Alvin Flummux wrote:Moggy wrote:Alvin Flummux wrote:Moggy wrote:Vermilion wrote:Moggy wrote:I could probably come up with a number of things that Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown and Cameron did that were either decent or competent.
I don't recall the unholy coalition trinity of Cameron/Clegg/Osborne ever doing anything that was either decent or competent.
Gay marriage.
That was inevitable no matter who was in office, surely?
Probably, but they were the ones who did it.
How much credit do they really deserve, though, if it was an inevitability?
They deserve the credit for actually doing it. Blair didn’t, Brown didn’t, Cameron/Clegg did.
Lots of things are inevitable eventually.
Slavery was always going to be banned eventually, but Wilberforce/Lincoln deserve credit for ending it.
Civil rights would have happened eventually but Martin Luther King deserves credit for his efforts.
The Nazis would have fallen eventually, but the UK/USA/Russia get the credit for stopping it.
The question was based on doing something decent and/or competent, not on doing something that would happen eventually.