Top 10 Biggest PR Disasters in British Politics
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- Whoever thought these were good ideas?? For this list, WatchMojo UK counts down the most infamous, awkward, embarrassing, and career-defining PR disasters in British politics. These people are supposed to be running the country... but these moments show them at their most clueless!
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2:10 The best joke I ever heard about this was someone calling Theresa May "Thatcher in the Rye."
John Oliver
2:27 John Prescott was pressed by Tony Blair (the then Leader of thr Labour Party) what happened. To which Prescott replied: "I was only following your orders, Tony: you told us to connect with the electrorate, so I did!"
did you also watch New Labour revolution?
@@clefton3112 I’ve watched that this week
@@Fleeb-pb7zo Did you enjoy it? I thought it was really well made and certainly very interesting.
I absolutely found that clip hilarious!!
it came at the perfect time to be honest. Blair got caught off guard by an angry cancer patient in Birmingham and Jack Straw got hecked at the Police Federation Confrence in Blackpool. i wouldnt say the rumble in Rhyl was a disater at all, worked well for Blair
I didn't see the prescott punch as a PR disaster
No, but being a labour man and driving 2 Jaguars certainly was
@@davidhinde3229 Why is that an issue? People can buy whatever cars they want
Edit: Spelling
@@CharlieGB03 It is champagne socialism in it’s purest form. To say you stand for the working man against the oppressive rich who drive multiple cars and live in massive houses whilst its the working man who toils in the coal mines etc etc etc.
And then as soon as you yourself are lifted out of the cesspool by the vile capitalist system that you hate your values and morals go out of the window. Stinks a bit of Animal Farm doesn’t it?
It wasn't. Most of the UK people shrugged and went. Yea fair enough I'd have done the same.
@@davoman5781 So would I actually, but then I am a tory and would think you are too.
Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich was one of the funniest sagas in politics.
He was such a wet blanket though.
At some point i felt sorry for him literally could do anything right i was just waiting for him to accidentally kill someone and burn the flag like a mr bean routine.
hes so fine icl
Huh?@@gutghoul
I thought David Cameron eating a hotdog with a knife and fork was as bad if not worse
If you set a cameraman opposite anyone-film him and then slow the film down enough-you'll get this!Just Tory propaganda!
Sunak on D Day celebrations: Hold my Beer
Sunak at Morisons. Sunak on Titanic. Sunak with Disney ears.
Totally self inflicted and unnecessary too
Sunak saying he went out with a lot of things whilst growing up and then giving an example of Sky News!?!
John Prescott went up in my estimation when he defended himself against the thug. It was just what you'd expect of a true-born Englishman.
And it was a sweet punch!
If it was a Tory MP would you have said the same thing
@@Secret19977 Absolutely 100%!
John Prescott was a member of Parliament who should be setting an example not grappling with members of the public like so common thug
Imagine calling someone who threw an egg a "thug".
John Prescott punching the bloke wasn’t a PR disaster. In Hull, the city that elected him, he earned points for that. Well done, Sir!
To be fair to Prescot, he thought he might have been knifed. The guy came at him from his side, there was a contact and the next thing he knew there was warm liquid running down this neck. It was a fight or flight response and I think his reaction was justified.
Even if he did know it was an egg I wouldn’t blame him.
Some of these “PR disasters” are really just a storm in a teacup. It really goes to show how thick, out of touch and desperate for a story the media really are. Take for example the “fields of wheat” and Milliband’s sandwich. No one can actually explain what’s embarrassing about either of them. Let’s just touch on Milliband, he ate a sandwich and pulled a funny face, which by the way we all do if photographed at the right moment. Does anyone really think this incident lost him votes!? I sincerely hope not! I mean imagine that thought process when going to the polling station-hmmm, I really like his policies and I think he has a lot of integrity and seems like a good family man, but the way he ate that sandwich was a bloody disgrace! I’m voting conservative!!
They arent thick because the electorate are the ones eating it up and the media know this.
It's ridiculous how out of touch the working class are, they keep voting for the elite class to rule despite the elite class constantly pooping all over them.
Nothings going to change anytime soon when the sheep keep following blindly.
Unfortunately, it really is that superficial. Sometimes people will refuse to vote for someone cos "there's something about him/her I just can't trust". Other times, as in the case of Ed, they just felt he's too uncool and they really would vote for someone with a bit more charisma. The sandwich photo summed up what many were already thinking - Ed just wasn't "cool" or slick enough to be Prime Minister. They wanted someone they could take seriously, like David Cameron. I'll leave the experts to determine whether Cameron should have been taken seriously, and whether "charisma" is really just code for being better able to manage the media, or being more liked by media gatekeepers!
@roberttownrow3606 maybe you're right. After this election, I think people actually be might be that thick! They're all like zombies! Not an original thought between them. If I had a pound for all the times I've heard "they're all the same" during this election campaign, I think I'd be able to buy Rishi Sunak's family a Sky subscription for an entire millennium!
That's enough from you Jonny.
@@marekweir ok 😔
I wish May had completely fronted the interviewer out and said something like ‘ the naughtiest thing? Possibly the cocaine fuelled, marathon 3 ways I used to engage in at Uni ‘ lol.
When asked about what Blair thought of the punch, Prescott said (I think it was on HIGNFY) "I only followed Tony's orders. He told me to connect with the electorate, and I did".
It's the only thing I respect him for
The background music on this video is ridiculous lmao. Feels like I'm watching contestants purchase antiques on a daytime tv show
watch mojo is a content farm account....the lists are probably generated by chatgtp lol and they throw any random free soundtrack over it
In fairness to Theresa May that's not such an easy question to answer. "Naughty" implies - when she was a young child, not a teenager. She couldn't say shoplifting or anything like that, so she quickly came up with something pretty harmless, and something that kids often do - trespassing. It was a terrible example she gave because it came across as boring. Had she said she hid on the local wheat fields when she was supposed to be doing cross country run at school then everyone would have nodded in approval.
Being ''boring'' was not the issue, being a hypocrite now that's something.
They basically said this on Mock The Week. She can't exactly say she tried Heroin or stole mobile phones on mopeds, can she?
If you do this again, there should be a whole segment for Liz Truss
There's not enough time left in the internet, for that useless waste of skin.
The Prescott incident WAS NOT a disaster whatsoever 😳
The problem with Ed Miliband is that he's not David Miliband.
No he isn't, he's brighter and more caring, just not as handsome.
David was more centrist than Blair for god sakes.
I think the Prescott punch helped his PR massively
Cummings was not forced to resign, he was forced to resign 6 months later in a separate issue.
Pushed out by Carrie Antoinette
Prescott went up in my estimations when he punched the egg thrower.
This list is why I prefer British politics, rather than our politics in the USA
Trust me mate its the tip of the iceberg
No. 3: Shortly after the incident, Brewdog made a beer called "Barnard Castle eye test"... 😂
Prescott became a working class hero for that punch
What about Diane Abbott forgetting to count?
look all 10 would be about Diane she says and does so much stupid things
Or Philip Hammond getting the cost of HS2 wrong by £20 billion. Or when Priti Patel gave the wrong number of Covid tests. Or when Theresa May stated that the drop in sterling had nothing to do with Brexit.
@@mihohobaba shhhhh
@@jamez_hamez8131 Why should I "shhhhh"?
Can't criticise Abbott though.....
I hate when people put gate after everything. People in other countries do know it was only called that cause the event took place at the Watergate hotel. Just adding gate to every scandal is just nonsensical.
People are dumb and made it a thing unfortunately. They also add it to stuff that isn't even that controversial
Watch the Mitchell and Webb sketch on Watergate-gate.
Yeah, do you remember Cow and Gate and Gardengate?
Its pretty dumb because most people including most Americans have no idea what “Watergate” was, who was involved, what happened, and the potential reasons why it happened. They know the term “Watergate” and associate it with major scandal, but thats mostly it.
@@Deeplycloseted435 And then some people wonder why state level politicians seem to get away with corruption
Should do a list of the top worst things Prince Phillip ever said:-
“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession).
“You are a woman, aren’t you?” (in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman).
“If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China).
“You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got pot belly” (to a Briton he met in Hungary).
“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands).
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor).
“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh).
“Still throwing spears?” (question put to an Aboriginal Australian during a visit).
“There’s a lot of your family in tonight” (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians).
“The Philippines must be half-empty as you’re all here running the NHS” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital).
Oh yes and wasn't there one saying when he died he wanted to come back as a deadly virus? Yeah good one Phil.
It all seems to have been forgotten, how the media controls people's thoughts.
legend
Lol. Chill, bro. Actually most of them were really funny
@@immortalfrom90 number 6 is a personal favourite
@@bigladnathanclips my favorite is the first one) good dark humor)
The Queen visited the set of Game of Thrones. She refused to sit on the Iron Throne because it’s not allowed for a member of regency to sit on a foreign thrones. She was a legend.
I can't look at The Mound without seeing Bob-Omb battlefield from Mario 64
🤣🤣
Prescott definitely didn’t “deck” the Egg Man.
The “Pubic Mound” 😂
The only two which was a disaster was disaster was Gordon Brown calling the woman a bigot and Dominic Cummings seemingly breaking the law.
@Gevorg1989 Nothing wrong with the word just it probably cost him a lot of votes during the election
It revealed Labour’s true colours about not giving 2 shites about sorting immigration
@Gevorg1989 who is “they” referring to?
She was a bigot, lol
The woman was a bigot and it still took a coalition to beat him and how did that go, arguably everything stems from there
Presscott gained a lot of respect for that punch
What about Theresa May's coughing speech? 😁
Or her whole PMship
Have you seen her bow to the Queen or her dancing 😂proper lizard
@@D-A-A- In those leopard print kitten heels. 😆
@@julianaylor4351 just been re watching all the clips of her then cringe as feel sorry for her, got rickets or stn
The only problem with the "Go Home Vans" was that there weren't enough of them and the policy of kicking out illegals wasn't pursued with any determination. Even several years ago there were estimated to be over one million illegals in the country.
Edwina Currie and her comment that all eggs were contaminated with salmonella. Egg sales crashed, and so did her career.
They are back again... with the same b.s.
Thing is, she was fired for telling the truth!
Gonna be really honest...David Cameron's response by eating a hot dog with a knife and fork kinda put me off him xD
Peter Bottomley has just said MP need more pay, after his party just stole £20 a week, off the poorest people in the country.
It was an awful idea to pay it in the first place. It wasn't necessary. It's not now, there's plenty of jobs out there
@@Steve-gc5nt They make disabled people who can't work live off it. They took proper disabled benefits off people and make them live on less than £ 80 a week. Meanwhile they lie about protecting the vulnerable. They are nouveau riche 💩💩. 😠
I think it's worse that they took this money off people in poverty, and then a couple days later Boris went on holiday to somewhere that cost 25k a *NIGHT* . MPs need more money, eh?
@@scottdixon2505 What's more he gets to borrow the villa of a party donor.
Surely the infamous "Ed Stone" should be on here?
I respect prescott for punching the guy
Me too, it was purely reactionary hitting back and the guy deserved a better punch in my opinion. That egg could've been anything thrown at him
@@SuperBeardWill Yes, he reacted before working out what it was. Had it been a rock, grenade etc., Prescott would have been widely praised.
yeah wacked him one
i see no reason why he could not defend himself since his security was not between him and the attacker
it was still assault by the man on Prescott. and did the man pay to have the suit cleaned
2 jabs
You could make a whole top 10 on just Boris Johnson’s PR disasters
Now they have vans saying “come back” and “fix me sink”
"Go home or face arrest" was almost a moment of hope for sad, lost England.
Don't forget her subsequent revelations that John Major, our apparently terminally boring PM, had been a bit of a tiger between the sheets!
Rishi Sunak walking out of a D-day memorial service during an election campaign!
Number 4 shouldn’t count because it wasn’t planned by him. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time & people really need to look back on why struggling to eat bacon is an apparent violation of becoming a PM.
4:48 how is this a PR disaster. Kier starmer saying that a diseased animal should be down?
it turned out not to be diseased.
@@GeoffreyBronson not true
@@GeoffreyBronson lol
I kinda respect Prescott for punching that dude.
telling someone who is in a country illegally to go home in not a hate crime. It happens everywhere in the world and immigration detention centres especially in some south eastern Asian countries are full of British and common wealth citizens who didn't go home when they should have. This self loathing western wokeness is poisonous.
the fact that tories sending out vans telling immigrants to go home or be arrested ranked slightly below Ed Milliband making a weird face while eating sandwich really does say a lot about British political coverage doesn't it?
Need this background music - it’s too epic!
I liked John Prescot more for connecting with the electorate
The Russian Assassins lies were more convincing then anything Dominic Cummings said that day
Gordon Brown calling that woman a bigot was completely fair, I find it annoying that him being completely honest and accurate whilst talking to his own adviser in what he assumed was a private space caused him so much negative PR.
2024 here, and they are all defeated by D-Day...
Think this might need an update...
Plus:
1. Rishi in the rain
2. Rishi getting laughed at by audiences
3. Rishi the D-Day Dodger
4. Rishi standing by the exit sign
5. Shapps calling Sam Coates on air.
6. Rishi visits Titanic site
7. Rishi building a red wall
8. Poor Rishi didn't have Sky TV growing up
There was an article a while ago suggesting he stopped at a petrol station and didn't know how to put fuel in his car.
@@slavaukraini1991 It wasn't even his car! haha
Love how there is fuck all about Boris Johnson in this list
Corbyn was too busy ‘Whistling in the wheat field’ with Hippo Abbott!
Dominic Cummings: Goes to Barnard Castle for an eye test
Me: Goes to Barnard Castle to say I've driven on the A67!
I dont understand the field of wheat furore? Surely it's the lamest "naughty" thing imaginable. Or is that the point?
that is the point
Yeah, that's very much the point
@@TheEternalOuroboros thanks for that. Not lived in the UK for decades so not really up to speed with pop culture. So she was hardly the Sex Pistols on the Grundy show then!
@@terranceparsons5185 It's all good, take care!
You forgot about the infamous Ed Stone!
You missed a classic from the 90's - Neil Kinnock's infamous US style campaign rally at the Labour conference in Sheffield 'we're all right!'.
Rishi Sunak retreating from the D day beaches faster than a curry sampler on laxatives.
The mound is the worst, the council decided to build that then feed hungry kids in the area. Didn’t even bother setting up food banks for people
I like the Mound 😆
You need to get out more often
Running through the fields of wheat?
And now forever known as Thatcher in the Rye!
Prescott's left jab was the opposite of a PR disaster. Top bloke. And he liked Jags so much, he had two.
Update this to include Sunak’s Sky TV gag.
Apparently British political PR disasters only go back as far as 1986
Who left his daughter behind in a pub? Cameron.
And his passport but it seems that the police do a courier job...for some
Theresa May did make a mistake she should’ve got up and danced to style it out 😂😂😂😂
Even pocahontas Harris looks more credible and attractive than Theresa.
Also it’s possibly worth mentioning that Gordon Beown’s “Bigotgate” was indeed an issue for him but at a local level, the MP he was there to support went on to win the seat.
Leaving early for a DD commemoration, when you are prime minister, to film an interview that won’t be shown for another week (where you are just defending a lie) ranks very highly
I think this video needs a remake as a top 20
Where's Camerons "hug a hoodie"?
Mr.Ed had been watching too much Mr.Bean!
We also have long memories! Covid funerals with minimum mourners attending. NHS dentists as rare as hen's teeth. Pensioners dying through not being able to afford to put their fires on. Boris' handling the Covid crisis. It's just heartbreaking as the list is so long!
Nothing about David Cameron leaving his child in a pub ??
yes but they were still drinking there pints so he had to leave them he was sending the car back for them later
hehehe
Hey we’ve all been there
Didn’t he leave some top secret documents on a train as well
We would appear to have the politicians that we deserve.
Miliband: if it looks like a muppet, talks like a muppet, and acts like a muppet - it’s a muppet.
You missed Bojo saying that Mrs Ratcliffe was educating journalists, sadly it cost her more jail time
It's worrying that all of these bar 1 has happened in my life time and I'm still in my 20s. The state of British politics/ politicians. Though I must admit, there are some really bad ones that this video misses. Maybe the people who made it are young too. But I would have thought Chamberlain's Munich Agreement would be up there, as would the Suez Canal crisis and the Profumo Affair
It's watch mojo they aren't known for doing much research. Plus this video is based on controversies they have easy to find video footage of. This video feels like eating junk food.
The person compiling this list must be your age and is unaware of British history prior to 1986! He cannot ever have heard of Sir Winston Churchill, for example on being told he was drunk replying and you madam are ugly, but, nyahhhh, I will be sober in the morning.
Munich was immensely popular at the time. Many people thought Chamberlain had saved the world. It wasn't until some months later, when people realized Chamberlain had been conned, that they turned against the agreement and Chamberlain.
The Mound has gone now. What always got to me was the idea that it was there partly because the council thought Londoners needed green spaces…right opposite Hyde Park and you’ll never guess what colour that is…
Above all, Brexit is bollocks.
Geronmo was actually 2021 not 2020
Surprised the Ed Stone didn't get a mention
Jeeze. This video is just 2 years old but if you made it again today none of these items would make the cut.
Replace Prescotts little incident with the Ed Stone
#8 wasn't a disaster, it improved Prescott's public perception lol.
Man. They usually pass through the ears and out the other side without any contact usually but I think we have awoken slightly thank f😂
ed milliband "tough enuss" deserves a spot on this list
2 Jags Prescott! What a legend!
2024 election: hold my beer.
How about another clanger by Queer Starmer when he walked away from a man asking him a question he didn't like walking into the pub..The man turned out to be the landlord and told him to 'Get Out Of My Pub'.....
Forgot about the go homes vans lol literally the stupidest idea ever. Especially when most who are here illegally can't even read English 😎
Prescott is a bad as the rest of the bent politicians but I do t blame him for hitting back that day.He did what anybody body with a pair would have done.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Way up there would be Rishi Sunak flying back to the UK instead of doing an international DDay celebration
Yes
7:56 - Cummings didn’t resign because of this….
What about Theresa May walking that was 🤣
5:55 your conflating legal immigrants with illegal immigrants