Which Brits........?

ilovecyprus


Joined: 08/05/2007
Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 13:40

Which British people do you most admire for changing and making a contribution to the world?



Tim Berners -Lee - the Internet

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 13:43

William Shakespeare....do I need to explain?

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 13:51

Winston Churchill !!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 13:52

Sir Winston Churchill.

greenman


Joined: 16/02/2008
Posts: 526

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 13:55

James Watt

He didn't invent the steam engine, but developed it so that it became a practical and efficient source of power that effectively started the industrial revolution.

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 14:50

Nick Griffin -for showing everybody absolutely clearly how thick BNP and the like are.

doggiesteve


Joined: 06/10/2010
Posts: 265

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 15:07

maggie thacher for smashing the miners & shoing some people in parliment have principles

catalkoykid


Joined: 15/02/2009
Posts: 1190

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 15:29

mess 4 when i new him he only smoked roll ups lol

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 15:31

Winston Churchill.

Blackpoolfan


Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 1568

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 15:45

Churchill without doubt. Close second would be Maggie smashed the unions single handed

cyprusgiant


Joined: 08/07/2009
Posts: 467

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 16:50

Charles Darwin

EsentepeGal


Joined: 12/09/2010
Posts: 144

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 16:52

Maggie would be welcome here.

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 17:25

Maggie, The Iron Lady, My Hero.

rocking


Joined: 05/11/2008
Posts: 421

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 18:10

Maggie Thatcher and Sir Winston Churchill

jimchris09


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 18:40

Captain James Cook...he certainly went boldly where noone had gone before and opened up so much of the "undiscovered" world.

yenibob


Joined: 13/10/2010
Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 18:51

though i cant disagree with maggie and winnie i am disapointed by the lack of imagination and the desire to be "right" that leades the followers to copy there betters.

Have the guts to be diferent.



Johnson and Boswell for me

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 19:02

Thomas More



Newton



Cromwell



Wolf



Brunel



Dickens



Jane Austen



Bobby Moore



Not whoever was responsible for doggiesteve's eduction.

jimbob433



Joined: 26/06/2008
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 19:25

me but nobody knows yet

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
16/10/2010 19:40

Mr and Mrs Roger, just because I am who I am

littlejohn


Joined: 09/03/2009
Posts: 316

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 00:32

Lloyd George and William Beveridge .

donga


Joined: 01/04/2009
Posts: 272

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 00:34

Sir Robert Paisley & Sir William Shankley

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 00:39

Enoch Powell, he knew .

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 00:42

Susan George...Kirsty Wark...Moria Stewart...Jimi Hendrix...Pete Townsend...Karl Fogerty...

That's just a start!!!

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 09:32

msg22 Well said Lilli,...Enoch by a MILE! Next for me would be Charles Darwin,Abraham Lincoln..,William Wilberforce....and Sir Robert Peel....

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 09:51

Sorry,, Abe Lincoln was American but changed the world......I almost forgot my best choice throughout "ALL" English History...King Edward 1

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 10:56

Lord Rutherford - split the atom - an expat. 'Kiwi'!

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 11:27

Alexander Fleming......Penicillin

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 12:38

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scottish_inventors



Margaret Thatcher then this lot



Chris

branwell



Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 15:44

Msg 24

How can you support Charles Darwin and William Willberforce AND Enoch Powell ?

The first two emphasised the 'human-ness' of all mankind and the latter tried (unsuccesfully) to draw divisions.

jimchris09


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 17:11

John Logie Baird was a very important chap wasn't he! Also, let's not forget Lennon and McCatney!

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 19:36

branwell, how can you question someones personal choice.



Now if you had said "I don't understand" before your post it would be a little less accusive don't you think and might then stop this thread from deteriorating from a reasonable question to a disagreement for no other reason than you did not like the individuals choice.

I am sure many people disagree with Maggie Thatcher as a choice but not one has questioned it.

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 20:35

msg29"and the latter tried(unsuccessfully) to draw divisions"

That's what the shallow minded Ted Heath said..But Guess who was right..

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 20:38

Waterproof fabric - Charles Macintosh and Alexander Fleming, pencillin

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 21:26

Branwell



You might perhaps look at Powells speech on the killings at Hola Camp in Kenya.

silentbutdim


Joined: 07/09/2010
Posts: 121

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 22:11

brian clough

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 22:12

msg 29 If you are suggesting that Enoch Powell was a racist then you are obviously unaware of the man's

exceptional education and his Political Acumen.Against all the odds he said what needed to be said,not for any racialist reasons ,he was simply bound by his political position as MP for Wolverhampton and by it's constituents to tell the "TRUTH"

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
17/10/2010 22:17

British musicians.... they created 'Cool Britannia...'



Bloody politicians... they are the ones who take us to war.

bigOz


Joined: 29/09/2010
Posts: 1244

Message Posted:
18/10/2010 00:16

What's the name of the lad who discovered "Fish & Chips!!!"

zerochlor


Joined: 03/04/2009
Posts: 4024

Message Posted:
18/10/2010 00:20

harry ramsden

bigOz


Joined: 29/09/2010
Posts: 1244

Message Posted:
18/10/2010 00:21

Thanks zerochlor! He most definitely gets my vote!