Some Great Political Insults Here. I Particularly Like Clemenceau On Lloyd George.

[sandyRoe]

Was Lloyd George loquacious?
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/26-of-the-greatest-political-insults-in-history/ss-AAdYibo?ocid=SL5MDHP#image=4

[Togo]

Winston Churchill on prime minister Clement Attlee: "He is a modest man with much to be modest about."
Winston Churchill on prime minister Clement Attlee: “An empty cab pulled up to Downing Street. Clement Attlee got out.”
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." –Winston Churchill

[retrocop]

Togo
A true master of the English Language and put downs bless him.

[sandyRoe]

Bessie Braddock: You're drunk again, Winston.
Churchill: Indeed I am. But in the morning I shall be sober. Now you, you're ugly...

He wouldn't get away with that now.

[aelmpvw]

//Was Lloyd George loquacious? //

he had nothing on Henry Peter Brougham who spoke for 6 hours on law reform. He subsequently set the same record in the House of Lords on 7 October 1831 again speaking for 6 hours during the second reading of the Reform Act.

[sandyRoe]

If Clemenceau could have peed as much as Brougham spoke he'd have flooded Versailles.

[Togo]

Bessie Braddock was a formidable lady herself sandy. But even she laughed at that. We have become far more precious than the old timers who took themselves far less seriously. // Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.// Winston Churchill

[sandyRoe]

he didn't always get things right, then?

[New Judge]

Yes Churchill was the master of such insults.

“If you wanted nothing done, Arthur Balfour [Prime Minister 1902-05] was the best man for the task. There was no equal to him.”

Lady Astor [at a diner party in Blenheim Palace]: “Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your coffee.”

Churchill: "Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"

[Buenchico]

Lloyd George: "Churchill would make a drum out of the skin of his mother in order to sound out his own praises".

Michael Foot (on Norman Tebbit): "It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a semi-house-trained polecat".

Bob Dole: "When Al gore gives a fireside chat, the fire goes out"

But perhaps an outsider put it best: " A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar" - H L Mencken

[Jackdaw33]

Churchill on Sir Stafford Cripps (post war Labour chancellor):

There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

[Jackdaw33]

Michael Heseltine (when the Liberals decided to shore up the minority Labour government in 1976):

I have often heard of rats deserting a sinking ship, but I have never heard of mice joining one.

[New Judge]

I was at school with the Great Nephew of Sir Stafford Cripps.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't he resign because of a budget leak? Nowadays what's going to be in a budget is clearly signaled weeks ahead.