Yuppies in City BBC Election 1987

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  • @Jack_The_Ladd
    @Jack_The_Ladd 7 років тому +237

    Is Paul Allen there?

  • @harmlessdrudge
    @harmlessdrudge 7 років тому +105

    Even though it's 30 years ago, many of these traders have working class accents. The 'Big Bang' in the City ended it as a cosy, upper class club and opened it up to new talent, no matter what your background was.

    • @charlesregan4576
      @charlesregan4576 6 років тому +29

      On the contrary, the Big Bang entrenched the class divide. The 'dealers' interviewed here were sharp kids from working class backgrounds, while the 'brokers' came as before from the public schools and the middle/upper class. The real money was made by the brokers.

    • @Zlervo
      @Zlervo 6 років тому +9

      A lot of them are from Essex

    • @dac8939
      @dac8939 Рік тому

      It does not matter now about accent but knowledge you can bring.

  • @northernsoul316
    @northernsoul316 10 років тому +97

    Would love to see what those people are like now, what they think of themselves at that time, if they made more money, lost it n what they went on to do...interesting.

  • @johnlangridge1896
    @johnlangridge1896 3 роки тому +23

    I wonder if they made any reservations at Dorcia after the elections

  • @AlexBeston
    @AlexBeston 4 роки тому +25

    this was on 11 June 1987 - interestingly a few months later on 19 October 1987 was "black monday" a sudden global stock market crash

  • @BlatentlyFakeName
    @BlatentlyFakeName 8 років тому +37

    "I don't think we are going to see any more scandals on a very large scale. I think people have learned their lesson"
    Yea right...

  • @Jack_-wu7jq
    @Jack_-wu7jq 6 років тому +56

    my god
    its even got a water mark.

  • @terrynoonan6141
    @terrynoonan6141 6 років тому +24

    Fantastic interview with those Yuppies talking common sense and their entrepreneurial spirit summoned up the 80s so well.

  • @george52066
    @george52066 10 років тому +25

    These are the lucky brokers/traders who got paid tonnes in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Today traders get paid shit, and brokers? forget it!

    • @george52066
      @george52066 10 років тому +3

      James S surely you mean the traders who work in Hedge funds. I meant the ones who work at Investment Banks get paid much less than they were

    • @jamess6787
      @jamess6787 10 років тому +1

      Hedge funds, sure, also prop traders (locals)

    • @jamess6787
      @jamess6787 10 років тому +1

      I also know a few at investment banks making 7 figures sitll

    • @george52066
      @george52066 10 років тому +1

      James S most of the better ones left post-Volker Rule

    • @jamess6787
      @jamess6787 10 років тому

      I guess so .... I don't know any of the better ones!!! :)

  • @ridethelightning7979
    @ridethelightning7979 5 років тому +19

    Sneering BBC interviewer asking those traders if they’re rich. If they were, good for them.

    • @BluFlame3712
      @BluFlame3712 9 місяців тому

      💯agree. Individuals with poverty mindsets judge the wealthy. Opportunity is open to all, contrary to the lies perpetuated in the media -- it's a false narrative.

  • @chrishenniker5944
    @chrishenniker5944 8 років тому +30

    I always suspected yuppies to be ex-punks or ex-mods.

    • @Zlervo
      @Zlervo 6 років тому +2

      I think they were the yuppies too.

    • @FHIPrincePeter
      @FHIPrincePeter 4 роки тому +2

      And Casuals, on the Football terraces.

    • @chrishenniker5944
      @chrishenniker5944 3 роки тому

      @@FHIPrincePeter I can see a former football casual evolving into a yuppie.

  • @Altoids101
    @Altoids101 7 років тому +22

    5:16 worst guess in history

    • @Freddie1980
      @Freddie1980 6 років тому +5

      Tbf he probably wasn't looking 20 years into the future and probably meant in 5/10 year outlook. At this time there was no such things as mortgage swaps.

  • @EstevesxD
    @EstevesxD Рік тому

    This video is pure gold.

  • @phough2345
    @phough2345 10 років тому +3

    "...where the yuppies live. The people who drive down there between half-past four and half-past seven in the morning in their Porsches,we're told, and make a lot of money."

  • @nemo7550
    @nemo7550 Рік тому +2

    Hubris at the height of the Lawson boom

  • @ajs41
    @ajs41 7 років тому +7

    What are those weirdly coloured jackets they're wearing?

    • @Jack_The_Ladd
      @Jack_The_Ladd 7 років тому +2

      Andy JS stock brokers jackets.

  • @XEpikurX
    @XEpikurX 9 років тому +2

    ...where is the sound between 5:11 and 5:13?

  • @AlfredoPuente8
    @AlfredoPuente8 4 роки тому +4

    Is that a clone factory?

  • @Freddie1980
    @Freddie1980 6 років тому +4

    5:16 - To be fair he couldn't predict what would happen 20 years into the future. It's also interesting listening to the report and it seems that the prediction was a Tory victory but a slim margin but it seems (as we would in 1992) the silent Tory was very silent even in '87 hence the large majority the Conservatives won.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 6 років тому +3

      It warms my heart to know that within four months of this 1987 election, many of these young bastards would have lost a fortune on the stock market when it crashed through the floor Black Monday October 19th 1987. I wonder if these scumbags were smiling then when $500 Billion was wiped off the stock market. I would have loved for to see an interview with them then.

    • @wessexfox5197
      @wessexfox5197 2 роки тому +2

      @@johnking5174 warms your heart that people lost money. I bet you’re fun at parties.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 2 роки тому

      @@wessexfox5197 When money hungry scumbag ass holes such as these yuppies lost money, yes I am delighted. Anyone else I have sympathy for.

    • @D-777i
      @D-777i 2 роки тому +1

      That didn't age well 😄

  • @kopthelotklopp1523
    @kopthelotklopp1523 4 роки тому +3

    I was waiting for del boy to pop up with his hookie gear to sell to the yuppies.

  • @neilpower60
    @neilpower60 8 років тому +19

    loadsamoneys

  • @Thomas828
    @Thomas828 8 років тому +9

    And just a few months later the stock market crashed and yuppies lost money hand over fist!
    And that last comment, "I don't think there'll be any more scandals." Oh, you poor fool!

  • @billysmith8665
    @billysmith8665 4 роки тому +5

    LOADS A MUNNNEY!!!!!

  • @scentmonk7324
    @scentmonk7324 8 років тому +2

    was expecting them to have post accents

  • @veggie42
    @veggie42 4 роки тому +1

    I love that scene

  • @applemask
    @applemask 9 років тому +6

    CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

  • @dac8939
    @dac8939 Рік тому

    Now lets see Paul Allens predictions

  • @neilmulvihill6515
    @neilmulvihill6515 6 років тому +6

    Who’s here In 2019?

    • @abdimahamed1408
      @abdimahamed1408 6 років тому +1

      Neil Mulvihill I am after watching a Margret thatcher documentary I’m 30 wish I was around in the 80s I would of smashed it to bits

    • @neilmulvihill6515
      @neilmulvihill6515 6 років тому +1

      abdi mahamed Maggie thatcher is a wicked witch , up the ra

  • @PixelatedMaestro
    @PixelatedMaestro 6 років тому +2

    The fucking state of them.

  • @senor250
    @senor250 10 років тому +8

    BUY SELL SELL BUY BUY BUY SELL!!! I could do this job!!

    • @senor250
      @senor250 10 років тому +7

      I like to work outside

  • @cardigan3000
    @cardigan3000 12 років тому +8

    all hail the people who lost all our money

  • @spartybrearly7221
    @spartybrearly7221 3 місяці тому

    Ian Harwood then sneaks into the stationary cupboard for a line of coke using his American Express gold card.

  • @1welshdevil
    @1welshdevil 9 років тому +7

    I wonder what they'd have made of Mr Farage lol

    • @colinvespa4709
      @colinvespa4709 5 років тому +5

      Farage was a city trader himself....

    • @brooke4627
      @brooke4627 2 роки тому

      Farage is a NIghtmare! Worse than this lot.

  • @2WheelSam
    @2WheelSam 2 роки тому +3

    Love the cockney sounding bloke. Probably snuck his way in and sorted himself a job out 🤣

  • @Kevin-ro1fo
    @Kevin-ro1fo 5 років тому +8

    Millions and millions of every day industrial Britain's LOST their JOB'S and livelihood !!!, Ironic how it don't suit the same when the political table is turned ??,

    • @Kevin-ro1fo
      @Kevin-ro1fo 5 років тому +1

      They would be forced to sell to the masses again and Britain is too big to be a Poland poor category fear mongering media presents 🙈🙉🙊??????

  • @x4dd
    @x4dd 2 роки тому

    Wonder where they are now, the traders interviewed drinking champagne? Be cool to know their life since 87.

    • @dac8939
      @dac8939 Рік тому

      Broke from divorce

  • @michaelsieger9133
    @michaelsieger9133 6 років тому +6

    Cute girl

  • @doodoo3182
    @doodoo3182 2 роки тому

    lets see paul allenn card

  • @jhrockgod
    @jhrockgod 3 роки тому +3

    Pompous gits! I'm jealous! 😢

    • @boeingbwoy
      @boeingbwoy 2 роки тому

      Meanwhile
      The North was decimated by that cow margaret thatcher

    • @captainnice1881
      @captainnice1881 10 місяців тому

      ​@@boeingbwoyThis made me love cows

  • @TheEvilclown73
    @TheEvilclown73 5 років тому +4

    Nice...not one mention of Brexit

    • @JenMummy
      @JenMummy 4 роки тому +2

      ... or Covid-19 👍🏻

  • @boeingbwoy
    @boeingbwoy 11 років тому +5

    loadsamoney! !!!

  • @spartybrearly7221
    @spartybrearly7221 3 місяці тому

    Unemployed, the homeless and people on the dole?
    People who can’t afford a Porsche, champagne and bags of cocaine?

  • @NorthEastTrailRunner
    @NorthEastTrailRunner 2 роки тому +1

    I love a bit of capitalism. I drive a BMW.

  • @subalternator
    @subalternator 12 років тому +2

    hilarity.

  • @nutech8742
    @nutech8742 5 років тому +1

    Fast forward to #brexit 2020 😂

  • @matthewleslie4448
    @matthewleslie4448 3 роки тому +3

    The smug grins on those wankers' faces would soon be wiped off months later when the Stock Market crashed.

  • @rogermoore-gd9do
    @rogermoore-gd9do 7 місяців тому

    Always better off under a Conservative government.