ITN Archive Alternative Election - Campaigning Begins! (1997)
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- On 17 March 1997, ITN's Michael Brunson reported on the first day of campaigning in the 1997 General Election, following the announcement by Conservative Prime Minister John Major that an election would be held on 1 May that year. Major and his cabinet colleagues were confident a victory was within reach, spurred on by an endorsement from former prime minister Margaret Thatcher and unperturbed by The Sun's endorsement of Labour leader Tony Blair. Mr Blair himself began his campaign in Gloucester, where he made the case for a "revitalised" Labour Party being able to offer the change he believed people wanted. The Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Mr Paddy Ashdown, stressed that his party would fight a clean fight, rising above any mudslinging from Labour or the Tories, meanwhile Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond looked forward to challenging John Major on the constitutional issues taking priority in Scotland.
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Wow, Major's cabinet members at least answered with confidence that they'll win, yet Sunak's members didn't answer when asked by press and had long faces... 😬
Compare and contrast to last week; Major was a political heavyweight in comparison to inaction man.
At least their Major came out fighting. Sunaks a week into his campaign and still waiting for him to get started 😅
Maybe he's still drying off.
If you vote for me I will deport Sunak back to his home country and Braverman too
Very interesting to see the differences between then and now. The Sun doesn't seem to be showing any signs of backing Labour this time, they may very well lose their streak of backing the winner.
The Sun isn’t as relevant as it was in the 90s
Nobody cares what The Sun's opinion is these days.
Most people wouldn't wipe their arse with The Sun nowadays, let alone read it and care about what their opinion is
Blair >>> Starmer
Major >>> Sunak
Ashdown >>> Davey
At least ashdown probably wasn't a woke lunatic
@@theozmiester7405 Neither was Major an unelected lunatic lying about everything he can and shooting himself in the foot too...
one thing i find interesting about these old clips is that 9/10 the politicians are talking unscripted. No big stands, big books with every word written. Just them talking to the cameras. contrast that now to Sunak and Starmer.
John Mayor Thought He Would Win
he has to say that, no prime minister would ever say 'I think I'll lose' - he knew he'd likely lose and has said so many times since. But in an election it's a different matter. Great footage though
Tories Thought They Would Win
I doubt they honestly did. Polls and national mood were even more pro labour and anti Tory than they are now. They're just saying what makes them look good
Jo Swinson said she could be the next PM, they all say it so that their supporters will actually go out and vote
@@Wackospackos Yes, she was deluded, and she lost her seat.
wish they had now
At least it was dry for him.
What sweet, innocent times!
I remember watching this back then gosh the whole country celebrated like it would never end
Now that's how you announce an election. This was just a different time
Starmer is no Blair
Not even close and yet he idolises Blair lol
Sunak is no Major
Blair without the flair
It's quite strange how chipper the Tories were at this point of time, weren't the polls at this time still catastrophic?
It was just public bravado. They knew they were going to lose
Stephen Dorrell's YES at 1:01 is still funny though
@@dingers5days So history is going to repeat itself!
@@williamchapple8886
Yes, but its not going to be Blair, its going to be Starmer unfortunately...
Cannot stand the geezer. Both Con and Lab are as bad as each other.
It's 1997 all over again in 2024
Security seems to be very different 9/11 and the reality of political violence in recent years has definitely placed a physical gap between political leaders and the voters between 1997 and now.
You still had the IRA. There were several hoax bomb threats during the campaign, including the Grand National.
I think things were actually more dangerous back then with all the bombings in London at that time.
It doesn't matter if it's Conservative or Labour in government. The Civil Service has governed Britain for centuries.
Please elaborate...
@@AshesHereos He thinks we’d be better off if we had a complete clear out of all the people who know how the government works every 5 years. 🙄
@@alfieking8044 there are a lot of pointless civil servants who give the taxpayer nothing in return.
The Sun had the sense to realise that the Tories were ruining the country. They don't seem to have noticed this time around
Starmer is no Blair, that for sure.
But he isn't tory thankfully.
@@melgrant7404are you sure?
@@jonathanbennet2580 we will soon find out.
@@melgrant7404He might as well be a Tory there isn’t any real difference between the Tories and Labour now, only in 2017 and 2019 there was so I am not interested in more of the same!!! You might as well have a Tory leadership contest between Sunak and Penny Mordaunt and let the public have a vote on it!!!
When newspapers swayed opinions, does anyone buy a newspaper nowadays?
1:25 how did the IRA bomb in the background get parked in the wrong location?
the laguna?
3:22 star trek
From what I remember of my time in the UK during the late 1980's Margaret Thatcher was still being called "The Milk Money Snatcher...." from her time as Education Secretary...only this time it was from the Mine closures and no Industries to replace them and Lord Tebbit was telling people to get on their bikes to find work, which was ludicrous considering that the Coalfields had been large and all of the Small Mining Towns in the Coalfields had no other Industries/large employers that would give hundreds of Men from each Town meaningful employment, Thatcher had cut Taxes for her wealthy donors and cut spending on essential Social Programmes for the unemployed, disabled, the poor/elderly and vulnerable people and despite the Tory spin they were not doing well with the people, who were fed up with an out of touch, uncaring Government and David Cameron's Government was rinse and repeat,,exactly the same sort of Policies and the present Prime Minister isn't much better, especially considering that he lied about the causes of inflation claiming that it was due to Government spending, which is ridiculous because it was caused by Covid, a War in Ukraine and price gouging by the Oil and Gas giants and the Grocery Monopolies and that's before we get to him lying about Labour's Tax Policy to manipulate the British voters.
Well said 👏.
A young Alex Simonds is quote something 🤔
They were right there in all fairness. Tony Blair’s destroyed the prestige and high standards of the UK. We were top 3 now top 6. Shocking
400 million in surplus in 1997 when Blair came into No 10, by 2010 when Brown left, the UK was 1 trillion in debt, mostly because of the tax and spend or boom and bust economics Labour did, we also had an economy growing at 5% in 1997, now we have one at 0.1%.
Labour under Keir and Tories under Sunak are literally a rizla between them economically, whoever takes over will have to make very difficult decisions and there will need to be tax rises despite what both say, I see VAT being one which will go up to near the 24% or 25% that Sweden and Finland now have.
Should've stuck with Major.
Yes, more selfish London centric greed and ignoring the ordinary working people.
I need to research more of British politics. Here in America terms like Republican vs. Democrat, Conservative vs Libera, and Right vs. Left I am WELL versed on! But unfortunately I know little of The Conservative Party vs.The Liberal Party (Whigs vs. Tories).
Well, truthfully I am FAR MORE intelligent than the average American and likely already know FAR MORE than the average as well!!
However, my brothers and sisters accross the pond.. Pray do enlighten me!!
The liberals (now the liberal democrats) are a much smller party than they used to be. The Labour party took power after elections were suspended during WWII, and their main priority was supporting the working class, and working with the trade unions. They still have that as a core part of their political viewpoint, but they now cover the majority of the left here in the UK and so their voter base is broader. This election, their focus seems to be on looking more sane and in touch with the average voter, keeping their existing high polling figures and letting the current government make an embarrassment of themselves to remind us why we're all fed up of them.
I'm black but it's amazing that there were actual native British people in power. Blair was ok. As an American,I mainly remember him as the PM meeting Noel Gallagher all before Be Here Now came out and Diana dying.
A native British police officer outside No. 10 as well. I grew up watching Thatcher as the first PM I was ever aware of with Reagan. Wow!
England looks so different back then before mass immigration all the police officers are native
I am not British, but i would say Blair was one of the worst things that happened to Britain.
Blair's administration opened the door for massive Immigration which brought in some many people who hate that country.
Britain should be for the native Brits and immigrants who truly love Britain.
As the British prepare to vote in a general election on 4th of July 2024, i hope they vote for a party that truly puts their country first; which from my observation is neither the Tories or the Labour party.
Best wishes to the British people 🇬🇧
From Nigeria 🇳🇬.
If you're not british why do you speak like a 50 year old gammon
No such thing as a native Brit, unless you're referring to the Welsh.
We're all french, german, Irish, Roman, or Scandinavian
@@TheWaveGoodbye-MusicTypical left lie, those races are still European, all European nations are European mixes however white people are native to Britain, and the last 1000 years Anglo Saxons have been native to these islands.
@@JayJay-nc7prtypical racist comment.
@@matthewhendy5785 what I said is racist or the other guy?
John Major bequeathed an amazing economic legacy to Labour which Blair et al pissed up the wall.
Maggie Thatcher should have been PM from 1979-2002. Shame the party dumped her
Why is that then
@@chrisdawson6156He can’t answer
@@ytthrowaway4584 oh okay that's the trouble with politics they can't answer anything and we are the ones that suffer
Pity she ever was imo.
All serving time?