[macintologist]

I was checking out the different UK Prime Ministers from WW2 to present day and noticed some interesting parallels.

Labour are like the Dems since they are the center-left party, and Conservatives are like the Repugs since they are the center-right party.

1940-1945 - Churchill was in office and a fierce WW2 fighter. Sort of like Ike FDR and Truman combined since he was a Conservative.

1945-1951 - Clemen Atlee was Labour. Same time as Truman basically.

1951-1955 - Churchill again. 1955-1957 Athony Eden was a conservative. Athony Eden was also a miserable failure of a PM.

1957-1963 - Harold MacMillian, another conservative PM. 1963-1964 - Alec Douglas-Home, another Conservative PM.

So basically throughout the 50's we have only Conservative PMs, which resembles the 1950s in the USA with a Republican in the Whitehouse.

1964-1970 - Harold Wilson. This guy was an intellectual heavyweight, and a 60's icon. Also a member of the Labour party. He parallels JFK and LBJ who reigned in the 60s.

1970-1974 - Edward Heath, a conservative. Parallels Nixon's time. He lost support from his own party and was voted out. Sort of like Nixon who lost support from the Repugs after watergate.

1974-1976 - Harold Wilson again.

1976-1979 - James Callaghan, a Labour PM. This is similar to Carter's term in office.

1979-1990 - Margaret Thatcher, a notorious Conservative PM, like Reagan. Don't forget that during this era, Labour had the reputation of the "Loony Left". Now look where they are, and what are Dems called nowadays?

1990-1997 - John Major, a Conservative. Let's see him as a successful George H.W. Bush since he lasted 3 more years.

1997 - to present day. - Tony Blair, a Labour PM. Charismatic, and brought a new image to Labour, sort of like what Clinton did who won 2 terms as a Dem, also a charismatic.

Tony Blair is also similar to Bush because he is a warhawk.

So the parallels are not exact, but they are close enough for me to have noticed and make this post.

[budster101]

Parallels between the leaders of CHINA, SYRIA, IRAN...

Have a look there.

[SimeyTheLimey]

There are some parallels, but mostly not really the ones you mentioned. For a start equating the Democrats with the Labour Party is way overstated. The Democrats have always been a capitalist party. The Labour Party was for most of its existence an overtly socialist party. Actually, the Democrats have historically been closer to where the Conservatives in the UK have been. The US doesn't have a mainstream party that has inhabited the same ground as the Labour Party historically has inhabited. .

Labour Prime Ministers and Democratic presidents don't normally get on well. For example, Atlee and Truman didn't get on, and nor did Wilson and Johnson. Some of the Prime Ministers and presidents who most famously got on were Churchill (Tory) and Roosevelt (Democrat). Churchill and Roosevelt had been friends since WW-I. Macmillan (a Tory) and Kennedy (Democrat), Thatcher (Tory) and Reagan (Republican). But the only close Labour - Democrat pair I can think of would be Blair and Clinton, but Blair also gets on well with Bush. Callaghan, for example, had a quite bumpy relationship with Carter. And of couse, so did Thatcher.

But there are some parallels. Callaghan presided over a country in internal malaise similarly to Carter. Heath (Tory) didn't get on at all well with the US Nixon Administration, but he pursued an incomes policy that was similar to Nixon's. The Reagan-Thatcher relationship was very close, but Thatcher was well to the right of most British PMs. Bush and Blair have a moderately similar view of the War on Terror.

So yes I agree a little bit, but not entirely.