 Cyril Blamire was perhaps the person he argued with the most.This was largely because Cyril viewed himself as superior to Compo (and occasionally Clegg) and made snide remarks about Compo's working class lifestyle more frequently than his successors.His right wing political views contrasted to Compo's left wing views, (in real life Bill Owen's and Michael Bates's political views were similar to their onscreen characters and in turn both conflicted).