*Remember* Starmer will get us back in the G *EU* LAG Remember *Vote Starmer* for more *cultural enrichment* DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) *& ESG* (environmental, social, and governance) *dogma* . Remember *Vote Starmer* for more *more illegals from sh1tholes* to help keep salaries. Welcome to the communitarian politburo policies of Blackrock, Soros, Schwab & Gates. *You will own nothing and you will be happy* Only the big corporations and conglomerates will own everything you will know your place. Remember *Vote Starmer* for more socialism. Labour History of Treachery -bank bailout (If only we had a referendum on the bank bailout) -pfi loans -illegal iraq war -Between 1997 and 2010, over 800,000 Polish people legally migrated to the United Kingdom this is an estimate the actual figure is most likely over a million. -impact of social services, education, health, schools and employment with the influx of cheap labour from eastern Europe bringing down wages welcome zero hours contracts thanks to a ballooning supply of labour no thanks to the traitorous New Labour. -austerity that was ushered in post the bank bailout of 2008 bailing out the banksters Goldman Sachs that blackmailed governments they would crash the system if they were convicted for knowingly trading in toxic (junk status) derivatives repackaging them as triple A safe assets. -building and selling off cheap of vanity projects at the tax payers expense the dome etc. -many more i cant remember. Remember Starmer during lockdown ! Keir Starmer calls on people to do 'patriotic duty' against covid and get booster jabs! Starmer said the Omicron variant is spreading so fast that people had to sign up to the government plan to vaccinate the entire adult population before Hogmanay. "And again our NHS is at risk of being overwhelmed. If that happens more people will die. So we must do everything that we can to protect the NHS.” “It would be easy to let the festivities we’ve all been looking forward to, divert us from our national duty. Getting jabbed, wearing masks and working from home if we can really will help prevent infections and help prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.” Starmer added: “And it is our patriotic duty to vote for these measures to ensure that they go through. In doing so, we are supporting the NHS and supporting our country." Keir Starmer is very quiet about his socialist background and beliefs for Starmer was part of a seven-member editorial team that ran a magazine called Socialist Alternatives. The Commie mag was inspired by Michalis Raptis, a Greek former Trotskyist known as Pablo, whose faction, the Pabloites, wanted to broaden socialism to include feminism and green politics. Vladimir Lenin: 'The goal of socialism is communism. once a commie always a commie. UK national debt is £2.67 trillion as of Jan 2024 We have given over £9.3 billion to Zelensky and his cronies. £2.3 billion 2022 £2.3 billion 2023 £4.6 billion 2024 (committed) Cull'd you believe it ! Remember folks Tuesday is Soylent Green Day
Ian Watt imagine if he was still in charge of Labour. We'd be talking about labour's fifteenth landslide victory and if his soda tax was too high or something equally stupid. Instead, we've got Brexit.
Henry Discipline i really do. Blair was excellent at identifying winning issues to build a coalition around. It's not "that simple", it takes extreme skill and work. But he had a proven track record.
This is an absolute masterclass in Get Out The Vote broadcasting. What's happening? There's an election. When is it 3 DAYS Big Calendar Thursday 3rd. Who should I vote for? THE RED PARTY. What's the symbol ROSE. What do I have to do WALK TO A POLLING STATION. Who am I getting rid of? (some guy in a grey suit but it doesn't matter, they are old news). What's going to happen? Something good and things are going to GET BETTER, the birds are singing and everything will be awesome.
@@sambranton3346 Tony Blair was two-faced but things did change. - Minimum wage (opposed by Tories) - Increased sentences for rape (sadly still got the useless judges though) - Ability to get an NHS dentist. In fact, during New Labour, I had a dentist that I wasn't happy with and was easily able to use a different one. For years recently, people have not been able to get dentist appointments and if they didn't have an NHS dentist, they couldn't get registered with one even if they travelled for miles. - Work Trial Scheme. Instead of attacking the poor, this scheme allowed people on state welfare to try a job and if they or the employer didn't feel they were a good fit, they could stop without it affecting their state welfare. This led to a lot of jobs as people didn't feel concerned about losing everything if they tried a job that they weren't 100% sure was right for them. The Tories got rid of the scheme and forced disabled people into inappropriate work instead then chucked them off state support when their disability made it impossible to attend. And loads more. Our system is terrible, sure, but yes, voting matters. Not as much as it should, but it does.
He makes me sick. Boo hoo, Rishi. So you didn't have Sky TV? There are children going to overcrowded schools, in dilapidated classrooms, with empty stomachs because their parents can't afford to give them breakfast. 😭😭😭
Blair was actually very skilled at home. Shame he had to tarnish his legacy by bringing Britain into an illegal war and killing thousands of innocence over WMD's that Sadam Hussain didn't have.
he’s a blair cosplay with no charisma and no character. corbyn could have won this election and done much more for our country. starmer is why farage will win in 2028
It's not even a matter of letting somebody else deal with foreign policy, it's more than he shouldn't have blindly followed Bush who was merely pushing through the neocons PNAC
Yeah, his domestic policies were just great: detention without trial, ID cards, banning of protest outside Parliament, massive housing bubble and financial crisis brewed in the City with light-touch regulation, collusion with Murdoch, marketisation of the NHS, education and other public services, banned refugees from working, forcing them to live on £35 a week vouchers, kept all the anti-trade union laws from Thatcher and Major and all the privatization, he even stuck to Tory spending pledges in his first term, so most of any benefits in increased spending happened late, oh and created tax loopholes for the wealthy instead of bringing back higher tax rates, I could go on...
John Bull it's almost comical watching labor get crushed after running miles to the left and reading your comment. The anti-Blair propaganda succeeded, and it cost the country brexit lol. When the economy crumbles and the UK's power recedes even further, I think people will realize that what was "normal" under Blair took a lot of hard work and effort to achieve, and that populist policies might sound good but suck in practice.
As much as i dislike Blair the country was in a better state in the late 90’s. There was hope and people were just happier. We need some serious changes because people are just poor and miserable at the moment.
@@DevonPixie1991 I put it down to global currency debasement really kicking in, the world was getting high on easy money after 1971 which initially led to big growth but volatility in the 80s as emerging markets were opened up and then really found its wings during the 90s with the technology boom, now we are in our hangover phase of easy money and a lot of the cracks are showing in the monetary system which ultimately (history dictates) will shatter completely. Normally something major happens as a catalyst, a world war or great depression type economic collapse and out of the ashes the next monetary system comes forth (hopefully something more tangible this time not just the presumed force of western dominance). So whilst we have our own stories going on in our nations this global monetary narrative serves as the undercurrent in my view. Energy getting consistently cheaper also played a large role which is also something that in recent times has reversed and for the first time in history at this scale.
Such optimism. What I'd give for a bit of 90s optimism now. What an awful mess contemporary politics is in now regardless of point of view. I do wonder if we'll ever see the likes again? Hopefully one day. Although let's ditch Twitter, get the megaphones blaring out of an old Volvo estate, man the soapboxes and let's get the posters back on the lampposts!
"If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations in the region". Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.
If you look at the ballot paper. Blair’s name isn’t on it. Surely he’d vote in his own constituency where he’s standing. I therefore conclude ‘97 was won on the back of voter fraud, with Blair going round each constituency voting multiple times😂😂
His constituency was Sedgefield and I have been there as I don't live far from that area and its mostly made up of small villages outside Darlington and this video was clearly not shot there and most likely filmed in London judging by the buildings and non white people.
I recall it so well. I was too young to vote, 14. But the excitement, I was not political but rem staying up most of the night. And, things did get better!
I was 12, so also couldn’t vote, but this was an unforgettable period. The Tories under Major were tired, grey and scandal-ridden. A younger Blair, and the (let’s admit) genius machine behind him absolutely swept them aside in May 1997.
The best thing that ever happened to Britain, but unfortunately, also the second worst thing that ever happened to Iraq. It's a pity that these two things will never be able to be separated.
I lived through the 90s, it was the complete opposite of crap. Even the lowest paid shelf stacker could afford their own home and had extensive disposable income.
Man, the '97 campaign was just so utterly perfect it's actually incredibly moving. Optimism, positivity, hope. The policies are important, and Labour will always win on that, but it's the campaign, the messaging, that wins you the election, that allows you to get a decent party in power. Labour need to go up to Blair, Mandelsson, Campbell etc. and say 'please, help us, tell us how you did it, so we can do it again'.
@@thepwningeggnog Fuck off! Established Independence of bank of England, devolved power to Scotland and Whales, New Deal for Musicians (3 years public financing for young musicians) which spearheaded britpop, gave Gay Couples equal rights to straight ones in Civil Partnerships, enumerated rights for those with disabilities and special needs in education, the Surestart program, Reestablished the collective bargaining rights for labour rights, set national standards for lower education, enacted what is today the modern Public Inquiry function for public accountability into law, Restructured London congested transit into public transportation- -The Federal Minimum Wage, established Equality and Human Rights Commission, built up higher education system into sustainability, supreme Court creation (ruling just made only possible for him), won major concessions in establishment of closer ties to European Union, reduced avg. wait times by 3 months for nhs through massive public services investment, freedom of information, creation of elected Mayorship for London, won 2012 Olympic Bid, neutering unelected house of lords, is still a hero to the before abandoned populations of Kosovo and Sierra Leone, always allowed Corbyn, McDonnell, Livingstone, Watson to defy leadership 60% of votes, and Good Friday Agreement just off the top of my head. You don't win two 170+ majority landslides within three consecutive election victories despite being a Labour Government for nothing.
@@tylertone2776 BULLSHIT, the country filled up with immigrant and politically correct arseholes like you opened your fat endless spitoon of a gob. Tell the World you are a liar just like Blair and a Commie Corbynite?
You’re right. It is very moving. I still respect Blair, and I think Labour should probably be listening to his advice a little more carefully. Though I wonder if in large part it was his intelligence and political talent that really won things.
This must’ve blown up Literally everyone’s come back to it after Steve bray played it at Sunaks speech He’s not wrong At this point surely things can only get better
I remember not having to phone around hundreds of dentists to try to get an appointment, only to be told that even though I was willing to travel miles (not everyone could), there were no appointments unless I paid privately. I remember being able to get a GP appointment within a couple of weeks - earlier if it was urgent - instead of having to ring at 8am in the hope that I could get an appointment for that day because advanced appointments weren't being done. I remember life being much better - sure, there were problems, but Tories made things so much worse.
Blair the lying bastard started the mass immigration that means the infrastructure cannot hope. Immigration from uneducated illiterates sponging on welfare and whose cultural values hate secularism and liberalism. Spending billions isn't going to help if immigration isn't brought under control.
It is filmed like an episode of Peepshow. At 0:50 you have a weird Jeremy type character. Around 0:58 it looks like Johnson giving out balloons. Lovely stuff.
There was so much hope at this time. Post Thatcher. Something fresh. The 90’s felt alive with opportunity. It went very wrong, yes. But at this particular moment the country was buzzing with excitement.
@@johnstuart4914 He managed to bring peace to Bosnia and Sierra Leone, massively expanded and improved public services, while also introducing a minimum wage, all while keeping a budget surplus. He was pretty incredible.
@@RMProjects785 He opened the UK to mass migration. An irreversible policy that we will carry on paying for until the country finally collapses. In my mind this alone overshadows all of his achievements. Peace in NI and elsewhere are certainly nothing to be scoffed at. Budget surpluses like blairs 2000/2001 one, can be an indication of a well running civil service but are hardly unique. We have had a budget surplus so far this year. Iraq and migration over the long run have proven to be far bigger factors than a brief budget surplus
@@AdamPalomino oh yeah. Tom bower has a great book on Blair that he had no actual idea what to do once he actually got into office just on winning the election.
I generally liked Tony Blair and his New Labour efforts to modernize/moderate the Labour Party. Third Way politics were quite popular in the 1990s with President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair. Yes, I had disagreements with both men, but it was nice to see politicians moving more to the center, as opposed to the far right or the far left.
This ugly broadcast, which consists of nothing more than a man walking down the street and going to the polling station, convinced you. I knew the 1997 election result was a bad result. People who voted Labour because they liked Tony Blair's grin should have been banned from voting.
Flint Flyer imagine thinking that Iraqi oil is why the UK was there and not the human rights abuses under Saddam Hussein. Lol. When he rose to power, he walked into parliament, read out a list of names of people in the room he was going to execute, then gave the other MPs guns and had them shoot their friends and colleagues. He was a monster that deserved what he got.
So. Let me ask, britian was one of the last nations in the industrialized world to implement a minimum wage how tf did you survive before then and were prices lower or higher before the minimum wage was law?
Sominboy27 minimum wage is fine because it's generally below the price floor following simple supply and demand, so it avoids deadweight loss. The problem is raising it too high. If you've never checked it out, google something along the lines of "price floor economics" for a more full explanation.
This was a cracking advert, new Labour really knew how to resonate and attract the masses. Yes we all fell for it, but who can blame us!!!!! New Labour under blair was so young, fresh, positive, upbeat and exciting. It was the good kick up the arse the country needed at that time to make politics more engaging again. Major and the torys just simply looked exhausted and lost for enthusiasm. I still can't think of a single political campaign in history that was as cool and original as this one. I cried when Blair won and have never felt positivity and hope quite like it since. But yes things sadly do change :( :(
He did a lot for the working class. I couldn't care about him going into Iraq. He was a good prime minister and Labour can't get close to the seats he won in 97. All this with brexit irritates me and I can't stand listening to Blair or any remainers tbh. The people voted to leave so do the democratic thing and leave.
Ryan Johnston You say you couldn’t care about Iraq, but because of Blair thousands of army personnel are dead, and this country has been filtered with mass immigration
I am quite a leftist, so I could not be more surprised to find myself dancing round the kitchen pushing my phone into my children's faces and signing things can only get better. Even though Tony Blair ruined it with the Iraq war. I didn't know that in 97.
It’s not the same feeling though is it. Let’s be honest. Pre 97 we were in a better state than we are in today. Over population, ridiculous amount of illegal immigration which puts added pressure on the country. People are poorer and it’s just crumbled. I wanna be positive but it really is hard to be.
1997 was the first election I voted in and I was also involved in the campaign Portsmouth. When we won Portsmouth North it was such an electric atmosphere that night. Hoping for another famous night on July 4th
Oh it will be famous. The day we vote to get fucked by not one, but two parties in the same generation. We Millennials have to be the biggest fools that were ever dumped into British civilisation.
The election was on Thursday 1 May 1997. It was Thatcher who won an election on 3 May 1979. (OK - the calendar didn't actually state 'May' - but what other month could it be?)
yes Blair's bday 6th he was nearly 44. Sunak 42 as leader now 43. Similar public school geeky Red Ed speak. I think there's admiration as Cameron also admired Blair too
Honestly Blair was far from perfect but his election campaign has to be the best ever. He gave so much hope after so long with the Tories in. So sad the situation we find ourselves in now
@@forza223bowe5 yes his two terrible points that have seemed to define his time in charge. What he did for the NHS, education, wages, rights, all seem not to be remembered which is a shame
Domestically a lot of things did get better. It was just greatly overshadowed by the grim Iraq war which we are still bearing the consequences of today.
@@chickenliver New Labour managed the decline of the entire country to a point that led us to where we are now. The concept of political leaders as managers is something that Blair among others championed and has had horrendous consequences for the entire world. seemingly no one in politics can imagine a world better than or beyond this now and so we're stuck with rivers overflowing with sewage and every politician going "well you know, that's just the best we can hope for"
This had me grinning. Whilst it is cheesy, it also has that actually quite moving spirit of hope, togetherness, inspiration (and some fun/joy/theatrical flair, yes) which I think today's politics is sorely missing. And to produce a political broadcast like this, where your leader is already so well known and has the level of charisma necessary to make this believable, which regardless of cheesiness, I think it is, shows the level of confidence Labour had, the calibre of Blair as a leader. Also not something possible I think in today's politics, and more's the pity. I've never been able to feel anything but respect and admiration for Blair, and damn the haters.
Love the description says "one of the cheesiest broadcast yet labour still won" but to be honest, the cheesiness probably contributed to labours victory. It was a change to just the party leader switching a camera on and droning on to the audience
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Who’s here, when rishi announced 4th July election.
Here for this exact reason 😂
Yep!
I wasn’t listening to a word he said
Yep. Timing was perfect.
This song will ring throughout London
This is most aggressively 90s thing I’ve ever seen.
It’s the decade we all want to come back. A decade of fun, hope and happiness.
@@xunqianbaidu6917 Yeah well don’t really care about them.
This is going to BLOW UP today.
I immediately thought of this song the moment exit poll declared a Labour landslide victory😊
Someone replaying this loudly while Sunak annouces the election date. Genius!
I wanted to hear him talk until I remembered whom I was listening to
Throught that’s what I could hear 😂 only reason I eneded up here
I realised about halfway through the song and I cheered! ❤️🌹🌹🌹
Made the mistake of laughing at it while my far right family was sat in the room with me
Steve Bray the legend!
If anyone is showing up for the 2024 election.
*REMEMBER YOUR PHOTO ID*
And if you don't have photo ID, you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate.
post offcie can expect me knocking the door down while hungover in the morning and a needed hangover maybe I'll forget the past 14 years
Or apply for a postal vote - probably less hassle than getting voting authority certificate.
*Remember*
Starmer will get us back in the G *EU* LAG
Remember *Vote Starmer* for more
*cultural enrichment* DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) *& ESG* (environmental, social, and governance) *dogma* .
Remember *Vote Starmer* for more
*more illegals from sh1tholes* to help keep salaries.
Welcome to the communitarian politburo policies of Blackrock, Soros, Schwab & Gates.
*You will own nothing and you will be happy*
Only the big corporations and conglomerates will own everything you will know your place.
Remember *Vote Starmer* for more socialism.
Labour History of Treachery
-bank bailout (If only we had a referendum on the bank bailout)
-pfi loans
-illegal iraq war
-Between 1997 and 2010, over 800,000 Polish people legally migrated to the United Kingdom this is an estimate the actual figure is most likely over a million.
-impact of social services, education, health, schools and employment with the influx of cheap labour from eastern Europe bringing down wages welcome zero hours contracts thanks to a ballooning supply of labour no thanks to the traitorous New Labour.
-austerity that was ushered in post the bank bailout of 2008 bailing out the banksters Goldman Sachs that blackmailed governments they would crash the system if they were convicted for knowingly trading in toxic (junk status) derivatives repackaging them as triple A safe assets.
-building and selling off cheap of vanity projects at the tax payers expense the dome etc.
-many more i cant remember.
Remember Starmer during lockdown !
Keir Starmer calls on people to do 'patriotic duty' against covid and get booster jabs!
Starmer said the Omicron variant is spreading so fast that people had to sign up to the government plan to vaccinate the entire adult population before Hogmanay.
"And again our NHS is at risk of being overwhelmed. If that happens more people will die. So we must do everything that we can to protect the NHS.”
“It would be easy to let the festivities we’ve all been looking forward to, divert us from our national duty. Getting jabbed, wearing masks and working from home if we can really will help prevent infections and help prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.”
Starmer added: “And it is our patriotic duty to vote for these measures to ensure that they go through. In doing so, we are supporting the NHS and supporting our country."
Keir Starmer is very quiet about his socialist background and beliefs for Starmer was part of a seven-member editorial team that ran a magazine called Socialist Alternatives. The Commie mag was inspired by Michalis Raptis, a Greek former Trotskyist known as Pablo, whose faction, the Pabloites, wanted to broaden socialism to include feminism and green politics.
Vladimir Lenin: 'The goal of socialism is communism.
once a commie always a commie.
UK national debt is £2.67 trillion as of Jan 2024
We have given over £9.3 billion to Zelensky and his cronies.
£2.3 billion 2022
£2.3 billion 2023
£4.6 billion 2024 (committed)
Cull'd you believe it !
Remember folks Tuesday is Soylent Green Day
Out of date photo ID is accepted in most cases also!
Hearing Rishi Sunak trying to talk over this will be one of the defining moments of the 2024 election. Class.
To think that out of all the takes they must have went through to get Tony Blair smiling, that was the best one they got.
poker face as all the smiling was acting
Honestly looks like he's been stabbed off-camera or something
He looks like he just pooped his pants
@@HIOAviation forbidden brownie
Could be worse, have you seen his famous Christmas Card where Cherie looks like she's holding him back from attacking someone?
John Major stood no chance, not against this relentless, infectious optimism
He was the last Tory Prime Minister who wasn't so terrible unlike the last 5
Anyone here after seeing Sunak get upstaged by this song?
VOTE FOR THE BORING HUMOURLESS PLANK OF WOOD. VOTE STARMER
He was the future once
Labour gor no chance
That he was!
Ian Watt imagine if he was still in charge of Labour. We'd be talking about labour's fifteenth landslide victory and if his soda tax was too high or something equally stupid. Instead, we've got Brexit.
Henry Discipline i really do. Blair was excellent at identifying winning issues to build a coalition around. It's not "that simple", it takes extreme skill and work. But he had a proven track record.
Warcrimes incarnate shame he loved bombing innocent Iraqis so much
This is an absolute masterclass in Get Out The Vote broadcasting.
What's happening? There's an election. When is it 3 DAYS Big Calendar Thursday 3rd.
Who should I vote for? THE RED PARTY. What's the symbol ROSE. What do I have to do WALK TO A POLLING STATION. Who am I getting rid of? (some guy in a grey suit but it doesn't matter, they are old news). What's going to happen? Something good and things are going to GET BETTER, the birds are singing and everything will be awesome.
Shame nothing changed either way isn't it? Do you still think voting makes a difference?
@@sambranton3346 Tony Blair was two-faced but things did change.
- Minimum wage (opposed by Tories)
- Increased sentences for rape (sadly still got the useless judges though)
- Ability to get an NHS dentist. In fact, during New Labour, I had a dentist that I wasn't happy with and was easily able to use a different one. For years recently, people have not been able to get dentist appointments and if they didn't have an NHS dentist, they couldn't get registered with one even if they travelled for miles.
- Work Trial Scheme. Instead of attacking the poor, this scheme allowed people on state welfare to try a job and if they or the employer didn't feel they were a good fit, they could stop without it affecting their state welfare. This led to a lot of jobs as people didn't feel concerned about losing everything if they tried a job that they weren't 100% sure was right for them. The Tories got rid of the scheme and forced disabled people into inappropriate work instead then chucked them off state support when their disability made it impossible to attend.
And loads more. Our system is terrible, sure, but yes, voting matters. Not as much as it should, but it does.
@@kpopfan674excellently put
With all the blue and red in the ad, it's actually pretty tough to tell which side it's for, until the end!
@@sambranton3346youre right! How about you dont vote and i will!
I can tell the future. Blair will resign in 2007 and then Brown will take over and then there is a recession in 2008.
Good call
I've a feeling Brown will also sell our gold for the lowest price ever.
Yeah I think in hindsight he should've stay and led Britain to the 2010 election at least
Tony that is lol
@@WillScarlet1991 being forced to
Poor rishi, couldn't have sky TV
He makes me sick. Boo hoo, Rishi. So you didn't have Sky TV? There are children going to overcrowded schools, in dilapidated classrooms, with empty stomachs because their parents can't afford to give them breakfast. 😭😭😭
Top 10 greatest plot twists
*anime
Blair was actually very skilled at home. Shame he had to tarnish his legacy by bringing Britain into an illegal war and killing thousands of innocence over WMD's that Sadam Hussain didn't have.
*betrayals
I really want kier to remake this for 2024. He's likened himself as blair and 1997 so i think he should
Both are a pair of anti British cunts.
he’s a blair cosplay with no charisma and no character. corbyn could have won this election and done much more for our country. starmer is why farage will win in 2028
2:14 when a customer comes in 3 minutes before close
Blair would've been considered the greatest PM since Churchill if he just had someone else running certain aspects of foreign policy.
It's not even a matter of letting somebody else deal with foreign policy, it's more than he shouldn't have blindly followed Bush who was merely pushing through the neocons PNAC
Yeah, his domestic policies were just great: detention without trial, ID cards, banning of protest outside Parliament, massive housing bubble and financial crisis brewed in the City with light-touch regulation, collusion with Murdoch, marketisation of the NHS, education and other public services, banned refugees from working, forcing them to live on £35 a week vouchers, kept all the anti-trade union laws from Thatcher and Major and all the privatization, he even stuck to Tory spending pledges in his first term, so most of any benefits in increased spending happened late, oh and created tax loopholes for the wealthy instead of bringing back higher tax rates, I could go on...
@@yao052 Pushing through Clean Break agenda. An Israeli agenda.
Blair ruined the country
Churchill & Blair both made questionable decisions but are still the two greatest UK Prime Ministers of the last 100 years.
I bet he doesn't get that sort of response when he walks down the street now...
John Bull nope a lot of eye rolls and hatred for him
Now all those people are trying to arrest him for war crimes.
He’s a dinosaur no
John Bull it's almost comical watching labor get crushed after running miles to the left and reading your comment. The anti-Blair propaganda succeeded, and it cost the country brexit lol. When the economy crumbles and the UK's power recedes even further, I think people will realize that what was "normal" under Blair took a lot of hard work and effort to achieve, and that populist policies might sound good but suck in practice.
And right now - for THIS type of Britain. We'd bloody LAP it up. You know it. What a place to live in!
As much as i dislike Blair the country was in a better state in the late 90’s. There was hope and people were just happier. We need some serious changes because people are just poor and miserable at the moment.
That’s because he’s only had a few years of ruinous policies…. It’s now that we have reaped their full reward. Things got worse all because of Blair
@@DevonPixie1991 I put it down to global currency debasement really kicking in, the world was getting high on easy money after 1971 which initially led to big growth but volatility in the 80s as emerging markets were opened up and then really found its wings during the 90s with the technology boom, now we are in our hangover phase of easy money and a lot of the cracks are showing in the monetary system which ultimately (history dictates) will shatter completely. Normally something major happens as a catalyst, a world war or great depression type economic collapse and out of the ashes the next monetary system comes forth (hopefully something more tangible this time not just the presumed force of western dominance). So whilst we have our own stories going on in our nations this global monetary narrative serves as the undercurrent in my view. Energy getting consistently cheaper also played a large role which is also something that in recent times has reversed and for the first time in history at this scale.
Such optimism. What I'd give for a bit of 90s optimism now. What an awful mess contemporary politics is in now regardless of point of view. I do wonder if we'll ever see the likes again? Hopefully one day. Although let's ditch Twitter, get the megaphones blaring out of an old Volvo estate, man the soapboxes and let's get the posters back on the lampposts!
you cant have blind optimism when the times require difficult and agonising change.
What and have another liar like B Liar, ha ha you are joking?
Blair was the best and who is talking about liars? Ahem... BORIS 😂😂😂 Biggest liar well... Apart from trump
@@rickholdenmusic what about those WMDs or F1 advertising? Blair wasn’t exactly a bastion of honesty was he lol
The Tories followed on his policies
Why is this shot like a Smash Bros reveal trailer?
Hahaha 😂
LMAO
A new challenger approaches ❤❤
Now compare to this to the depressing Conservative party broadcasts, the landslide doesn’t become too surprising at all.
"Things can only get better"
"New Labour New Danger"
97 "Things can only get better" ... 20 years later "Crush the saboteurs" . How far we have fallen as a nation.... how sad
greendaytomd96 ha gayyyy
It's not Britain anymore.
Blair was great until he got involved in Iraq, which was mostly from manipulation from the US leadership at the time.
Blair wanted to be a poodle to the US to keep the right wing press happy. Trouble is he bought into his own lies about Iraq.
"If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations in the region". Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.
So apart from being a mass murderer, he was otherwise great then?
Narrator: “things did not get better”
Tony Blair's inability to smile properly always makes me laugh
If you look at the ballot paper. Blair’s name isn’t on it. Surely he’d vote in his own constituency where he’s standing. I therefore conclude ‘97 was won on the back of voter fraud, with Blair going round each constituency voting multiple times😂😂
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This has aged well after the US election haha
How this comment aged I have no idea. Milk or Wine?
His constituency was Sedgefield and I have been there as I don't live far from that area and its mostly made up of small villages outside Darlington and this video was clearly not shot there and most likely filmed in London judging by the buildings and non white people.
the 90's...
90s
Cheesy as fuck but it's not hard to see why they won. Being positive rather than sour-faced and grey always helps.
Heard this as Rishi announced an election, give that genius of a man a Knighthood... Let's hope it's like 1997 once more with many Portillo moments...
Well be mate. Hopefully that nut job of a prime minister has a Portillo moment.
This was 22 years ago
ikr?
23 now.
@@WillScarlet1991 24 now
25 now
Make that 26.
It's happening lads
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Wish I was alive to see this type of optimism
I recall it so well. I was too young to vote, 14. But the excitement, I was not political but rem staying up most of the night. And, things did get better!
I was 12, so also couldn’t vote, but this was an unforgettable period. The Tories under Major were tired, grey and scandal-ridden. A younger Blair, and the (let’s admit) genius machine behind him absolutely swept them aside in May 1997.
@@michaelmckie9164 I was 17 at the time.
I was 18 and remember voting in Ashford Kent a safe Tory seat of T May's no 2 how comes Blair didn't win my town?
Even Surrey stayed blue...
The best thing that ever happened to Britain, but unfortunately, also the second worst thing that ever happened to Iraq. It's a pity that these two things will never be able to be separated.
It was also the worst thing to happen to Britain
The 90s. When everything was better.
When all the shit was yet to come to the surface.
The election was in 97, so two thirds of the nineties were crap.
I lived through the 90s, it was the complete opposite of crap. Even the lowest paid shelf stacker could afford their own home and had extensive disposable income.
Man, the '97 campaign was just so utterly perfect it's actually incredibly moving. Optimism, positivity, hope. The policies are important, and Labour will always win on that, but it's the campaign, the messaging, that wins you the election, that allows you to get a decent party in power. Labour need to go up to Blair, Mandelsson, Campbell etc. and say 'please, help us, tell us how you did it, so we can do it again'.
Josh Daws and then they where fucking shit when they got in
@@thepwningeggnog Fuck off! Established Independence of bank of England, devolved power to Scotland and Whales, New Deal for Musicians (3 years public financing for young musicians) which spearheaded britpop, gave Gay Couples equal rights to straight ones in Civil Partnerships, enumerated rights for those with disabilities and special needs in education, the Surestart program, Reestablished the collective bargaining rights for labour rights, set national standards for lower education, enacted what is today the modern Public Inquiry function for public accountability into law, Restructured London congested transit into public transportation-
-The Federal Minimum Wage, established Equality and Human Rights Commission, built up higher education system into sustainability, supreme Court creation (ruling just made only possible for him), won major concessions in establishment of closer ties to European Union, reduced avg. wait times by 3 months for nhs through massive public services investment, freedom of information, creation of elected Mayorship for London, won 2012 Olympic Bid, neutering unelected house of lords, is still a hero to the before abandoned populations of Kosovo and Sierra Leone, always allowed Corbyn, McDonnell, Livingstone, Watson to defy leadership 60% of votes, and Good Friday Agreement just off the top of my head. You don't win two 170+ majority landslides within three consecutive election victories despite being a Labour Government for nothing.
Tyler Tone well said
@@tylertone2776 BULLSHIT, the country filled up with immigrant and politically correct arseholes like you opened your fat endless spitoon of a gob.
Tell the World you are a liar just like Blair and a Commie Corbynite?
You’re right. It is very moving. I still respect Blair, and I think Labour should probably be listening to his advice a little more carefully. Though I wonder if in large part it was his intelligence and political talent that really won things.
Who’s here after Sunak just announced the election with this blasting in the background? It’s time for 1997 again.
This must’ve blown up
Literally everyone’s come back to it after Steve bray played it at Sunaks speech
He’s not wrong
At this point surely things can only get better
I remember wen they won, I actually got paid 2 go college, could get a doctors appointment straight away, good times
I remember not having to phone around hundreds of dentists to try to get an appointment, only to be told that even though I was willing to travel miles (not everyone could), there were no appointments unless I paid privately. I remember being able to get a GP appointment within a couple of weeks - earlier if it was urgent - instead of having to ring at 8am in the hope that I could get an appointment for that day because advanced appointments weren't being done. I remember life being much better - sure, there were problems, but Tories made things so much worse.
@@kpopfan674 things can only get better
Blair the lying bastard started the mass immigration that means the infrastructure cannot hope. Immigration from uneducated illiterates sponging on welfare and whose cultural values hate secularism and liberalism. Spending billions isn't going to help if immigration isn't brought under control.
'New Labour' is back under the new PM Keir Starmer! Things can only get better!
Only the messaging is slightly different this time, Starmer saying things can only get worse
@@FlaviusConstantinus306
Blair: Things can only get better
Starmer: Things can only get worse (and colder) before they get better 😆
It is filmed like an episode of Peepshow. At 0:50 you have a weird Jeremy type character. Around 0:58 it looks like Johnson giving out balloons. Lovely stuff.
Thought I was the only person to notice this! The guy with red hair looks like Jez for sure.
0:34 Mark tries to get run over and calls the bloke a jizz cock
So they're spending more on schools and hospitals, but where's the evidence? What schools? Where? Where the HECK are they? Can you see them? Where?
“I was here in the glory years, the mid nineties, Britpop was kicking off, four weddings had come out. It was mental”.
Glad we are all here post sunak
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Guy in the car was like 😃👍
ya.. i loved that
There was so much hope at this time. Post Thatcher. Something fresh. The 90’s felt alive with opportunity. It went very wrong, yes. But at this particular moment the country was buzzing with excitement.
Buzzing with excited idiots.
Oh Tony, if only you hadn't gone into Iraq
1997 - 2002 Blair was the greatest PM since Churchill. Such a shame how he screwed it up
you can thank dick Cheyney for that one
@@RMProjects785 Fuck no he wasn't
@@johnstuart4914 He managed to bring peace to Bosnia and Sierra Leone, massively expanded and improved public services, while also introducing a minimum wage, all while keeping a budget surplus. He was pretty incredible.
@@RMProjects785 He opened the UK to mass migration. An irreversible policy that we will carry on paying for until the country finally collapses. In my mind this alone overshadows all of his achievements. Peace in NI and elsewhere are certainly nothing to be scoffed at. Budget surpluses like blairs 2000/2001 one, can be an indication of a well running civil service but are hardly unique. We have had a budget surplus so far this year. Iraq and migration over the long run have proven to be far bigger factors than a brief budget surplus
New Labour really were geniuses at media.
The 'genius' started and ended there unfortunately.
@@AdamPalomino oh yeah. Tom bower has a great book on Blair that he had no actual idea what to do once he actually got into office just on winning the election.
I generally liked Tony Blair and his New Labour efforts to modernize/moderate the Labour Party. Third Way politics were quite popular in the 1990s with President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair. Yes, I had disagreements with both men, but it was nice to see politicians moving more to the center, as opposed to the far right or the far left.
Amen. We need more centrist politicians and less far right and far left loonies.
This ugly broadcast, which consists of nothing more than a man walking down the street and going to the polling station, convinced you. I knew the 1997 election result was a bad result. People who voted Labour because they liked Tony Blair's grin should have been banned from voting.
AND A LOT OF THING'S DID GET BETTER
Just remember- no minimum wage before Blair
yeah i remember thinking ill trade 1000,000 dead Iraqis for £3.25 an hour.
Centrist Philosopher Just remember, Blair went to war with Iraq for oil.
Flint Flyer imagine thinking that Iraqi oil is why the UK was there and not the human rights abuses under Saddam Hussein. Lol. When he rose to power, he walked into parliament, read out a list of names of people in the room he was going to execute, then gave the other MPs guns and had them shoot their friends and colleagues. He was a monster that deserved what he got.
So. Let me ask, britian was one of the last nations in the industrialized world to implement a minimum wage how tf did you survive before then and were prices lower or higher before the minimum wage was law?
Sominboy27 minimum wage is fine because it's generally below the price floor following simple supply and demand, so it avoids deadweight loss. The problem is raising it too high. If you've never checked it out, google something along the lines of "price floor economics" for a more full explanation.
This was a cracking advert, new Labour really knew how to resonate and attract the masses. Yes we all fell for it, but who can blame us!!!!! New Labour under blair was so young, fresh, positive, upbeat and exciting. It was the good kick up the arse the country needed at that time to make politics more engaging again. Major and the torys just simply looked exhausted and lost for enthusiasm. I still can't think of a single political campaign in history that was as cool and original as this one. I cried when Blair won and have never felt positivity and hope quite like it since. But yes things sadly do change :( :(
He did a lot for the working class. I couldn't care about him going into Iraq. He was a good prime minister and Labour can't get close to the seats he won in 97. All this with brexit irritates me and I can't stand listening to Blair or any remainers tbh. The people voted to leave so do the democratic thing and leave.
Ryan Johnston You say you couldn’t care about Iraq, but because of Blair thousands of army personnel are dead, and this country has been filtered with mass immigration
Shite/
@@forza223bowe5 Still can’t ignore the good things he did for the working class.
@@forza223bowe5 and the Tories weren't going to do that?
Watching in July 2024. Keir Starmer enters Downing ST as our 7th Labour Premier
Blair: "Things can only get better"
Corbyn: "Things can only get worse"
Fuck of
you hit the nail right on the head unfortunately the party is infested with new day militant :-(
J Hibberd Well they aren’t you absolute fool.
Surely things can only get better if you hate Corbyn as by most peoples standards he was the worst leader in recent times?
@@flatigator2013 Blair was a fucking war criminal
here after the results got announced
If only we had this type of optimism now 😞
Come 2024 😎
I am quite a leftist, so I could not be more surprised to find myself dancing round the kitchen pushing my phone into my children's faces and signing things can only get better.
Even though Tony Blair ruined it with the Iraq war. I didn't know that in 97.
Here after the Labour win 2024!!!
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It’s not the same feeling though is it. Let’s be honest. Pre 97 we were in a better state than we are in today. Over population, ridiculous amount of illegal immigration which puts added pressure on the country. People are poorer and it’s just crumbled. I wanna be positive but it really is hard to be.
1997 was the first election I voted in and I was also involved in the campaign Portsmouth. When we won Portsmouth North it was such an electric atmosphere that night. Hoping for another famous night on July 4th
Oh it will be famous. The day we vote to get fucked by not one, but two parties in the same generation. We Millennials have to be the biggest fools that were ever dumped into British civilisation.
It's time to sing and dream again because... yes! Things can only get better ... from now
And if the Tories aren’t down with that, THEN WE HAVE GOT TWO WORDS FOR THEM!
I’m here listening to this to celebrate today’s election result 😁 What Better way to celebrate
Here before this blows up
Things Can Only Get Better starting from 4th July 2024.
And we did it!
well, that went well second time around!
I cannot stand Blair but this song is so damn catchy
2:16 the smile of a man you can trust!
1997 2.0 🔜
Remember hindsight, folks.
> One of the cheesiest party election broadcasts in history
Au contraire, the uplifting tone was probably helpful for them to win
Whoever played this over Rishi’s speech, you are a legend.
Steve Bray he has been protesting on the streets around Westminster for years.
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I wish to God almighty we had that same spirit now. Come on Labour!
I'm with you there. We'll make it back.
It's going to be OUR independance day!!!!
IF we could do that, then, why on earth can't we do it now?
Who else is here when the election was announced?!!!
it was tony blair all along haha what a twist 2:14
1:08 david Cameron shakes his hand
More like Nick clegg
Looks like a cafe in Notting Hill Gate. Ie The Notting Hill set of politics.
He's like: 😂😂 OMG I'm such a big fan of you. I will take some of your ideas later on my political career.
@@thelasttimelord7550 Dave the rave Cameron twat 2.
Who's here after the Tory majority?
th-thanks tony
…it’s worse now
The election was on Thursday 1 May 1997. It was Thatcher who won an election on 3 May 1979. (OK - the calendar didn't actually state 'May' - but what other month could it be?)
yes Blair's bday 6th he was nearly 44. Sunak 42 as leader now 43. Similar public school geeky Red Ed speak. I think there's admiration as Cameron also admired Blair too
bring this anthem back for July 🗣️
Ahh I miss the 90s
had to revisit after this was played during rishi sunaks speech yesterday
the greatest political advertisement of all time
Wish they could re release this for the 4th July election #thingscanonlygetbetter
Yes, would be so good!
2:15 how I look at my teacher after submitting the worst test I’ve ever done
Today is the day
How is this not a Tim and Eric sketch?
2024 things will only get better, vote labour.
TORIES OUT!!!!!
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@@paulhiggins1577 mate richard sunacks faverate food is sandwechs
This is so 90s it made me want to take my cd player out 🤣
2:05 did they ever explain why blair was voting outside of his own constituency? he's not even on the ballot... what's going on here
Makes sense given he didn't live there most the time
This isnt him actually voting yknow.
Also you dont have to live in the constituency you are running for.
@@messystudios8505 thank you messystudios
@@messystudios8505plus I don’t think you’re allowed to vote for yourself
The Crown brought me here 👑🇬🇧
LETS VOTE THE TORIES OUT #WIN2024
@@paulhiggins1577 oh you posted this twise thats a bit embaressing 👴
I'm pretty sure the blue-shirt guy (before Tony Blair) is Aiden Turner (not the Poldark one), who has been on American TV for the last 15 years or so.
I like 1:35 people are like ‘wow why’re u here’ lol
Honestly Blair was far from perfect but his election campaign has to be the best ever. He gave so much hope after so long with the Tories in. So sad the situation we find ourselves in now
I think if it wasn’t for Iraq and mass immigration, he would have went down as a great leader. Certainly a lot better than we have today
@@forza223bowe5 yes his two terrible points that have seemed to define his time in charge. What he did for the NHS, education, wages, rights, all seem not to be remembered which is a shame
Pablo I agree, it’s a shame. I think people remember his weak points more
@@forza223bowe5 leider fkin hosen.
@@forza223bowe5 his shite points and being married to a bent lying immigration lawyer, fkin ugly bastard too.
Keir Starmer needs to watch this...
he's the romantic hero with the leading lady from poverty
*Narrator voice* Things did not get better.
Lol true
Domestically a lot of things did get better. It was just greatly overshadowed by the grim Iraq war which we are still bearing the consequences of today.
@@chickenliver New Labour managed the decline of the entire country to a point that led us to where we are now. The concept of political leaders as managers is something that Blair among others championed and has had horrendous consequences for the entire world. seemingly no one in politics can imagine a world better than or beyond this now and so we're stuck with rivers overflowing with sewage and every politician going "well you know, that's just the best we can hope for"
So is 2024 going to be a 1997 again?
This had me grinning. Whilst it is cheesy, it also has that actually quite moving spirit of hope, togetherness, inspiration (and some fun/joy/theatrical flair, yes) which I think today's politics is sorely missing. And to produce a political broadcast like this, where your leader is already so well known and has the level of charisma necessary to make this believable, which regardless of cheesiness, I think it is, shows the level of confidence Labour had, the calibre of Blair as a leader. Also not something possible I think in today's politics, and more's the pity. I've never been able to feel anything but respect and admiration for Blair, and damn the haters.
Love the description says "one of the cheesiest broadcast yet labour still won" but to be honest, the cheesiness probably contributed to labours victory. It was a change to just the party leader switching a camera on and droning on to the audience