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I'm Clement Atlee, who are you.
Quite a good match for where I'd like to see myself; quiet and undemonstrative but got the job done.
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Winston Churchill whose growl is a fundamental memory for me, and who made many errors, escaped by the skin of his teeth and went gaga in office.
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>> William Gladstone.
You've got a twin brother. It said I was him too.
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>>You've got a twin brother
Twin brother? .. gawd luvvus, two of my dear brothers reside in urns :(
I thought I may have answered 1 or 2 of those questions incorrectly, so I dunnem again, like.
I'm still William Gladstone though, I'm glad to hear.. no income tax & public utilities should not be in private hands etc. etc.
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Looks like I'm in alignment with the mad Cornish minority...
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I am David Cameron - not too unhappy with that
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Harold Wilson. We're both from Huddersfield.
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David Lloyd George... a fellow Welshman.
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And another Lloyd George.
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>> David Lloyd George... a fellow Welshman.
Born in England, were you?
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>> >> David Lloyd George... a fellow Welshman.
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>> Born in England, were you?
You're keeping quiet Duncan, you must be Tony Blair?
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Harold Wilson...and quite right too ! Attlee would have done as well........the man who kept the country running in WW2.
DLG was born a mile from here. There used to be a blue plaque on the house but it was demolished and social housing built. I've not seen the plaque since.
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I have to admit I thought he had Welsh origins. I was wrong.
We had some common ground. Chorlton on Medlock. Which is where Manchester University is today. And I'd live in Chorlton (-Cum-Hardy) too. A long time ago these days :-)
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>> >> >> David Lloyd George... a fellow Welshman.
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>> You're keeping quiet Duncan, you must be Tony Blair?
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I regret to say that I am also Lloyd George, born in England, but with less philandering!
I would like to think that if I had been PM at Lloyd George's time, that I would have given independence to the whole of the island of Ireland.
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William Gladstone - I need to do some history and boigraphical homework.
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Saying David Lloyd Loom was Engerlish is like saying Dave Camoron's daughter is Carnish.
Same with Gladstoned who was more Jocktish than scouser.
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Let's just say I hold in my hand a piece of paper with the result on it.
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A "peace in our time", piece of paper?
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>> Spencer Perceval
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Wasn't he the only PM to be assassinated?
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So hands up...who has gone back into the system and adjusted their answers to see how other people ended up with their results?
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Went blank after the first three questions (the website, not me). I only wanted to be Clem Attlee or Harold Wilson anyway.
Last edited by: Mike Hannon on Sun 27 Apr 14 at 10:12
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Neville Chamberlain. Bit before my time so not sure how good a match that it.
Just did the "what car you should get" test underneath - Audi A4 apparently
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Harold Wilson.
I got an Impreza for the car.
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David Cameron, but I can't really see it.
The one I most feel like, but I notice no one here has drawn this character, is Arthur Balfour.
He thought being PM was a part-time job, and there were more interesting things to do in life.
"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all"
I could get on with a chap like that.
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I collared Mrs Westpig........her version is David Cameron
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>> The one I most feel like, but I notice no one here has drawn this character, is Arthur Balfour.
The 'Balfour Declaration' on establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine led eventually to the foundation of Israel.
Intransigence on both sides, latterly mainly the Israeli side, means that Palestine and Israel are the most dangerous threat to world peace nearly a century later.
This can't have been Balfour's intention, to give the devil his due.
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>> This can't have been Balfour's intention, to give the devil his due.
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No. I suppose the problems came when everybody naturally defined "homeland" to mean what they wanted it to mean.
To some it meant sole masters of the state, with the right to determine the electorate, religion, immigration policy, treatment of existing peoples, and relations with other states.
To others, it probably meant something like an Indian reservation within the USA.
And of course it was ours to bestow on anyone we liked, for all time. :)
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>> Intransigence on both sides, latterly mainly the Israeli side
In fact exclusively on the Israeli side.
It's said that the US president can't stand that creature Netanyahu. A man of sound judgment.
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I'm basically a centrist but came out as David Cameron - fair enough. The choices on nationalisation didn't let me say that some industries should be, some shouldn't.
But I'd go along with the implication above that Attlee was as great a man as Churchill. Each couldn't have done what the other did, but we needed them both. And in the 1940 'council of war' Attlee and his deputy, Greenwood, sided with Churchill against Halifax's move to make a peace agreement with Hitler - Chamberlain as usual sitting on the fence.
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Car quiz - VW Golf. Not far out as I've had two Golf estates and nearly went for a GTI this time, but settled for a third Octavia vRS estate.
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My car was a Golf....never had one !
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BMW 5 series for Bill Gladstoned here.
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>> And in the 1940 'council of war' Attlee and his deputy, Greenwood, sided with Churchill
>> against Halifax's move to make a peace agreement with Hitler -
Good man, Attlee, I've always thought, and engagingly unassuming, almost to the point of absense, like the empty taxi joke.
Greenwood of course was the "Speak for England" subject.
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Like WP, I'm Pitt the Younger.
I also persuaded Mrs K. to participate. The website responded with "Internal Error 500: Boris Johnson"
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>>. The website responded with "Internal Error 500: Boris
>> Johnson"
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It suddenly realised it was exceeding its brief - not supposed to be including future prime ministers.
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Another Gladstone here. I presume Lenin wasn't one of the possible outcomes.
EDIT: Subaru Impreza? Oh no no no no no. Legacy Outback, maybe.
Another EDIT: Not as many Thatchers on here as I thought there would be.
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>> David Cameron.......
Havering being close to hovering I suppose!
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Harold Wilson…
I don't mind that too much, having heard the great man speak at Leicester Granby Halls sometime in the mid 60s; his target at the time was Alec Douglas-Home.
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Attlee also wrote 'poetry' - of a sort - for relaxation.
The lines that introduce his biography go...
Some said he was never a starter,
There were many who thought themselves smarter.
But he ended PM, CH and OM,
An Earl and a Knight of the Garter!
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