Nah not even him. Jock Stein maybe though, just to stick someone famous in there. But, in all honesty, Joey Dunlop. Not just for his racing achievements, but his treks across to Romanian orphanages in his van loaded with food and gifts, on his own too. That us true humility and humanity.
Yep. The man who set the standards, a true gent, a winner, and a man who ran onto a football pitch of one of the worlds most hated rivalries to help those supporters of the opposition in need during one of footballs disasters.
All a bit too deep for me this guys Have to admit that Sir David Attenborough would be on the very top of my list.
Set what standards? Surely your having a laugh... Worlds most hated rivalries? Yeah sure he helped where he could.... But hardly in control of literally millions of people's lives..... He played football.... As fantastic an acheivement as that is, I'd respect hundreds of 1000's other men and women over that for representing our country in the services for a pittance in comparison to others wages.... Sorry, but to use a footballer and (a decent chap too) to compare against an absolute legend is mental? Then again. He did make me laugh....
I would respect the thousands conscripted to sacrifice their lives over any politician who sent them there. You are talking about a puppet whose every move and word was orchestrated by folk behind the scenes. He may well have been a decent man, and respected for being the front of the British side of the allies, but not a national treasure for me. My initial post in this thread shared my true views of the real national treasures. My post about Jock Stein related to the high regard and respect that I have for the man, the manager he was and the sporting standards he set that so many others have tried to copy (some successfully). However I don't seriously hold him as a national treasure as such.
I have been thinking and have no idea. Isambard Kingdom Brunel has to be on there but as in the other ??? Bob Monkhouse, I liked him. As I did Tommy Cooper it may be a sporting personality such as John Surtees
Tim Berners-Lee Arthur Wellesley Oh, and Churchill wrote his own speeches, had help from a typist, and often took inspiration from literature but didn't have a speechwriter.
