UK: BLACKPOOL: LABOUR PARTY ANNUAL CONFERENCE: TONY BLAIR SPEECH
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Labour leader Tony Blair, the man widely topped to become Britain's next prime minister has promised to build a new constructive relationship with Europe if he comes to power.
In a keynote speech at Labour's Annual Party Conference - his last before the next general elections - Blair mapped out his vision for Britain's future under a Labour government.
Britain's Prime Minister, John Major - leader of the Conservative party - must call an election within the next eight months. Opinion polls are predicting a Labour win for the first time in 17 years.
Blackpool in the north coast of England is a favourite spot for political party conferences.
And it was here that Labour leader Tony Blair made his final conference speech before the next general election. Blair - who's widely tipped to become Britain's next prime minister, rallied his troops behind the Labour banner and mapped out his vision for the future under a Blair government.
The Labour leader received a rapturous welcome when he appeared on stage.
The Labour party is currently ahead in the opinion polls - if it topples the ruling Conservative party at the next general election, Britain would have its first Labour government for 17 years.
Tony Blair had a message of unity for the party faithful.
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"Forget the past. No more bosses versus workers. We are on the same side, the same team and Britain united will win."
SUPER CAPTION: Tony Blair - leader of Britain's Labour party
In his rousing keynote speech Blair vowed his government would rectify a number of issues.
Among the Labour leaders' top priorities would be improving British education standards.
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"Ask me my three main priorities for government and I tell you education, education and education."
SUPER CAPTION: Tony Blair - leader of Britain's Labour party
The fight for education was the main plank of Blair's speech and he was adamant his party would rejuvenate a system that in Britain has suffered lack of funding and constant cuts for years.
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"And I tell you my vision of the future. I would like a state education system in Britain so good, so attractive that the parents choose to put behind us the educational apartheid of the past, private and state, and I don't believe anything would do more to break down the class divides that have no place in a modern country in the 21st century."
SUPER CAPTION: Tony Blair - leader of Britain's Labour Party
The Labour leader promised to take action over gun ownership following the Dunblane tragedy where 16 schoolchildren were shot dead by a gunman.
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"Well if they had been in that gym, if they had talked to those parents sitting on those tiny chairs where once their children had sat, they would have been emotional too. I believe that we should ban the private ownership and possession of handguns.
SUPER CAPTION: Tony Blair - leader of Britain's Labour Party
Blair also pledged to push Britain's relationship with the European Union to the top of his election campaign.
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"Britain has the Presidency of the European Union in the first half of 1998. One of our key priorities in that Presidency will be the completion of the single market. Well today even in opposition I set a deadline - June 1998 - the end of the British Presidency for the completion of the single market in Europe."
SUPER CAPTION: Tony Blair - leader of Britain's Labour Party
Blair's speech met with an enthusiastic response by delegates at the conference.
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Would’ve been one of th best if he didn’t go on a crusade with bush
@Daniel Clark Clark it was before the West bombed it
And opened the borders
He could have been a good Prime Minister,perhaps even been called great,if not for Iraq
Worst pm we have ever had. Was a follower of trotsky if memory had served me well. Silent revolution which destroyed our great British culture
@@YorickReturns true
@@jimmysmith736 this is based on what exactly...
john smith well you don’t have to believe me but you can type in google about tony Blair and trotsky when he was a student. He definitely admired him and so did the members of his party.
I don’t mind you disagreeing but you watch this video and come up with your own point of view.
th-cam.com/video/2KcUZFkj-mE/w-d-xo.html
Interesting though
YorickReturns we are not war criminals. Governments run countries. If you had a poll on the people asking whether or not to fight a war it would heavily favour no.
Britain in 1999: Lets ban the ownership of handguns
USA in 2020: Don't you fucking DARE try to take my assault rifle
Homicide rate went up faster after he banned handguns, and gun crime went up at a faster rate until 2003. Very restrict Gun laws started to come in the to the uk in the 60s and from then to the turn of the century crime, violent crime and homicides went up as gun laws got stricter and firearm ownership massively decreased. Guns can be used to commit crimes and atrocities but they can be used to stop and even prevent them. Criminals will be more hesitant to attack someone or be a joke invader if the potential victim is legally allowed to have a gun and they are likely to.
I can't wait to be arrested for making my pug do the roman salute.
Diane Abbott is a great reminder why Labour was unelectable for over a decade. Thank you Tony Blair for replacing low caliber student politician with heavyweight intellectuals. He got elected 3 times for a reason. God bless him.
First of my family to go to university.
Thankyou Mr Blair , thankyou New Labour
Now far too many going.
@@jbmuggins8815 but not you I imagine.......
The introduction of tuition fees tuition fees tuition fees!
We would've had tuition fees eventually. The Conservatives were planning to introduce them, but then they lost the 1997 election.
@@YorickReturns
When he was in power the schools I attended were brutally underfunded
Too many students going to university and even then a lot not putting all the effort in, so tuition fees are good way to motivate people, keep numbers down and allow a fair system to the Taxpayer. This is coming from a graduate and staunch Labour voter, it would've been inevitable.
"Education education education"
First thing he done was raise tuition fees
@John Hinchliff Schools were being underfunded at the time but not all uni students were rich. University is still classed as education so he still went against what he said.
@John Hinchliff
???
The tuition fees are government money given straight to universities. the student is indebted to the government SLC.
It was all there, plain to see, but we'd had 18 years of the Tories and didn't realise for a year or two that we'd replaced the hated Maggie Thatcher with the hated Maggie Thatcher.....
No wonder why Maggie Thatcher claimed that her greatest achievement is Tony Blair & New Labour.
If you think that the policies of Thatcher and Blair were same , you are delusional.
And to think that twenty years later, a different Prime Minister (at that time an obscure journalist) would be taking us out of the single market
The single market was just that - the single market in the 90s. It became a bloated, arrogant organisation the decades after.
One of the best prime ministers Britain ever had!
yet he sends his children to a private school
Incorrect...the London Oratory was not a private school.
Not a bog-standard comprehensive either, though.
Was this the conference where Campbell and Mandelson had a punch-up? They were both insanely jealous of each other and the power and influence that the other had over Blair.
Gizo02 I'm pretty sure that was a Young Labour conference. It was mentioned on the Alaister Campbell Dairies part 1. Search it up on TH-cam, that's where I watched it.
Here it is: th-cam.com/video/WLtVipDOFIY/w-d-xo.html It's at about the 13:00.
"Education, education, education" ... yes Tony, but what standard of education? Standards are a lot lower today than they were pre 1994 ... standards were lowered so that more young 'uns passed their exams and government's set "targets" were met ..
So be it. At least with that they are able to get a degree and be able to help the country in the fields of work that needs filling. One colossal mistake however was introducing tuition fees by the same guy.
Standards were largely lowered by Blair and Brown. They dumbed down the educational system. And Labour will do that again if they ever get into power because as a party they do not believe in high expecations and standards. They let schools become too soft on people that lead to poor discipline. Britian has actually climbed on on intentional educational rankings recently -- across the broad in maths, science, and reading in the latest Pisa. This is because the Tories reformed the system and got rid of Labour's horrific polices and dumbing down.
Bikerbish yes, and there are people going to university today that are just not cut out for what they should be. 10-%20% max of the population should go to university. Most should go to trade schools. University is for thinking people to explore ideas and build upon them. Tuition fees shouldn’t be a problem. The number of people at university is. An IQ of 115 min with strong work ethic but really 120-125 is needed and that’s 10-20% of the country. The same reason we can’t send half the population to the Olympics. They’re, by definition, elite events that only the best can benefit from.
Nice speech
very very very Nice
Mr Punch.
I love him! Best prime minister ever
made a few giant cockups though..
devolution (in a way that has just caused strife)
iraq
eu expansion leading to brexit (whether a brexiteer or not.. he wasn't... thus it was a mistake for him).
too many social sciences... too much emphasis on higher ed for subjects that should have been apprentice posts.
sold hospital sites and rented back at huge rates.. hurting nhs
changed dentistry so nhs dentistry closed down.
Minus the Iraqi invasion he was a good PM.
As an American it makes me mad that he basically kissed George Bush's butt and didn't stand up to him. If he had I think he would have been looked upon more fondly.
If only we knew wat was to come!
roland gallone - a three-term winner?
Centrist Philosopher a closet Marxist.
@@michaelfern4079
Hahahahaha you are calling fkin Blair a Marxist? That guy governed like a discount Thatcher, much like a centerist, not even proper left wing.
EPA 234 He said on a radio interview a couple of years ago was a Trotskyist at uni. So were his cabinet. Damned Globalists.
Bert Robinson helps me with England.
1:07 lol
Damn people really like huge glasses in the 90s didn't they
did he say Britain united?
Who were you to break the class divide!? Class divide is more actual than it was in 1996 or 1997.
No it's not.
yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/12/17/how-britain-voted-2019-general-election
www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/21/age-not-class-is-what-divides-british-voters-most
A Great Leader
Traitors
John Prescott would have been a better choice as Labour leader over Blair. New Labour is just a Tory Party with a human face.
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Legend. I love him.He’s future for this country than conservative
Typical immigrant. You by rights shouldn’t even have a political opinion considering the fact that it’s not your country.
Ratbag.
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But make it quick....because your pants are on fire......
''Education, education, education''.... Blair's education reforms dumbed down the educational system and made Britain far lower on educational rankings. A decade of low expecations and poor discipline in schools thanks New Labour. Britain was only just recovered and now after the Tory educational reforms jumped up across the board in Pisa 2018 for maths, reading, and science. Standards are rising in schools now but thanks to Blair rapidly declined for a good decade and as a result Britain declined briefly in all educational rankings, because Labour had low expecations and poor discipline policies. Kids taught under Blair (I was sadly one of them) came the bottom of the developed nations for educational skills in one ranking a few years ago. Says a lot doesn't it? It has taken us a decade to get over Labour's horrific educational policies -- thankfully we are starting to see improvements due to Tory policies. Our schools should have strict discipline and high standards.
Excellent post.
What a fool.
Tories losing by a landslide next election 😂😂😂
This is historic. The point when the UK lost its way.
You were a kid in the '90s. Am I right? And you have happy memories. So you assume that those were the good, ol' days.
YorickReturns I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and think we became a much nicer less attitudinal nation when Blair came in. Whether it was new labour who did it or he just chimed with the times is up for debate.
Britain has not been destitute at any time since the war. Problems yes as all western countries have had but compared historically and to most other nations weve pretty much hit the lottery of life been born in the U.K post 1945
D M haha backtrack when your caught out talking ignorant Bollox
You are right, this was the exact moment we destroyed ourselves
The dark lord himself
Disgrace
After that education, education, education speech, what I thought would happen did. The teachers ears pricked up and they couldn't stop grinning.
We can get a new car, go on more expensive holidays, get our hours cut.
They got not one but two massive pay rises.
Being a teacher is so easy and such a good deal that everyone is flocking to it and not away from it. Hope your homeschooling went well. I am here because I am going to use this speech in a lesson tomorrow. It's gone 9pm and I am still working. And this is going to be an early night. But anyway. You harp on Derek.
kiss him
Now we can see where Ben Shapiro gets his inspiration from. 90s moderate liberalism is 2020s conservatism.
shapiro has less than 1% of the iQ of blair, and less than 0.0001% of his vision