exchequer (I.e. THE GUY IN CHARGE OF THE FUCKING MONEY) for a decade before it all went to hell, he was warned repeatedly about his spending but he ignored it all.

The fact 2/3s of the vote is for Brown has me REALLY worried about the English people on this forum...

Its probably down to lack of options in the poll to be honest, rose-tinted hind sight is a wonderful thing. Lesser of two evils etc.

Having said that I did vote for brown because I'm Scottish and come from a rural area so If I show any support to the conservatives at all I will be hunted down and strangled with thistles in my sleep.

 

[Duskwaith]

Brown. I mean he was asked to Captain the Titanic after being hit by the iceberg. Same boat Obama is in, but hes a much better captain.

Except he was chancellor of the exchequer (I.e. THE GUY IN CHARGE OF THE FUCKING MONEY) for a decade before it all went to hell, he was warned repeatedly about his spending but he ignored it all.

The fact 2/3s of the vote is for Brown has me REALLY worried about the English people on this forum...

If thats the case he was the one who orchestrated the boom in the first place so hes both to blame for both boom and bust.

Atleast he was intelligent and knew what to do, it took FDR 3 terms and a war to get america out of a (granted major) depression. Brown had what a few years? and even then he managed to get the economy to grow before Cameron came in and dick slapped it about.

Germany and america have an increase in jobs yet we are axing jobs. Cameron is just an ideologically driven douche with a chancellor whos equally as wankerish.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Of course, the Socialists will tell you differently... don't seem to realize the reason tax is going up and Public services are being cut is because that git Brown was going around spending a fuck-ton of money we didn't have. The PM might have more power than most other executives, but he can't make money appear of fucking nowhere...

Actually, governments, (and by extension, the PM), can (and did) make money appear out of nowhere.
It's easy, because modern currency has nothing tangible backing it.

But, since the actual real economy of a country doesn't grow in the process, it results in rampant inflation.

The government can print as much money as it likes. But unless they're willing to face the consequences of a loaf of bread costing £100 billion, they'd be idiotic to do so.

neither party is exactly perfect, neither leader is that great. personally i went for cameron, seems like he a bit more intelligent than brown, but that's just my observation.

I really don't know about that. By all accounts Gordon Brown was actually very smart (well above average even).

But, I guess he suffered from the associated nerd stereotype of being socially awkward.

Being smart, and having good social skills are not the same thing.
And in that regard, it's obvious David Cameron has much, much, much better social skills than Gordon Brown, who struggled to even smile without it looking forced.

Brown. I mean he was asked to Captain the Titanic after being hit by the iceberg. Same boat Obama is in, but hes a much better captain.

Except he was chancellor of the exchequer (I.e. THE GUY IN CHARGE OF THE FUCKING MONEY) for a decade before it all went to hell, he was warned repeatedly about his spending but he ignored it all.

The fact 2/3s of the vote is for Brown has me REALLY worried about the English people on this forum...

Well, a poll question like this is a typical example of an 'unfair' or fake choice.

Do you want an apple, or a pear?

Sounds like a reasonable question right? Except what if you want a banana?

What this poll shows, is that given a choice between Gordon Brown and David Cameron, we prefer Gordon Brown.

What it fails to show. (because it gives no other choices), is that most of us probably don't like either of them.

If there was an option to choose 'neither', I wonder how this poll would look?

 

[A Username Not In Use]

Sorry but no. Unneccessary deaths? The british army was being slaughtered on the beaches of Dunkirk because they couldnt react to the Germans 'Blitzkreig' warfare. It was devastating as it had never been done before. If your talking about the Blitz, again not unneccessary deaths we needed those years to build up our forces and armaments to take back France, why you ask? Because it was a frigging fortress thanks to German efficiency.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about how his incompentence led to the Italians in Africa being reinforced by Rommel and extending the destert war a long time, how he threw away thousands of lives in a pointless endevour in the Greek campaign, or how he told the Scots that held Saint-Valery that they weren't allowed to evacuate(despite them being able to do so for several days before the Germans arrived) *two weeks* after the evacuation of Dunkirk. In the end, they were forced to surrender and 10000 troops were taken prisoners; most of them didn't survive.

Churchill's reason for not allowing them to evacuate? They were needed to keep France in the war, despite the fact that France already surrendered. He pretty much threw away ten thousand men because of his own personal vanity.

Churchill was a racist, a colonialist and a horrible military leader. Had Hitler not been the same the UK would've have fared as well as they did.

I thourght you were talking anout Gallipoli in the First War

 

[maninahat]

Brown. I mean he was asked to Captain the Titanic after being hit by the iceberg. Same boat Obama is in, but hes a much better captain.

Except he was chancellor of the exchequer (I.e. THE GUY IN CHARGE OF THE FUCKING MONEY) for a decade before it all went to hell, he was warned repeatedly about his spending but he ignored it all.

The fact 2/3s of the vote is for Brown has me REALLY worried about the English people on this forum...

Its probably down to lack of options in the poll to be honest, rose-tinted hind sight is a wonderful thing. Lesser of two evils etc.

Having said that I did vote for brown because I'm Scottish and come from a rural area so If I show any support to the conservatives at all I will be hunted down and strangled with thistles in my sleep.

I doubt that the conservatives would have faired much better, bearing in mind the strong relationship conservatives have with bankers. Had they been in power, I suspect that the conservative government would have allowed the bankers to get away with far more, causing a way worse resession.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

CAMERON'S A TW@
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I prefer Brown, because Cameron fecked up my future.
Tuition fees are stupidly high now. and Clegg the lying scum fecking traitor, said that he wouldn't put tuition fees up when he was just lib-dem.

Thanks Cameron and Clegg, now if I want to go to university I have to either:
A: Take on life crippling debt.
B: Whore myself to pay for tuition.
OR
C: Sell crack to high school kids.

 

[SckizoBoy]

But the UK voted cameron, and now they deserve it, maybe this will be a good lesson for them about voting tory.

The irony being... we didn't vote him in, we didn't vote anyone in. They just decided amongst themselves that 'hey, LibDems, your leader's pretty good looking, let's get a room.'

'We' didn't 'vote' Cameron to do anything.

 

[Togs]

Gordon Brown- the man ballsed it up but at least he was straight talking and goddamn honest.

David Cameron is a lying, morally repulsive snake with no sense of honour, decency or basic human compassion.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

Easily Winston Churchill. Kinda sad that you only put 2 prime minsters in the polls. I was at least expecting tony blair to be in it.

 

[Lethos]

But the UK voted cameron, and now they deserve it, maybe this will be a good lesson for them about voting tory.

The irony being... we didn't vote him in, we didn't vote anyone in. They just decided amongst themselves that 'hey, LibDems, your leader's pretty good looking, let's get a room.'

'We' didn't 'vote' Cameron to do anything.

Ya know, I'm not the biggest Cameron fan in the world, but this is a really weak argument. No party managed to achieve a majority, but the Conservatives got the highest amount of votes. Labour managing to get into power despite losing against the Conservatives in the election would of been a serious blow to democracy.

 

[Cockney Weasel]

It's rather like choosing if you like getting stung by bees or wasps but I'd say Brown.

 

[SckizoBoy]

But the UK voted cameron, and now they deserve it, maybe this will be a good lesson for them about voting tory.

The irony being... we didn't vote him in, we didn't vote anyone in. They just decided amongst themselves that 'hey, LibDems, your leader's pretty good looking, let's get a room.'

'We' didn't 'vote' Cameron to do anything.

We kinda did, we gave them enough votes to be put in the lead and have a chance, lib dems are sellouts, saw that coming. Hope people learned from that.

Yeah... guess we did (but I so wanted to do that 'let's get a room' line, because it's just too true on more levels than should be permissible). It's a pity, because I honestly had high hopes for this government (where compromises would actually be compromises, but no, how naive of me *sigh*), so I'm left hollering 'where the fuck am I going to get funding from you jackasses?!'

Though I doubt Labour would've been much better.

Suppose I was saying that we did not give Cameron a mandate to form a government is all.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Neither. There is never a good choice between those two. It'd be like choosing between getting stabbed in the left eye or the right.

 

[Calico93]

Brown. Yeah he was a bit of a dope and didnt look the part but he stopped us going into a depression. He put us in alot of debt but it couldve been alot worse, ALOT worse so he did the best that anyone couldve in the position the banks put him in. Nevertheless people didnt see it that way. The banks caused the recession not Brown, this was a global recession not national.

And David Cameron is a great great great liar. These cuts are way too big, unemployment is going up MASSIVELY, NHS is being privatized, cutting down on the Police, basically carrying on what Maggie started. We may end up in a double dip recession.
And Nick Clegg is the biggest cocksucker ever, the phrase 'signing a pledge' means nothing to that bastard.

 

[Lord Penney]

Cameron might be making a LOT of cuts, but I'd pick him over Brown anyday! At least he's doing something useful (now where did Britain put all its gold?) let alone anything at all!

 

[Continuity]

Gordon Brown? Really!?

Damn it I'm a liberal and I still prefer David Cameron.

Grass is greener syndrome me thinks.

 

[Joleo]

i want Clegg to be there :/
ot Cameron. Mr Brown caused us Brits most the economical trouble by selling our gold when it was at it's lowest value ever.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

Gordon Brown, he did his best with what he was dealt, which was not exactly a good hand to begin with; and he didn't make nearly as many bad decisions as those before or after him. Despite all of New Labour's huge problems, (and yes, there were some atrocious ones) They certainly stood for the right things.
 
 
In theory.