Jeremy Paxman: David Cameron was the worst Prime Minister since Lord North. Room 101. S7 E2. 19.1.18

David Cameron was the worst Prime Minister since Lord North, says Jeremy Paxman. Frank Skinner agrees and put him into Room 101. Series 7 Episode 2. 19 Jan 2018.

[@charlestownsend9280]

This hasn't aged well considering that every PM since has somehow been worse.

[@KryptonitetoallBS]

Correct and yet we still keep voting them in. Tories ALWAYS destroy our country but we never learn!!!

[@MrEdrftgyuji]

And at least two of the prime ministers who came before him...

[@Professicchio]

He wasn't talking about the future, was he? He was right up to that point.

[@johnmartinez7440]

Cameron was the one who set it all in motion, though. The folly of Brexit and all its repercussions, and subsequent shitty PMs, were his doing.

[@Aloddff]

@@Professicchio I think it would be right to say that Cameron somehow avoided a lot of criticism in his long term, and that void has let bad politicians get away with murder since. Maybe I’m reading into too much but I sense he believes Cameron escaped condemnation and that corrective speech might have produced a more responsive prime minister thereafter. The cynic in me would say paxman is a Tory and he believes in the Conservative party in a way I cannot

[@dh7314]

Paxman: “Cameron was the worst PM ever” Boris: “Sounds like a challenge, hold my beer”

[@tersecleric2]

More like hold my baby.

[@oneworldfamily]

@@tersecleric2 Ha ha!! Good one!

[@hiramabiff2017]

Boris was worse than Blair or Gordon Brown ? 😆😅🤣😂 you must be a child, obviously you have never lived under a Labour government 🤢🤮

[@tersecleric2]

@@hiramabiff2017 Virgin.

[@dh7314]

@@hiramabiff2017 it’s light hearted banter, cool your Tory boots.

[@JohnHillRSNStudios]

Cameron: I’m the worst prime minister in two hundred years! May: hold my champagne

[@IRISHSALTMINER61]

John Hill No, Cameron is still the worst.... Treason May has yet to become Prime Minister.... She was useless as Home Secretary, and it all went down hill from there.... Obummer was worse than useless, he was incompetent.... “The future’s bright, the future’s Orange....” Trump 2020

[@HouseMusicAllNightLong]

@@IRISHSALTMINER61 Typical Trump support has to resort to childish insults like "Obummer". It just shows the level of your intellect.

[@HouseMusicAllNightLong]

@Connor Richardson I'm not a democrat supporter as I don't live in the US. Trump deserves every bit of criticism he gets because he is a nasty bigoted person. The vast majority of the negative things that have been said about him are accurate.

[@HouseMusicAllNightLong]

@Connor Richardson only right wing people support foreign parties or leaders. There are so many negatives with Trump. He's a pathological liar, a bigot, a misogynist, and a xenophobe who can hardly form a proper sentence when he posts his nonsensical ramblings on Twitter.

[@hobanagerik]

And there it is. 😂

[@squamish4244]

I'm reminded of the Onion article "United States Shocked That Leader Can Resign After Making Terrible Mistake."

[@kristoffarrell6899]

Cameron..."Got to top of tree to only set it on fire"...truer words never spoken. A man of historical pointlessness for sure

[@peterclarke7240]

A multi-millionaire playing at politics for his own ends and his mates. Of course he didn't take it seriously. As Danny Dyer famously said, as soon as he'd finished making a mess of everything, he just buggered off to France and put his trotters up, knowing that none of this was ever going to effect him in the slightest, other than getting a few less honorary degrees or invites to give after-dinner speeches.

[@paulmccloud9395]

"If the people vote to leave I will consider it a mandate from the masses, I will lead us through the tough negotiations and out of the EU." Quits instantly. Worst leader, I don't think so, but he was a complete and utter coward. But we've had plenty of PM's like that, we have one now.

[@davescott7680]

And so's the rest of the brexiteer politicians, who just wanted to sit on the side lines whinging and sniping from the edges with no plan. As soon as got the vote, they all immediately started back tracking, and refused to step up and deal with the mess. No one wanted to take the poison challaice that was leading, and May being too stupid to realise was the last one holding the cup, as everyone backed away to the edges where they can go back to whinging without actually achieving anything. It's easier to just being a prick of a politician complaining about everything, then actually doing something constructive. I feel sorry for May, its not her fault she's too stupid to work out there was a reason no one wanted the job.

[@Rich6Brew]

Cowards don't make good leaders.

[@pablohanc]

Yep, probably worth noting that the day after the ref, prior to cameron quitting, corbyn was asked what cameron should now do, and corbyn said he should get on with taking us out immediately. Cameron then resigns, and the press conveniently forget Cameron's words before the ref and use it as an excuse to attack corbyn. Cameron said he had a plan, his plan turned out to be he was going to quit. As for him being the worst pm....... I don't think that's the case anymore.

[@MrThorfan64]

He was slimy and caused a disaster with his arrogance and austerity, then ran away rather then face any scrutiny. Of course BJ likely backed it so Cameron would resign.

[@thecinematicmind]

Cameron will easily have the absolute worst legacy of any Prime Minister.

[@andrewb9790]

Boris: Worst? Hold my beer! Truss: Wait until you get a load of me!

[@Stand663]

Conservatives are better at running the country. Labour don’t know how to run the country. It’s not in their dna

[@jamiemclaughlin6899]

Even before Brexit, he was an extremely bad PM. The "big society" idea was facile. Let's replace vital social safety nets with the voluntary sector. Let's massively weaken building regulations. What could possibly go wrong?

[@jamiemclaughlin6899]

@@Jay_Reacts_REAL Absolutely. And I think that nobody in the media made the connection to Cameron shows what we're up against in terms of the officer class omerta in this country.

[@peterclarke7240]

Tories always believe in three pillars, none of which bear up to any form of scrutiny: 1. Markets are self-regulating. 2. Small government is best government, but we expect to get paid the same, if not more, as big government for doing half the work, if that. 3. Everyone will look after everyone else, so we don't have to.

[@Jordothecat98]

It shows just how extreme the tories were under thatcher that Cameron was considered to be from the moderate wing of the party

[@mogznwaz]

@@Jordothecat98 How is it extreme? It’s no more extreme than the grossly damaging open borders policies loved by Leftists or their insistence that the answer to every problem is to throw money at it and hate anyone who has more than you. THAT’S just as extreme! Thatcher took this country out of the socialist doldrums and made us a wealthy successful country again. Sure it may have gone too far at times (I’m not a fan of privatising everything) but the idea that people aren’t better off now than we were in the 70s is ludicrous. The white British native population has stayed pretty steady but the massive population growth in the UK has been entirely down to mass immigration and I honestly can’t say that there isn’t a direct correlation between that and the social problems we’ve seen in the last 20 years. If you wonder why house prices boomed and GP appointments are harder to come by or why certain crimes have become commonplace you cannot ignore this fact. The right wanted it to boost GDP and the left wanted it because they hate Britain and its native peoples but the end result is the same because none of them ever challenge it.

[@mogznwaz]

@@peterclarke7240 It’s mostly true. The 2008 crash occurred because banks enabled reckless practices for profit but knew they’d be ‘too big to fail’ and would be bailed out by the taxpayer. They have felt no real consequences as a result. True capitalism would have let them fail and the market would right itself and reckless practices would be discouraged because they are too risky.

[@danmccaffrey8322]

He's spot on.Cameron seems to have dodged a bullet in the short term, but I'm certain the judgement of history will be infinitely harsher.

[@1234ommot]

until...

@@1234ommot until…

[@fenhen]

@ Until…

[@georgebryant7721]

He's right, Cameron doesn't get enough criticism

[@pauljoel7095]

George Bryant Yes, perhaps that was because he was a genius!

[@georgebryant7721]

In what way is he a genius? A genius in deceit?

[@pauljoel7095]

Let's think... 1)Reducing the deficit by 75% during a period of immense economic recession and following a complete mismanagement of the economy by Labour under Blair and Brown. 2) Giving the people a democratic vote on a national issue: Brexit. 3) Passing the same-sex marriage bill. 4) Understanding that, as a Remainer, he could not represent the views of Brexiteers in Brussels and so valliantly stepping down in order to allow new leadership for Brexit. 5) Trying his best to cut taxes in different areas and make government spending more efficient in a time of economic difficulty. 6) Scottish independence referendum - again giving the people a choice. Need I go on?

[@georgebryant7721]

Yes, with regard to Brexit, he abandoned ship on an already torrid state of affairs when he said that he wouldn't. The only reason he called for a referendum was to create unity on Europe within his party, he didn't give a shit about the national interest. During campaigning, people were swayed by lies and were frustrated by the inequity that his government had caused after a recession that was far from Brown's fault.

[@tay2229]

Yeah, it's not as if any other nation has passed same-sex marriage in the past few years is it? A real genius move for sure.

[@meowmiaumiauw]

Unpopular opinion, but Cameron opened the pandora's box so he's worse than Theresa, Boris, or Liz even if he made a fool of himself less frequently

[@damianpritchard1456]

at the time of filming I would have agreed 100%, but now Bojo makes Cameron look like a genius.

[@ismaeel747]

And now we have Truss who will make Bojo look like a genius :D

[@Muzikman127]

@@ismaeel7476 months on and Jesus...

[@samcad-ho3ze]

He's right I never know why Cameron didn't get completely roasted for the devastation he has caused.

[@MrGlove191]

samcad2013 Like Blair, he had a great ability to manage media and narrative. His slick, personable and charming style, compounded with party dogma made alleged criticism less powerful and penetrating.

[@kaigreen5641]

Are we just going to forget Gordon Brown? The PM who over saw the collapse of our economy?

[@russelledwards001]

Kai Green yeah but brown never allowed the retarded general public to vote on leaving Europe.

[@TheMaximan97]

Kai Green Gordon Brown didn't DO anything. The recession was caused by a combination of shitty banks and a housing crisis

[@SG-xe1mv]

Adam Davies He deregulated the banking sector and then setup an ineffective regulatory body where neither the government, or the BOE understood who were actually in charge. He also sold all our gold so we couldn't fall back on that during the credit crunch. Under him not a single banker was prosecuted. These are all decisions that he was personally responsible for.

[@nifralo2752]

"Stop banging on about Europe" - David Cameron at the 2006 Tory Party conference. And it's going to be carved on his tombstone

[@CA-ee1et]

But whose fault is it? In May 2010 a national opinion poll showed 1% of the British public thought Europe was an important issue. One per cent. Other people put Europe on the agenda during Cameron's premiership, not Cameron.

[@nifralo2752]

​@@CA-ee1etyeah but he caved in to them. FDR or Churchill wouldn't have done that

[@louissmith1393]

2016: Cameron: “I’m the worst Prime Minister since Lord North” 2019: May “Hold my beer” 2022: Johnson “Hold my lockdown party”

[@al_l6418]

2024: Truss "Hold my transphobia"

[@friendgray1]

May wasn’t even that bad. A bit of a nothing really.

[@Fireglo]

May wasn't a bad prime minister she simply didn't have the numbers to do what needed done.

[@dazzaMusic]

If you’re going to be really honest who was the last decent prime minister John Major?

[@michaelodonnell824]

@@Fireglo May was a Remainer until the day she saw the Referendum result. Then, "principled politician" that she was, her new slogan was "Brexit means Brexit" (I'm still waiting for a definition of THAT (in 2022))

[@FatallyYours230]

I don't like the new digital format of the items, I preferred seeing the hand made items to show what they were arguing for.

[@nifralo2752]

Surely the budget can't be cut that much?

[@Torthrodhel]

Cameron cannot be trashed enough.

[@DJBigbadbuckley]

Libya, he doesn't get enough criticism for Libya

[@craigblyth1080]

I agree with you about Libya but really Thatcher was a nightmare. There was a reason why so many bought " ding doing the witch is dead " from the Wizard of Oz to get it to No 2 when she died. Its not all about Brexit but he should never have given the vote on something so important to idiots who never check out anything before they vote and who were so easily led by massive lies its massive lies that gave leave narrow win at EU Referendum.

[@WELLBRAN]

We would be better off here if we had Gadaffi as leader instead of what we got now..and they killed him.

[@WELLBRAN]

@Hairy Chinese Kid petrodollar international criminals

[@sullivansongz]

Eeeeeeeeeeeexactly!!

[@nifralo2752]

Libya was ready a civil war. They did nothing in the Ethiopian civil war and that dragged on for 17 years.

[@jacklondon9665]

And now he [Cameron] is on the board or advising companies and organisations earning £m's and has a publishing deal worth about £800,000. This is evidence of corruption and nepotism in big business and politics.

[@pauljohnson4948]

It's the Tory way.

[@smooth_sundaes5172]

JP is on the money with Cameron. He put his ego above his responbility as the nations leader. What a wash out!

[@wjumeau]

Anglus I hear it’s £10k for a cup of tea for a chance at making Cameron change policy decisions..... then the real money comes.

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

JP hates him because he's too left wing and because he initiated leaving the EU. Do you honestly believe Paxman is anything other than a hardline Tory?

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

Cameron and his useless chancellor got found out, they were just pretending, all the way through until they were found out. He was as hopeless a prime minister as he was at table tennis lol

[@jamesalandixon]

Remember after he'd lost the referendum and resigned then he tried to blame the whole thing on Corbyn during PMQs?

[@EightThreeEight]

And now they thought it would be a good idea to bring him back.

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

Boris Johnson: “Hold my champers!”

[@stevenwilliams1329]

A horrible man who spat his dummy out when he lost the Euro referendum. Should have faced up to his responsibilities.

[@johnmartinez7440]

To be fair, he probably never envisaged that the British public could be so colossally stupid.

[@seanfaherty]

I dunno , If I had a job and the boss wanted me to do something irresponsible and harmful to thousands of people I'd quit too

[@stevenpaulgoulding]

That horrible man resorted to personal insults every time he loses an argument.

[@redrebel4540]

Lord North? Christ he's dug one up there!

[@dellhell8842]

I imagine Paxman can't wait for the Liz Truss premiership. It'll be amaze balls.

[@chrisblunt4846]

Theresa may: hold my beer Johnson: hold my beer Truss/sunnak: hold my beer

[@burlatsdemontaigne6147]

Paxman looks like he just fell out of 'spoons... after steak night.

[@BadgerOff32]

David Cameron: I'm the Worst Prime Minister ever Teresa May: Hold my beer, David Boris Johnson: Erm...chaps, would you mind holding my....um, oh....errr, gosh....what's it called now.....? Um, BEER, yes, that's the one.....now um, where did I put it? Um..... yes, errr.....it was......somewhere......around....here.....um, what was it I looking for again?? A wiffle bat? Was that it? Yes that was it.......Marvelous sport, what what?...................have you *seen* these cardboard busses i make????

[@thecinematicmind]

Cameron: Well, I have the absolute worst legacy of any Prime Minster.

[@tonyb9735]

Summer 2022: Well, this hasn't aged well! Cameron is now only the 3rd-worst Prime Minister since Lord North, and soon to be the 4th worst.

[@garyturner5790]

New series Boris in 101 as worst PM.

[@UndeservedArrogance]

Paxman laughter is the purest laughter.

[@michaelodonnell824]

Because he NEVER had to make a decision or a Judgement that had consequences...

[@balthazarbeutelwolf9097]

Paxman argued from the POV of a remainer, but whatever your position on Brexit, he's right in that Cameron's motivation for the referendum was repugnant, his foresight was inept, and his conduct spineless. Instead of Lord North, I was thinking of Günther Schabowski's ill-judged press conference on 9th November 1989, lifting East-German travel restrictions to safeguard the political stability of the GDR. For all the hold-my-beer comments regarding Cameron's equally inept successor (witnessed e.g. by the jaw-droppingly awful Tory manifesto of her re-election campaign) Paxman is right that her impact/damage as a PM was much more limited.

[@GaryBox]

Yes he's right in that his motivation for the referendum was for his party and also right that he buggered off when the result didn't go his way. However you get the sense Paxman didn't want a referendum, no matter what the motivation. So it seems it's ok to take the UK into Europe on a lie, give up more and more sovereignty with treaties that never formed any manifesto but somehow not ok to ask the public if they actually like the direction of travel in regard to the relationship with Europe. You either believe in democracy or you don't.

[@michaelodonnell824]

UKIP was a growing Political Party. By Promising a Referendum, Cameron neutered UKIP and ensured that the Tories won an outright Victory in the Election. No matter how "Virtuous" you are, as a Politician, without Power you can accomplish exactly Nothing! And the UK has always been Xenophobic and Racist - something Farage and UKIP were only Too Willing to feed. The Brexit vote proved them "Right". FWIW I'm Irish. The only election I lived in the UK, I voted Liberal Democrat, because that was the ONLY way that the Tories would have ANY chance of losing the VERY Safe Constituency I was living in. My strategy failed because others believed that voting "on Principle" and wasting ones vote was "better" that beating the Tories!

[@garyturner5790]

Any same person wants to rejoin the EU. Only somebody whose paranoid and afraid of change are Brexiters.

[@Rich6Brew]

Why do we allow politicians to make such a mess as Brexit - et al - and then bugger off with impunity? These incompetents should be help accountable, as some have blood on their hands.

[@reader7508]

Don't you think you guys have responsibility in agreeing to brexit in the first place?

[@philipcamp1370]

Let's regoin the EU . Lol

[@annewalden3795]

@@reader7508 We did not agree to Brexit but have no choice but to go along with it .

[@TheMrbc74]

Boris watched this and thought, you ain’t seen nothing yet, hold my wine😂

[@mattewj1268]

This has aged badly - we have had the consecutive 4 worst PMs in history since then.

[@robrob9250]

Paxman: ‘Worst Prime Minister ever’ Theresa May: ‘Hold my beer…’ Boris Johnson: ‘Hold my fridge and big clown shoes…’

[@cacampbell1989]

Truss: 'Hold my cheese and pork'

[@hobanagerik]

I guess something about holding Theresa Mays beer is applicable here.

[@dotnb]

Boris Johnson....hold my champers 🍾

[@jangreen5618]

Cameron was your typical tory boy.

[@Bruce-1956]

And since Cameron you've had 3 More 'the worst PM ever'. Amazing.

[@AWMJoeyjoejoe]

2 more. They're working on the third.

[@emilyscloset2648]

@@AWMJoeyjoejoe the third is definately going to be on that list

[@jamesmullen4702]

David Cameron looks like Enda Kenny on Frank’s coalition mug

[@jamiebirkett5305]

He called the referendum fully expecting the UK to stay in the EU. His campaign trail was terrible because he thought the remain vote would walk it.

[@evilrslade]

May : "hold my ABBA album" Johnson "hold my wine"

[@edmund184]

Truss: "Hold my Shirley Bassey album"

[@michaelhunt4445]

Did he come from just outside Northampton? Place called No Bottle. after all he promised he would immediately trigger Article 50, but what did he do? Buggered off crying.

[@hiramabiff2017]

🤣😂😅😆 Blair or Brown is conveniently left out from Paxman. Maybe because Paxman is Blairs neighbour and also very good friends with Gordon Brown.

[@jeffmackie547]

He's another one of those moronic champagne socialists

[@LKeet6]

i hate both blair and brown, and it could be argued that an illegal war killing over a million people goes beyond domestic affairs, but they were nowhere NEAR as bad (day to day running of the country) PMs as cameron was...

[@hiramabiff2017]

@@LKeet6 Really ! Bankrupting Britain and having to spend years in austerity & your saying Blair/Brown were better at running the country than Cam/Boris. From trade deals and some of the biggest foreign investments this Island has seen to our British bill of rights, we overlook the positives because we are trained by constant propaganda to be negative.

[@linmac2717]

Don’t think that’s the point.

[@andrewclayton4181]

Also we were doing quite well under Blair and Brown.

[@barnbersonol]

Gordon Brown quietly skulks away before anyone remembers him.

[@Theo-bb6pn]

Gordon Brown mostly did the right thing in terms of policy, he was just a weak idiot when it came to public speaking and international policy. You can look it up, most leading economists think he did the logical thing in bailing out the banks (in hindsight).

[@barnbersonol]

@@Theo-bb6pn i agree. He was just so gloomy and charmless.

[@stevenpaulgoulding]

@@Theo-bb6pn Gordon Brown was voted international statesman of the year in 2009 by world leaders, praising him for bailing out the banks and averting a global depression not seen since the 1930s. Mr Brown is worth three dozen Camerons and I dread to think if the Labour PM called a snap election in 2007 and lost.

[@colincarr2052]

Boris: Hold my gin and tonic

[@geoffjones8725]

Anytime I hear somebody call the current or previous prime minister the worst ever it always makes me think of Al Murray “a history of British politics”. In summary, they’re all the worst simultaneously

[@984francis]

He split the UK. There is no going back and ultimately, the UK will vanish leaving England on her own. I want Cameron to be forced to do 10,000 hours unpaid public service helping the poor and homeless. Practical work in public view, not some behind the scenes admin jolly.

[@MusketWalrus]

Cameron didn't really split the UK. The Referendum just made obvious the fault lines that were already there.

[@tennis5011]

Blair split the UK. You can feel the hatred for him from both left and right from John O'Groats to Lands End. It was Blair's decisions whilst in office that led to Brexit. I.E. The rise of ISIS, mass immigration and giving each of the UK countries too much control over their own powers that caused Brexit. All Cameron did was call the referendum, not get the result that he wanted and then do a runner afterwards! Plus, people felt betrayed after the "Things can only get better" mantra of 1997.

[@TheNapalmFTW]

Boris: hold my Pimm's

[@MattB-st6ky]

At least Cameron was followed up by 3 even worse PMs.

[@AWMJoeyjoejoe]

Which one was the third one?

[@cheydinal5401]

Tony "pointless offensive war with hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties" Blair was worse

[@commie3000]

You seen Libya lately?

[@cheydinal5401]

@@commie3000 At least the overthrow itself didn't kill hundreds of thousands of people. Wikipedia says the civil war (2014-today) killed 8000 people, which is unacceptably horrible and Cameron is unelectable because of it, but it's definitely less bad than killing 20-40x as many civilians while indirectly creating ISIS

[@nifralo2752]

Blair saved Kosovo and Serria Leon

[@petermills542]

Cheydinal. It was always George W Bush's War ! With or without our assistance. Why many people ignore this fact I don't know.

[@MrStevegibb]

Regardless yes a failed foreign policy of huge proportion but basically has little to no effect on the UK itself. Cameron in his quest for power threw the UK financial/political stability into a spin and nobody knows how bad its going to end up. The uncertainty alone has caused huge economic damage to this country.

[@garyturner5739]

If this wss now Boris would be picked as worst PM with ever had. Mind you its close run thing between Bojo & Cameron for the worst PM category.

[@Then.72]

Definitely the worst government in history

[@rickvalentine89]

Little did he know Boris was on route

[@simongb7897]

Cameron is rightly ridiculed for 1 bad mistake and yet Blair is still all over the media giving his opinions.

[@TubbyBrewster11]

Although that is true, do you not think that amongst the general public Blair is vilified as he should be for the mistakes he made. While Cameron seems to have unjustly escaped that level or even any level of vilification both in the media and amongst the general public.

[@simongb7897]

@@TubbyBrewster11 Didnt want Brexit but at least you can say Cameron gave everyone a vote on it. And I can make a perfectly valid reason for someone having voted to leave. Blair ignored public opinion and the million that marched against the war. If Putin did what Blair did he would be vilified by the West.

[@saroise4477]

So you wasn't affected by the fakery of the austerity programme?

[@stevenpaulgoulding]

@@simongb7897David Cameron voted for the invasion of Iraq and said he would do the same even if there were no weapons of mass destruction in the country. The conflict had the support of the Tory opposition under Iain Duncan Smith and the right-wing press and media.

[@simongb7897]

@@stevenpaulgoulding Yup totally agree, I'm no Cameron fan, but yes having been presented with fake information and lots of it, Cameron voted for the invasion of Iraq as did lots of Labour MPs, so your blaming the people that voted for the fraud not the person that presented the fake dossier...OK. The lefty media presentors love to bash the Tories, it's trendy and cool, but are very confused by Blair, so conflicted...ow he was a Labour PM but killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, argh so difficult..

[@nudgenudgewinkwink3212]

You say that but its not like he helped start a war that killed 1 million people under false pretences, All he did was finally give people a say about whether they wanted "ever closer union" or not.

[@Theo-bb6pn]

?? You think Blair had any real impact on whether the war would’ve started? The US were always going to invade. Blair just sped up the U.K.’s involvement like the pathetic U.S. dog he is, but he didn’t actually help start it (as much as he’d like to believe he did)

[@stevenpaulgoulding]

David Cameron voted for the invasion of Iraq and said he would do the same even if there were no weapons of mass destruction in the country.

[@oniondesu9633]

As a conservative leaning person I entirely agree, easily the worst prime minister in my life.

[@1234ommot]

until...

[@davidwright7193]

This comment hasn’t aged well.

[@gurrrn1102]

Maybe oniondesu has died in the interim. Desu.

[@JackBartholomew90]

Theresa May "Hold my beer."

[@michaelodonnell824]

This REALLY hasn't aged Well. Having been succeeded first by Teresa May, then Boris Johnson and now (probably) Liz Truss, it's beginning to look like David Cameron's WORST decision was to resign!

[@feistyphysicist]

At least he gave the country a choice about the EU. I'm not sure any other PM would have.

[@andrewclayton4181]

Other prime ministers were aware that the hidden benefits of being in the EU couldn't be balanced against crass nationalism. The explanations would fall flat, as they did.

[@feistyphysicist]

@@andrewclayton4181 Yes, those benefits are so well hidden! Ha, ha. There's nothing nationalistic (or crass) about wanting your country to have its sovereignty. I campaigned for Brexit, and I heard that so many times on doorsteps. People wanted control back, and Remainers can't seem to grasp that. I suppose you have no problem with people in New Zealand, or Japan, or India being nationalistic?

[@tinynijman9077]

So right Jeremy Paxman !👍

[@weswheel4834]

Paxman would be laughing on the other side of his face if he saw how well Brexit's going. (/sarcasm).

[@yaserthe1]

Lol, I think he would change that to Boris in 2020.

[@Atlasss97]

yeah I think T-May has just surpassed old Oinker Cameron in most awful, shambolic pm

[@ScoopMeisterGeneral]

Theresa May: hold my beer.

[@Tony-gg3nd]

I bet he’d think differently now after Boris Johnson. 🤣

[@sufirodger]

We have 3 decent candidates in my adult lifetime so far: Boris the Hypocrite Cameron the Coward Blair the (Illegal) War Monger All deplorable in their own unique right. I guess the 'worst' depends on what you hold most valuable to yourself.

[@nifralo2752]

I know a lot are saying why not Blair should know that in Kosovo Liberia and Serria Leon he is seen as a national hero. Citizens even name their sons after him!

[@Damo2690]

Why?

[@nifralo2752]

@@Damo2690 because he send troops into Seriria Leon and they smashed the RUF who were basically a non religious ISIS and they were backed and supported by Liberia s dictator Charles Ghanky Taylor. Who was also slaughtering his own people. And in Kosovo the Serbian government was plotting their genocide until Blair bombed the Serbian army and capital. So in those countries Blair was seen the same way French and Belgians saw the Allies in ww2

[@PaulRoneClarke]

To be fair he's right. Cameron didn't have the courage of his convictions. Took a massive $h!t. Ran away. I was (and still am) more or less in favour of Brexit (though didn't vote for it - I consciously abstained) but for the man who triggered the referendum not to be accountable for the result? To assume victory then run away when it failed. That shows poor moral character.

[@chrisharrison763]

The side that he campaigned for lost to a side with the biggest democratic mandate ever returned in the UK. That completely undermined his authority. I don't think there was anything he could do but resign. Teresa May barely campaigned and she could never shake off the fact she'd nominally supported Remain.

[@LKeet6]

@@chrisharrison763 if you're going for the "biggest ever mandate" point, then remain was the 2nd biggest ever mandate (whilst losing, obviously.) so then we need to actually address the facts that a) the leave side shamelessly lied at every step of the way and b) the brexit we got was NEVER discussed as being a possible outcome.

[@chrisharrison763]

@@LKeet6 I think you've mistaken me for a Leave supporter? I voted for Remain. My point is about why David Cameron had to resign.

[@LKeet6]

@@chrisharrison763 no, I didn't think you were leave. I just saw your "mandate" point and ran with it 🙂

[@splintercast8092]

And now he's only the third worst.

[@thecinematicmind]

All thanks to Dave he has the worst legacy of any Prime Minister.

[@patrickgleason2066]

While completely agreeing with Jeremy Paxman. It's a pity that Liz Truss hasn't had the chance to "show her paces" yet. The worst thing is that Cameron was properly able, just stunningly arrogant.

[@Channel-os4uk]

You certainly can't knock her magnificent mammae

[@miguelurdaci7884]

Cameron is undoubtedly the worst PM since that genocidal maniac Blair (quite a lot worse the latter, I think). But it was parliament who allowed his petty referendum through without demanding two rounds and a super majority; it was parliament who voted in favour of the referendum being binding and it was parliament who immediately voted in Article 50. It is largely a mix of right wing jingoists, on one side, and woolly liberals and lefties scared to appear undemocratic on the other.

[@philipcamp1370]

Once the common market became the EU we should have had a referendum. What an amazing coincidence we didn't . Afraid of giving the people a vote.........

[@Then.72]

Cameron’s government did things like downgrading the aircraft carriers that Blair’s government ordered plus scrapping the ones we had whilst they were being built leaving us with none & also selling all our Harriers jet’s to the USA ! Rule Britannia?

[@VanlifewithAlan]

The mess we have now is the fault of Cameron. That is his legacy that others must pay for.

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

You mean the right to claim our own sovereignty and make decisions on our own future without asking Verhofstadt and his ilk?. That mess?, or the ever increasing economical position we have against the EU machine with the backing of US trade deals and China in the mix, that mess? Or the fact that myself and my chums do not have to serve under a foreign flag with policy and war footings dictated to us by Germany and France?, that mess?.

[@Mr___X]

@@MOOSEDOWNUNDER precisely. i, too, believe it a sin to wish to leave a trading zone.

[@annewalden3795]

Alan please don't forget Osborne and Austerity .

[@annenunney9907]

Now it’s Cameron and Johnson

[@HeeeeeearMeNow]

Boris Johnson : “hold my pint”

[@mjribes]

Top 3 worse PMs in the last 100 years: 1) Theresa May 2) David Cameron 3) Gordon Brown We've lived in blessed times...

[@GoldenKaos]

mjribes Gordon Brown actually did rather well, he drew international praise from the way he mitigated the damage of the 2008 crash. Unfortunately, he wasn’t so good at the day to day stuff, and his rather dour personality made for bad optics. But he’s certainly not in the top 3.

[@tennis5011]

Top 3 in the last ten years more like! How old are you? 18 or something?!!

[@mjribes]

@@tennis5011 LOL!! I agree - they are the top 3 PMs of the last 10 years... Because they are the ONLY PMs we've had in the last decade ;p

[@mjribes]

@@GoldenKaos We'll have to agree to disagree - but maybe that's cos I'm a "bigoted woman". He was a good chancellor but a piss poor PM.

[@tennis5011]

@@mjribes I think that you misunderstand...your comment was the top 3 worse in the last 100 years. However, all 3 come from the last ten years. So, why even bother with the "100 year statement"? I was actually being facetious. Look, the worst Prime Minister in living memory is Blair. It was he who caused Brexit with his decisions whilst in office. I.E. the rise of ISIS and mass immigration etc, etc...There isn't a man more hated in this country than he is. From both left and right. From John O'Groats to Lands End. Blair is hated by everyone. All Cameron did was "clone" Blair and become an almost identical carbon copy of his hero. Just an opportunist really. But have no doubt, Blair was the real Alan B'stard MP!! He was even more evil than Mrs T!!

[@Clem_Fandango11]

The majority since ww2 have been sh+te. Wilson jumped ship when everything turned to pooh. Heath was bloody useless, worse than May I would say. Brown, Blair, Cameron, Eden, Callaghan....all crap.

[@MrThorfan64]

I think the best was Attlee.

[@Clem_Fandango11]

@@MrThorfan64 difficult to comment on Atlee. After the war people wanted Churchill as leader but with Atlee and Labours ideals. Hence Churchill lost and Atlee lasted 1 term. It's said that he was a weak leader.....maybe the reason he didn't last long. I think generally it doesn't take long for the public to sniff out weak leaders.....May, Major, Cameron, Brown. All talked a good game but when push came to shove they were useless.

[@vashna3799]

According to the Sun however he was “every inch the statesman “ during his premier

[@VaucluseVanguard]

Interesting. It was the documentary Paxman did about a week before the referendum about the total lack of democratic values in the EU that made me decide to vote leave!

[@edwardharrison1471]

You silly sausage

[@EdMcF1]

'Because Cameron inadvertently led to the independence of the United Kingdom, by asking people what they actually want.' I presume he means.

[@brianrushford4057]

It is a BBC programme and audience

[@psychotron9]

Could not agree more !

[@pauljoel7095]

Silly billy! @psychotron9

[@georgehargrave3902]

You couldn't agree more that Cameron should have postponed democracy? It is precisely that elitist, narcissistic mentality that fans the flames of Brexit and populism. More fool you

[@psychotron9]

getting the Brexit vote was NOT democracy, the Govt. are in place to make the decisions as most of the public are too stupid to see sense - point proved.

[@georgehargrave3902]

psychotron9 They are only in place because they have consent of the people. It is a contradiction to suggest that elected representatives are democratic but the people body are not. They are only elected representatives because of the people body. You disagree with the outcome and thus you would have preferred there not to be a referendum, but your emotions aren't a coherent argument against a democratic referendum - that's an absurd thing to suggest. 17.4m people voted for Brexit - that is the biggest political mandate in the history of the UK. No government or Parliament majority has ever received anywhere near that number before - yet Parliament are democratic but a referendum isn't? MPs are there to make decisions on our behalf, not instead of us. Revise your theory of representative democracy!

[@mattslivovitz2947]

He's a fuckwit.

[@Oprey22]

He makes John Major look statesmanlike.

[@1jimmy534]

Jedediah which is an achievement to be fair.

[@andrewworley4401]

Very apt remarks at the end.

[@ianrenberger7441]

Cameron the traitor

[@GiraffeFeatures]

One-nation Tory comes out and speaks against David Cameron purely because it's the trendy thing at the minute to criticise the way the British Public voted in the EU Referendum. I thought Paxman was above political point scoring, how disappointing. (Before I get called a bigoted Leave Voter, I voted Remain. I just respect democracy and people's right to have differing opinions to that of my own).

[@leehargreaves7473]

Little did Paxman know just how bad things could get.

[@Psmith-ek5hq]

Cameron and his wife are the opposite of the McCanns: they left their kids to go to the pub.

[@samdoesvids1339]

Things David Cameron gave us; 1. Austerity 2. Privatised Royal Mail 3. Electoral reform (lies!) 4. A vaporised centrist party 5. Brexit 6. Gay marriage? So he did some things...maybe...

[@thecinematicmind]

Gay Marriage was thanks to common sense. Not David Cameron.

[@routmaster38]

Destroyed our still viable Harriers and Nimrods to please his EU bosses and sacked Libya causing terrorism and mass migration here! A bigger war monger than his hero Blair!

[@leikfroakies]

Paxman: "David Cameron is the worst prime minister since Lord North" Theresa May: "Hold my beer"

[@thecinematicmind]

David Cameron made the country an absolute joke and by that alone makes him the worst.

[@louissmith1393]

Boris: “Hold my Champaign”

[@gameking50P]

Neville Chamberlain was actually one of the best Chancellors in history tbf to him

[@james737]

This was filmed before Boris became PM.

[@numbersix100]

And May is worse than David Cameron

[@connor296]

and boris is worse than may

[@maureendavidson4635]

@@connor296 And Sturgeon is worse than any of them. Where's the 8.7billion?

[@aliwelchoo]

this guy can't say anything, his terrible interviews with Cameron and Miliband convinced so many people to vote for Cameron, he should go into Room 101 alongside Cameron

[@TheKukun123]

O.o me thinks this should be played at 1.25× LoL the normal one sounds like they're completely stoned beyond measure

[@TwistedSoul2002]

I thought that was Lt Cmdr Data for a sec.

[@petergaskin1811]

Not the worst, most certainly the weakest. Then May? Then Johnson. And with Truss on the horizon, the worst is yet to come.

[@tacobell6826]

Just when you thought things could get worse: enter Boris.

[@jon780249]

Of course that was before May and Johnson.

[@uingaeoc3905]

The issue is regarding Cameron allegedly being bad because of 'allowing the referendum' shows how ignorant and prejudiced Paxman is. Blair promised a referendum in 1997 before winning the Election and said there would be one to decide if there would be further EU integration - a bit rich having agreed to Maastricht Treaty in opposition. Cameron promised a Referendum in 2010, but was not allowed to do so by the LibDems in the Coalition. In 2014 UKIP won the EU Elections in the UK, so Cameron pledged again there would be a referendum and so had no choice when he got a majority with the LibDems being destroyed. In essence Paxman is saying there should have been no referendum BECAUSE HE KNEW THE ANSWER WOULD BE LEAVE.