Whose Baby Are You?

[poliphilo]

Do you know who was President/Prime Minister the year you were born- without looking it up? Apparently Matt Drudge doesn't. I was scornful until I tried to answer the question myself.

I guessed Eisenhower/Churchill. Wrong. I was a toddler when Eisenhower and Churchill came in. The answer is Truman/Attlee.

I'm pleasantly surprised. I idolise the post-war Labour Government (which gave us the Welfare State) and I don't like Churchill (whose post-war administration was the vanity project of a senile old man.) I'd far rather be a post-war Labour baby than a Churchill baby.

Yay- Attlee!

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The only politicians I've rubbed shoulders with have been lowly specimens. When I was a vicar we used to get the local MP to open church jumble sales and the like.

And when I was working on the trains Gerald Kaufman- who has been a Government minister- grumbled to me (to me personally) about the quality of the service he was getting.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

And how did you respond to Kaufman? Did he know you worked for the trains?

(What did you do on the trains?)

Inquiring minds must know...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was working as a cleaner- so the fact that Mr Kaufman's train was running late had nothing to do with me.

As I remember I agreed with him and then hurried to get away.