2006 Labour leadership crisis
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2020
- Tony Blair said in 2004 he would leave office in the next Parliament in "a stable and orderly transition". In September 2006, allies of Gordon Brown, worried about delay, decided to force the issue. Here is some news coverage from 6-7 September showing what happened.
This video may explain why Corbynite jibes against "Blairite Tom Watson" were met with laughter by older Labour Party members.
The VT glitches from 18:35 are original - the statement had been recorded inside the school out of range of the live link and was being played down the line but seems to have been delayed to coincide with 3 PM (without realising it was going out live).
It seems mad to think that in 2006 we had gone a 27 year period with just THREE Prime Ministers. Shows how big a mess the Tory party is in.
And to think that we went through 3 Prime Ministers in just 6 weeks back in 2022!!
You must remember, when we had Boris, we was respected world wide. Once “Fiery Liz” (as we call her in East England) got in, she gave that burst of energy our politics so desperately needed. Once she was coup-ed by the Banks, we got Mr Sunak. Who has enshrined respect, honesty and decency back into British politics. So let me make it absolutely, redundantly clear, whilst 3 PMs in one year mightn’t be idea, you, WE, must remember how good we had it. Don’t forget that on 4 July
@@MichaelJ44 hahaha
@@RobertMathieson
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@@MichaelJ44 yes “stability” with the Tories or “chaos” with Labour.
It shows how clearly British politics are fucked when this now seems very tame.
That old BBC intro is nostalgic.
Most important part of this was the delay of the ps3
1:23 has meme power
haha it's one of those missed opportunites from the very early days of social media.
😂😂😂😂😂
2006 doesn’t look that different to today when you watch this.
You can thank 15 years of Tory austerity for that!
@@djslybacon that and the fact that internationally, culture hasn’t shifted as much has it did between 1989-2006 in the time since 2006.
@@djslybacon I have a certain envy for people who think that every problem has a single source
Really interesting to look back on this, thank you. I was a bit too young at the time to be interested in politics.
At the time of this bulletin I was only a month old!
@@lcfcsince2016 hard to imagine now but in 2006 the UK was literally one of the world's strongest and best performing economies. We had a lower debt to GDP than either the US, France or Germany and the NHS had an 80% public satisfaction rating with average waits for non urgent care measured in 18 weeks. The GP appointment target was 48 hours from point of contact. The 2008 financial crisis blew a hole in the public finances but we were already in full recovery by the time of the 2010 election, and completely avoided the mass unemployment of previous recessions. Then the Tories got in, Labour spent more time having an existential identity crisis than providing a proper opposition and look at us now...
Watching this in 2024. Three weeks before the UK election, this looks so trivial compared to what’s been happening over the last 7 years.
This is weird. I mean not just the politcal stuff but the way they speak about the PS3
Ah classic console ps3 online gaming for free never again
Tom Watson- always plotting behind Labour leaders backs
one thing that videos like this show is how little the presentation of the news has changed in the last 14 years: especially when you compare it to stuff even a few years earlier. Its clearly not modern (graphics are big and clearly designed for old 4:3 TVs) but going from some of your older 1997 stuff to this its especially jarring to see how comparatively little has changed since.
IceAgeComing the transition from 2003 to 2006 was crazy
More of archive bbc stuff. Amazing archive stuff
Do you have a video link to the 2006 Queen’s speech debate between Blair & Cameron? Can’t find it anywhere & would really appreciate it!
@TWM ruclips.net/video/YBKpSpa26b8/видео.html
19:10 tearing up watching. it is from this point labour was finished. blair knows it as well. 😭 😭 😭
I'm tearing up, too. For JOY! May Labour never return to power.
@@MTCason rude!
@@fryliver4953 Not rude.. Just honest!
Cannot ever see Labour ever being elected again, too extreme.
Blair was a shocker. Caused so much damage to our Christian culture and Calamity Brown
destroyed the economy through spendthrift profligacy. Still suffering to this day. Bastards!
@Casey Wander Wot rot! lol....red or blue,
left or right, socialism never works..
it is proven shite. FACT!
Nothing like some Blair resignation jam.
I wanted to know what on earth happened at a time when I was born
It kind of feels like times havent changed. Video games, football, the same old british accent. And war.
Future PM Rishi Sunak was just 26 at this time
No way, really
And as a hedge fund manager he was pushing the through the ABN-Amro sale that caused the collapse of RBS and cost the UK taxpayer £70 billion.
Probably just got his sky TV by this point.
Stability and strong government with Gordon Brown or chaos with David Cameron?
Calamity Brown was a dismal failure.
@@lennylaa1686 Major > Brown > Blair > Cameron > May > Johnson
Stability, strong govt.!? Your joking. Gordon Brown was a successful chancellor but god awful pm.
@@militantman Britain faced a simple and inescapable choice. Stability and strong government with Brown or chaos with David Cameron
@@wilsonfisk6626 Gordon Brown, by many record, was the wors PM since he presided over o e of the worst recession
Why the fuck is it always Tom Watson stirring shit? Jeremy Corbyn says hey from 2015 to 2019
Cos he is a snake
I wonder how Blair would have done in a 2009/2010 general election. On the one hand, the electorate might have tired of Blair, blaming him for not only the Iraq War but now also the financial crisis. On the other hand, it was Blair's resignation that allowed the Conservatives to differentiate themselves from Labour: faced with the real Blair and Cameron the Blair clone, voters might have opted for the real Blair.
The best thing Labour could’ve done is for Gordon Brown to call an election for October 2007. I will never know why he never did it. I’m sure he would’ve had a majority of around 30-40 at least. They should’ve learned that lesson from when Labour never called an election in 1978 and instead waited until a crisis hit the country in 1979 and they lost hopes of winning an election.
Liam B perhaps Brown had waited so long to be PM that he didn't want to risk not having a chance at all
I think labour would’ve been destroyed. Probably the same as the party got in 2019. But whenever Labour gets pushed down, they get up again (to quote the famous song)
YorickReturns - The Tories differentiated themselves from Labour by cloning him ? ... Labour declined to give the electorate the option of a Blair, so the Tories offered up a replacement.
By 2010, ''New'' Labour was all washed up.
They had borrowed massively to bribe the voters. Calamity Brown wrecked the economy.
A colossal expansion of the public and welfare sectors. Entirely uncosted and unfunded.
Still even now paying the price of his profligacy and his shameful failures. Bastards!
I love the reporter at the start who managed to get the BBC to pay for his jolly around in a helicopter lol
Wouldn’t happen nowadays
Hes sooo good with the public and the media!! Look at him compared to rishi smh
I miss naughties tv
Nick Robinson looks exactly the same, Gordon Brown on the other hand...
0:30 News Bulletin 18 years later- Kier Starmer elected as PM, PS5 exists but hardly any games, Immigration is a hotter topic than ever, Andy Murray is playing in his final Wimbledon tournament and Scotland exit Euro 2024 at the group stage.
The parallels are interesting!
Bad habits 2:33 at the BBC with correspondants like Nick Robinson making the news for George instead of us license fee payers 🤦🏾♂️
1:53 1:40 0:28 0:29 0:03 0:18
0:32 0:30 1:54 1:55 1:56 1:57 1:58 1:59 2:00 2:01 2:02 2:03
I wish he never went he would of kept the Tories out he was clever in elections and knew how to win
1:23 Real Madrid every season in the champions league
Would have been interesting if Blair had stuck it to Gordon again and stayed on......partly because the Iraq War ended after the Surge in late 2007- early 08. So he could have hyped up the final success of Iraq and the creation of a democracy there.........after we left, ISIS came in up north a few years later, but that's a different story. And they eventually got wiped out too. Blair could have worked hard to put a positive spin on the end of the Iraq War and that might have undercut the far left screamers a bit........and improved his legacy.
And Gordon Brown turned out to be worse then Callaghan
The lesser spotted Judas Brown.
Best UK Prime Minister of the 21st Century.
I'd put Boris far above him already and so would a lot of other people.
@@MTCason Your opinion is wrong but ok.
Certainly Blair will go down in history as a titan of a political figure. However, personally it's Boris who has that mantle so far.
I think about 500 people would say Boris is the best prime minister of the 21st century and 60% of them are mentally ill and the rest are paid up Tory shills
@Matthew Kirkham I dont remember corbyn committing mass murders, although I do remember churchill and the bengal famine. Anyway I'm glad Corbyn is gone, labour is no place for anti semites, shame that the tory party is still a place for islamophobes and racists like Boris and his pickerninny smiles and letterbox ladies remarks.