worst person to address both Houses of the United Kingdom Parliament

harper

the queen

NB for the addresses by Smuts, Bulganin, Khrushchev, Ortega, Soares, the 14th Dalai Lama, Menem, Banda, the first of Peres and Mandela's two addresses and for both of Gorbachev's "members of both Houses were present at the meeting but this was not a formal presentation to both Houses".

Aung San Suu Kyi is coming up fast on the rails.

A lot of shitbags here, Modi maybe?

reagan

Modi is terrible and obv. the Chinese leader. Menem is a weird one, how did that get past the Daily Mail and the Sun?

i was a bit disappointed with the prevention of trump speaking to the houses. really they should say 'of course of course sir' and then lead him to like a university dining hall or something and all the students will be there in their gowns and he will address parliament

objectively this is probably Jan Smuts but i'll probably vote Reagan anyway

I don't know much about Smuts, but he has to be pretty bad, right? (he apparently came to support black enfranchisement in the late 1940s, but more on the basis of him realising that white minority rule was unsustainable than anything particularly noble?)

also candidates: Ortega, Modi, Reagan, Khrushchev, all of the French presidents

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ooh, Howard tho, he's like a pissant Reagan

Jan smuts definitely the worst person to have addressed both houses of parliament and to have a statue in parliament square.

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/DX8DXJ/jan-christian-smuts-statue-in-parliament-square-london-england-united-DX8DXJ.jpg

correction, never supported black enfranchisement, did support some relaxation of segregation, apparently?

xxxp to myself

how is that statue still standing lol

I guess, pull down that, you gotta pull down them all

except the salvation army guy

(maybe)

Cromwell is perched right in front of the House of Commons, thank you very much.

Sure, he killed a king but he had so many bad points.

park geun-hye is an interesting person

don't know if Yeltsin was a fount of evil or a passed-out puppet tbh

Khrushchev was a very bad fucker who earned his party stripes for his ruthless part in the Holodomor and other deadly actions in Ukraine, easily up there with the worst.

First, Mr. Khrushchev played a very significant role in the man-made famine in Ukraine in the period of 1930-33. On the basis of performances in that famine he was promoted in 1934 to a full-fledged member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Second, he was engaged in extensive purges in Ukraine actually to make way for himself to become eventually the first secretary of the Communist Party in Ukraine.

In these purges he directly engaged in the murder of people like Kossior and others. Countless others met death as a result of Khrushchev's perpetration of these extensive purges. Yet, quite cynically, in 1956 at the 20th party congress he posthumously rehabilitated the very people whom he had directly murdered. The purges continued during the period of the thirties to wipe out well over 400,000 Ukrainians.

Third, as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, he was involved in the heinous massacre of about 9,500 Ukrainians in Vynnytsia.

Fourth, during the war, as a security general in the NKVD, he exploited the Communist partisans primarily to provoke German occupying forces into augmenting their repressions and persecutions of the Ukrainian populace. Much of the populace was in favor, for a time, of German liberation. Seeing one alien totalitarianism supplanted by another, they soon fought against both Berlin and Moscow. Fifth, in 1944-46, Khrushchev was responsible for the liquidation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and continued the suppression of the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalic Church. He has continued to keep both institutions in extinction - no posthumous rehabilitation on this score.

Sixth, during the war and after, when he was dispatched again by Stalin to take control and wipe out the "bourgeois" nationalist forces in Ukraine, Khrushchev was heavily engaged in the liquidation of many individuals and groups connected with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). He also inflicted damages, physical and personal, upon the populace which supported contingents of this army.

Seventh, in 1954-55, with his so-called virgin land policy, he precipitated a forcible resettlement of countless Ukrainian youth, male and female, to Kazakhstan. This, too, was really an act of genocide, a nation-destroying type of deportation under cover of economic resettlement.

Eighth, he was also, in 1954-55 responsible for the barbarous suppression of strikes by Ukrainian political prisoners at Vorkuta, Mordovia and Karaganda.

nice little summary of Khrushchev's charge sheet here.

I was going to vote for Smuts or Modi but that's probably swung it.

What was Khrushchev doing addressing Anthony Eden's Parliament at a time when no US president had done so, despite Britain being effectively propped up the Americans at the time?

Cromwell is perched right in front of the House of Commons, thank you very much.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, February 6, 2017 7:15 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sure, he killed a king but he had so many bad points.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, February 6, 2017 7:17 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You mean he wasn't

https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780413573902-uk.jpg

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The famous "James Bond" inspiration MI6 agent Lionel Crabb was apparently offed by the KGB during his visit as well.

xi jinping obv

the man in charge of imposing more restrictions on internet and freedom of speech

doc no 9 also nagl

hate to say it but the queen is probably the least bad person here

What, with Willy Brandt and Mandela on the list? She's one of the worst.

Add up millions of excess deaths, the most precipitous decline in life expectancy and quality of life any industrialised country has experienced in peacetime, amoral arms dealing fuelling some of the worst conflicts of the last thirty years, the flattening of Grozny and the complete sellout of a nascent democracy and Yeltsin is in with a shout.

oops, i missed mandela was on the list. not that i hold any brief for the queen or anything but it's hard to rank her w/ ppl like khrushchev.

Well, she's a monarch, so she's reprehensible in a very specific way, no matter what she's like as a human being.

Only not voting for Boris Yeltsin because Nikita Khrushchev is in the list.

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Too many names I know nothing about. Who did the most damage in the least amount of time (in their most powerful role)?

Pope Joey Rats really getting overlooked here, gang.

Reagan's probably had the worst long term effect on the world of any of these (so far).

Yeltsin's had pretty awful long term effect.

Well yes we'll see how that plays out.

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Barack Obama worse than Kruschev everybody

what was wrong with Giuseppe Saragat? I don't really know anything about him besides the information contained in this fairly brief wiki artilce:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Saragat

Giuseppe is maybe the most adorable looking president I've ever seen

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Giuseppe_Saragat.jpg http://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/biografie/saragat.jpg
http://presidenti.quirinale.it/Saragat/fotografie/foto_gr/4SARAGAT08gr.jpg

David Hockney does Jim Callaghan!