Anthony Howard - Clement Attlee: the greatest Prime Minister of 20th century (20/41)

[@davidrobinson2776]

Clement Attlee had a knack of telling people what to do and making them think it was their idea. He wasn’t flashy but his mind was unmatched. His role with Churchill during wartime should never be underestimated. Certainly, old Winston knew it.

[@MarkHarrison733]

Churchill was a traitor.

[@yourgirlme9163]

Absolutely

[@night6724]

Attlee was an idiot

[@Roz-y2d]

👍🏻

[@briandelaney9710]

Churchill deeply respected Attlee. Whenever someone tried to bring up that joke about Attlee arriving at Downing St and there was an empty taxi , Churchill let that person know in no uncertain terms , that Attlee was a decent and Honourable public servant who supported his country in her time of need

[@black__bread]

"He (Clement Atlee) was a serious man and a patriot. Quite contrary to the general tendency of politicians in the 1990s, he was all substance and no show" - Margaret Thatcher

[@chittaranjansarkar4081]

Clement Atlee was a pioneer of Indian independent. Basically his intention was positive. Thanks.

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@chittaranjansarkar4081 Attlee was against Indian independence until February 1947.

[@Roz-y2d]

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[@tylerdodmusic423]

Can’t understand some of the comments hating on Attlee and calling him a joke. He helped build the coalition against Joseph Stalin, was responsible for appointing Aneurin Bevin creating the NHS, created our wonderful national parks, gave housing to those who couldn’t afford any at the time, saved our country from a financial Dunkirk after the war, helped convince Churchill not to make peace with the Nazis before the war started and changed this country dramatically and for the better in many ways. Sure the economy would eventually become his Achilles heal but by no means was he a joke. Much better than most prime ministers!

[@wonjubhoy]

he is an unsung hero.

[@night6724]

He didn’t build a coalition against Stalin, the NHS is a joke and the housing act lead to the NIMBY problem we have today. He was a loser

[@wilverbal]

He helped convince Churchill not to make peace with the Nazis before the war??? Churchill didn't need persuading of that. He wasn't prime minister before the war. And how do you make peace with someone when a war hasn't started yet? What peace is there to make in peacetime?

[@christophercoupe5006]

Didn't he give jet engines to Stalin? Brilliant move that haunted allied air forces for decades!!!!!!!!!!

[@Roz-y2d]

@@christophercoupe5006Really? Or was that someone else we know?

[@brianocallaghan7172]

got to respect this man who studied these various political figures over many decades.He gives us his observations cogently and with fairness and perhaps not everyone would agree with his veiws but he was at the coal face for a lenghty period of time and was paid to watch listen and question.i greatly enjoy this journalist and respect his fairness

[@mikeanagnostou4399]

Clement Attlee was a great political mind and very effective in managing egotistical and larger than life colleagues in his cabinet, nearly all of whom thought they could do a better job than him as PM. Truly a modest and self-effacing man, Attlee demonstrated that having a core of principles and determination is more important than charisma or image or style. In this age of television and the internet, though, Attlee would never achieve high office today.

[@andrewhuckle803]

A politician who seemed to be a contradiction in terms was Edward Heath. You can read that he was in many respects a jovial man, yet he could also be rude and at times anti social.

[@Roz-y2d]

Yes, but the less said the better!

[@marcosalves-lb1bb]

Best PM

[@cheese5728]

Worst

[@Roz-y2d]

Absolutely.👍🏻❤️

[@rory4605]

Who's the name he mentions at 4:30? Couldn't quite make out what he says, and I sound relatively posh myself.

[@MacIntoshMann]

Gerald Nabarro, a Tory with a truly astonishing moustache.

[@rory4605]

@@MacIntoshMann Thank you, and yes, it is indeed a truly special moustache.

[@marc21091]

Notice that Tony Howard spoke favourably of some Conservative politicians (Stanley Baldwin, Michael Heseltine) but did not mention Margaret Thatcher.

[@IanP1963]

He speaks about her in other vids!

[@zeddeka]

This clip is just part of the interview - it's broken down into separate videos. He speaks in depth about Thatcher in other clips

[@robin7275]

Not many people liked Thatcher, in fact they hated her. A cunning woman who wold do anything to get what she want, no moral just brute ambition.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

He didn't get along with Thatcher.

[@Roz-y2d]

Stanley Baldwin was a liar to his family and in politics!

[@jimquann2400]

There is no modern UK without Churchill, but Attlee can be next and that is a very good place. They did work together in WW2 and Attlee moved the UK in post war world

[@gg0u1239]

Great biography on him and equally good one on Ernie Bevin. As good as atlee was, he would not have done it without Bevin. And vice verse as foreign secretary

[@robin231176]

Intellect and showmanship? Harold Wilson had both, and uniquely quit at a time of his choosing.

[@Roz-y2d]

Er, wasn’t he terminally ill?

[@tourmelion9221]

Is this guy still alive? What does he think of Bojo? Edit: he's dead, he died in 1967 I wonder what it would have been like to meet him

[@filmneek]

He, like Churchill, would have most likely been disgusted at how modern politicians behave. Particularly that of Boris Johnson and Liz truss.

[@bryanhead2670]

First class advice love politics but sadly i had no luck!!! 😎 😎 😎

[@willhovell9019]

There is a strong case for Wilson as up there as an great, so many reforms and keeping us out of Vietnam warm. Unfortunately Atlee took us into Korea, st great cost to the Country reversing the balance of payments, and national budget and leading to over a decade of Conservative rule

[@chittaranjansarkar4081]

Great personalities of politics stay in U. K .Thanks

[@alessandrocarpi9898]

Thanks C. R. Attlee for nuclear weapons,the National Health Service,New towns and the new World Order from Suez to Sydney. A statesman that preserved Britain as a Great nation......

[@MarkHarrison733]

The NHS was created by Marshall Aid.

[@evansclan4eva49]

One thing makes a great leader - making a decision and staying with it.

[@zeddeka]

Errrr, Liz Truss? Anthony Eden? History is full of bad prime ministers making decisions and sticking to them, usually with catastrophic results.

[@malcolmabram2957]

An empty taxi turned up at Downing Street, and out stepped Clement Attlee.

[@Quinn-ns3on]

Abram, youre the biggest moron around!

[@malcolmabram2957]

@@Quinn-ns3on It is a joke about whom I regard as the greatest Prime Minister of all time, a joke with a deep lesson. Your comment only serves to demonstrate the disgusting and inebriate state of your mind.

[@Quinn-ns3on]

@@malcolmabram2957 Youre a dropkick.

[@Roz-y2d]

👎😕

[@christophernewcombe9524]

How many times does he wipe his nose?

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

And yet, a lot of the policies he implemented were eventually reversed(the mass nationalisation scheme for one - and that probably did massive damage to Britain's economy), then there's the fact that the NHS hasn't been replicated elsewhere in the world and other countries have better healthcare outcomes, NATO and his military interventions(Korean war) - I now have come to see in a negative light, what with giving rise to US imperialism and the UK assisting in that.

[@Mr_Lo_]

a sheep in sheep's clothing.

[@McKamikazeHighlander]

Well the sheep defeated the wolf in 2 straight elections, so he couldnt have been that toothless lol

[@Mr_Lo_]

@@McKamikazeHighlander that one has always seemed suspect to me. one wonders if a condition of the unified war government was to hand over the reigns of power after the war was over. how else does a successful war leader lose an election 2 months after the enemy has surrendered?

[@wonjubhoy]

@@Mr_Lo_ Because Britain did nothing for the heroes who won world war 1. The 1920s and 1930s were years of misery for the British working class. The British electorate were not going to make the same mistake after winning world war 2. That is why Labour won the 1945 general election.

[@Roz-y2d]

To refer to Attlee as such shows fear from Churchill. Attlee was a better man, an humble man, a true man of the people. And Churchill knew it!!!

[@chel3SEY]

Everything he says here is patently untrue.

[@BigMac014]

How does Britain elect Attlee instead of Churchill. Britain needed to rebuild and Churchill shouldve been the one to do it.

[@MarkHarrison733]

Churchill destroyed Britain and its empire.

[@BigMac014]

@@MarkHarrison733 he saved Britain and what was left of the Empire. Weak boned Attlee lost it. You didnt have a real PM with back bone until the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher.

[@SC-fl8eq]

Oh so you're a moron

[@Roz-y2d]

But he wouldn’t have. Simple as that.

[@gabbeskillz6262]

What is wrong with this man's face?

[@blackphoenix8932]

What's wrong with your attitude?

[@jackcrane7853]

Everything

[@jackcrane7853]

@@blackphoenix8932 NOTHING

[@joeblogs4701]

Attlee - the man who covered the country in council estates, every town was then surrounded by estates. Whereas before, rent-payers had been spread throughout society they were now all packed in together in council ghettos. Councils were now the biggest landowners in the world in Attlee's great socialist ideology. Thatcher attempted to rectify this by forcing councils to sell their properties to tenants if they so wished. The ghastly council houses are still with us, however, and still a blot on the landscape.

[@Max-fs9py]

So people can actually live somewhere with a roof over their head ? Says a lot about you if you believe council estates are bad.

[@joeblogs4701]

I grew up on an estate that's why I hate them. I have first-hand experience.

[@joeblogs4701]

@@Max-fs9py I grew up in a council house on a council estate with all the other poor kids

[@letitgrow5060]

@@joeblogs4701 council estates replaced slums and dodgy Victorian buildings..... I understand your pessimistic view however, it's the lack of moral fabric that has broken down, there was community pride when they were built, old pictures look great. Dont just shit on council estates without considering the alternatives to them

[@sonshi12nsp]

Frankly this is rubbish

[@IanP1963]

Greatest PM of all time - Sir Winston Churchill !!!

[@ianpyne9529]

Correction: Churchill was the greatest wartime PM. His record in peacetime is undistinguished and error-strewn. In peacetime, Attlee outstrips WC - by a distance! It should be mentioned that there was enormous mutual respect between these two great men.

[@malcolmabram2957]

@@ianpyne9529 I agree but it is sad that Attlee is pretty much forgotten. Attlee is a bit of a hero of mine, a quiet man whose administration achieved so much, especially for the poor. And quite remarkable considering it was post war austerity.

[@McKamikazeHighlander]

His only virtue was being a stubborn, bigoted, narrow-minded imperialist at a time when we the only thing he hated more than ethnic minorities and socialists were other stubborn, bigoted, narrow-minded imperialists on the continent. It is for this and only this that the UK benefited from Churchill during WWII

[@kevinblakeryan]

Attlee and Churchill were cared for by the same nanny, Miss Hutchinson, and as the story goes, she saw their differences at a very young age. And in spite of their differences, they got on quite well with each other in later years, especially during the war.

[@WillSmith-qk1be]

every decision Churchill made was wrong.

[@danpride2804]

Atllee ? What a joke

[@wonjubhoy]

He rebuilt Britain after world war 2 and got the country back to work. He gave Britain the national health service which it still has. Only Tony Blair did better as the labour party leader than Clement Attlee.