Who was more hated during their reign: Tony Blair or Margret Thatcher?

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Well yeah, policy-wise on just about everything I'd take Blair over Thatcher. But my levels of dislike for the characters of Blair and Thatcher have become closer to being equal than I thought they would.

― Zoe Espera, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Hm, perhaps not on 'just about everything'. Perhaps on a few things. I'd sooner have had neither.

― Zoe Espera, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, if I had to snog one or the other... ARGH!

― Madchen, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I had to cope with such thoughts for a moment when I read back what I'd said there about sooner having 'had' neither. *spew*

― Zoe Espera, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Thatcher was a Cold War prime minister. Surely the threat of all-out nuclear war was a little more consequential than anything Al Qaeda could throw at us? Also Thatcher was almost blown up by the IRA. Also, during her time sovereign British territory was invaded by a foreign power.

But these things are all "easy" from a policy point of view. Clear-cut enemies who can be painted as being in the wrong very easily, making aggression on the PM's part much easier to justify.

I think I agree with the idea that Blair got out of his depth.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

in the sense of cosying up to W or in the sense of developing a mesianic streak after kosvo intervention?

― acrobat, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

not that those thing are necessarily exclusive. thinking he could bend wolfowitz and cheney et al to his will i guess his biggest mistake. but it's all there in the 1997 manifesto: whatever works innit.

― acrobat, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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