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    Campbell is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Tony Blair's spokesman and campaign director, followed by Downing Street Press Secretary for Blair. He then became Director of Communications and spokesman for the Labour Party. He resigned in August 2003 during the Hutton Inquiry into the death of David Kelly.
    He continues to act as a consultant strategist and as an ambassador for Time To Change and other mental health charities. He is an adviser to the People's Vote campaign, demanding a public vote on the final Brexit deal.
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Комментарии • 212

  • @_Understand_it
    @_Understand_it Год назад +10

    His foresight on Putin, Trump and NATO was unreal.

  • @kianlowe4844
    @kianlowe4844 4 года назад +26

    Is anybody else bugged by his jacket collar being turned up at the back?!

    • @TB-dz8lm
      @TB-dz8lm 3 года назад

      ...annoying as hell

  • @clevercat9774
    @clevercat9774 6 лет назад +15

    Glad Alister mentioned Peter Kyle. My local MP, for Hove & Portslade, (in Brighton & Hove) . In GE17 he had an enormous majority, a rare thing is a labour stronghold one he south east coast! I’ve met him a few times - absolutely brilliant! Can’t believe any true labour supported would want to unseat him!

  • @buckreeder
    @buckreeder 7 лет назад +145

    Gotta lot of time for Campbell. The party is poorer without his advice.

    • @shanelevene4864
      @shanelevene4864 7 лет назад +6

      I hope that's a joke? Or you're a conservative socialist? This guy is absolutely embedded in capitalist ideals... New Labour was a successful marketing campaign, nothing more. And this piece of shit played a huge role in all of that. You're wanting victory at any price again. X

    • @oldseadog3386
      @oldseadog3386 7 лет назад

      You will see him doing this more often now as he wont be getting his cushy overpaid job in Brussels due to us old ignorant lager drinking pot smoking scum who voted Brexit. Any way he's a Cambridge man so he can't be that good.

    • @buckreeder
      @buckreeder 7 лет назад +12

      not a joke. lets see how many elections we win without him yeah?

    • @dangoodbad1951
      @dangoodbad1951 7 лет назад +3

      Labour didn't win because of him, they won because the Tories were despised in the mid 90s, Labour were well ahead in the polls and would have won with or without Blair and Campbell.

    • @CbrigBear87
      @CbrigBear87 7 лет назад +5

      Another idiot that does not understand Blair killed Labour.

  • @folasadegiwa6305
    @folasadegiwa6305 7 месяцев назад

    thank so good blessing you todary am

  • @selamotshwane9338
    @selamotshwane9338 6 лет назад

    Thanks for the posts Cambs :)

  • @folasadegiwa6305
    @folasadegiwa6305 7 месяцев назад

    thank so much good blrssing you todary am

  • @sweeeny2019
    @sweeeny2019 7 лет назад +13

    Pretty astute observation about Trump & Putin.

  • @folasadegiwa6305
    @folasadegiwa6305 7 месяцев назад

    thank so mich good blessing you todaey am

  • @ahmedmahon2022
    @ahmedmahon2022 7 лет назад +71

    Can't help but admire the man.

    • @jasonkingshott2971
      @jasonkingshott2971 5 лет назад +9

      ...for being Tony Blair's liar in chief?

    • @lollypton4572
      @lollypton4572 4 года назад +4

      He's a tosser of the highest order....

    • @jasonkingshott2971
      @jasonkingshott2971 4 года назад +2

      Me too, just at the point when he walked out the door.

    • @jasonkingshott2971
      @jasonkingshott2971 4 года назад +1

      @@lollypton4572 Just a tosser?

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 4 года назад +1

      This individual is about as repulsive a being as I can possibly imagine

  • @TonyCarrollPassion4Motorsport
    @TonyCarrollPassion4Motorsport 7 лет назад +1

    ohh wow looking forward to this >> tc

  • @paulyoung4649
    @paulyoung4649 7 лет назад +16

    Gordon Brown was not elected either.

    • @CbrigBear87
      @CbrigBear87 7 лет назад +1

      He was only knifed in the back twice by Saint Tony. He should have been leader after John Smith but nevermind.

    • @CbrigBear87
      @CbrigBear87 7 лет назад +4

      Who the fuck elected Campbell?

    • @paulyoung4649
      @paulyoung4649 7 лет назад

      Tacit Blue everyone in the country.
      I definitely remember it
      he was elected as 3rd biggest c#πt in the UK ever, for all times.

    • @pr4442
      @pr4442 5 лет назад +3

      No prime minister is elected in the United Kingdom they are appointed by her majesty the queen

  • @lorro7585
    @lorro7585 6 лет назад +28

    32:10 "this will get a laugh"
    Nobody laughs.

  • @sratus
    @sratus 6 лет назад +22

    Even his suit looks like it's from 1997

    • @woolcottable
      @woolcottable 4 года назад +2

      TrainInVain Trousers were way baggier than that in 1997

  • @drofheim
    @drofheim 5 лет назад +11

    I know he has suffered from depression, but im amazed this guy hasn't gone crazy with his decisions that bad affected many or killed.

    • @tedm6894
      @tedm6894 7 месяцев назад +3

      Crazy that you think he, the press secretary was making those decisions

    • @Charlie-et4td
      @Charlie-et4td 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@tedm6894in fairness he massively assisted the ilegal wars because of his media control

    • @tedm6894
      @tedm6894 7 месяцев назад

      @@Charlie-et4td that's delusional. He's been proven as not lying.

  • @robbychristian828
    @robbychristian828 7 лет назад +9

    He is an enigma. Some absolute nuggets in there with a lot of fluff. Tony Blair deciphered him :)

    • @jasonkingshott2971
      @jasonkingshott2971 5 лет назад +1

      Not an enigma, just believe the opposite to what he says.

  • @italsounds001
    @italsounds001 7 лет назад +7

    New labour gave us the change that paved the way for Cameron, May, and the type of politics we are suffering today, it was new labour and the Tory version of it that turned so many people towards right wing bigotry, or away from politics altogether, the politics of no choice, no ideas and neoliberal stagnation.

  • @stevenbeaven1
    @stevenbeaven1 2 месяца назад +2

    I'm 10 minutes in and already fuming that Campbell is spinning his way out of not acknowledging that he was instrumental in creating the mess that UK politics is currently in. His capacity to re-write history knows no bounds. Loathsome man.

  • @hiroshima3112
    @hiroshima3112 5 лет назад +4

    his collar is killing me

  • @NP-zl7dz
    @NP-zl7dz 7 лет назад +10

    Had no idea what he was saying, was just annoyed by his jacket collar.

    • @jasonkingshott2971
      @jasonkingshott2971 5 лет назад

      Don't worry, you didn't miss anything, he was talking a load of garbage as usual.

  • @JK-br1mu
    @JK-br1mu Год назад +1

    Yes! The cutey in bottom right 3:15 didn't raise her hand when he asked who wanted Labour to win the next election.

  • @CbrigBear87
    @CbrigBear87 7 лет назад +3

    Oh he managed to get Russia in. That's telling...

  • @peha9942
    @peha9942 4 года назад +4

    Boring.

  • @amadfook3r
    @amadfook3r 7 месяцев назад +1

    its funny how all of this aged like milk

  • @ddd-ly3rv
    @ddd-ly3rv 6 лет назад +4

    When you unravel him you find the meta idea of ultimate liberal power through not trusting anyone abroad. Like synthesis was slappin's

  • @alluviatchainovska7093
    @alluviatchainovska7093 7 лет назад +3

    A neighbour's window has a poster on her window, stating;- "Jeremy Corbyn honest straight talking politics ". I debated with the lady, the topic being - honest straight talking politics doesn't exist. Sadly she wouldn't withdraw from her delusion 🙉🙈🙊

    • @shanelevene4864
      @shanelevene4864 7 лет назад +1

      You debated with her? That's admirable, but you should have taken the intellectual high-ground and put a brick through her window.

    • @alluviatchainovska7093
      @alluviatchainovska7093 7 лет назад

      Shane Levene​ Radical response toward the deluded never works, brick through her window - not the response I was expecting LOL 😲

    • @luisemiliogomezcantoral1587
      @luisemiliogomezcantoral1587 7 лет назад

      Alluvia Tchainovska

    • @alluviatchainovska7093
      @alluviatchainovska7093 7 лет назад

      Shane Levene​, pleased that you commented - I'm following you now and appreciate your work x 😉

    • @shanelevene4864
      @shanelevene4864 7 лет назад +1

      Alluvia Tchainovska Excuse me Alluvia I've only just caught this comment... didn't come through as a notification for some reason. My sincere appreciation and thanks for your words and any time you've spent reading mine. Great writers need even greater readers... X

  • @atlantis_expedition_member4747
    @atlantis_expedition_member4747 7 лет назад +1

    Am I the only one curious about that the "woman" at 52:10 is actually a man?

  • @jeremywestern7067
    @jeremywestern7067 Год назад +2

    TOTAL AND UTTER W⚓️

  • @gw84g
    @gw84g 6 лет назад +3

    He was right about deeply unelected Theresa May

    • @jasonkingshott2971
      @jasonkingshott2971 5 лет назад +3

      Did he support the utterly useless Gordon Brown "not being elected"?

  • @markturley8167
    @markturley8167 5 лет назад +3

    Gordon Brown was unelected

  • @mtnaybour5423
    @mtnaybour5423 7 лет назад +1

    Sounds like Alastair supports this upcoming general election then.

  • @bobtudbury8505
    @bobtudbury8505 2 года назад +10

    campbell is one of the biggests prats in politics, i am amazed how he got on !!

    • @joecmccluskey
      @joecmccluskey Год назад

      And your a Number 1 PRATT for writing such a Dumb Comment..

  • @peternicho
    @peternicho 6 лет назад +10

    Alastair Campbell in la la land the man is deluded

    • @jakit4
      @jakit4 4 года назад +4

      Do you still believe this?

  • @mrfas4217
    @mrfas4217 5 лет назад +17

    The spin doctor for Iraq war. Enough said

    • @tedm6894
      @tedm6894 Год назад

      Daily mail fanatic, enough said.

  • @richardchadwick7310
    @richardchadwick7310 9 месяцев назад

    what happened to dr kelly?

  • @sahilarora4402
    @sahilarora4402 7 лет назад +49

    16 Year Old Blairite here. Wish New Labour were still in power :(

    • @paulyoung4649
      @paulyoung4649 7 лет назад +3

      Sahil Arora Great, we'd have boots on the ground all over the middle east in wars we can't afford.
      Lord mandy and the rest of the crony capitalists will be happy when you are able to vote for them.

    • @wigazw5539
      @wigazw5539 7 лет назад

      paul young Don't think the Iraq invasion is so controversial because of financial commitment, but from a moral standpoint.

    • @CbrigBear87
      @CbrigBear87 7 лет назад +1

      Grow up, fast. Sahil

    • @jamesfyffe2768
      @jamesfyffe2768 7 лет назад +1

      Nice rebuttal ignore him :)

    • @CbrigBear87
      @CbrigBear87 7 лет назад

      Haha yeah ignore. Look what happens. Sahil you are fake news!

  • @ludovic2431
    @ludovic2431 9 месяцев назад +1

    Same shit different day. The average politicians programm 1 self interest; 2 parties interest; 3 countries interest. How refreshing it would be if they were able to change 1 against 3. Unfortunatly that's wishfull thinking. You better ask gravity to stop working.

  • @wouldbegood
    @wouldbegood 7 лет назад +4

    I predicted that Jeremy Corbyn will never connect with the public...
    and lo and behold after my campaign of spin with all my media buddies he isn't.
    Long live New Labour.

  • @ianwestbrook2763
    @ianwestbrook2763 10 месяцев назад +1

    You didn't give the book away, you rat! ;-)

  • @user-lp7wo7og4x
    @user-lp7wo7og4x Год назад

    Bril mind old Ali

  • @poesie6279
    @poesie6279 7 лет назад +8

    If you don't support Corbyn how is your party going to win? You're giving it away!

  • @MarmiteCrumpets
    @MarmiteCrumpets 6 лет назад +4

    Interesting to see this 12 months later in the light of political change both in the US and domestically. An increasingly isolated UK government with nowhere to turn being hung by its own petard and massive and sustainable changes within Labour whose return to socialist policies are popular, viable, costed and which resonate with so many crying out for change to end the cycle of punishing austerity and corruption.

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 5 лет назад

      We just need to persuade people that the Socialist policies are what they need . I don't think enough are convinced yet .

    • @terrysmith9362
      @terrysmith9362 2 года назад +1

      such popular socialist policies the worst GE result since 1935.
      You lefties are utterly delusional

  • @raymondbedborough8522
    @raymondbedborough8522 2 года назад +6

    A vile man. He helped drive the attacks around the world with Blair.

  • @j.x.x.r3645
    @j.x.x.r3645 11 месяцев назад

    21:56 :(

  • @geraldinemcgowan6666
    @geraldinemcgowan6666 3 года назад +2

    Campbell is the real McCoy--the world is sad but Campbell is not. Wish the US had someone like him.

  • @bertiescunsbutch9323
    @bertiescunsbutch9323 Год назад +1

    Dr David Kelly R.I.P.

  • @zackzad
    @zackzad 7 лет назад +4

    why do I hate him

  • @jasonturner4997
    @jasonturner4997 Год назад +4

    Dodgy dossier..say no more

  • @spartacusforlife1508
    @spartacusforlife1508 5 лет назад +4

    When your raison d'etre is as a spin doctor then what merit can you be given by a listening public. You can never trust the likes of Alastair campbell simply because his form proves it

  • @ryanhughes9498
    @ryanhughes9498 2 года назад +2

    Wouldnt let him run my bath or tie my shoe laces

  • @JackJames2612
    @JackJames2612 5 лет назад

    someone should of told him his collars up.

  • @chrish12345
    @chrish12345 4 года назад +4

    spot the war crim

  • @whovotedforthat
    @whovotedforthat 7 месяцев назад +1

    War monger

  • @robertdavis9246
    @robertdavis9246 2 года назад +3

    Sounds like a typical politician who thinks that discussing strategy as opposed to principles is what people want to hear.

    • @alexfrye6
      @alexfrye6 4 месяца назад

      He's not a politician he's a strategist. That was his job, what do you expect him to talk about?

  • @01parmy
    @01parmy 6 лет назад +4

    should be in jail not making millions and derailing brexit

  • @merrybolton2135
    @merrybolton2135 7 лет назад +2

    Tony Gordon and you before the financial crash did not see it coming and did not tell the people at the bottom .I am not that educated but I saw it coming , The bubble was going to burst , WE ARE PAYING THE PRICE NOt you

  • @nickjung7394
    @nickjung7394 6 лет назад +4

    How can anyone believe anything this man says? I wonder if he has ever served in the armed forces or, if he encouraged his children to?

  • @robertwilson214
    @robertwilson214 2 года назад +1

    Why does he keep saying their clever? If they knew what ethics/philosophy was,they'd walk out

  • @kentwydell9322
    @kentwydell9322 Год назад

    I'm unsure about that guy..... Is he a narcissist, Sociopath or psychopath?.....

  • @TheGatesOfFire
    @TheGatesOfFire 4 года назад +3

    Details just don't matter to this guy.

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye 4 года назад

      He never let facts get in the way....

  • @haydoncooper3744
    @haydoncooper3744 Месяц назад

    Never mind is jacket and collar he irritates me.

  • @ludovic2431
    @ludovic2431 9 месяцев назад

    Yoy tell us of the conservative flock of sheep. No progressiveness there. More about going back in time. Ahh, you are talking about Brexit.

  • @grantfleming8178
    @grantfleming8178 7 лет назад +24

    Good actor with little to say of truth or value

  • @jasonkingshott2971
    @jasonkingshott2971 3 года назад +5

    Blair's Liar-in-Chief!

  • @gerrybrennan5715
    @gerrybrennan5715 4 года назад +4

    A genuine natural born liar.....

  • @orangewarm1
    @orangewarm1 4 года назад +3

    Comes on and starts with propaganda. How about the question: do you belive Iraq had wmds?

  • @jimmymyers8753
    @jimmymyers8753 7 лет назад +7

    Campbell Tony Blair Rent Boy !!

  • @oliverc1961
    @oliverc1961 4 года назад +6

    What a patronising, boring man Campbell is. Don't address university undergraduates and postgraduates as "children".

  • @jch292
    @jch292 7 лет назад

    21:56 LOL. #LIBERALTEARS

  • @gwengwengwen9604
    @gwengwengwen9604 7 лет назад +10

    Prefer Nigel Farage

  • @hylkewesterhuis9667
    @hylkewesterhuis9667 7 лет назад +9

    24:00 Keeping on defending Tony Blair .................................... that's where I quit.
    Thumb down for this utter waste of (my) time.

  • @eddiehernandez2179
    @eddiehernandez2179 3 года назад

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