Thursday fav election five

[Ruprect]

(I know I'm a bit early but)
Favourite politician (across the ages)
Favourite political song
Favourite political book
Favourite capital city
Favourite political quote

[shaunbhoy]

1. Boris Johnson
2. Part of the Union - Strawbs
3. Animal Farm - George Orwell
4. Budapest
5. "A modest little person with much to be modest about" Churchill on Clement Attlee

[thunderlizard]

Eamon de Valera (especially as played by Alan Rickman in the film "Michael Collins")
The Internationale
The Republic
Ashgabat
"Don't judge me for my morals. Judge me for my buildings!" (Jabez Balfour, MP and property developer after being convicted of a Bernie Madoff scam)

[Ruprect]

1. Boris Johnson
2. Part of the Union - Strawbs
3. Animal Farm - George Orwell
4. Budapest
5. "A modest little person with much to be modest about" Churchill on Clement Attlee

*
Good call on animal farm

mine:
1. Bill Clinton
2. Wake up - RATM
3. Vive la revolution - mark steel
4. Paris (London really, but that's cheating)
5. *The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur - George w bush

[Mich the Tester]

Thomas Jefferson
It’s over!
1984
Lisbon
"The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher

[Lockhouse]

Favourite politician - Thomas Jefferson
Favourite political song - Beethoven's Fifth
Favourite political book - 1984
Favourite capital city - Winchester (well it was capital of England until around 1066)
Favourite political quote - "The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." - Thomas Jefferson

[Lockhouse]

Thomas Jefferson

I thought I'd be the only one. Some of the things he said and wrote still resonate today - not least parts of the Declaration of Independence.

[DieScum]

Favourite politician (across the ages) - Tony Blair
Favourite political song - pass
Favourite political book - Rights of Man
Favourite capital city - Bangkok
Favourite political quote - Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

[DaveB]

Favourite politician - Aneurin Bevan
Favourite political song - Won't get fooled again - The Who.
Favourite political book - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand.
Favourite capital city - Paris ( favorite city is Venice but thats not a capital )
Favourite political quote - “Politicians are like nappies. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.” - Anonymous [/QUOTE]

[Troll]

I thought I'd be the only one. Some of the things he said and wrote still resonate today - not least parts of the Declaration of Independence.

That would be the same Jefferson penning the Declaration of Independance , stating that " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
While being a slave owner and bonking his female slaves?