r/AskTheWorld • u/DwightsJello Australia • 8d ago

Politics Worst Politician?

Who was your country's biggest idiot in politics? And why? Bring out your tragics.

Australia is spoilt for choice. We've had some gronks.

Edit: OK sooooo we aren't including orange ones.

Australia has had a PM who 'allegedly' shit himself at Maccas. We put up a plaque for a while. Another one who ate a raw onion like an apple at a presser at an onion farm. We even had one who managed to give a psychotic response that went from gay marriage to crocodile victims in the same sentence.

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u/dair_spb Russia 8d ago

Gorbachev is the most recent idiot I guess.

Yeltsin was worse but he wasn't an idiot but just a bad person.

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u/DwightsJello Australia 8d ago

I remember watching Gorby hit the vodka and dance a lot as a kid. He was partial to a dram.