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37 minutes ago, BFTD said:

Bit of a miserable bunch of lightweight inadequates, considering most of them will have ordered other men out to die in foreign lands.

I reckon @Shandön Par could take any of them with one hand, assuming he didn't break his fist on their faces.

Tony Blair’s teeth would be dangerous. Thatcher probably be toughest. She’d come in swinging her handbag. 

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41 minutes ago, BFTD said:

Bit of a miserable bunch of lightweight inadequates, considering most of them will have ordered other men out to die in foreign lands.

I reckon @Shandön Par could take any of them with one hand, assuming he didn't break his fist on their faces.

That's a bit unfair on Attlee, Churchill, Eden, MacMillan and Callaghan, all of whom served in various wars. Alec Douglas Home didn't and Harold Wilson was considered a specialist so wasn't allowed to join up in the Second World War. All the rest are shitebags, obviously.

ETA: Missed out Heath, who was an officer in the Second World War.

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34 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

Alec Douglas Home didn't

I bet he wished he could have.. Dunglass was his aristocratic handle.

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Dunglass had volunteered for active military service, seeking to rejoin the Lanarkshire Yeomanry[36] shortly after Chamberlain left Downing Street. The consequent medical examination revealed that Dunglass had a hole in his spine surrounded by tuberculosis in the bone. Without surgery he would have been unable to walk within a matter of months.[43] An innovative and hazardous operation was performed in September 1940, lasting six hours, in which the diseased bone in the spine was scraped away and replaced with healthy bone from the patient's shin.[43]
For all of Dunglass's humour and patience, the following two years were a grave trial. He was encased in plaster and kept flat on his back for most of that period. Although buoyed up by the sensitive support of his wife and family, as he later confessed, "I often felt that I would be better dead."[45] Towards the end of 1942 he was released from his plaster jacket and fitted with a spinal brace, and in early 1943 he was mobile for the first time since the operation.

 

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1 hour ago, Jacksgranda said:

That's a bit unfair on Attlee, Churchill, Eden, MacMillan and Callaghan, all of whom served in various wars. Alec Douglas Home didn't and Harold Wilson was considered a specialist so wasn't allowed to join up in the Second World War. All the rest are shitebags, obviously.

ETA: Missed out Heath, who was an officer in the Second World War.

It's incredibly rare that I stand up for Thatch but the young Margaret served as a fire watcher in the ARP before going to Oxford University in 1943 

 

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10 hours ago, Shandön Par said:

Tony Blair’s teeth would be dangerous. Thatcher probably be toughest. She’d come in swinging her handbag. 

Have yoy forgot about your good old Fifer Gogsie Broon?

10 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:

That's a bit unfair on Attlee, Churchill, Eden, MacMillan and Callaghan, all of whom served in various wars. Alec Douglas Home didn't and Harold Wilson was considered a specialist so wasn't allowed to join up in the Second World War. All the rest are shitebags, obviously.

ETA: Missed out Heath, who was an officer in the Second World War.

I think he was right in saying ordered.. They may have served, but I don't think much was on the front line.

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8 minutes ago, Shandön Par said:

Oh yes, the one who pretends to be a Raith fan.

Worst than Thatcher.

Do they still cheer the half time scores if Rangers are winning?

Yes was happening in the late 80's early 90's. Reason I went to most Raith home games (I lived near at the time) and went a stood in the away end, every time.

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10 hours ago, tamthebam said:

It's incredibly rare that I stand up for Thatch but the young Margaret served as a fire watcher in the ARP before going to Oxford University in 1943 

 

Didn't bother checking up on her as I assumed she was too young to have served.

So every PM post 1945 had served in one of the world wars, unless medically unfit or not allowed to, up until John Major.

I wonder how US presidents compare?

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1 hour ago, SlipperyP said:

Have yoy forgot about your good old Fifer Gogsie Broon?

I think he was right in saying ordered.. They may have served, but I don't think much was on the front line.

They all served on the front line, Eden won the military cross, Attlee was the penultimate man evacuated from Gallipolli, MacMillan was wounded 3 times, Callaghan was in the Royal Navy in the Far East and Heath was mentioned in despatches.

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18 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

They all served on the front line, Eden won the military cross, Attlee was the penultimate man evacuated from Gallipolli, MacMillan was wounded 3 times, Callaghan was in the Royal Navy in the Far East and Heath was mentioned in despatches.

I didn't know that.  Thanks for the information, when it comes up on the Daily Quiz (which you will have forgotten on that day).😉

ETA I'm not giving you Attlee, it was officer and generals who went on the boat last!

MacMillan - wounded 3 times (could be getting burnt cooking the eggs)

Callaghan - has nothing on my Far East Navy.

Heath - Never saw that episode 

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