AHC: Worst possible Prime Minister? (No OTL PM's)

It was alleged that friends of Jeremy Thorpe attempted to have someone he may or may not have had a relationship with (but who was also a deeply troubled individual and a someone who had a difficult grasp of reality) assassinated. However he was cleared in court.
Oh. Well then I don't know enough British politicians to state anyone who hasn't already been stated.
 
I thought it was supposed to have been an operation by the South African Bureau of State Security who was mixed up in the murder plot. I mean BOSS were a pretty nasty outfit with a reputation for dirty tricks and wet work that would have been the envy of the Bulgarians or the NKVD of the 1940's.

Personally, I would have to say George Osbourne. Any man who would cry at Thatchers funeral has to have something seriously wrong with him... it a bit like those sociopaths who are happy to carve up old grannies for their pensions but burst into tears at the sight of a dead kitten.

Plus he has the dead eyes of a shark.
 
It's an extremely long shot (as in "as likely as a Confederate victory") but if we're going for worst possible than William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw). The man was even more fascist than Mosely, a brutal anti-Semite, and had a man crush on Hitler.
 
I feel like Mindelson would have been tolerable...better than Brown.

Worst:
  • Nigel Farage
  • BOJO
  • William Hague
  • Ian Duncan Smith
  • Michael Howard
  • Michael Foot
  • Neil Kinnock
  • Tony Benn
  • Katie Hopkins
 
William Hague when? Hague in 2001, yes, terrible, though I'd not put him as far up my 'worst ever' list. Hague in, say, 2013 after Cameron got hit by a bus, probably quite good.

I feel like Mindelson would have been tolerable...better than Brown.

Worst:
  • Nigel Farage
  • BOJO
  • William Hague
  • Ian Duncan Smith
  • Michael Howard
  • Michael Foot
  • Neil Kinnock
  • Tony Benn
  • Katie Hopkins
 
Chamberlain.

3edgy5me

The man kept us on our feet going into the Second World War, if you don't like Munich (and heaven knows I don't) fine, have a go at Munich, but saying he's worse than all possible PMs, a list that includes serial killers, paedophiles and racists, is a bit much.

Difficult question; think you could pick any of them depending on your political view point, which could spawn unsavoury arguments.
Unfortunately can only narrow it down to two Harold Wilson, for his governments destruction of the carriers fleet, British aviation industry and for rampant liberalism.
Ted Heath for not reversing the above and taking us into Europe.

Wow. Okay.

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Anyway, Jimmy Savile.

George Brown perhaps is the most likely candidate who would have been bloody awful, because he would indeed have been drunk constantly. Alan Clark is an obvious contender.

More recently, John Redwood and John Reid would've been pretty scary for different reasons. Dan Hannan could be a dystopian FH PM at some point, too.
 
Anyway, Jimmy Savile.
Well, if we're going to go down that route, there's probably a Harold Shipman TL in the style of The Most Horrifying Shock or Made a Good Lawyer out there, waiting to be written.

After all, to quote Holmes in the adventure of the speckled band: "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Well, if we're going to go down that route, there's probably a Harold Shipman TL in the style of The Most Horrifying Shock or Made a Good Lawyer out there, waiting to be written.

After all, to quote Holmes in the adventure of the speckled band: "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."

To be fair, Shipman would have just been abusong public money and aggresivly premoting a right to die if he becomes PM; unlike our good freind Jimmy, who'd use his position to be worse than he was IoTL
 
To be fair, Shipman would have just been abusong public money and aggresivly premoting a right to die if he becomes PM; unlike our good freind Jimmy, who'd use his position to be worse than he was IoTL

While I take your point, anyone with the nerve to personally kill anywhere from 25 to 200 people is probably capable of any heinous act in the book. Jimmy Savile's crimes are certainly of a more depraved nature, of course.

Dennis Nilsen would also work in a "serial killer as PM" scenario, given his army and civil service record.
 
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Well, let me put it this way: you know how Labour always portrays "THE TORIES" as an exaggerated strawman caricature in their election broadsides, people who are in politics because they hate the poor and want to make them suffer - Maude is actually like that, if not worse.

if you want that sort as the worst PM you could try Fatty Soames, or if you just want really really right wing Teresa Gorman, or right wing and "eccenctric" Harvey Proctor.
For a more popular choice theres always Lembit.
Stafford Cripps would be a possible choice as a really bad Labour option. makes Gordon look like a people person.
 
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