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Originally Posted by Edward Longshanks
But Cameron isn't a former PM, and hopefully will never be one. Churchill has to be the greatest leader the country has had during this period. To put Heath up there so high will see many reaching for the sick bag. :shock:
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The revolting Heath is down there at the bottom as far as most Conservative Party supporters and members feel (whatever ranking polls and surveys might put him on). He lost three of the four General Elections he contested (1966 and twice in 1974) and only won in 1970 because Enoch Powell went on television and urged people to vote for him (something he later regretted). His appalling relationship with the voters nearly destroyed the Conservative Party altogether. It is highly unlikely that someone leading the Conservative Party will be allowed to stay and lose three General elections again.
And then there's the fact that the graceless Heath wouldn't quit - even after notching up his third defeat at the polls in October 1974. It took the courage of Mrs. (now Lady) Thatcher (and her team composed mostly of what, today, we would call eurosceptics) to get rid of him - some would say she deserved to be named as the greatest peacetime Prime Minister in the last century just for doing that. She rid the top of British politics of a most unpleasant man and the nation of a man who acted totally against the interests of the British people.
Of course, this is all quite apart from the fact that Heath obediently gave to the EEC/EU what wasn't his to give away - our sovereignty :evil: .
Which is why Enoch Powell urged people to vote Labour in 1974 and which is why so many anti-EEC/EU campaigners did so. To get the treacherous Heath out and finish off his political career after only 3 years and 8 months as Prime Minister.