Who was the UKs worst PM and why.

[Waterways]

Nelville Chamberlain [although not on the list - I think he deserves to be] for pursuing the appeasement foreign policy with Nazi Germany, in spite of their continued commitment to increased militarisation. Britain was totally unprepared for war in 1939 when it came, and the outcome could have been much worse had America not been forced into the war in Dec. 1941.

Chamberlain was a tosser for sure. After the defeat of France, the Tory Lord Halifax was wanting peace with the Germans. The Labour Party would have nothing of it.

The UK was prepared for war in 1939. The army was fully motorised - men never marched unlike the Germans. Germany was not prepared. Germany was facing the might of the UK and France who collectively dwarfed Germany. French tanks were much superior to German tanks. The Germans could not knock out the UK's Matilda 2 tank.



The combined British and French economies was 60% larger than Germany's and Italy's. Germany hardly had a navy while the RN held an effective blockade of Germany. Germany won the battle of France because of allied incompetence rather than them being a wonderful military machine. They attacked the USSR without adequate fuel or materials and no reserves. By December 1941 the Soviets had tuned the Germans back at Moscow using the latest T-34 tanks, which the Germans had no match. 18 months before the Germans had been pegged at the battle of Britain and were going nowhere hoping for a miracle.

The US accelerated the wars end, not decide it. The economies of the UK and the USSR dwarfed that of Germany and the end result would only be defeat for Germany. Germany were doomed in even thinking of war.