Our best PMs

[Jovial Monk]

WI Keating is at #3 and justly so for his radical reforms toOz economy

Skip, please don't copy whole posts when replying. Leave that to the sludge at PA2 please

[skippy]

Monk, you're not my mother dont try and tell me how to post.

[Jovial Monk]

HAHAHAHAHA! OK Skip!

[Jovial Monk]

Have we ever had a "best" PM? Wouldn't it be easier to start with the worst (that isn't hard) and work from that - worst, not much better, a little better, better etc.

So, who are your worsts?

In recent times Howard, wasting the proceeds of a huge mining boom, wedging & dividing the electorate, secretive, authoritarian etc.

Who are your worsts?

Anyone know about our first few PMs? Who was our first? Barton? Should he be in the list?

[JW Frogen]

It depends on wether you think PMs should be dictating to us about how life will be or leaving us alone to live our own lives.

In the first case then it is Whitlam or Keating.

In the second it is Menzies or Howard.

Curtan wins either way.

[Jovial Monk]

Blah JW!

A good PM has won elections and done something good for Australia.

I haven't put Hawke in there, WTF did he do to be included?

[White Indigene]

WI Keating is at #3 and justly so for his radical reforms toOz economy

So this is about the recession eh. OK>

This should put Keating first on the list, for the r....n we had to have; and then Rudd should be second, because of the r....n we are about to have; and then Whitlam should be third for the Kilenemy Affair.

To be more wild about it, the triumverate Labor Gods of this JM thrill thread, can share equal footing and the first step for externalising armed and unfetered standoffs. For Rudd, if the shoe fits, wear it.

eeheeheeheeheeh

[Jovial Monk]

No, not about recession. If it was Howard (as Treasurer but same dickhead) and Menzies (famous for Credit squeezes & 20% inflation) would rate higher.

in the US, not much doubt about worst-ever Prez!!!

[White Indigene]

The big test will come during this r....n, when we will be able to measure the betteroff-ness of the masses under Rudd V Howard.

The clear winner already, is Mr Howard. That wont change, perhaps not even for ever.

[Jovial Monk]

Of course it will change WI: as soon as the minig boom starts again. Howard widened radically the poor-rich gap. Scumbag, always will be.

Now, someone told me Whitlam introduced the Trade Practices Act. Anyone know if this is true? If it is true and remembering Whitlam starting to tear down the tariff wall, I will move Whitlam up the scale.

Anyone?