Notes on our favorite Prime Ministers.*
Robert Peel: Invented modern police, repeal of the Test Act.
Pitt the Elder: Visionary who waged a global war against France.
Gladstone: 19th century progressive reformer.
Palmerston: Crimea and the Sepoys and the American Crisis. Gunboats indeed. Civis Britanus Sum!
John Major: Steady hand, governed in a time of peace and prosperity.
The nation is at the end, we think, of a long line of failures, non-entities and empty suits, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May. The four of them have comprehensibly wrecked the country, no one more than Blair.
An empty cab pulled up to the palace at Theresa May got out.
Mister they could use a man like Harold MacMillan again.
*Don't talk about Churchill. We're bored with the whole thing. Also Maggie, though we're not bored with her.
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