Back then, the 7/7 attack hadn't happened yet, nor had the financial crisis, the word 'Brexit' had never been uttered, the idea of a Scottish independence referendum (let alone a closely-fought one) would have been laughable, Facebook was new, and Twitter didn't even exist yet.
Yes but just 2 years later the SNP beat Labour in Scotland leading to the Scottish Referendum and to think this election was 10 years before the SNP wiped out Labour in 2015.
@Dan World It certainly seems so sometimes. Coming home from school and seeing the 7/7 attack on the news shocked me so much. I remember it like yesterday. Then I didn't pay attention to the news again until the financial crisis, which scared me in a different way.
DFandV yep the Tories won 365 seats, Labour 355, although in 2005 there were only 646 seats up for grabs. If 355 seats were won now it’d give a smaller majority. Although after the expected reduction in MPs to 600, anything over 350 seats would be an absolute landslide of 100+
@@mattbenz99 It was a bigger achievement by the Conservatives when you consider a hung parliament seemed likely and that the SNP are so dominant in Scotland these days. In the Blair years Labour held them. Conservatives gained near 50 seats 9 years in where Labour lost around the same after 7 years
Matthew Palomino I’m from the United States but I enjoy British politics, you are right that this is still a big win for them (last time they won an election still) but there is lots of factors to consider in this, SNP hadn’t broken through in Scotland and labour still dominated up there (now lots of seats labour May never get back), a possible reduction in MP’s also makes it harder to reach these numbers again, Scotland and Northern Ireland possibly wanting to leave the UK after brexit, I don’t think we will ever see 1997 or 2001 numbers ever again
Djxthe2nd Young Since the introduction of universal suffrage: Year of election - Highest vote share at said election (Recipient of highest vote share) 1918 - 38.4% of the vote (Bonar Law) 1922 - 38.5% of the vote (Bonar Law) 1923 - 38% of the vote (Stanley Baldwin) 1924 - 46.79% of the vote (Stanley Baldwin) 1929 - 38.06 of the vote (Stanley Baldwin) 1931 - 55% of the vote (Stanley Baldwin) 1935 - 48% of the vote (Stanley Baldwin) 1945 - 48% of the vote (Clement Attlee) 1950 - 46% of the vote (Clement Attlee) 1951 - 48.8% of the vote (Clement Attlee) 1955 - 49.7% of the vote (Anthony Eden) 1959 - 49.4% of the vote (Harold Macmillan) 1964 - 44.1% of the vote (Harold Wilson) 1966 - 48% of the vote (Harold Wilson) 1970 - 46.4% of the vote (Ted Heath) Feb. 1974 - 38% of the vote (Ted Heath) Oct. 1974 - 39% of the vote (Harold Wilson 1979 - 43.9% of the vote (Margaret Thatcher) 1983 - 42.4% of the vote (Margaret Thatcher) 1987 - 42.2% of the vote (Margaret Thatcher) 1992 - 42% of the vote (John Major) 1997 - 43.2% of the vote (Tony Blair) 2001 - 40.7% of the vote (Tony Blair) 2005 - 35.2% of the vote (Tony Blair) 2010 - 36% of the vote (David Cameron) 2015 - 37% of the vote (David Cameron) 2017 - 42.3% of the vote (Theresa May) 2019 - 43.6% of the vote (Johnson) Out of 28 elections since the introduction of universal suffrage (Everyone being able to vote): 1997 was the 14th highest vote share 2001 was the 19th highest vote share 2019 was the 13th highest vote share
Hi, yes we are fast, we want the election done and dusted - majority of the seats are declared during the night, usually by lunchtime on the following day, we know who has won (usually)
@@militantman demographic changes are why it went labour. It’s becoming far more young and ethnically more predominantly minority based, it’s just a repetition of what’s happened to a lot of London seats since the 1992 election.
04:02 "(in 1992) the exit poll said a Labour government, the voters said a Tory government." - Wrong. The exit poll predicted a conservative hung parliament. BBC accuracy.
It predicted a Labour majority all through the day. Only at the very end of the day with the very last wave of data did they change the projection. So Anthony King, who would have seen “Lab majority” all day, probably suffered the Mandela effect. Dimbleby said that as he said “Good Evening” at 9:55 that night, there was a huge picture of Neil Kinnock looking down on him with “Labour majority”. That’s how much it changed.
@@RBenjo21 That's a really interesting point. It's odd how collective memory often works. Very few people realise that more polls had leave in the lead rather than remain during the official campaigning period in EU REF 2016?
@@jackmatthew1880 The exit poll, given its exact numbers, really said "a government that wouldn't last six months." C 301, L 297 (with 326 to win as now). If that hinted at a Labour government, it would only have been in the anticipation of other parties supporting Kinnock over Major. If that exit poll of 1992 was right, I suspect we'd have talked about it as "the first 1992 election."
No. This is 576i upscaled to 720p because UA-cam won't accept 50fps unless it's at least 720 pixels resolution. But the BBC were early adopters of HD - they launched an HD channel in 2007. But it is native 16:9. Occasional 16:9 programmes were made in the 1990s, and all BBC channels converted to 16:9 as a default in 2000. (Analogue broadcasts of 16:9 were cropped and zoomed to 14:9 with black bars at the top and bottom)
The mindset of oh my father voted labour and grandfather etc was still very strong back then. If he ever tries to return to politics via parliament I don’t even see the most neo-liberal remain seat even electing him. He’s just that despised and toxic.
Because, quite simply, the primary opposition were the Conservatives who were also heavily pro-war in Iraq - indeed in much greater numbers than Labour. Nearly all the opposition to the war came from the left, which is why the Libdems gained votes lost from Labour. Even as Blair was trying to convince the Labour MPs to vote for the war, the Tory MPs and Press were sharpening their pencils for him being a limp lefty peacenick. A dynamic lost to history now but very real then.
@@ciaranmarsh255 Blair deliberately sent thousands of young men and women to their deaths on the basis of absolute lies about weapons of mass destruction. For that alone, Blair should be jailed for the rest of his life. And let’s not forget all the Iraqis he killed.
6:19:00 - I felt a bit sorry for Michael Howard and the other candidates in Folkestone & Hythe for being upstaged by that self-aggrandizing loudmouth idiot from the Loony Party.
A very strange election. Without the Iraq war I suspect there wouldn't have been the erosion in public trust of Tony Blair to anything like that extent and he almost certainly would have won another three figure majority in an extremely tedious election, perhaps 130 or so. That would have made it rather more difficult for Gordon Brown to dislodge him from Number 10. In that scenario, you could very easily imagine Blair winning a fourth term in 2010 despite the financial crisis, although perhaps Brown led Labour infighting would have forced him out. George Osbourne described Blair as a 'Tory destroying machine' in the recentish New Labour documentary. He is spot on. Blair seemed to have the measure of David Cameron across the dispatch box wheras even before the global financial crash, The Conservatives seemed to have all the momentum against Brown.
Actually maybe they will win 50 seats at this election IF the vote splits enough and theres enough tactical voting but after brexit is over they will lose those seats in 2024 or earlier
@@winterstronghold2197 That's not gonna happen. Not even close. That's what people thought at the start of this campaign. Now, they'd be lucky to get 15. In any case, it will probably be lower than the 21 seats they had at the end of Parliament.
Nah they’ll get more than they’ve got at the moment purely based on sheer aggression is remain focused seats. But I don’t anticipate it being more than 40
@@nightwi5h959 If YouGov's MRP model is any correct, they are only going to get 13, which is one more than they got in 2017 and 8 less than they currently have. Sorry, I don't see it happening. Every single MP who defected to the Lib Dems is going to lose, even with their attempts to change seats so they could have a higher chance of getting reelected. Furthermore, they are also going to lose in Leave seats that they currently have, such as North Norfolk and Eastbourne. And they're getting absolutely hammered in the South West, where they were once thought to do well.
I do like the fact that ever since 1997, whenever the Exit poll is mentioned, it's always to downplay it. "Oh, in 1992, it was completely wrong, so don't pay any attention to this, it might be completely wrong." The statement just before 10pm that the 1992 Exit poll was wrong is correct, but they didn't predict a Labour government at all. It was hung parliament, with the Conservatives short (but largest party). It wasn't right, but it was reasonably close enough. The problem faced is that since then, the Exit poll has got the result nearly spot on (except 2015 which predicted a hung parliament, albeit the Conservatives only slightly short). But of course, telling your viewers to catch the Exit poll then go to bed as the result is likely to be pretty much accurate isn't what the BBC want.
Every exit poll apart from 1992 were right. And maybe 2015 a bit as well. Where the exit poll gave the Tories to win in a hung parliament. But got a majority at the end.
Anyone else miss Anthony King? The days of people like him, David Butler and Bob McKenzie presenting the results are sadly long gone and we’ll never have them back. Today all the presenters are all so talentless, charisma-void and second rate.
Hey David boothroyd any idea when you will be able to realise the 2010 uk general election because it’s the only one you literally can’t find full coverage any where thanks for the great entertainment during lockdown especially the 97’ and ‘01 election results which I have watched in there full capacity will you be able to put more recent elections up in the future as well (2015 uk general election, 2016 EU Referendum) sad night 2016 was
6:47:22 Comical to see Banks pivot first to identity politics and not commend Galloway for his anti-Iraq invasion stance (which Banks agreed with at the time!). The other thing is his boasting that Labour would win a fourth election, as if he, as part of the Socialist Campaign Group, didn't see the financialisation-induced crash coming!
0:59 - Good old Studio TC1, nice to know it still exists in 2021. Studio TC1 at the then BBC Television Centre was their largest studio in London at 10,800 Sq Ft. It is used a lot in 2021 for entertainment shows. Sadly only 2 other studios remain, TC2 and TC3 as the remaining 5 studios were demolished from 2014-2015.
@@ndulmillenium TC2 is used by Lorraine and Loose Women in the morning, with Peston using it on Wednesday and Sunday Brunch on Suns. TC3 is the permanent home of Good Morning Britain and This Morning, who have their sets back to back in the studio. This leaves TC3 totally unavailable for use by other productions, whereas TC2 can be used, as their sets are movable. TC1 is the only truly independent studio, open to everyone who wants it.
really poor coverage from the BBC, very few interviews with politicians, silly bit with Jon Culshaw's impression, a lot of journalists just talking to each other
Labour were disappointed at only having a majority of 66. Nowadays, they would give anything to have a majority of 1. At 13:40 the professor sums things up perfectly. Tony Blair was not elected to be popular, but to win elections- which he did three times in a row. It also shows you how much things have changed. There was zero mention of the SNP, who at the time were a non-entity. It was 16 years ago, which is actually not that long ago when you think about it.
7:34:48 is an interesting exchange. I appreciate that a BBC election programme wouldn't debate it, but I'm not sure why so many of us are willing to accept FPTP
Labour didn't change it because at that time it benefitted them. Now we're in a situation where the opposite is true though no matter what, Lib Dems get screwed. I wish the system would be changed, not because of who benefits but because a system which reflects the country better would create a better, more representative government, perhaps encouraging more people to get involved.
7:33:29 My home junction! And whilst it was still 3 lanes! A PM with only 1 escort car??? 7:38:48 - the old Hemel Hempstead junction with the South exit to loop 270 into the bridge.
Sunderland South is to British national elections what Dixville Notch, New Hampshire is to American Presidential elections: The first place to usually report results.
Was the exit poll saying Labour in 1992? I thought the range was between a Conservative minority and Labour minority but the Conservative was at the midpoint. Then they actually got a 21 majority
Watch it yourself here: ua-cam.com/video/p4YY7KWJAtA/v-deo.html Although it did give a Conservative lead (and a clear one in terms of votes), the heavy expectation before the day that Labour and Conservative would be very close fed into the programme preparation which added to the sense of error as the eventual Conservative majority developed.
Labour's problem is that, until 2019, they've never accepted a defeat as a "real" defeat: 2010: "It was the nefarious press who didn't tell the country how wonderfully brilliant we are! And Gordon Brown is a King of Charisma in private conversation, honest!" 2015: "It was the Scottish nationalists!" 2017: "We basically won, because we did better than anyone expected." Keir Starmer is basically picking up Labour after almost a lost decade of refusing to think "Hey, we are really unpopular with a majority of the electorate. How can WE change that?"
Who would have predicted that only a few years later, UKIP would be a political force, and SNP would dominate Scotland, defeating all three main UK parties. And I am writing as a lifelong Labour voter who campaigned against Scotland leaving the Uk and for remain.
Watching on the eve of the 12th December 2019 election. Nice to reminisce the last time that Labour won an election, just before the dawn of an election which most likely will be a different turnout for them :(
DenzoGamin it was a disappointing result for Labour unfortunately but to me that was because labour shifted too far to the left and wasn’t centrist anymore.
7:52:45 Paxman telling the Lib Dem that the party hasn't got a cat in hell's chance of getting into government at the next election. I mean, he was wrong, but you can't imagine he'd have expected the way they did it!
2005 to 2010 was five very long years which changed the public's view on all parties, and it peaked with the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal, which was unknown to the public back in 2005. If they had known in 2005 what their rag bag of MPs and peers spend OUR money, Labour and the tories would be kicked in the nuts by the electorate.
That assumes people vote the same way in a PR election which they don't. The Lib Dems has a protest vote until they joined the Tories in the government so this disappeared.
I was a lib dem at that time, and there was no chance of us ever getting that amount of seats. Kennedy had a public drink problem, eurosceticism had begun to creep in by that point, and not everybody in the UK is a second home owner from sommerset. We only really appealed to a small amount of people when it came to internal policy.
@@wimblewomble21 With Respect- Wimblewomble21-I am also a LibDem also. It may seem impossible but how wiil we ever reallly break through i.e get 100-150 seats if we do'n't even belive it ourselves.
It was like having 600 by-elections rather than one general election. I remember 2010 being like that but didn’t realise until watching this that 2005 was too
Before the FTPA came in, Parliaments were limited to five years but the timing of general elections was up to the PM. It was usually accepted that if everything was going OK, PMs would call an election after four years and only go into the fifth year if they were in trouble. Thatcher was well ahead in 1983 and 1987 but Major was not in 1991 and was well behind in 1996. Blair was happy about the situation in 2001 and 2005. Brown narrowly called off a 2007 snap election and by 2009 was 20 points behind.
I always thought Anthony King was good at his job, but his analysis for this year was very surface. If there is an unusual result he gets all excited about what this could mean, rather than looking for other causes. About 3:30 he gets into a Tizz about the Torbay result, but actually the 2001 election there was a strange one because a) The Conservative candidate made a fool of himself and b) the result before have been so close there was more than usually tactical vting
Notable former and current cabinet ministers such at Grant Shapps, Ben Wallace, Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt, the late James Brokenshire and former Putney MP Justine Greening were first elected then, plus former Labour leader Ed Miliband and current London mayor Sadiq Khan and former Lib Dem leaders Nick Clegg, Tim Farron and Jo Swinson, interestingly Sittingbourne and Sheppey in Kent had the second smallest Labour majority, now it is a safe Conservative seat, plus Boris Johnson was representing Henley in Oxfordshire at the time, also one of the Labour losses was St Albans, which is now held by the Liberal Democrats,
And now in the polls Labour would do better than '97 according to the polls. But looking as the PM will stay on until 2024 we have to see if this remain the same.
@@DFandVit’s highly likely we will never see a 97 victory again. These days the boundaries favour the conservatives when they favoured Labour back then. If I was to hazard a guess they will probably win by around Johnson margins. Even if polls say 15-20 point deficits Labour have lost so many seats since 2010 that when adjusted they will win but polling certainly will overstate how many seats they will get.
Labour majority spot on, but worse for the Tories, final seat total for them was 198 seats, the third time in a row they’d ended below 200 seats, likely a figure they will be well below come July 5th. A figure, Labour hasn’t dropped below in the entire post WW2 era.
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Those CGI versions of the party leaders are pure nightmare fuel.
@The RoadRunner they did! 2015 GE had holographic models of all the leaders and it was just as creepy. They blinked n all
lol
Tony marching towards you like he's going to murder you.
r/crabbydesign (The graphics were good however)
@@kaga_me Well he did murder a few Iraqis
Back then, the 7/7 attack hadn't happened yet, nor had the financial crisis, the word 'Brexit' had never been uttered, the idea of a Scottish independence referendum (let alone a closely-fought one) would have been laughable, Facebook was new, and Twitter didn't even exist yet.
Yes but just 2 years later the SNP beat Labour in Scotland leading to the Scottish Referendum and to think this election was 10 years before the SNP wiped out Labour in 2015.
yes life was so much better wasnt it
Politics was a simpler time for the most part
@Dan World It certainly seems so sometimes. Coming home from school and seeing the 7/7 attack on the news shocked me so much. I remember it like yesterday. Then I didn't pay attention to the news again until the financial crisis, which scared me in a different way.
Ahhh paradise what we have know is a absolute sh** show
Just to think that Labour were disappointed with a 66 majority back then, now either party would give anything for that sort of majority!
And the commentator's curse strikes again, given the Tories big win
I think the Tories got roughly the same seats as Labour in 2005.
@@DFandV
And yet the Tories see it as a massive win while Labour saw 2005 as a massive failure.
DFandV yep the Tories won 365 seats, Labour 355, although in 2005 there were only 646 seats up for grabs. If 355 seats were won now it’d give a smaller majority. Although after the expected reduction in MPs to 600, anything over 350 seats would be an absolute landslide of 100+
@@mattbenz99 It was a bigger achievement by the Conservatives when you consider a hung parliament seemed likely and that the SNP are so dominant in Scotland these days. In the Blair years Labour held them. Conservatives gained near 50 seats 9 years in where Labour lost around the same after 7 years
Can I just say thank you for all of these uploads. It is greatly appreciated.
"George Galloway from the Respect party....Being respected"
That's why we love you David
A 66 seat majority regarded as disappointing only because the previous majority was 167.
FINALLY!!!! I was looking everywhere for this like the sad man I am 😂😂
😂 same
Yes, I'm still looking for a 2010 one though. Can't find it anywhere.
I swear it was on youtube like a month Ago but they disappeared after the 2019 election was called
Hye I got good news for you!! There is another of these on Thursday!!
I'm downloading it whilst I can 😂
What an election night team. Jeremy Paxman, Fiona Bruce, Peter Snow, Andrew Marr and David Dimbleby
Jeremy Paxman what a prat.
Avengers-like line up
Absolutely. Epic.
@@victorcross5949 Okay snowflake.
What a stark change in liveliness from the 2005 coverage to 2010...
And 2019 - terrible coverage all round.
I’ve been hoping you’d upload this - thank you! :)
Last proper election night. Arthur, Peter Snow and no social media
At 6:32:36 Labour officially reached it's majority of 324 seats in Parliament.
@3:19 Hahahaha the beautiful graphics of 14 years ago. Jeeeez.
DanTheStripe, They made Howard look fat af.
Like some dodgy NPC graphics
Looks even worse than Mii.
Funnily enough technology was different back then
Blair’s victory dance at 6:50:30 absolutely finished me.
Love how a labour majority of 66 is considered a failure.
APG19912009 well considering recent history, it is yes
Matthew Palomino I’m from the United States but I enjoy British politics, you are right that this is still a big win for them (last time they won an election still) but there is lots of factors to consider in this, SNP hadn’t broken through in Scotland and labour still dominated up there (now lots of seats labour May never get back), a possible reduction in MP’s also makes it harder to reach these numbers again, Scotland and Northern Ireland possibly wanting to leave the UK after brexit, I don’t think we will ever see 1997 or 2001 numbers ever again
APG19912009 Boris got a higher share of the vote than Blair in his prime.
Hows that like bro cos lab has the highst share of the vote ever that eney has getting so far with there 1997 and 2001 win
Djxthe2nd Young
Since the introduction of universal suffrage:
Year of election - Highest vote share at said election (Recipient of highest vote share)
1918 - 38.4% of the vote (Bonar Law)
1922 - 38.5% of the vote (Bonar Law)
1923 - 38% of the vote (Stanley Baldwin)
1924 - 46.79% of the vote (Stanley Baldwin)
1929 - 38.06 of the vote (Stanley Baldwin)
1931 - 55% of the vote (Stanley Baldwin)
1935 - 48% of the vote (Stanley Baldwin)
1945 - 48% of the vote (Clement Attlee)
1950 - 46% of the vote (Clement Attlee)
1951 - 48.8% of the vote (Clement Attlee)
1955 - 49.7% of the vote (Anthony Eden)
1959 - 49.4% of the vote (Harold Macmillan)
1964 - 44.1% of the vote (Harold Wilson)
1966 - 48% of the vote (Harold Wilson)
1970 - 46.4% of the vote (Ted Heath)
Feb. 1974 - 38% of the vote (Ted Heath)
Oct. 1974 - 39% of the vote (Harold Wilson
1979 - 43.9% of the vote (Margaret Thatcher)
1983 - 42.4% of the vote (Margaret Thatcher)
1987 - 42.2% of the vote (Margaret Thatcher)
1992 - 42% of the vote (John Major)
1997 - 43.2% of the vote (Tony Blair)
2001 - 40.7% of the vote (Tony Blair)
2005 - 35.2% of the vote (Tony Blair)
2010 - 36% of the vote (David Cameron)
2015 - 37% of the vote (David Cameron)
2017 - 42.3% of the vote (Theresa May)
2019 - 43.6% of the vote (Johnson)
Out of 28 elections since the introduction of universal suffrage (Everyone being able to vote):
1997 was the 14th highest vote share
2001 was the 19th highest vote share
2019 was the 13th highest vote share
As an American I'm just amazed at how fast you guys count election results
Hi, yes we are fast, we want the election done and dusted - majority of the seats are declared during the night, usually by lunchtime on the following day, we know who has won (usually)
Well there's like 300 million less people in the UK so it's not that shocking
@@Spidersox1989 But there's also far fewer people doing the counting.
@@johnmartinez7440Much more time-space compression, we’re a small country so there isn’t much of a time lag.
Thanks for uploading. I've been searching for a long time.
Some things never change. 14 years later Peterborough and Putney being considered key marginal seats but now for very different reasons!
Putney was the only sad enough place to go Labour this election. What idiots must live there?!
@@militantman Well, igniting your ignorance, 201 other seats went labour too
@@militantman demographic changes are why it went labour. It’s becoming far more young and ethnically more predominantly minority based, it’s just a repetition of what’s happened to a lot of London seats since the 1992 election.
Thanks for this. I know that AndyJS pulled his due to copyright fears.
Peter's segments were ahead of it's time.
To whomever uploaded this I love you
*whoever
@@Beastgrows whomever. To whom not to who
04:02 "(in 1992) the exit poll said a Labour government, the voters said a Tory government." - Wrong. The exit poll predicted a conservative hung parliament. BBC accuracy.
Wrong. It predicted either a tory or a labour hung parliament.
@@ritz2467 The central prediction was for a Tory hung parliament.
It predicted a Labour majority all through the day. Only at the very end of the day with the very last wave of data did they change the projection. So Anthony King, who would have seen “Lab majority” all day, probably suffered the Mandela effect.
Dimbleby said that as he said “Good Evening” at 9:55 that night, there was a huge picture of Neil Kinnock looking down on him with “Labour majority”. That’s how much it changed.
@@RBenjo21 That's a really interesting point. It's odd how collective memory often works.
Very few people realise that more polls had leave in the lead rather than remain during the official campaigning period in EU REF 2016?
@@jackmatthew1880 The exit poll, given its exact numbers, really said "a government that wouldn't last six months." C 301, L 297 (with 326 to win as now). If that hinted at a Labour government, it would only have been in the anticipation of other parties supporting Kinnock over Major. If that exit poll of 1992 was right, I suspect we'd have talked about it as "the first 1992 election."
59:05 Corbyn voted Lib Dem?
What a no good traide corbyn is(: LOL
AHAHAHAHAHA
Doubt a communist would go to Gateshead!
Thank you for uploading this. Do you have the 2010 election night?
Did you have an hd tv and hd videorecorder back in 2005? Was BBC broadcasting in 16:9 in 2005? Why would they adopt this so early?
No. This is 576i upscaled to 720p because UA-cam won't accept 50fps unless it's at least 720 pixels resolution. But the BBC were early adopters of HD - they launched an HD channel in 2007. But it is native 16:9. Occasional 16:9 programmes were made in the 1990s, and all BBC channels converted to 16:9 as a default in 2000. (Analogue broadcasts of 16:9 were cropped and zoomed to 14:9 with black bars at the top and bottom)
How Tony Blair still got re elected after what he did in sending troops to Iraq to die will be the greatest mystery for me.
The mindset of oh my father voted labour and grandfather etc was still very strong back then. If he ever tries to return to politics via parliament I don’t even see the most neo-liberal remain seat even electing him. He’s just that despised and toxic.
Because, quite simply, the primary opposition were the Conservatives who were also heavily pro-war in Iraq - indeed in much greater numbers than Labour. Nearly all the opposition to the war came from the left, which is why the Libdems gained votes lost from Labour.
Even as Blair was trying to convince the Labour MPs to vote for the war, the Tory MPs and Press were sharpening their pencils for him being a limp lefty peacenick. A dynamic lost to history now but very real then.
Blair is a scumbag. He should face prison.
@@kennyryan625 no he’s not and he shouldn’t
@@ciaranmarsh255 Blair deliberately sent thousands of young men and women to their deaths on the basis of absolute lies about weapons of mass destruction. For that alone, Blair should be jailed for the rest of his life. And let’s not forget all the Iraqis he killed.
Thanks so much for this! Its brilliant.
Skip to 06:54:50 for George Galloway, perhaps the only entertaining part of a rather dull election night...
Paxman doing a brasseye impression
Never liked Galloway always struck me as a bigot and a nasty antisemite this interview rather sums him up
This was high drama when compared to 2001! ☹️
And a young David Lammy shortly after
David lammy 💀💀
last time until 2019 Arthur was the election theme
and the last heard in TVC
6:19:00 - I felt a bit sorry for Michael Howard and the other candidates in Folkestone & Hythe for being upstaged by that self-aggrandizing loudmouth idiot from the Loony Party.
no it was funny you loony
@@xkyleprivatex815 It was cringe.
A very strange election. Without the Iraq war I suspect there wouldn't have been the erosion in public trust of Tony Blair to anything like that extent and he almost certainly would have won another three figure majority in an extremely tedious election, perhaps 130 or so. That would have made it rather more difficult for Gordon Brown to dislodge him from Number 10. In that scenario, you could very easily imagine Blair winning a fourth term in 2010 despite the financial crisis, although perhaps Brown led Labour infighting would have forced him out.
George Osbourne described Blair as a 'Tory destroying machine' in the recentish New Labour documentary. He is spot on. Blair seemed to have the measure of David Cameron across the dispatch box wheras even before the global financial crash, The Conservatives seemed to have all the momentum against Brown.
Good analysis
Labour lost the popular vote in England in 2005. The last time they won the popular vote in England was in 2001.
No they won the most votes.
I hate Google+ in the UK they did but I’m talking about england only
@@darkastonvillafan Labour won the most votes throughout the UK. The Tories won the popular vote in England.
FPTP ridiculousness
7:02:46 🤣🤣🤣
Love how you can hear everyone crack up in the studio with that one
Lib dems: "We should be in government in the next election"
I mean....you was.....but yeah....how did that end again?
And are unlikely to ever
Actually maybe they will win 50 seats at this election IF the vote splits enough and theres enough tactical voting but after brexit is over they will lose those seats in 2024 or earlier
@@winterstronghold2197 That's not gonna happen. Not even close. That's what people thought at the start of this campaign. Now, they'd be lucky to get 15. In any case, it will probably be lower than the 21 seats they had at the end of Parliament.
Nah they’ll get more than they’ve got at the moment purely based on sheer aggression is remain focused seats. But I don’t anticipate it being more than 40
@@nightwi5h959 If YouGov's MRP model is any correct, they are only going to get 13, which is one more than they got in 2017 and 8 less than they currently have. Sorry, I don't see it happening. Every single MP who defected to the Lib Dems is going to lose, even with their attempts to change seats so they could have a higher chance of getting reelected. Furthermore, they are also going to lose in Leave seats that they currently have, such as North Norfolk and Eastbourne. And they're getting absolutely hammered in the South West, where they were once thought to do well.
Robin Cook at 1:19:20 had three months to live. What a tragic loss for Labour and for the country.
Could’ve potentially been in a top position in Gordon Brown’s cabinet
@@ciaranmarsh255 I think the Labour hierarchy was frightened of him, especially after his resignation.
4:53:07 Awkward moment for Tony Blair , and rightly so
That was a fantastic moment.
He looked REALLY uncomfortable
I do like the fact that ever since 1997, whenever the Exit poll is mentioned, it's always to downplay it.
"Oh, in 1992, it was completely wrong, so don't pay any attention to this, it might be completely wrong."
The statement just before 10pm that the 1992 Exit poll was wrong is correct, but they didn't predict a Labour government at all. It was hung parliament, with the Conservatives short (but largest party). It wasn't right, but it was reasonably close enough.
The problem faced is that since then, the Exit poll has got the result nearly spot on (except 2015 which predicted a hung parliament, albeit the Conservatives only slightly short). But of course, telling your viewers to catch the Exit poll then go to bed as the result is likely to be pretty much accurate isn't what the BBC want.
Every exit poll apart from 1992 were right. And maybe 2015 a bit as well. Where the exit poll gave the Tories to win in a hung parliament. But got a majority at the end.
6:49:47 Peter Snow pushes the frontiers of technology right to the extreme, with unsettling results.
I feel very bad for Charles Kennedy in the opening credits. He looks very worried about the fact that he'll imminently explode into yellow shards.
Oh, and have you by any chance got the 2010 election night. That would be a great one.
Bro you can find it on UA-cam cos i have it in playlist
@@djxthe2ndyoung122 nope
6:50:36 how I'm celebrating if i get into number 10
Labour's last victory until 2024. Labour 19 years later would win 411 seans on 33.7% of the vote due to the Tories getting around 24% of the vote!
Anyone else miss Anthony King? The days of people like him, David Butler and Bob McKenzie presenting the results are sadly long gone and we’ll never have them back. Today all the presenters are all so talentless, charisma-void and second rate.
The opening music at 0:20 is reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange!
Hey David boothroyd any idea when you will be able to realise the 2010 uk general election because it’s the only one you literally can’t find full coverage any where thanks for the great entertainment during lockdown especially the 97’ and ‘01 election results which I have watched in there full capacity will you be able to put more recent elections up in the future as well (2015 uk general election, 2016 EU Referendum) sad night 2016 was
Thank you so much
We all care about the result when it happens, then in retrospect it doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things.
3:16 best part
Lmao the jester dude talking over Howards concession, it'll still be less humiliating than Sunaks concession on thursday.
Thanks for uploading 😘 / Could you upload BBC Breakfast Election 2005 too?
Oh! I found it ua-cam.com/video/lOucEWrUArY/v-deo.html
Youngest mp was only 3 when this happen
Wow, Galloway is quite unpleasant.
@4:48:10 Yikes, barely even mentioned his name, let alone his count and was already lost.
Live From television Centre!! BBC election night 2005 with David dimbleby!!!
6:47:22 Comical to see Banks pivot first to identity politics and not commend Galloway for his anti-Iraq invasion stance (which Banks agreed with at the time!). The other thing is his boasting that Labour would win a fourth election, as if he, as part of the Socialist Campaign Group, didn't see the financialisation-induced crash coming!
0:59 - Good old Studio TC1, nice to know it still exists in 2021. Studio TC1 at the then BBC Television Centre was their largest studio in London at 10,800 Sq Ft. It is used a lot in 2021 for entertainment shows. Sadly only 2 other studios remain, TC2 and TC3 as the remaining 5 studios were demolished from 2014-2015.
And most of those used by ITV.
@@ndulmillenium TC2 is used by Lorraine and Loose Women in the morning, with Peston using it on Wednesday and Sunday Brunch on Suns. TC3 is the permanent home of Good Morning Britain and This Morning, who have their sets back to back in the studio. This leaves TC3 totally unavailable for use by other productions, whereas TC2 can be used, as their sets are movable. TC1 is the only truly independent studio, open to everyone who wants it.
really poor coverage from the BBC, very few interviews with politicians, silly bit with Jon Culshaw's impression, a lot of journalists just talking to each other
"Live and without interruption"....because ITV had commercial breaks!
5:14:30 - No, he didn't stand - he died, sadly in 2006
Labour were disappointed at only having a majority of 66. Nowadays, they would give anything to have a majority of 1. At 13:40 the professor sums things up perfectly. Tony Blair was not elected to be popular, but to win elections- which he did three times in a row.
It also shows you how much things have changed. There was zero mention of the SNP, who at the time were a non-entity. It was 16 years ago, which is actually not that long ago when you think about it.
Back in the day where a 66 seat Maj was forecast as a failure 😂😂😂
Says a lot about the dire state of the Tories at the time when that was considered a good thing for them
3:20 what the hell
LegoBrickYT wtf was that
7:34:48 is an interesting exchange. I appreciate that a BBC election programme wouldn't debate it, but I'm not sure why so many of us are willing to accept FPTP
Labour didn't change it because at that time it benefitted them. Now we're in a situation where the opposite is true though no matter what, Lib Dems get screwed. I wish the system would be changed, not because of who benefits but because a system which reflects the country better would create a better, more representative government, perhaps encouraging more people to get involved.
@@spikey_104 FPTP still benefits Labour enormously.
3:12--Kids, ask your grandparents what constituted "lifelike computer graphics" back in the mid-2000s.
3:29:00 what are they shouting?
4:03:43 So, just when were you planning on doing that??
During Michael Howard's count did anyone else want to shut up the Loony candidate.
Do a video for 2010
7:33:29 My home junction! And whilst it was still 3 lanes!
A PM with only 1 escort car???
7:38:48 - the old Hemel Hempstead junction with the South exit to loop 270 into the bridge.
Sunderland South is to British national elections what Dixville Notch, New Hampshire is to American Presidential elections: The first place to usually report results.
It still seems to be the first region to be announced in the UK House of Commons elections, is that correct?
honestly the 1997 opening looks more modern than their 2005 one...
seems so archaic now lol
I wonder what happened to the map in Gateshead?
Was the exit poll saying Labour in 1992? I thought the range was between a Conservative minority and Labour minority but the Conservative was at the midpoint. Then they actually got a 21 majority
Watch it yourself here: ua-cam.com/video/p4YY7KWJAtA/v-deo.html Although it did give a Conservative lead (and a clear one in terms of votes), the heavy expectation before the day that Labour and Conservative would be very close fed into the programme preparation which added to the sense of error as the eventual Conservative majority developed.
I remember watching this at the time. How things change that Labour and Lib Dems would love to have these amount of seats nowadays.
True
Labour's problem is that, until 2019, they've never accepted a defeat as a "real" defeat:
2010: "It was the nefarious press who didn't tell the country how wonderfully brilliant we are! And Gordon Brown is a King of Charisma in private conversation, honest!"
2015: "It was the Scottish nationalists!"
2017: "We basically won, because we did better than anyone expected."
Keir Starmer is basically picking up Labour after almost a lost decade of refusing to think "Hey, we are really unpopular with a majority of the electorate. How can WE change that?"
@@Myndir Labour has other problems as well but yeah this is a bit of a biggie one for them.
2005 35.2% 355 seats 2017 40% 262 seats 2019 32.2% 203 seats
Gotta love the broken electoral system.
@david boothroyd any relation to Betty?
If you go back to the 18th century each of us has ancestors in Almondbury parish near Huddersfield ... still working on it
Who would have predicted that only a few years later, UKIP would be a political force, and SNP would dominate Scotland, defeating all three main UK parties. And I am writing as a lifelong Labour voter who campaigned against Scotland leaving the Uk and for remain.
Jo Swinson at 0:44?
No - that's Sarah Gurling who was Charles Kennedy's wife at the time.
Max Cream aye totally
Can upload the sky uk uk general elc
Sky claim copyright over their general election night coverage; they're not happy with it being on UA-cam.
Is there enewere i can find sky elc 2015 2017
Labour crosses the majority line of 324 at 6:32:33 for anyone curious.
Boris who?
Watching on the eve of the 12th December 2019 election. Nice to reminisce the last time that Labour won an election, just before the dawn of an election which most likely will be a different turnout for them :(
DenzoGamin it was a disappointing result for Labour unfortunately but to me that was because labour shifted too far to the left and wasn’t centrist anymore.
@@cbsmmv05 which is why they lost so many Hartline voters
yes always good to see a party win so they can screw the economy
UPDATE: Well now things have changed.
1:55:49 Islington described as the home of New Labour but also the seat of left-winger Jeremy Corbyn.
That part of Islington is where Emily thornberry was elected for the first time that night.
Women didn't look 21
Galloway speech at 6:38:19
I fast forwarded straight to Oona King's speech.
@@pickledegg1989 then you missed a great speech.
@@pickledegg1989 I fast-forwarded right through her bullshit
7:52:45 Paxman telling the Lib Dem that the party hasn't got a cat in hell's chance of getting into government at the next election. I mean, he was wrong, but you can't imagine he'd have expected the way they did it!
2005 to 2010 was five very long years which changed the public's view on all parties, and it peaked with the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal, which was unknown to the public back in 2005. If they had known in 2005 what their rag bag of MPs and peers spend OUR money, Labour and the tories would be kicked in the nuts by the electorate.
2:09:26 is he reading off an autocue? 😂
EDIT: I've been told he's blind. Didn't know that now I feel like a pillock
Andrew Pau Sawm Sian Piang lazy eye maybe hahaha
He's blind.
+@@wilverbal ohhh thanks
Just think. With PR, the LDs would have got something like 130 seats.
That assumes people vote the same way in a PR election which they don't. The Lib Dems has a protest vote until they joined the Tories in the government so this disappeared.
I was a lib dem at that time, and there was no chance of us ever getting that amount of seats. Kennedy had a public drink problem, eurosceticism had begun to creep in by that point, and not everybody in the UK is a second home owner from sommerset. We only really appealed to a small amount of people when it came to internal policy.
@@wimblewomble21 With Respect- Wimblewomble21-I am also a LibDem also. It may seem impossible but how wiil we ever reallly break through i.e get 100-150 seats if we do'n't even belive it ourselves.
Actually they would probably get more votes and more seats!
It was like having 600 by-elections rather than one general election. I remember 2010 being like that but didn’t realise until watching this that 2005 was too
Back when having 53 seats was seen as "disappointing" for the Lib Dems
They actually won 62 seats in this election. Which was also the highest ever seat total they had as a party.
Culshaw's impersonation of Blair was terrible.
Can someone tell me why elections were every 4 years, then 5, then 4, then 5 again??
Before the FTPA came in, Parliaments were limited to five years but the timing of general elections was up to the PM. It was usually accepted that if everything was going OK, PMs would call an election after four years and only go into the fifth year if they were in trouble. Thatcher was well ahead in 1983 and 1987 but Major was not in 1991 and was well behind in 1996. Blair was happy about the situation in 2001 and 2005. Brown narrowly called off a 2007 snap election and by 2009 was 20 points behind.
David Boothroyd okay thanks for explaining
I’ll watch this as a lead up to December 12th
I always thought Anthony King was good at his job, but his analysis for this year was very surface. If there is an unusual result he gets all excited about what this could mean, rather than looking for other causes. About 3:30 he gets into a Tizz about the Torbay result, but actually the 2001 election there was a strange one because a) The Conservative candidate made a fool of himself and b) the result before have been so close there was more than usually tactical vting
Those idents are giving me primal flashbacks! Good or bad moments, at least the kids were almost all younger millennials rather than zoomers!
2005 CGI Tony Blair is horrific
Notable former and current cabinet ministers such at Grant Shapps, Ben Wallace, Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt, the late James Brokenshire and former Putney MP Justine Greening were first elected then, plus former Labour leader Ed Miliband and current London mayor Sadiq Khan and former Lib Dem leaders Nick Clegg, Tim Farron and Jo Swinson, interestingly Sittingbourne and Sheppey in Kent had the second smallest Labour majority, now it is a safe Conservative seat, plus Boris Johnson was representing Henley in Oxfordshire at the time, also one of the Labour losses was St Albans, which is now held by the Liberal Democrats,
Lol anyone would kill for a majority like that these days. Amazing how they talked it down...
And now in the polls Labour would do better than '97 according to the polls. But looking as the PM will stay on until 2024 we have to see if this remain the same.
@@DFandVI doubt it will be a 97 result for Labour this year because Starmer isn't as liked as 97 Blair.
@@DFandVit’s highly likely we will never see a 97 victory again. These days the boundaries favour the conservatives when they favoured Labour back then. If I was to hazard a guess they will probably win by around Johnson margins. Even if polls say 15-20 point deficits Labour have lost so many seats since 2010 that when adjusted they will win but polling certainly will overstate how many seats they will get.
I got jumpscared by Boris there
How was this almost 20 years ago?
Labour majority spot on, but worse for the Tories, final seat total for them was 198 seats, the third time in a row they’d ended below 200 seats, likely a figure they will be well below come July 5th. A figure, Labour hasn’t dropped below in the entire post WW2 era.
Lol, I remember being relieved when I woke up on December 13th that Labour had 200 seats to rebuild from.
@YorickReturns was everyrthing better, or is there nostalgia too