Fantastic to hear "Arthur" from where it all started. Election nights wouldn't be the same with this Wakeman classic! Lets hope Election '09 (or '10) continues this...
I was too young to vote, being a month shy of my ninth birthday and halfway through junior school. By the time Maggie Thatcher left Downing Street, (which I do recall) I was twenty and eligible to vote - the 87 election was a year too early to participate in.
@@stephenbaker2105 Except in all three of those elections Thatcher got less than 45% of the vote, also for a silent majority you lot never seem to shut up
Labour and the unions had brought the country to its knees. Callaghan couldn't hold back the tide any longer. Watch Thatcher being interviewed by Russian journalists during her trip to Moscow. They called her tge Iron Lady because she had a backbone of iron that no-one else had. Not even close. @tomgibson6801
I was 10 when this election took place. I well remember blue posters everywhere in what was a close fight in the constituency where I lived on the Wirral in Merseyside. I liked Callaghan and Healey but the Winter Of Discontent made Mrs Thatcher's victory inevitable. My prediction for 2010 - Labour as the largest party in a hung parliament.
Yankee watching this on the cusp of US election. Dude, the beeb was on till 4 am?! I don't even know if our big 3 were on much past midnight for these things! To say nothing of our dinky public broadcaster.
Well yes, but that's because the real results all come in within a few hours, max a day or so, of the polls closing; postal votes must be in by election day. Whereas in the US you have indications of the results, but the final results in each district are not declared for weeks, so there's not so much to wait up for.
Good Old Rick Wakeman and his great music. Politics was never so funky. I never sat up and watched it. I recorded it when it was on BBC4 the other week.
@harry10313 Yes, UK polling stations stay open until 10pm (since 1970 - it was 9pm before then). Most seats count overnight these days. So when general elections have a decisive result, it's clear by the end of the night who's won and lost.
Media before the election: "remember, you're not voting for a prime minister, and you're also not voting for a party, you're voting for your local MP" Media after the election: 0:00
And if you're watching it keep an eye out for the result from Edinburgh South going through. That was Brown's first attempt to be elected and he failed!
Yes! You remember. Folks remember the landmark events that happened in their single figure childhoods. Oldies reminiscing the early 20th century do that all the time. But throughout the Tory years, from as early as 1985, only 6 years in! the Tories and media repeatedly accused the young voters who had been aged 10 in 1979, of not remembering it. That was a systematic abuse of a generation. Disbelieved to remember our own 70s childhoods. Was this degrading ever done to any other generation?
I was so surprised to see the presenter smoking a cigar on BBC television! The Health and Safety brigade, the Human Rights division...all sorts of people would be after him if he smoked on live television today.
Labour only had 311 MPs in march 1979, they had to relay on the Ulster Unionists who abstained as did a republican independent. The SDLP voted against Labour and Doc Brougton (Lab) was to ill to attend and died a few days later 310 voted aye 311 voted noe. Which Act of parliament states you can't have more than two PMs in 1 term?
I like how the single cross at the beginning reprsents the single vote for the single video. You see, back then (this is the year I was born), people had creativity and the ability to think. Today it's all computers; nobody has the passion to think and be clever in what they do. It's like the BBC News Theme - it sounds like a Heart Monitor tune, produced by DJ Sammy. Listen to the BBC 1990 news opener; that's class.
@ColonelRoss111 "Less free" is a very subjective term when it comes to subjects like this; unless of course you consider smoking some sort of basic human right. I could then (as an extreme example) say that never working a day in my life is a right too because I like staying home and sleeping in. Are you sure "less free" is really the way you want to characterize it? BTW, I am a smoker myself, but I understand the reasons behind the smoking ban and TV rules.
I wonder if this will be shown on BBC Parliament for the 40th anniversary in May the actual anniversary would be on the Saturday or maybe on the Bank Holiday Monday as the 40th anniversary is on the first BH weekend in May
No Labour MP will vote against the government on a matter of confidence. Just as Tory rebels would never vote against John Major when he did confidence votes after the 1992 election over maastricht and such like.
Rick Wakeman rules, although he's a Tory and in favour of the death penalty, still a wonderful artist and a true pal. He must have celebrated that '79 victory, I guess... Definitely not us in Glasgow...
Love the way that David Dimbleby was so impressed with the cartoon Big Ben that actually told the right time!
That was Space Age technology back then!
HE OBVIOUSLY HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXISTANCE OF WORKING CLOCKS ALL VERY BASIC
Fantastic to hear "Arthur" from where it all started. Election nights wouldn't be the same with this Wakeman classic!
Lets hope Election '09 (or '10) continues this...
I come from the dark future
@@mfk5533 Dark, Dark Future.
First usage of Wakeman's Arthur and one of the first usages of ASCII art.
the last time the true Liberal party stood at an election.
The theme itself shows that Labour knew that they were going to be defeated by Thatcher
I can't think of anybody here in US that is as excellent an interviewer as Sir Robin
Robin was fantastic
0:34 that couldn't be less seventies
This theme tune is so much better than the poncy boring tune they had in 2010
nah they're both great
I'm pretty sure you could replace the opening tune with the Dr. Who theme and i'd be brilliant.
It's brilliant as it is.
4:44 computerised magic lol
I was too young to vote, being a month shy of my ninth birthday and halfway through junior school. By the time Maggie Thatcher left Downing Street, (which I do recall) I was twenty and eligible to vote - the 87 election was a year too early to participate in.
that intro was fucking awesome! Rest In Peace, Maggie, Ronnie.
rest in peace callaghan and foot as well as britain before thatcher. thanks thatcher for ruining britain
@@tomgibson6801 I think you will find it was Labour and the unions that did that. 1979, 1983 and 1987 allowed the Silent Majority to be heard finally.
@@stephenbaker2105 Except in all three of those elections Thatcher got less than 45% of the vote, also for a silent majority you lot never seem to shut up
@@tomgibson6801 Thank you for the polite reply. 🙏
Labour and the unions had brought the country to its knees. Callaghan couldn't hold back the tide any longer. Watch Thatcher being interviewed by Russian journalists during her trip to Moscow. They called her tge Iron Lady because she had a backbone of iron that no-one else had. Not even close. @tomgibson6801
I was 10 when this election took place. I well remember blue posters everywhere in what was a close fight in the constituency where I lived on the Wirral in Merseyside. I liked Callaghan and Healey but the Winter Of Discontent made Mrs Thatcher's victory inevitable.
My prediction for 2010 - Labour as the largest party in a hung parliament.
Yankee watching this on the cusp of US election.
Dude, the beeb was on till 4 am?! I don't even know if our big 3 were on much past midnight for these things! To say nothing of our dinky public broadcaster.
Well yes, but that's because the real results all come in within a few hours, max a day or so, of the polls closing; postal votes must be in by election day. Whereas in the US you have indications of the results, but the final results in each district are not declared for weeks, so there's not so much to wait up for.
I'm not being anti-american, but we have this novel system of counting the votes and then announcing the results rather than the other way round. : )
An exit poll is not the result. They're tremendously different - even though they are accurate.
Adam Salt no but we count the results before announcing the result. The exit poll is merely a prediction
@@adamsalt4226 exit polls can sometimes be wrong
Wow, I wish I'd been alive and grown up back then; it would have been magical.
Life was still a long, hard slog. Michael Charlton is still alive as of October 2022.
Good Old Rick Wakeman and his great music. Politics was never so funky. I never sat up and watched it. I recorded it when it was on BBC4 the other week.
Peregrine Worsthorne (the most English name possible) is still with us - age 96.
@harry10313 Yes, UK polling stations stay open until 10pm (since 1970 - it was 9pm before then). Most seats count overnight these days. So when general elections have a decisive result, it's clear by the end of the night who's won and lost.
Robin Day chomping on a big cigar......how times have changed!
Wow... Robin Day, total class act. If only CBC newscasters e.g. Peter Mansbridge had this much class.
He was, but never quite as sharp when he started a family.
Loved watching Sir Robin when I was a kid classy and entertaining!!!!
Media before the election: "remember, you're not voting for a prime minister, and you're also not voting for a party, you're voting for your local MP"
Media after the election: 0:00
Long before the BBC's corporate brandings of George Fenton's theme music for BBC News of 1984, this theme tune was now an outdated library disk.
Robin day puffing on a cigar. Happy days smoking indoors.
Great old wheeze Sir Robin with cigar!!!! RIP
It's like living in space, in many ways.
Good God, I’m old.
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie! In, in, in!
country country country ruined ruined ruined
Wait I'm sorry it seems like you announce the beginnings much later than we do in the states. Our poll returns start at around 7pm-8pm.
BBC Parliament are showing this in full from 9am, bank holiday monday (4th April)
very nice...
And if you're watching it keep an eye out for the result from Edinburgh South going through. That was Brown's first attempt to be elected and he failed!
Yes! You remember. Folks remember the landmark events that happened in their single figure childhoods. Oldies reminiscing the early 20th century do that all the time.
But throughout the Tory years, from as early as 1985, only 6 years in! the Tories and media repeatedly accused the young voters who had been aged 10 in 1979, of not remembering it. That was a systematic abuse of a generation. Disbelieved to remember our own 70s childhoods. Was this degrading ever done to any other generation?
GAINS
GAINS
GAINS
I love it
I was so surprised to see the presenter smoking a cigar on BBC television! The Health and Safety brigade, the Human Rights division...all sorts of people would be after him if he smoked on live television today.
Very Interesting. Is it right the BBC have been using the Rick Wakeman track ever since, for their election broadcasts?
Labour only had 311 MPs in march 1979, they had to relay on the Ulster Unionists who abstained as did a republican independent. The SDLP voted against Labour and Doc Brougton (Lab) was to ill to attend and died a few days later 310 voted aye 311 voted noe.
Which Act of parliament states you can't have more than two PMs in 1 term?
That cigar tho
I like how the single cross at the beginning reprsents the single vote for the single video. You see, back then (this is the year I was born), people had creativity and the ability to think. Today it's all computers; nobody has the passion to think and be clever in what they do. It's like the BBC News Theme - it sounds like a Heart Monitor tune, produced by DJ Sammy. Listen to the BBC 1990 news opener; that's class.
@caterpillarmodel unfortnetly yes
@ColonelRoss111 "Less free" is a very subjective term when it comes to subjects like this; unless of course you consider smoking some sort of basic human right. I could then (as an extreme example) say that never working a day in my life is a right too because I like staying home and sleeping in. Are you sure "less free" is really the way you want to characterize it? BTW, I am a smoker myself, but I understand the reasons behind the smoking ban and TV rules.
18 years
RIP Margaret Thatcher.
joshua kurc Good riddance to the bitch.
rip james callaghan
Sat up and watched this :)
(not in '79 tho!)
0:20 at first glance i thought it was a virus🦠
Haha
Yup, except 2001.
RIP Mr Day
thanks for the tip :)
Happy to Mr Day that he wouldn't listen to these complaints anymore
RIP Mr Day again
so, they closed the polling on 10 pm at night and count all the votes all night long? greet from Indonesia :)
@UKSazzy67 Not just smoking , but a huge fucking cigar!
The incinerator?
Or as Boris said to Rick on HIGNFY, "I love your Arthurian thing."
You must not have been around in May 1997.
Glasgow central a safe labour seat how times have changed.
Liberation day as I like to call it.
apart from thatcher ran the country like a police state and destroyed our industry
May I ask what was used in 2001?
the same
I wonder if this will be shown on BBC Parliament for the 40th anniversary in May the actual anniversary would be on the Saturday or maybe on the Bank Holiday Monday as the 40th anniversary is on the first BH weekend in May
A dark day in Britain's history
That's one way to solve fuel-povety. They say witches burn very well.
It's funny to see Robin Day smoking a cigar - how different life was back then - only 29 years ago.
"some kind of computerised magic" haha.
lets bloody hope not
No Labour MP will vote against the government on a matter of confidence. Just as Tory rebels would never vote against John Major when he did confidence votes after the 1992 election over maastricht and such like.
Atleast there was reason for confidence.
U.K change the word into a Election instead of Decision
sad night my arse!
It was very different than. David looked so young. Computers were a mystery. An the election agent was described as a little man.
its weird 2 see sum1 smoking on tv. i luv the outcome of this 1 :P
this was the day the counrty went to hell
andrew hudson you mean greatness
@caterpillarmodel .......Nope, Callaghan's going to win. History will prove me right.
Liberal Party leader David Steel.
Rick Wakeman rules, although he's a Tory and in favour of the death penalty, still a wonderful artist and a true pal.
He must have celebrated that '79 victory, I guess...
Definitely not us in Glasgow...
0:01
smoking cigar on tv lol
2015 - Labour-Tory coalition. You heard it here first.
Forty years later and voters have still not realized that voting for the visible government does not change the invisible government.
sad day for britain
So you must understand that it was then that this country went to hell.
No, that's just Labour on roids.
Dreadful blockbuster library track.
Your a prat