Worst leaders of your country

[lacktheknack]

I'm Albertan, so I'm required by law to say Pierre Trudeau.

I'll put it this way: Because of Pierre Trudeau, a Liberal leader, the most recent provincial election was between the conservatives and the more-conservatives. He managed to single-handedly alienate an ENTIRE PROVINCE, and we're still harboring a grudge four decades later. Good work, Pierre.

 

[Rariow]

I don't think Spain's had a good leader ever since the end of the Second Republic. Franco was an utter bastard, and most of the leaders after him were either not very good at leading a country or corrupt. The only half decent one was probably Felipe Gonzalez, and that guy was corrupt as well.

 

[bro1667]

chriatian the 4th, but you kinda learn that in school by standard here in denmark.
why?
- he lost most of the wars he entered
- he nearly led the country to bankruptcy
- he lost a lot of land to sweden
Good sides:
- great interest for architecture that led to many cultural treasures later on (rundetårn as an example)

but here in denmark most of our leaders have or had their heads in their ass's if its kings or ministers

 

[Athol]

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. He was a horrible example of what happens when a man with no vision is elected to public office. Under him, the Avro Arrow program was cancelled. This put Canada into a position of being even further dependent on US military tech than we already were.

Brian Mulroney. The deficit tripled under the rule of this silver tongued cretin. He also signed the free trade agreement with the US which saw more money go south than before. Consumer goods got a bit cheaper but at the cost of losing domestically owned manufacturing and retail. Finally he left the party just in time to allow his successor to get slapped with the natural result of the scandals he had built up over 9 years.

Stephen Harper the man who took us from surplus budgets to deficits within a year, used massive government spending programs to directly promote his own party and is pushing harder than any previous leader to turn Canada into a war mongering state.

Honorable mention to Pierre Trudeau and Paul Martin for not understanding economics and ripping their own parties to tatters respectively.

Thank you for that. Those where the three I was going to say, but you've put it better than I could. Oh, and don't forget Harper trying to sell as much of pretty much everything he can to the Chinese (it's one thing to sell them the end product it's entirely unacceptable to sell them the resource rights)

 

[Lunar Templar]

i live in the US, what do you think ....

 

[Woodsey]

Hitler.

I win.

Actually Hitler was a brilliant leader and an awesome politician. A genocidl despot, sure. But a bad leader? Hell no. He united a nation and brought all of Europe too its knee's.

I think more recent accounts have revealed him to be something of a childish, lazy shit - and I'm not sure that simply exterminating chunks of your own population counts as unification.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

David Cameron easily takes the gold, silver and bronze, and takes all the honourable mentions apart from Thatcher's.

 

[Thetwistedendgame]

Mark Rutte and his goddamned cabinet. They were bullshitting my country for over a year before one quite childish man named Geert Wilders simply walked out of an important congress meeting and gave up his spot in the cabinet, leaving the cabinet without enough spots to make important decisions. Why? Because he's an arse that's why.

 

[Saladfork]

Canadian, and I'm gonna have to second Brian Mulroney on this one.

 

[fluffybunny937]

I'm from the U.S., so it's easier if I try to name a good leader.

FDR was pretty good president, I guess, and uh.....

 

[MrTub]

I got to say that Fredrik Reinfeldt is the worst PM we have had in the recent years for the same reasons people have previously said and they held a vote if they would sell of lots of houses/apartments and people voted no and since it was only 46% that voted so they are going to ignore it. (More his parties fault but anyway)

 

[Axolotl]

Hitler.

I win.

Actually Hitler was a brilliant leader and an awesome politician. A genocidl despot, sure. But a bad leader? Hell no. He united a nation and brought all of Europe too its knee's.

Are you kidding? In 12 years he took a country that was while undergoing a huge depression was still one of the countries on earth and in just 12 years reduced it's population by 10% and left it in the power of hortile governments where the Eastern half was being systematically destroyed, raped and murdered and with the Western half being used as a proxy in the cold war.

Seriously I couldn't fuck up a country that much if I tried.

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

David 'silver spoon up his fucking arse' Cameron. There's probably worst but he's a fucking prick.

Don't forget Nick (I'm the deputy?) Clegg.

Camoron is only allowed to do what he likes because of that **** enabling him!

 

[Axolotl]

Hitler.

I win.

Actually Hitler was a brilliant leader and an awesome politician. A genocidl despot, sure. But a bad leader? Hell no. He united a nation and brought all of Europe too its knee's.

Are you kidding? In 12 years he took a country that was while undergoing a huge depression was still one of the countries on earth and in just 12 years reduced it's population by 10% and left it in the power of hortile governments where the Eastern half was being systematically destroyed, raped and murdered and with the Western half being used as a proxy in the cold war.

Seriously I couldn't fuck up a country that much if I tried.

He was still a great leader. His goals were retarded wich made him fail. But as a leader he was solid. Otherwise the nazi parti would never have gotten of the ground at all.

How was he a good leader? He almost destroyed the country.

 

[MrPeanut]

Hitler.

I win.

Actually Hitler was a brilliant leader and an awesome politician. A genocidl despot, sure. But a bad leader? Hell no. He united a nation and brought all of Europe too its knee's.

Are you kidding? In 12 years he took a country that was while undergoing a huge depression was still one of the countries on earth and in just 12 years reduced it's population by 10% and left it in the power of hortile governments where the Eastern half was being systematically destroyed, raped and murdered and with the Western half being used as a proxy in the cold war.

Seriously I couldn't fuck up a country that much if I tried.

He was still a great leader. His goals were retarded wich made him fail. But as a leader he was solid. Otherwise the nazi parti would never have gotten of the ground at all.

He was a charismatic speaker, not a great leader.

Anything that is claimed to him bringing the country back up it's legs were the works and ideas of others, where he just took all the credit.

 

[VeryOddGamer]

Hitler, I guess.

This is totally unfair. Everyone here has this massive history to back their country up but I dont. Germany's history is just WW2, WW1 and loads of small kingdoms before that.

You think that's bad? My country, Finland became an actual country in December 1917. Before that, it was just a part of either Russia or Sweden. Okay, it was autonomous under Russia for about a 100 years before that, but still.
As to my choice, I'm going to choose Nikolay Bobrikov, for being an oppressive bastard.

 

[artanis_neravar]

Bad Presidents
George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
Ulysses S Grant
John Tyler
Andrew Johnson
Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson

Best
JFK
FDR
Teddy Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower