Watching these to get a better understanding of New Labour in light of our current political situation. I feel that British society as a whole got something fundamentally wrong somewhere along the line...
The shelf live of a party in government is getting lower and lower. People don't have the patience to see improvements through. The problem with the UK first past the post system makes it always a very big change from one government to the next. That change (with great expectation for immediate actions and changes in government) is very contra-productive and keeps on the back foot.
In hindsight, I must say that both Tony and Gordon were competent individuals and were one of the best prime ministers the UK had. After having lived through 14 years of Tories' rule, I can say this with the assurance that none of Tory PMs since 2010 can come even close to Tony and Gordon's leadership. I absolutely loathe Tony Blair's decision to go to the Iraq war. Had he not gone to Iraq, he could have been the best PM this country would have ever had.
@@Al_fraud oh really? so you wanted a fiscal deficit higher than 7% of GDP? Public debt as percentage of GDP went from 40% in 2007 to 80% in 2011, completely unsustainable
Electing New Labour was one of Britain's biggest postwar mistakes. We threw a moral strop and wanted to feel good about ourselves after 18 years of the Conservatives. Half-baked constitutional reform, a disastrous foreign policy, a swelling welfare budget, a baked-in deficit, a deliberate cultural shift which saw any and all immigration as unambiguously virtuous, "sofa government" and unlimited spin, a faulty financial regulatory model, a pointless pissing away of our gold reserves, a naive approach to Europe... It is an enormous shame that the Tories went for Cameron in a desperate attempt to mimic Blair, thus baking in SW1 liberalism. We will look back not too long from now and realise we made an appallijg error of judgement in voting for these people. We have never recovered. And unless a government with far more courage than Sunak's or Starmer's is put in by the electorate, we never will.
And yet the BoE isn't 'independent'. It still functions via instructions from the treasury. The little interest rate juggling ability it got to do 'independent monetary policy' means so little. We saw that when government implemented a fiscal component during the GFC. The policy which actually works.
He was a traitor. I was so for him. What did he do after giving us a great economy? Opened the floodgates to the third world and destroyed our cities. Went into Iraq, clearly against the will of the people.
How so? We have the highest wage growth in decades. For the first time in years people in hospitality jobs are actually earning a proper wage unlike the peanuts they were paid under Labour. We were in ‘a mess’ when Blair kept dragging us into illegal wars.
@@kennyryan625 The UK's currently going through a recession, recovering from the highest inflation in decades going double digits, outpacing the European average, fallout from Brexit, and the self-inflicted harm of the 2023 Kwarteng mini-budget. Wages have hardly paced that inflation.
@@rw3899 Wrong. The UK has exited recession and inflation is down to 2.3%. Average Eurozone inflation is higher than ours and just this week the ECB was forced to cut interest rates due to stagnant economic growth in the Eurozone. The pound sterling is at a one-year high against the euro. Sterling will always be stronger than the euro. And right now the EU’s own citizens are turning against it by voting for far right anti-EU MEPs 😄
@@rw3899 The UK was not going through a recession when you posted your comment. The UK economy has been growing all year. UK inflation is lower than European inflation. Uncontrolled immigration from the EU allowed greedy bosses to keep wages low by flooding the country with cheap workers. That’s why Blair supported immigration from the EU - especially after 2004 when every other EU member state restricted migration from Eastern Europe except the UK: Blair wanted to keep wages low. Thank goodness the Conservatives got us out of the EU. Now employers have to pay the British working class a proper wage 👊
In happier times, in younger times… I imagine that Blair and Brown were the best of friends. I sometimes wonder though… is it politics that destroyed them? Or was it the pressures of their generation- the baby boomers- to be as selfish as possible, as successful as possible, as trendy as possible to even the detriment of camaraderie.
As an American, I am ashamed that we don't have a truly Leftist party, especially one advocating for social democracy, which, in tandem w/a rather highly-regulated Capitalism, can prove more fruitful for the many, not just the few that unfettered Capitalism would empower, & which, unfortunately, is basically what we have in America.
What are you talking about? New labour was modeled after Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign (Tony admitted himself). The reason Labour has managed what seems like a lot of change compared to our administrations is simply that Britain's parliamentary systems makes it easier to get laws passed. Without the senate I'd argue we'd be more on the path of a social democracy than we are now. I mean imagine how different the country would be if all it took was for the house to vote something in.
@@gaelsarmiento4496 The US political system is indeed more difficult, but there are cultural differences too. The United States is more individualistic - more liberal (not in the left wing sense of the term). Canada is more similar to the United States culturally speaking, and accordingly the social democratic tradition there is weaker than in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Actually, you already have a "highly-regulated capitalism" in America. A number of free-market think tank analyses have already found over the past decade that the U.S. actually has a *less* free economy on the whole than a number of other wealthy democracies with more generous social safety nets. Although the U.S. has lower income taxes in the aggregate, the U.S. economy is plagued with crony-capitalist regulations (e.g. occupational licensing) and protectionist laws that actually make the average American less economically free on the whole than the average Canadian, Brit, European, etc.
Though Brown was a useless Prime minister, that thought the 2007 downturn would only last 6 months, and took credit for darlings bank bailout . He did stop Blair from joining the Euro.
Without Scotland, it's highly unlikely. Probable future is Lib-Lab tactical voting 'pacts'. The Tories can still reliably win large majorities of course.
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Watching these to get a better understanding of New Labour in light of our current political situation. I feel that British society as a whole got something fundamentally wrong somewhere along the line...
The British only fell comfortable when they are in a servile position to the barons. That's the reason there's been only 7 labour prime ministers
The shelf live of a party in government is getting lower and lower. People don't have the patience to see improvements through. The problem with the UK first past the post system makes it always a very big change from one government to the next. That change (with great expectation for immediate actions and changes in government) is very contra-productive and keeps on the back foot.
Most of the issues addressed by this labour government are still haunting us to this day
In hindsight, I must say that both Tony and Gordon were competent individuals and were one of the best prime ministers the UK had. After having lived through 14 years of Tories' rule, I can say this with the assurance that none of Tory PMs since 2010 can come even close to Tony and Gordon's leadership. I absolutely loathe Tony Blair's decision to go to the Iraq war. Had he not gone to Iraq, he could have been the best PM this country would have ever had.
Britain was doing rather well before brexit
@@agustinarcusa7696There were warning signs before, austerity was a disaster
@@Al_fraud oh really? so you wanted a fiscal deficit higher than 7% of GDP? Public debt as percentage of GDP went from 40% in 2007 to 80% in 2011, completely unsustainable
Electing New Labour was one of Britain's biggest postwar mistakes.
We threw a moral strop and wanted to feel good about ourselves after 18 years of the Conservatives.
Half-baked constitutional reform, a disastrous foreign policy, a swelling welfare budget, a baked-in deficit, a deliberate cultural shift which saw any and all immigration as unambiguously virtuous, "sofa government" and unlimited spin, a faulty financial regulatory model, a pointless pissing away of our gold reserves, a naive approach to Europe...
It is an enormous shame that the Tories went for Cameron in a desperate attempt to mimic Blair, thus baking in SW1 liberalism.
We will look back not too long from now and realise we made an appallijg error of judgement in voting for these people.
We have never recovered. And unless a government with far more courage than Sunak's or Starmer's is put in by the electorate, we never will.
And yet the BoE isn't 'independent'. It still functions via instructions from the treasury. The little interest rate juggling ability it got to do 'independent monetary policy' means so little. We saw that when government implemented a fiscal component during the GFC. The policy which actually works.
Thanks for posting!
Only 6 labour PM's.. 90 yrs in opposition.. 75 % of labour party history... The only thing I hate is losing (Tony blair)
oh bugger of
He was a traitor. I was so for him. What did he do after giving us a great economy? Opened the floodgates to the third world and destroyed our cities. Went into Iraq, clearly against the will of the people.
And the left of his party.
I’m labour. But this is currently very uncritical, waiting for the Iraq part that really left the party with a bad reputation.
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Simpler times. The mess we are in now.
How so? We have the highest wage growth in decades. For the first time in years people in hospitality jobs are actually earning a proper wage unlike the peanuts they were paid under Labour. We were in ‘a mess’ when Blair kept dragging us into illegal wars.
@@kennyryan625 The UK's currently going through a recession, recovering from the highest inflation in decades going double digits, outpacing the European average, fallout from Brexit, and the self-inflicted harm of the 2023 Kwarteng mini-budget. Wages have hardly paced that inflation.
@@rw3899 Wrong. The UK has exited recession and inflation is down to 2.3%. Average Eurozone inflation is higher than ours and just this week the ECB was forced to cut interest rates due to stagnant economic growth in the Eurozone. The pound sterling is at a one-year high against the euro. Sterling will always be stronger than the euro. And right now the EU’s own citizens are turning against it by voting for far right anti-EU MEPs 😄
Watches a video about ending the Troubles and calls it "Simpler Times". 😂
@@rw3899 The UK was not going through a recession when you posted your comment. The UK economy has been growing all year. UK inflation is lower than European inflation. Uncontrolled immigration from the EU allowed greedy bosses to keep wages low by flooding the country with cheap workers. That’s why Blair supported immigration from the EU - especially after 2004 when every other EU member state restricted migration from Eastern Europe except the UK: Blair wanted to keep wages low.
Thank goodness the Conservatives got us out of the EU. Now employers have to pay the British working class a proper wage 👊
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Boris Johnson end credits scene
In happier times, in younger times… I imagine that Blair and Brown were the best of friends. I sometimes wonder though… is it politics that destroyed them? Or was it the pressures of their generation- the baby boomers- to be as selfish as possible, as successful as possible, as trendy as possible to even the detriment of camaraderie.
As an American, I am ashamed that we don't have a truly Leftist party, especially one advocating for social democracy, which, in tandem w/a rather highly-regulated Capitalism, can prove more fruitful for the many, not just the few that unfettered Capitalism would empower, & which, unfortunately, is basically what we have in America.
What are you talking about? New labour was modeled after Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign (Tony admitted himself). The reason Labour has managed what seems like a lot of change compared to our administrations is simply that Britain's parliamentary systems makes it easier to get laws passed. Without the senate I'd argue we'd be more on the path of a social democracy than we are now. I mean imagine how different the country would be if all it took was for the house to vote something in.
@@gaelsarmiento4496 The US political system is indeed more difficult, but there are cultural differences too. The United States is more individualistic - more liberal (not in the left wing sense of the term). Canada is more similar to the United States culturally speaking, and accordingly the social democratic tradition there is weaker than in the United Kingdom and Europe.
This is literally the Democratic Party. The notion that the US is somehow immune from "left-wing" ideas and parties is absurd.
Actually, you already have a "highly-regulated capitalism" in America. A number of free-market think tank analyses have already found over the past decade that the U.S. actually has a *less* free economy on the whole than a number of other wealthy democracies with more generous social safety nets. Although the U.S. has lower income taxes in the aggregate, the U.S. economy is plagued with crony-capitalist regulations (e.g. occupational licensing) and protectionist laws that actually make the average American less economically free on the whole than the average Canadian, Brit, European, etc.
@@WestIndianAK Great point. And conversely the famed Scandinavian social democratic economies are actually among the freest.
What would be do now for Gordon Brown to come back as PM…..jeeeeesus
Though Brown was a useless Prime minister, that thought the 2007 downturn would only last 6 months, and took credit for darlings bank bailout . He did stop Blair from joining the Euro.
Brown showed he was weak and insecure using Whelan - a destructive serpent.
No complacency... The mantra always..
I'll.......only..... Sell.... My .....soul....sincerely.....to.... the.... highest ..........bidder.
Rose tinted glasses they left us broke
The UK is a sovereign currency issuer. It doesn't 'go broke'.
The GOAT
97 will never ever happen again.... Hung parliaments..
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... Small majorities... From now on.. Let's hope we get av +PR
Are you still sure?
Labour won’t win a 97 style majority next time, they’re too far behind the Tories in seats. Small majority or hung Parliament for Starmer IMO
Without Scotland, it's highly unlikely. Probable future is Lib-Lab tactical voting 'pacts'. The Tories can still reliably win large majorities of course.
@@jons355 they're predicted to get a 400 seat majority in the polls
@@jackstuhley1745 polls can change, there's almost always a swing back to the incumbent on Election Day
Traitor tony
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