Of all the futile exercises I’ve seen in recent years, this latest wizard wheeze from the Beeb’s Newsnight takes the biscuit…
Newsnight wants you to help decide the UK’s greatest and worst post-war prime minister. Find out more about the 12 PMs below, then use the form to rank them in order of greatness.
Oh FFS… okay, let’s get this out of the way before it starts and expose the utter predictability of the whole thing.
1. It’ll turn out to be a straight ‘fight’ between Thatcher and Attlee for the top spot, with Con Home and Tory bloggers pumping Thatch and Labour bloggers pumping Attlee.
2. Churchill will get a lot of votes from people who’re basically too stupid to understand what ‘post-war’ means.
3. Gordon Brown will come bottom because just about everyone who isn’t on his friends and family phone bill will stick in him in the bottom spot in order to heap as much embarrassment on him as possible, and…
4. It’s an even money bet as to whether it’ll be Iain Dale, Guido or Mike Rouse who’ll be first to publish a blog post speculating on the possibility of Brown finishing below Anthony ‘Suez’ Eden and Alec Douglas-Home and what this might say about his prospects of surviving as PM until Christmas.
Yaaawwwwnnn!!!
I’m not even going to link to this crap - it’s on the Newsnight website, find it yourself…
…and for everyone else, here’s a reminder of what the Beeb’s politics coverage can be like at its best…
And as Larry Teabag was kind enough to ask, have another musical interlude from Cheech and Chong…
We aim to please…
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