@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures How old are you? I felt much the same back in 97 and when I look back all I see is shyte from both parties. They have destroyed this country in less than 30 years.
Interesting thing to note about this election was massive impact anti Tory tactical voting had on the outcome. There were no orchestrated or organised campaigns just voters educating themselves in their constituency about the best way to unseat a Tory MP where they live. So the national swing was 10.5% but the actual outcome due to tactical voting was closer to the result expected from a 13% swing. Essentially 10pm the exit poll was absolutely spot on in terms of seats. Given the outcome of the local elections in May 2023 I suspect this will be a defining feature of the next election too, with likely anti SNP voting being a feature in Scotland too.
@@Scrunk194once voters decide they’ll put normal party bias aside for the simple goal of unseating a Tory MP it’s almost impossible for them to come back from that, after 1997 they went three elections with less than 200 seats because of tactical voting, even in 2010 it played a hefty role in preventing David Cameron from securing a majority. The one advantage the Tories have with our electoral system is that the opposite vote is finely divided, take that away and their advantage goes with it.
@@pipoo1 Well let’s hope Labour, should they win, bring in some PR. Keir Starmer actively opposed it and Angela Rayner says she isn’t convinced but hopefully if the membership make enough pro-PR noise they’ll go with it. It could stop Labour getting big majorities like in ‘97 but that’ll go for the Conservatives, perhaps even more so
I ❤️ things like thus. Thank you for uploading. I'm in it for the long haul,just like last time I stayed up all night and it was the best election I've ever seen and I have seen quite a few.
I'd say Portillo would've given anything to be on a train somewhere on the continent accompanied by his Bradshaw's, rather than having to sit there and answer Paxman's questions 🤣
Let's hope this history repeats itself on July 4th! Please do everything you can to campaign for and support Labour, this election is too important for complacency. Vote Labour! Keir Starmer for PM!
It’s interesting that from 30:30 or so when they discussed cabinet and / or high profile Tories at risk of losing their seats, Portillo wasn’t mentioned at all. Him losing his seat really did come out of nowhere and wasn’t predicted by anyone. In a normal election, the sitting foreign secretary (Malcolm Rifkind) losing their seat would have been absolutely huge and probably the standout event, but that was merely one of many big events in this election.
This was the first general election I could vote in. Voted labour. Giles Redishi(apologies for spelling his surname wrong) was a well liked and respected MP in Chester-le-Street later renamed North Durham. I missed out on the 1992 general election by about 7 months. The 1992 election happened a month before I left school. First election I voted in was the locals in 1993 then the euros in 1994. I met the then euro MP back in 1992 when I got my education exam certs in 1992, Steven Hughes. Speaking of North Durham's former MP back in the election of 1979 I had as a four year stuck up a Labour poster in the window without my parents knowing about it and Giles the MP ended up knocking on our front door and my mum had no clue about the poster and he said something like thank you for supporting me and my mum was like what are you talking about and he said the poster in the window and she said the small lad must have put it up. My parents were loyal labour voters anyway.
21:27 That is a lovely image. Paddy was an exceptional person & a kind & Intelligent man. The fact he had his wife with him & they both looked content & blissful is a snapshot we should all take great comfort from.
@@Prauwlet213And indeed they did, but not nearly as large a seat total as some people hoped for. It seems, however, that this was down to conscience voting and voter apathy keeping quite a few Tories in their seats. Pretty much every Tory seat is now a marginal and if we really try for it next election we can relegate them to third place and get rid of them forever. Still had the best result for the Lib Dems in history and the worst ever result for the Tories, however, and the efficiency of the Labour vote was remarkable given that they translated 35% of the vote share to 411 seats; had the Labour Party campaign actually been good and they hadn’t somehow bizarrely (but predictably) haemorrhaged support from about 47% in May, they could have achieved close to 500 seats. If they had actually embraced left wing policies and had really tried to shut down Rishi’s attack points which were all nonsense and realistically implicated him and his government (ie the banking crash caused by him), the Lib Dems could very well be in second place now.
23.02 where Michael Portillo lets slip to Paxman that he thinks he has lost his own seat, Paxman didn't pick up on it. A fact that Portillo pointed out to Paxman 4 years later.
24:46 “If he takes a seat like Scarborough and Whitby, wow!” - I knew Lawrie Quinn, who won that seat for Labour, he was quite surprised himself (re-elected in 2001).
Without a doubt that music to start the programme & intermittent throughout is spine tingling, nostalgic & so euphoric. (Yes, I'm a Labour supporter). 😁
So the last time this was posted up....when people swore that there would never be another Labour government!.....how many of you with the current polls are saying that now? 😅
I was 20 when Labour won this election. There was definitely a feeling of hope and optimism in the country as a result of their victory. I think it really brought the country together, and there was a feeling of belief that we could be a brilliant country again. Contrast that with the Tories big win in 2019. Still lots of division and discontent. Even the people who voted leave who got the government they wanted still come across as very bitter and angry. Still a lot of negativity about in 2020 which is not just down to the pandemic.
It really did feel like emerging from a tunnel into a bright and promising future. The first four years of Blair's government were some of the most wonderful I can recall. I am not even a Labour supporter, so I think it shows how Blair was able to appeal to a very broad spectrum of voters and deliver for them.
@@MS-19 Indeed. As a young person then between 1997 and 2001, I really did feel like the country was changing for the better under Blair, then unfortunately world events took over. I still think that history has been very unkind to Blair and Brown. Mistakes were made, which I believe any government in power at that time would have made given the same set of circumstances.
@@michaelhoskins6579 Your comment reminds me of an interview held with the US Presidents Clinton and Bush Jr (after both had left office) in which Clinton observed that the judgement of a leader's success might ultimately hang on the balance s/he managed to achieve between delivering on promises and dealing effectively with "incoming fire." However you do the latter, it's important not to let it so consume your agenda that you fail to keep the promises you made when campaigning for (re) election. Conversely, if you are so obsessed with your agenda and pursue it inflexibly, you may not cope when a crisis rears its head. Nobody can tell what may be around the corner: the 2001 terrorist attack caught the world off guard, as did the 2020 pandemic. The former crisis was something of an undoing for both Blair and Bush, but one shouldn't forget their achievements, or the positive feelings they engendered, both before the crisis and in the context of their whole time in office. Sadly, one might not be able to say the same of Boris Johnson, whose preoccupation with getting Brexit done and with riding to power on that pledge did not serve him well when Covid struck. One might of course argue that any other leader would have struggled and made mistakes in dealing with it, but I think that where Blair showed an ability to adapt under pressure, Johnson crumbled.
@@MS-19 you must be off yr rocker his government were a disaster and I am an examiner so before you call me a tory lacky I am not Blair should be in prison.
@@pauldavies4496 I don't disagree that things went very wrong indeed, not least after 2001 when Blair marched hand in hand with Bush into Iraq. However, it cannot be denied by those who support any party (and I do not support Labour, in case you are wondering) that the Parliament of 1997-2001 was extremely well run and the first Blair government was one of the most efficient and effective. It is no wonder that the election of 2001 produced almost the same result as 1997, with only a single net gain for the Conservatives and a handful of net losses for Labour. Yes, one can point to the scale of the previous victory as one that wouldn't easily have been overturned, and also note the relatively low turnout, but the majority apparently had no problems with what had been done and were quite happy to let Blair continue for another term.
As a Conservative, he was a decent pm. Major was better in my opinion, it was just that he wasn't the right person to run the country in the volatile 90s (I'm talking about major btw). Bliar, however caused a lot of problems for the future which our current conservative governments have not been able to fully solve. Cameron was a decent pm 2010-14 but screwed up after that. May was just too weak. I wont judge Boris until he is gone
Devolution, mass immigration that literally in the first year of his tenure jumped from its normal below 100k net per year into as high as net 300k+ people causing numerous demographic changes that destroyed the character of several English cities and towns and their native culture, political correctness run amok with draconian legislation such as section 127 of the Communications Act of 2003. He ruined this country and I’m tired of so many people thinking he just got Iraq wrong. Read Peter Hitchens for the love of God people this Machiavellian revolutionary changed this country in ways that many just 20-30 years prior to 1997 would’ve sounded unbelievable. The man is pure evil and a traitor to this country and deserves nothing other than to rot in The Hague for war crimes and treason against the ancient constitutional liberties of the UK, Magna Carta and the 1689 Bill of Rights being it’s chief casualties under his tenure.
1:00:12 the lesson in all this was the mistake in throwing Thatcher out. The Tories were in so long all the fruit was ripe enough to fall. They would not have suffered shut a great defeat if Thatcher had been ousted by the public in 1992
There are a number of points that can be made in reply to that. 1) It's a domestic VHS recording. VHS wasn't the best quality video system in the universe but it was all most of us had in the 1990s. 2) Despite having the best quality tapes I could find, they inevitably decay over 20 years. The VT glitches at the start soon disappear. 3) VHS players aren't being made any more and a lot of them are failing. I found one as new as possible. 4) I make sure to include the full frame video (this programme was not made in widescreen) and it's actually blown up from 576 visible lines to 720 because of TH-cam restrictions. 5) The reason for going to 720 is so it can benefit from higher frame rate. Due to working on a Mac I can't do 50fps but 60fps looks little different. Most uploads are 25fps which doesn't have that fluid video feel. 6) The BBC's broadcast quality recording appears to omit the onscreen graphics which were actually an important part of the show. 7) Also when BBC Parliament reshow it, they cut off part of the picture and insert an onscreen graphic. 8) If the colours look a little faint, you can always adjust your monitor settings. All in all I think this is the best quality you will get other than by inventing a time machine, going back to 1 May 1997 and watching it live.
Go to th-cam.com/video/_Vms-_efQw4/w-d-xo.html from about two and a half minutes in. Tape 1 ran out just as Anthony King said "Mr Gladstone's been in his grave for a long time, and it is, er-". Tape 2 starts with him saying "-ing pretty well, and there is enormous tactical voting". It's about 24 seconds worth which I've covered using the 2017 showing. There's a second tape transition coming up at the start of the Friday morning coverage, and will be a third at about 1 PM on Friday. I did have two video recorders - the second was on LP mode recording ITN which you can see here: th-cam.com/play/PLv8P1euPvQ_YYGmCogpfgoXI02DokF0rY.html
This was such a wonderful night - finally a Labour government, and a massive win. It's a real shame that Iraq came to define Blair, and that the financial crisis was successfully used by his opponents to define Brown -even though he arguably rose to that challenge better than any other world leader. For me, 1997 was a wonderful year, and the start of a decade of rebuilding, progress and renewal. It was a time we could feel positive about being British. They were far from perfect, and perhaps too many compromises -there was plenty Labour got wrong in government, but just look at the calamitous 13 years we've endured since 2010. I think it boils down to the simple fact that Labour BUILDS things, it creates things, it's active in government. Whereas the Conservatives in government have always acted to DESTROY, to tear up, to dismantle and to be utterly passive when presented with any challenges - they almost never actually make anything. Their answer to every problem is to break things up. They create nothing.
Alternate united kingdom prime ministerial elections: 1992:margaret thatcher vs neil kinnock 1997:margaret thatcher vs tony blair 2001:margaret thatcher vs gordon brown 2005:margaret thatcher vs alistair darling 2010:margaret thatcher vs ed miliband
As above the Tories didn’t stab Thatcher in the back for no reason she was massively unpopular, she’d allowed an inflationary boom to overheat to the point inflation in November 1990 was higher than in May 1979. Added to the poll tax and her increasingly isolated position in No 10 she’d start to look like she thought she was invincible. In reality Thatcher was never that popular with the public, she won power in 1979 inspite of herself as she trailed Labour’s James Callaghan by an average of 20% on personality ratings. Even in 1983, she won that landslide on a lower share of the vote than in 1979, she benefited from a collapse in the Labour vote due to Michael Foots leadership and the breakaway SDP movement.
Why is it very rich people feel the need to show off their wealth and assets by having loads of pictures and painting covering all their walls like Mr. Archer?
@@hubertcumberdale6221The people of this country are all different brands of pathetic, stupid and cowardly and so we have one of the lowest turnouts in modern history, a Labour majority lower than in 1997, a drop from 47% predicted in May to 35% on polling day (I blame Starmer’s laughable incompetence and lack of ambition), and dozens of seats where a bit more tactical voting could have dislodged the Tories from second place into third place. They should have given the Labour leadership to me, there is no doubt in the world that I would have done better than the two clowns with their heads in a bucket known as Starmer and Reeves.
Hopefully we can get rid of "New Old Labour" and replace with "New New Labour". A Labour that is not scared of embracing centrism, capitalism, realism, hawkish interventionism while remaining committed to principles of economic fairness and social justice.
Well lets think about it. It was the tory government under Thatcher who nearly destroyed the BBC (she also nearly destroyed ITV too) - she interfered in their running, and threatened to do away with the licence fee. Tories hated the BBC back then, just in the same way Labour come 2004 hated the BBC.
To be fair I think quite a few Tories were happy deep down. Being in power for so long rots the party. They needed to refresh out of Government. Similar to what we're seeing now. Taking the long view the best thing that can happen to the Tory party is a spell out of Government. The current situation is a mess from top to bottom.
After 18 years pretty much everyone was done with them. On a purely work-life level it must have grown pretty boring for the BBC presenters having to deal with the same faces again and again after two decades. Finally there was genuine excitement out there at the time and it was pretty infectious. I've always thought election nights themselves should offer (just a slight) grace from strict impartiality. Now we have the odd spectacle of the BBC grilling the newly victorious by-election MP immediately after the result on the one night she should be getting happily drunk straight after the result. Pillory her the following afternoon when she recovers from the hangover, for God's sake! :D
Probably excited that they might potentially get to see some new faces and ideas in parliament. Nothing more boring, stodgy and bereft of original thought than a Tory.
5:02 Exit Poll Announced
6:02 Interview w/John Prescott
6:38 Exit Poll Details
9:34 Interview with Brian Mawhinney
11:42 Interview w/John Prescott
18:10 Paxman interviews Portillo (interrupted)
20:02 Paddy Ashdown Speech
21:42 Paxman interviews Portillo (Returned to)
22:50 Very poorly aged question
40:11 Somewhat surreal moment
51:07 Sunderland South Result
55:16 Paxman interviews Kinnock
56:07 Paxman sticks the knife deeper into Portillo
Thank you so much.
Drink hamelot what?
Cant fucking wait for this to happen again
I'm using this video to rehearse my optimal celebratory drinking pattern for the big night. Repeatedly.
It's 2024 now and I am so ready for this moment to happen
Amen❤
What and get labour back in? 😂
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures
How old are you? I felt much the same back in 97 and when I look back all I see is shyte from both parties. They have destroyed this country in less than 30 years.
Interesting thing to note about this election was massive impact anti Tory tactical voting had on the outcome. There were no orchestrated or organised campaigns just voters educating themselves in their constituency about the best way to unseat a Tory MP where they live. So the national swing was 10.5% but the actual outcome due to tactical voting was closer to the result expected from a 13% swing. Essentially 10pm the exit poll was absolutely spot on in terms of seats. Given the outcome of the local elections in May 2023 I suspect this will be a defining feature of the next election too, with likely anti SNP voting being a feature in Scotland too.
Yeah 2019-2024 is really looking like a fast track of 1983-1997
@@Scrunk194once voters decide they’ll put normal party bias aside for the simple goal of unseating a Tory MP it’s almost impossible for them to come back from that, after 1997 they went three elections with less than 200 seats because of tactical voting, even in 2010 it played a hefty role in preventing David Cameron from securing a majority. The one advantage the Tories have with our electoral system is that the opposite vote is finely divided, take that away and their advantage goes with it.
@@pipoo1 Well let’s hope Labour, should they win, bring in some PR. Keir Starmer actively opposed it and Angela Rayner says she isn’t convinced but hopefully if the membership make enough pro-PR noise they’ll go with it. It could stop Labour getting big majorities like in ‘97 but that’ll go for the Conservatives, perhaps even more so
How does it feel to be spot on...
I kinda wish the U.S. would import or had imported the concept of swing and the swingometer.
I ❤️ things like thus.
Thank you for uploading.
I'm in it for the long haul,just like last time
I stayed up all night and it was the best election I've ever seen and I have seen quite a few.
Same here! What a joy it was!
Timeline:
5:18 - Exit poll released
51:18 - Sunderland South results | Labor hold
I'd say Portillo would've given anything to be on a train somewhere on the continent accompanied by his Bradshaw's, rather than having to sit there and answer Paxman's questions 🤣
Reliving these beautiful memories tonight! ❤
Let's hope this history repeats itself on July 4th! Please do everything you can to campaign for and support Labour, this election is too important for complacency. Vote Labour! Keir Starmer for PM!
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
God help us otherwise
Fully agree. Let's send a message to the Palestinian women and children of Gaza !
@@KatieWilliams1990x It just did
@@AndrewGoraBecause allowing the Conservatives to win again by splitting the progressive vote was going to do wonders for the people of Gaza.
It’s interesting that from 30:30 or so when they discussed cabinet and / or high profile Tories at risk of losing their seats, Portillo wasn’t mentioned at all. Him losing his seat really did come out of nowhere and wasn’t predicted by anyone.
In a normal election, the sitting foreign secretary (Malcolm Rifkind) losing their seat would have been absolutely huge and probably the standout event, but that was merely one of many big events in this election.
This was the first general election I could vote in. Voted labour. Giles Redishi(apologies for spelling his surname wrong) was a well liked and respected MP in Chester-le-Street later renamed North Durham. I missed out on the 1992 general election by about 7 months. The 1992 election happened a month before I left school. First election I voted in was the locals in 1993 then the euros in 1994. I met the then euro MP back in 1992 when I got my education exam certs in 1992, Steven Hughes.
Speaking of North Durham's former MP back in the election of 1979 I had as a four year stuck up a Labour poster in the window without my parents knowing about it and Giles the MP ended up knocking on our front door and my mum had no clue about the poster and he said something like thank you for supporting me and my mum was like what are you talking about and he said the poster in the window and she said the small lad must have put it up. My parents were loyal labour voters anyway.
That's a lovely story, are you still a Labour supporter 25 years later?
@@Mr_Storm_22 looking at the current state of the government and the polls I think most would now have nostalgia for this era
Just look at the quality of the reporters and presenters … just beyond anything we have now
Everything has been dumbed down
@@plechaim sadly so because us plebs can;t be allowed to think for ourselves
This was peak BBC election. Dimbleby being superb. Pity last night didn’t have the same seriousness
21:27 That is a lovely image. Paddy was an exceptional person & a kind & Intelligent man. The fact he had his wife with him & they both looked content & blissful is a snapshot we should all take great comfort from.
Paddy Pantsdown
Micheal Portillo lol. A much better tv presenter then politician.
Wouldn’t go that far. A much better trainspotter
Watching on 4 July 2024
Come on, let's see this happen again, I can't wait:)
Exit poll was so understated back then. Now they have dramatic music, a countdown and all sorts.
9:44 Brian Mawhinney makes quite possibly the world's most pointless statement.
If something happens, something might happen because of it. Or not.
6:56 that yellow lib dem bar looks like 64 slices of American cheese
I get this reference
Wow can’t till election night 10pm.
Well you tell the production has changed but the constant is the theme music
Can’t wait for this particular history to repeat… roll on July 4!
2024 is going to make 1997 look like the 1974 general elections
Labour landslide I think.
Unless the gap closes during the campaign
kinda like inheriting a crashed car at this point
@@Anon72005 20 point lead still means that Labour will very likely win
@@Prauwlet213And indeed they did, but not nearly as large a seat total as some people hoped for. It seems, however, that this was down to conscience voting and voter apathy keeping quite a few Tories in their seats. Pretty much every Tory seat is now a marginal and if we really try for it next election we can relegate them to third place and get rid of them forever. Still had the best result for the Lib Dems in history and the worst ever result for the Tories, however, and the efficiency of the Labour vote was remarkable given that they translated 35% of the vote share to 411 seats; had the Labour Party campaign actually been good and they hadn’t somehow bizarrely (but predictably) haemorrhaged support from about 47% in May, they could have achieved close to 500 seats. If they had actually embraced left wing policies and had really tried to shut down Rishi’s attack points which were all nonsense and realistically implicated him and his government (ie the banking crash caused by him), the Lib Dems could very well be in second place now.
23.02 where Michael Portillo lets slip to Paxman that he thinks he has lost his own seat, Paxman didn't pick up on it. A fact that Portillo pointed out to Paxman 4 years later.
23:02 I see it now.
Two years late but thanks for pointing that out! :)
Where he did make it statement ?
24:46 “If he takes a seat like Scarborough and Whitby, wow!” - I knew Lawrie Quinn, who won that seat for Labour, he was quite surprised himself (re-elected in 2001).
We’re just here for AA’s analysis.
Without a doubt that music to start the programme & intermittent throughout is spine tingling, nostalgic & so euphoric. (Yes, I'm a Labour supporter). 😁
Live and uninterrupted this is BBC1
One day more
Remember what hope felt like?
Frank Skinner what a legend 🙏🏼
He wants you to know he is still alive. lol
22:55 that aged like milk
So the last time this was posted up....when people swore that there would never be another Labour government!.....how many of you with the current polls are saying that now? 😅
5:52
he said 1932 when it was in 1832. Lol
it is time...election 24 and 97 parallels
I was 20 when Labour won this election. There was definitely a feeling of hope and optimism in the country as a result of their victory. I think it really brought the country together, and there was a feeling of belief that we could be a brilliant country again. Contrast that with the Tories big win in 2019. Still lots of division and discontent. Even the people who voted leave who got the government they wanted still come across as very bitter and angry. Still a lot of negativity about in 2020 which is not just down to the pandemic.
It really did feel like emerging from a tunnel into a bright and promising future. The first four years of Blair's government were some of the most wonderful I can recall. I am not even a Labour supporter, so I think it shows how Blair was able to appeal to a very broad spectrum of voters and deliver for them.
@@MS-19 Indeed. As a young person then between 1997 and 2001, I really did feel like the country was changing for the better under Blair, then unfortunately world events took over. I still think that history has been very unkind to Blair and Brown. Mistakes were made, which I believe any government in power at that time would have made given the same set of circumstances.
@@michaelhoskins6579 Your comment reminds me of an interview held with the US Presidents Clinton and Bush Jr (after both had left office) in which Clinton observed that the judgement of a leader's success might ultimately hang on the balance s/he managed to achieve between delivering on promises and dealing effectively with "incoming fire." However you do the latter, it's important not to let it so consume your agenda that you fail to keep the promises you made when campaigning for (re) election. Conversely, if you are so obsessed with your agenda and pursue it inflexibly, you may not cope when a crisis rears its head. Nobody can tell what may be around the corner: the 2001 terrorist attack caught the world off guard, as did the 2020 pandemic. The former crisis was something of an undoing for both Blair and Bush, but one shouldn't forget their achievements, or the positive feelings they engendered, both before the crisis and in the context of their whole time in office. Sadly, one might not be able to say the same of Boris Johnson, whose preoccupation with getting Brexit done and with riding to power on that pledge did not serve him well when Covid struck. One might of course argue that any other leader would have struggled and made mistakes in dealing with it, but I think that where Blair showed an ability to adapt under pressure, Johnson crumbled.
@@MS-19 you must be off yr rocker his government were a disaster and I am an examiner so before you call me a tory lacky I am not Blair should be in prison.
@@pauldavies4496 I don't disagree that things went very wrong indeed, not least after 2001 when Blair marched hand in hand with Bush into Iraq. However, it cannot be denied by those who support any party (and I do not support Labour, in case you are wondering) that the Parliament of 1997-2001 was extremely well run and the first Blair government was one of the most efficient and effective. It is no wonder that the election of 2001 produced almost the same result as 1997, with only a single net gain for the Conservatives and a handful of net losses for Labour. Yes, one can point to the scale of the previous victory as one that wouldn't easily have been overturned, and also note the relatively low turnout, but the majority apparently had no problems with what had been done and were quite happy to let Blair continue for another term.
24:09 how satisfying
i hope kirsty wears that outfit tonight!
How disappointing that the quality of this video is far poorer than similar election coverage from the 1950s
Switch the quality setting to 720p/60fps. Makes this VHS recording look even better.
Only 4 days to go...
Blair would've been a good Prime Minister if it wasn't for Iraq.
As a Conservative, he was a decent pm. Major was better in my opinion, it was just that he wasn't the right person to run the country in the volatile 90s (I'm talking about major btw). Bliar, however caused a lot of problems for the future which our current conservative governments have not been able to fully solve. Cameron was a decent pm 2010-14 but screwed up after that. May was just too weak. I wont judge Boris until he is gone
@@jwillk42 No they didn't lol
Northern Ireland and National Minimum Wage. Remember him for this, and never forget the post 9/11 desire to back the US
@@jwillk42 proof? Our economy was the strongest it was in year during 2010-15
Devolution, mass immigration that literally in the first year of his tenure jumped from its normal below 100k net per year into as high as net 300k+ people causing numerous demographic changes that destroyed the character of several English cities and towns and their native culture, political correctness run amok with draconian legislation such as section 127 of the Communications Act of 2003. He ruined this country and I’m tired of so many people thinking he just got Iraq wrong. Read Peter Hitchens for the love of God people this Machiavellian revolutionary changed this country in ways that many just 20-30 years prior to 1997 would’ve sounded unbelievable. The man is pure evil and a traitor to this country and deserves nothing other than to rot in The Hague for war crimes and treason against the ancient constitutional liberties of the UK, Magna Carta and the 1689 Bill of Rights being it’s chief casualties under his tenure.
Hoping the result of the upcoming election wont even have the Tories in opposition 😂
Cor, I'd forgotten about big screens being made up of lots of little CRT screens! Looking to relive this night before January 2025!
1:00:12 the lesson in all this was the mistake in throwing Thatcher out. The Tories were in so long all the fruit was ripe enough to fall. They would not have suffered shut a great defeat if Thatcher had been ousted by the public in 1992
0:17
Come July 4th, God-willing, we'll see something like this again!
The expression on Michael Portillos face still makes me smile,,
2024 incoming
2:19 no time for losers cos we are the champions
2024 Keir Starmer to be PM
Well July 4th we will see if Labour can pull it off again, I Think they can!
2024❤
Quality isn't as great as i've seen before
There are a number of points that can be made in reply to that.
1) It's a domestic VHS recording. VHS wasn't the best quality video system in the universe but it was all most of us had in the 1990s.
2) Despite having the best quality tapes I could find, they inevitably decay over 20 years. The VT glitches at the start soon disappear.
3) VHS players aren't being made any more and a lot of them are failing. I found one as new as possible.
4) I make sure to include the full frame video (this programme was not made in widescreen) and it's actually blown up from 576 visible lines to 720 because of TH-cam restrictions.
5) The reason for going to 720 is so it can benefit from higher frame rate. Due to working on a Mac I can't do 50fps but 60fps looks little different. Most uploads are 25fps which doesn't have that fluid video feel.
6) The BBC's broadcast quality recording appears to omit the onscreen graphics which were actually an important part of the show.
7) Also when BBC Parliament reshow it, they cut off part of the picture and insert an onscreen graphic.
8) If the colours look a little faint, you can always adjust your monitor settings.
All in all I think this is the best quality you will get other than by inventing a time machine, going back to 1 May 1997 and watching it live.
It was on a four hour tape (a TDK HS) but it was not recorded in LP mode. I know because I recorded it.
Go to th-cam.com/video/_Vms-_efQw4/w-d-xo.html from about two and a half minutes in. Tape 1 ran out just as Anthony King said "Mr Gladstone's been in his grave for a long time, and it is, er-". Tape 2 starts with him saying "-ing pretty well, and there is enormous tactical voting". It's about 24 seconds worth which I've covered using the 2017 showing.
There's a second tape transition coming up at the start of the Friday morning coverage, and will be a third at about 1 PM on Friday.
I did have two video recorders - the second was on LP mode recording ITN which you can see here: th-cam.com/play/PLv8P1euPvQ_YYGmCogpfgoXI02DokF0rY.html
Don't watch it then you ungrateful skank! 🐹🏭
@@DBIVUK I really appreciate your efforts! I'm not old enough to remember the night, great to be able to watch it now.
This was such a wonderful night - finally a Labour government, and a massive win. It's a real shame that Iraq came to define Blair, and that the financial crisis was successfully used by his opponents to define Brown -even though he arguably rose to that challenge better than any other world leader. For me, 1997 was a wonderful year, and the start of a decade of rebuilding, progress and renewal. It was a time we could feel positive about being British. They were far from perfect, and perhaps too many compromises -there was plenty Labour got wrong in government, but just look at the calamitous 13 years we've endured since 2010.
I think it boils down to the simple fact that Labour BUILDS things, it creates things, it's active in government. Whereas the Conservatives in government have always acted to DESTROY, to tear up, to dismantle and to be utterly passive when presented with any challenges - they almost never actually make anything. Their answer to every problem is to break things up. They create nothing.
Absolutely spot on
And the first thing they did was to destroy private pensions
@dlamiss at least they didn't try to keep upping the age to be able to get a state pension like the tories.
Agree this was great after 18 yrs of tories.
@@melgrant7404 So its ok to destroy the pensions that people have spent years paying into then ?.. BTW Labour in 2007 raised the pension age.....
Blair with his evil Joker smile 0:40
Alternate united kingdom prime ministerial elections:
1992:margaret thatcher vs neil kinnock
1997:margaret thatcher vs tony blair
2001:margaret thatcher vs gordon brown
2005:margaret thatcher vs alistair darling
2010:margaret thatcher vs ed miliband
Labour would have won in 1992. You didn't see the polls before Thatcher resigned in 1990, did you?
As above the Tories didn’t stab Thatcher in the back for no reason she was massively unpopular, she’d allowed an inflationary boom to overheat to the point inflation in November 1990 was higher than in May 1979. Added to the poll tax and her increasingly isolated position in No 10 she’d start to look like she thought she was invincible. In reality Thatcher was never that popular with the public, she won power in 1979 inspite of herself as she trailed Labour’s James Callaghan by an average of 20% on personality ratings. Even in 1983, she won that landslide on a lower share of the vote than in 1979, she benefited from a collapse in the Labour vote due to Michael Foots leadership and the breakaway SDP movement.
Why is it very rich people feel the need to show off their wealth and assets by having loads of pictures and painting covering all their walls like Mr. Archer?
Red win
Nothing changed for 13 years.
1997 = 2024 !!!
You cynic! I'm hoping for better than that.
@@hubertcumberdale6221The people of this country are all different brands of pathetic, stupid and cowardly and so we have one of the lowest turnouts in modern history, a Labour majority lower than in 1997, a drop from 47% predicted in May to 35% on polling day (I blame Starmer’s laughable incompetence and lack of ambition), and dozens of seats where a bit more tactical voting could have dislodged the Tories from second place into third place. They should have given the Labour leadership to me, there is no doubt in the world that I would have done better than the two clowns with their heads in a bucket known as Starmer and Reeves.
Hopefully we can get rid of "New Old Labour" and replace with "New New Labour". A Labour that is not scared of embracing centrism, capitalism, realism, hawkish interventionism while remaining committed to principles of economic fairness and social justice.
exactly
Hopefully we can never see the return of a Labour government again.
If you want that the Tories tick almost all your boxes
@@liamb8644more like a conservative government.
No.
Bloody yell Jeremy paxman was savage on portillo.
He was savage on everyone tbf!
Libour win 1997
and comer July 4th this will be the same I have no doubt !!
Portillo didn't have a scooby what was about to happen to him #portillomoment
The BBC really struggling to contain their joy here! So much for "impartiality"...
Well lets think about it. It was the tory government under Thatcher who nearly destroyed the BBC (she also nearly destroyed ITV too) - she interfered in their running, and threatened to do away with the licence fee. Tories hated the BBC back then, just in the same way Labour come 2004 hated the BBC.
To be fair I think quite a few Tories were happy deep down. Being in power for so long rots the party. They needed to refresh out of Government. Similar to what we're seeing now. Taking the long view the best thing that can happen to the Tory party is a spell out of Government. The current situation is a mess from top to bottom.
After 18 years pretty much everyone was done with them. On a purely work-life level it must have grown pretty boring for the BBC presenters having to deal with the same faces again and again after two decades. Finally there was genuine excitement out there at the time and it was pretty infectious. I've always thought election nights themselves should offer (just a slight) grace from strict impartiality. Now we have the odd spectacle of the BBC grilling the newly victorious by-election MP immediately after the result on the one night she should be getting happily drunk straight after the result. Pillory her the following afternoon when she recovers from the hangover, for God's sake! :D
Probably excited that they might potentially get to see some new faces and ideas in parliament.
Nothing more boring, stodgy and bereft of original thought than a Tory.
Fiona Bruce??? Back when she was capable of faking impartiality.😅
The exact moment Britain was lost forever.
Seems to confuse "Britain" with "The Conservative Party".
Quite the opposite.
steven Gavrilovic
First and only time i was conned into voting Labour. Little did we know this was the start of the decline of communities in the UK as w knew them
The night comedians stopped making jokes about the government for about 3 years.
13 years
Huh? Comedians ripped into politicians like John Prescott and David Blunkett, as well as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of course
A sad day in British history.
Nah it was sublime.
I was 15 then I remember this I was sad John Major lost. It ushered in the beginning of the bad politics of lies we now have 26 years nearly on.
The poltics of lies had begun long before john major