How to be Leader of the Opposition

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  • @Gizo02
    @Gizo02 6 років тому +86

    Hague become leader too early on during his political career (he was only 36 at the time), and also at the worst time possible when the Tories only had 165 seats in the commons and were doomed to face at least two terms in opposition. Everyone knew after their 1997 defeat that regardless of what happened during the next parliament, they had a 0% chance of winning the next election given the huge ground that they needed to make up.
    There was an incredibly low turnout during the 2001 election, with a lot of would-be Labour voters in-particular not bothering to go to the polling station given that the result was a foregone conclusion. A better turnout might have seen the Tories actually lose seats at that election and plummet to even lower depths. At it turns out they still had a disastrous result with a pathetic net gain of 1 seat. Hague spent most of that election campaign in places like Dover banging on about saving the pound and ignoring the topics that the public really cared about the time, health and education.

    • @Secret19977
      @Secret19977 5 років тому +7

      Gizo02 Hague was probably with David Davies and Anne widdecombe the best prime ministers we never had,
      People underestimate Hague as leader but he week in week out turned Tony Blair over in the commons,
      Where Hague did go wrong was focus too much on Europe during the election which at the time Europe wasn’t a big issue to voters like it is today,
      He prioritised the wrong agenda during the election

    • @freebornjohn2687
      @freebornjohn2687 3 роки тому +14

      I think Hague would have been a far better prime minister than May (directionless with no charisma) or Boris (a liar with no moral compass - just self interest). In his later career he had gained the gravitas and experience he lacked at 36.

    • @ColinGarwood-ex6pq
      @ColinGarwood-ex6pq 5 місяців тому

      The Tories would love to have 165 seats now

  • @Richard19551
    @Richard19551 5 років тому +50

    I had the same reaction on seeing Savile! However, this is a wonderful programme - thank you for posting it! It's entertaining, educational, informative, and makes one reflect on the leadership of recent decades. No one writes books describing "great leaders of the opposition". No one votes for any MP of a party because though one hates the idea of the party leader becoming P.M., he's a great opposition leader. And yet, leader of the opposition is so necessary, he provokes so much press interest in quite worthwhile neglected topics, and the position is such a deep and integral and centuries-old aspect of Britain's democracy. Even dictatorships have P.M.s - but they don't have leaders of the opposition! It's what makes a democracy! Thanks so much for this!

    • @199019852007
      @199019852007 2 роки тому +2

      Saville looked weird even back then

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому

      ebeneezer bad. ee's weren't goode mr. cotton. is eez weren't goode.

  • @wilverbal
    @wilverbal 5 років тому +59

    2:45 ---- Beckett complaining about not being paid enough. You can see the seeds of her expenses scandal here.

    • @199019852007
      @199019852007 4 роки тому +1

      Indeed her nose was in the gravy even back then.

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan 4 роки тому +8

      She had a new caravan to pay for

    • @LeComtedeSaintDomingue
      @LeComtedeSaintDomingue 2 роки тому +2

      She's the one who came up with the House of Lords Bill 1999 and ruined the House of Lords

    • @Bungle-UK
      @Bungle-UK Рік тому

      Rewarded with a Dame for all those years on the make….scum all round.

  • @RBenjo21
    @RBenjo21 7 років тому +75

    Keep your eyes peeled for a very young (pre-MP!) George Osborne!

    • @rickmillercomposer
      @rickmillercomposer 7 років тому +17

      And Michael Gove asking a question around ten mins in...?

    • @lrhoneyghan9203
      @lrhoneyghan9203 5 років тому

      So fascinating! G.O. indeed...

    • @notquiteatory971
      @notquiteatory971 4 роки тому +3

      Richard Miller
      And Boris Johnson as former editor of the telegraph after he finished Oxford

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan 4 роки тому +5

      10:28 Seb Coe bottom left?

    • @Bungle-UK
      @Bungle-UK Рік тому +1

      Everything thats wrong with professional politicians going from uni to advisors to MPs.

  • @teddybeddy123
    @teddybeddy123 5 років тому +34

    Really interesting article by Steve Richards on successful LOTOs- Wilson, Thatcher, Blair, Cameron- they were all teachers, teaching the nation why they thought their policies were the best for the nation and were all able to tell a national story that explains the nation's problems, and which ends with themselves as prime minister.

  • @Samgurney88
    @Samgurney88 2 роки тому +5

    10:22 The journalist sounds like Michael Gove.
    (And in the shot is Gus O’Donnell and Alastair Campbell)

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  2 роки тому +4

      It is Michael Gove.

  • @jackval002
    @jackval002 7 років тому +127

    Ew Jimmy Saville

    • @chs2618
      @chs2618 5 років тому +10

      Jack Valentine Jesus that did not age well

    • @jevonperkins7760
      @jevonperkins7760 4 роки тому +6

      Thats not aged well

    • @pov_music
      @pov_music 4 роки тому +3

      should definitely add a Content Warning for his appearance.

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan 4 роки тому +2

      ProtectorOfVindaloo ‘Content Warning’?! Just skip past his bit if you’re sensitive or ‘offended’

    • @MichaelJones-wh9cy
      @MichaelJones-wh9cy 4 роки тому +2

      There's another nonce at 1:49. But this time it's a former PM.

  • @tdtvegas
    @tdtvegas 4 роки тому +31

    The irony in this video is amazing... 1, is Boris Johnson who is mentioned wrote a column in this video. His current GF (as of 2020; Carrie) was 8 years old when this was made.

    • @3535-j5z
      @3535-j5z 4 роки тому +3

      Eww

    • @zico739
      @zico739 4 роки тому +1

      353535336373373 Not really.

    • @Generalscorpio
      @Generalscorpio 3 роки тому

      @@3535-j5z Not even almost.

    • @pandapirate2468
      @pandapirate2468 3 роки тому +2

      Even worse, his girlfriend at the time was only 7 years old

    • @ryancarter6922
      @ryancarter6922 3 роки тому

      @@pandapirate2468 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jonescrusher1
    @jonescrusher1 3 роки тому +19

    The late nineties, how innocent they seem now.

    • @markequinox
      @markequinox 3 роки тому +1

      Well said

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому +2

      all before diana, biggie, tupac, steve jobs and social media

  • @littleshoemaker
    @littleshoemaker 3 роки тому +20

    Pity they don’t make programmes like this now. Thanks for uploading, enjoyed it. Funny that a certain journalist called Boris Johnson gets the Tory problems at the time!

    • @attackpatterndelta8949
      @attackpatterndelta8949 2 роки тому +6

      And now he’s creating all new problems for the Tories. Scandal after scandal after scandal. Worse than the Tories in the dying days of the Thatcher years.

    • @littleshoemaker
      @littleshoemaker 2 роки тому

      @@attackpatterndelta8949 But don't be surprised if he wins the next election.

    • @tilethio
      @tilethio 6 місяців тому

      I can't agree more. I think one of the problems in today's generation is they didn't have a patience and interest to watch videos which have such educational and moral values. Today people's doesn't have interest to watch a video more than 2 minutes, a text of not more 130 words, full of gibrish symbols rather than the good old vocabulary.

  • @aarondavis8943
    @aarondavis8943 Рік тому +7

    Oppositions win by presenting better policies than the government and explaining how they would better implement those policies, not by tedious, predictable attacks day in day out.

  • @RBenjo21
    @RBenjo21 3 роки тому +19

    28:57 I bet Hague wanted to be out of there after hearing that.

    • @martonk
      @martonk 2 роки тому +7

      did the old guy say what I heard him say?

    • @RBenjo21
      @RBenjo21 2 роки тому +7

      @@martonk Yep.

  • @josephthomasjr.6551
    @josephthomasjr.6551 3 роки тому +11

    This is REALLY good! The Brits are superlative at doing political documentaries! And Neal Kinnock is especially interesting!

  • @estoforte388
    @estoforte388 9 місяців тому +6

    Feel like Hague lacked the depth of team around him. (Like them or loathe them), Blair had, Campbell, Mandelson, Brown, and Powell. Hague had a very young George Osborne, and Seb Coe.

  • @michaelhoskins6579
    @michaelhoskins6579 3 роки тому +13

    I preferred the days when Osborne, Gove, and Patel were all firmly behind the scenes.

  • @pov_music
    @pov_music 4 роки тому +34

    11:31 Osbourne looking about 14.

    • @pengo1560
      @pengo1560 3 роки тому +1

      Lmao he looks like a sixth former

  • @moynanplayz5379
    @moynanplayz5379 7 років тому +103

    Jimmy saville with the kids!!

  • @ER1CwC
    @ER1CwC 3 роки тому

    22:00 If anyone is interested, check out 17:28 in this video: ua-cam.com/video/7OwuqRkHaK4/v-deo.html . Paul Begala talks about how Bill Clinton received a similar sort of local question… except Clinton knew the nitty gritty details!

  • @liamb8644
    @liamb8644 7 років тому +32

    Ridiculous that so much spin was put on Neil Kinnock dancing and William Hague wearing a cap, are they never allowed to do things normal people do?

    • @liamb8644
      @liamb8644 6 років тому

      bumps adaisy they thought he was scruffy I think. They do the same thing with Corbyn today

    • @liamb8644
      @liamb8644 6 років тому +2

      QuickQuickSlowSlow55 K boss 😊

    • @nobad6134
      @nobad6134 3 роки тому +8

      2015 Bacon Sandwich. U.K. tabloids are childish.

    • @lukerothwell1474
      @lukerothwell1474 Рік тому +2

      Same with Michael Foot and his 'Donkey Jacket' which was in reality a perfectly normal coat that was in no way inappropriate.

  • @valeriekeefe8898
    @valeriekeefe8898 Рік тому +1

    21:52 Is... Is the Right Honourable William Hague an Arnando Iannuci character?

  • @hughdoherty3310
    @hughdoherty3310 7 років тому +9

    Is that George Osborne at 2:20 ?

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  7 років тому +6

      Yes, and he makes several more appearances. Osborne was political secretary and speechwriter for William Hague.

  • @ciaranduggan2694
    @ciaranduggan2694 6 років тому +15

    Thatcher and Saville ohhhhhh dear

  • @mrspeaker6720
    @mrspeaker6720 7 років тому +1

    Thanks for posting

  • @Cheekywill
    @Cheekywill 4 роки тому +19

    28:07 is that Priti Patel?

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  4 роки тому +8

      Yes - she was press officer for William Hague at the time.

    • @davidoconnell4100
      @davidoconnell4100 4 роки тому +1

      @@DBIVUK Cheap even then.

  • @Bungle-UK
    @Bungle-UK Рік тому +1

    Margaret Beckett there bemoaning the fact that the LOTO was paid more than cabinet ministers at the time….ignoring the fact that she was fiddling her expenses as a cushy sideline.

  • @Slapbass13
    @Slapbass13 2 роки тому +1

    Is that Michael Gove asking a question at 10:23 ?

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  2 роки тому +1

      Yes. He was a Times journalist before becoming MP.

  • @liamprice9192
    @liamprice9192 7 років тому +9

    Thanks for posting. Michael Cockerell did a documentary on 'How to be an ex-Prime Minister' when Blair resigned in 2007 which (unlike many of the 'how to be' series, isn't available on the internet. Does anyone have it?

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  7 років тому +3

      BBC Four, 24 June 2007 - genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8e8f41b0657f4f6186b00d5e18a0b904. I might have it somewhere, will hunt around

    • @liamprice9192
      @liamprice9192 7 років тому +4

      David Boothroyd Thanks very much for replying. Would be glad of any Cockerell material not already available. I think he made documentaries on Alan Clark 'Love Tory', Barbara Castle 'Labour's Red Queen' and William Whitelaw as well.

    • @Warriorcats64
      @Warriorcats64 2 місяці тому

      It is now.

    • @liamprice9192
      @liamprice9192 2 місяці тому

      @@Warriorcats64 thank you; I’m.aware. Apart from Whitelaw, the other films I mentioned are, too

  • @carlosjones8712
    @carlosjones8712 4 роки тому +4

    10:24 a young Michael Gove?

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  4 роки тому +2

      Yes, though you don't see him - he was then a reporter for The Times. But if it's a young Michael Gove you're after, look for the Channel 4 series 'A Stab in the Dark' from 1992.

    • @danielwarren3138
      @danielwarren3138 3 роки тому

      Hide the Charlie

  • @jayamber4448
    @jayamber4448 3 роки тому +2

    5:20 they make a good pair, don't they?

  • @HighKingoftheElves
    @HighKingoftheElves 7 місяців тому +1

    5:05 that didn’t age well 😬

  • @jonmortermusic
    @jonmortermusic 4 роки тому +12

    Jimmy Savile AND Rolf Harris...with Mrs Thatcher...well fancy that

  • @gavinmc5285
    @gavinmc5285 Рік тому +1

    leader of the opposition looks like having to fight for equal rights in a system that carries an inherent bias - irrespective of whether any given individual decides to indulge their discretionary power - in a struggle for power in which superiority (primus inter pares) not equality is the prize, all amidst an environment of acrimony, treachery, secrets, betrayal and the public view.

  • @kasaarsedai7692
    @kasaarsedai7692 Рік тому +1

    Crazy to think how long Kissinger influenced world politics. This year is the end of an era.

  • @tsetienchu2482
    @tsetienchu2482 3 роки тому +3

    28:39 'you must keep Clarke under control'...

  • @Daniel-jf5fd
    @Daniel-jf5fd 4 роки тому +7

    from 31:00 Boris Johnsoni

  • @passiveaggressive6175
    @passiveaggressive6175 2 роки тому +2

    The irony talking about getting to know the locals and walking past a constituent without a bat of an eye.

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому

      she had a buggy. and kids. not someone easily converted into the Conservative faith. and since it was near an underpass and she was going in the opposite direction it would have been a waste of time. if she could have pulled herself up by the bootstraps and got a proper job instead of being a waste of space parent then maybe they could have given her the time of day.

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 4 роки тому +1

    12:24 does anyone have a clip of that Prescott comedy?

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  4 роки тому +1

      This is it: www.c-span.org/video/?122511-1/question-time

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan 4 роки тому

      David Boothroyd Much obliged

  • @philipwhiuk
    @philipwhiuk 5 місяців тому

    2:18 Osbourne
    Next to him is Seb Coe.

  • @MonkeyGaming-qn5po
    @MonkeyGaming-qn5po Місяць тому

    The jimmy saville bit aged wonderful

  • @Highland_Moo
    @Highland_Moo 3 роки тому +10

    I miss Betty Boothroyd. She was fantastic! I was 21/22 when this programme was made and I didn’t pay too much attention to politics, but I do remember Betty as Speaker and all Speakers since haven’t been a patch on her.

    • @wilsonfisk6626
      @wilsonfisk6626 3 роки тому +1

      Michael Martin: Uhh uhduh uhduh uhh uhh uhduh, Prime Minister *points*

    • @LeComtedeSaintDomingue
      @LeComtedeSaintDomingue 2 роки тому +1

      She was horrible she didn't wear the wig and broke down tradition. Bernard Weatherill was the last great speaker

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому

      doing the do

  • @5lmohy_232
    @5lmohy_232 Місяць тому

    Badenoch might need to take a few notes when watching this masterclass

  • @mohsin90ish
    @mohsin90ish 6 років тому +7

    Has anyone ever been as wrong about everything as Amanda Platell was in this documentary?

    • @Secret19977
      @Secret19977 5 років тому +1

      Mohammed Akhtar she knows a lot more then you do

  • @politicsdude369
    @politicsdude369 6 місяців тому

    30:43, Boris Johnson mentioned.

  • @MrAug80
    @MrAug80 6 років тому +11

    Creepy old Jimmy!!🤬

  • @JoshWiniberg
    @JoshWiniberg 5 місяців тому

    It's amazing how timeless some of this is, while other aspects have dated so much. Hague talking about how every opposition party is written off as being in such dire straits that they will never govern again, for example, which people also said about Labour, and now about the Tories. Then, the contempt for wearing a baseball cap, which has ironically become the trademark symbol for one of the biggest political movements on the planet. Funny how some things change so much, while others never change.

  • @alexandergrant2420
    @alexandergrant2420 3 роки тому +9

    Poor old Hague, it really was an impossible job at that particular point in time.

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому

      now that the international criminal court is firmly established in the hague though things can only get better

  • @pov_music
    @pov_music 4 роки тому +31

    28:57 trust an old Tory dinosaur to come out with that, amazed that got on the broadcast lol

    • @freebornjohn2687
      @freebornjohn2687 3 роки тому

      One of the problems of being leader is that you have to put up with listening to old farts.

    • @littleshoemaker
      @littleshoemaker 3 роки тому +1

      I didn’t hear that offensive remark when I watched it as it’s very quiet. Probably just a turn of phrase used by that generation but it wouldn’t have made it to broadcast now.

  • @teddy1066
    @teddy1066 9 місяців тому +3

    Jimmy Savile - Paedor of the Opposition

  • @elicrowleyycontreras1135
    @elicrowleyycontreras1135 4 роки тому +4

    I wonder how intimate William Hague was with Tony Blair. I wish that they could both have been in power.

    • @attackpatterndelta8949
      @attackpatterndelta8949 2 роки тому +3

      Blair apparently admitted after leaving office, that Hague was the Tory leader he found the most difficult to spar with at PMQs.
      IDS was apparently the easiest, which doesn’t surprise me.

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому

      don't think there were any reports of mr. hague visiting epstein's island.

  • @ABCDEF-yf4yu
    @ABCDEF-yf4yu 3 роки тому +4

    The leader of the oppostition requires charisma. The Labour party has had a succession of boring and forgettable leaders after Tony Blair, that were Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman, Ed Miliband Jeremy Corbyn and now Keir Starmer. Neil Kinnock is very memorable but could not defeat Margaret Thatcher to become the Prime Minister.

  • @insertclevername4123
    @insertclevername4123 4 роки тому +1

    Say what you will about Hague's traditionalist critics, but they're 100% right--nothing says "We're serious people who want serious solutions to serious problems" quite like being scandalized at a bald guy wearing a hat out in the sun.

  • @lennard5393
    @lennard5393 6 місяців тому

    Why this suddenly became relevant.

  • @mikeluscher159
    @mikeluscher159 2 роки тому +2

    The amount of Vauxhall Omega's 😳

  • @codekeeper5828
    @codekeeper5828 Місяць тому

    There is a new perk to the office of the leader of the opposition. A full time security detail.

  • @corlys6372
    @corlys6372 4 роки тому +6

    1:14 Fucking hell Blair was good

    • @scruffmcgruff03
      @scruffmcgruff03 3 роки тому +1

      Pompous little weasel got found out in the end

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 2 роки тому

      @@scruffmcgruff03 Thumping the tories in three general elections before he got "found out" in your words, whatever they mean.

    • @RustyShackleford-ji8mz
      @RustyShackleford-ji8mz 2 роки тому +1

      @@johnking5174 english ‘found out’: to ascertain the true character or identity. 🙄 duh

    • @RustyShackleford-ji8mz
      @RustyShackleford-ji8mz 2 роки тому +1

      @@johnking5174 and 2a : to catch in an offense (such as a crime) the culprits were soon found out. Iraq. So just stfu

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 2 роки тому +1

      @@RustyShackleford-ji8mz There is a reason why I still like Tony Blair. I for one was dead against the Iraq War, no supporter at all of that illegal war, but Tony Blair still has some regards from me for the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. I was born in Derry, the city which experienced so much pain during the troubles. We recently remembered the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, where the British PARA troops came in and murdered 13 innocent men/boys that Sunday afternoon on what was supposed to be a peaceful march for civil rights. My grandfather and uncle were on the march. My uncle came close to being shot dead that afternoon in the Bogside. My mother was 13 at the time went to the wake and church service. She saw Jackie Duddy in his coffin. The young lad, now famous for being carried to medical help led by Father Daly waving a blood stained hanky. So you see, having a British Prime Minister, taking time, effort and care to get a peace agreement for the first time ever makes me highly regard Tony Blair. He was the only British Prime Minister who gave any care or consideration to the province where I am from. Do you understand?

  • @jasperthorp5329
    @jasperthorp5329 4 роки тому +1

    44:51 john major

  • @liambarker4071
    @liambarker4071 2 роки тому

    36.21 -- didnt realise Graham Coxon worked in radio

  • @stevebbuk
    @stevebbuk 6 років тому +3

    I think Ruth Davidson could do worse than to heed Roy Jenkins' comments at 8:36

    • @brianwarden7250
      @brianwarden7250 Рік тому +1

      LOL. Ruth turned out okay. The 4 conservative prime minster's since, not so much.

  • @robertewing3114
    @robertewing3114 3 роки тому +3

    Surely Churchill was not despised in parliament, on the contrary he entertained. Politicians have to talk too much about him because they have to talk too little about Chamberlain. Such is politics and such is history.

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому +1

      cigars, port, brandy and the odd dram.

    • @robertewing3114
      @robertewing3114 Рік тому

      @@gavinmc5285 Reading the Budget to Parliament he paused for a drink and commented something like: And now to reinforce the revenue
      You have it

  • @thedukeofswellington1827
    @thedukeofswellington1827 Рік тому +1

    5:05 horrifying

  • @5340robert
    @5340robert 3 роки тому +5

    This documentary has not aged well. With Saville and some kids, Rolf Harris playing in the background at one point and the old bloke saying the N word.

    • @danielwarren3138
      @danielwarren3138 3 роки тому +2

      Honestly it feels even dated for the time it was broadcast by at least a decade

  • @tilethio
    @tilethio 6 місяців тому

    Hague is my kind of guy. Although he came very young with lmited withdom and skill he played the game well. Other than that he is decent, nice smilee and good charactered person. Regarding the policy, he can't decide by himself. He run the policy of his party and cabinets not his own so, that is what is it. But I am disappointed when they attacked him because of the cap. He looks good in it.

  • @PlayMoreGolf-RipOff
    @PlayMoreGolf-RipOff 6 місяців тому

    @2:18 young George osbourne

  • @patrickcrowther9195
    @patrickcrowther9195 2 роки тому

    An American voice does the voiceover on Panorama in 1967 (33.00), anyone know who it is?

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  2 роки тому +1

      That's Robert MacNeil, who was working mostly in Britain from 1967-71. See www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/host/

    • @patrickcrowther9195
      @patrickcrowther9195 2 роки тому

      @@DBIVUK Thank you. I’ve heard his voice on various documentaries but I was born in 1969 so it was a bit before my time.

  • @benusmaximus3601
    @benusmaximus3601 5 років тому +7

    Those poor poor school children...

  • @jacklewis3803
    @jacklewis3803 4 роки тому +7

    Step by step guide of how to get the worst job in Britain, fun.

  • @Upperroad4480
    @Upperroad4480 2 місяці тому

    I didn't know that Anthony eden had referred to Mr Nasser of Egypt as being a fascist dictator.i wasn't born at the time that occurred.i have no idea if Mr Nasser had anything in common with Benito Mussolini,the continents only ever fascist leader since ancient Roman rulers.

  • @Mujangga
    @Mujangga 5 років тому

    What's that song they were singing next to Michael Foote?

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  4 роки тому +3

      At 25:09? That's 'Bandiera Rossa', a well known Italian labour movement song. See ua-cam.com/video/aMpdHhuT-is/v-deo.html

  • @MrMartinmozz
    @MrMartinmozz 6 років тому +8

    gotta love how the government actually pay someone to attack them :)

    • @199019852007
      @199019852007 4 роки тому +1

      President JI does not take that nonsense

  • @teddybeddy123
    @teddybeddy123 6 років тому +2

    I think the only Tories who weren't somewhere in here were David Cameron and Theresa May, I think I even saw Priti Patel and I even heard Gove ask Bush a question!

    • @themelidenstar7040
      @themelidenstar7040 6 років тому +1

      Theresa May had been elected in 1997 so she may have been doing MP duties. I think David Cameron at that point had been chosen to be Conservative candidate in Witney.

  • @jakethewatersnake
    @jakethewatersnake 6 місяців тому +1

    And in the end, Bush and Blair became closer than Clinton and Blair.

  • @Upperroad4480
    @Upperroad4480 2 місяці тому

    It's never the voice that counts,it's the substance of their policies!!!!

  • @thedukeofswellington1827
    @thedukeofswellington1827 Рік тому +2

    To be leader of the opposition in 1999? An impossible job haha

  • @lucianopavarotti2843
    @lucianopavarotti2843 6 місяців тому

    @5:03 this makes the flesh creep

  • @ethanp22
    @ethanp22 7 місяців тому +1

    Jimmy Savile bit didn’t age perfectly

  • @portly2496
    @portly2496 5 років тому +4

    The more one sees of Heath the more difficult it is to see how he won the support of his party to become leader - h is so lacking in charm or oratory skills. Only now are we finally escaping the shackles of EU membership he imposed on the nation almost half a century ago.

    • @insertclevername4123
      @insertclevername4123 4 роки тому +1

      From what I can gather, he had the right education, had the right connections, and was single-mindedly driven in terms of what he wanted to do and what he wanted from others. Which are all pretty good qualifications, especially if a person otherwise comes across as an insufferable dick.

  • @ivanluther3823
    @ivanluther3823 3 роки тому

    At 30 min they talk about what Boris said....and he is now the Tory leader and Prime Minister.

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому

      asda carparks have been identified as setting the brexit policy agenda from early then

  • @channelfogg6629
    @channelfogg6629 5 років тому +5

    Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris - Thatcher certainly had an eye for them, didn't she?

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 4 роки тому +8

      When they told her they wanted to shaft the minors...

  • @jasperthorp5329
    @jasperthorp5329 4 роки тому

    44:51

  • @harrypainter7472
    @harrypainter7472 Рік тому

    Rishi Sunak ought to take notes from this

    • @StrongandStable17
      @StrongandStable17 Рік тому +1

      Sunak won't lead them into Opposition much like Major.
      So he probably doesn't.

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому +1

      he's got them: 75m £10 pound notes.

  • @4138channel
    @4138channel 3 роки тому +1

    5:00 oh fuck Jesus Christ

  • @YARROWS9
    @YARROWS9 3 роки тому

    Wee Willy Hague is punching.

  • @martinclapton2724
    @martinclapton2724 5 місяців тому

    Can’t believe Hague was so pro coming out of Europe yet voted remain come the Brexit vote.

  • @chrisbayes2972
    @chrisbayes2972 3 роки тому +1

    This is so bizarre! Savile leading a troupe of kids in to see his mate, Maggie. Dubya handing Hague's arse to him!

  • @michaelhoskins6579
    @michaelhoskins6579 3 роки тому

    28:30 The Conservative Party rank and file...

  • @AscendedYield
    @AscendedYield 7 років тому +6

    This has not aged well😂

  • @michaelheeheejackson7255
    @michaelheeheejackson7255 4 роки тому +1

    Dont be William Hague

  • @archmeasterjackimer6217
    @archmeasterjackimer6217 6 місяців тому

    Well....... The saville bit didnt age well did it

  • @mizzyroro
    @mizzyroro 4 роки тому +1

    Of course all the attention is on her. She has a damn good body.

  • @alexthompson9516
    @alexthompson9516 3 роки тому +2

    William Hague's lady is hot.

    • @johnc3673
      @johnc3673 10 місяців тому

      Sexist. I hate that

  • @BrooksterMax
    @BrooksterMax 6 місяців тому

    Sounds like Michael Gove asking the question as a journalist. Also Seb Coe in shot. ua-cam.com/video/VusdmOaNxcs/v-deo.html

  • @hinson92
    @hinson92 4 роки тому

    Jimmy Savile friends with Thatcher....somebody tell me she at top of the country she didn’t know..... yeah right

    • @Generalscorpio
      @Generalscorpio 3 роки тому

      Just because he was invited to meet her doesn't mean they were friends, as much of this documentary explains there's effort put into the image of LOTO, so they'll take-on publicity stunts to improve their image without automatically being friendly with whoever she's meeting.

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 Рік тому

      jim fixed it for special ministerial access without portfolio

  • @fifaplayer6833
    @fifaplayer6833 4 роки тому +3

    28:55 N word!!! :0

  • @flappospammo
    @flappospammo 3 роки тому +1

    Starmer is so spineless I’m surprised he can walk upright

  • @Upperroad4480
    @Upperroad4480 2 місяці тому

    I wish that the north,the east midlands,and east anglia would cut off from the rest of england and be one province, called the new danlov
    ,rather than the danelaw name being re used because that is the anglo saxon version of the name,as opposed to the danish variant of danlov.we could have a heterosexual nature with only heterosexual marriage,work,and house ownership,but with provisions for the poor.free enterprise also,but with no porn or gambling.

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  2 місяці тому

      What makes you think the north and east is homophobic, opposed to gambling and believes in censorship of free expression of sexual material? Don't see any reason why such a country would be such a hell hole.

  • @system1912
    @system1912 10 місяців тому

    Kinnock was a clown.

  • @123brownjames
    @123brownjames 7 років тому +6

    Hague would have made a great PM

    • @millionholes
      @millionholes 7 років тому +2

      No, he is too pro-Europe.

    • @tomgibson6801
      @tomgibson6801 7 років тому +7

      pro europe? maybe he is now but then lol check out his foreign land speech

    • @banana014c
      @banana014c 6 років тому +10

      No he wouldn't, he's a vile Tory, all Tories are scum!

    • @michaelheeheejackson7255
      @michaelheeheejackson7255 4 роки тому

      Incredibly boring windbag

    • @ibidthefrog
      @ibidthefrog 4 роки тому

      At the time I thought he was a disaster but with the current shower he looks like a greate statesman

  • @thedukeofswellington1827
    @thedukeofswellington1827 Рік тому

    3:01 it was the peak of Corbyns career haha of so many Labour leaders 🤣

  • @jemshadow123
    @jemshadow123 2 роки тому

    This is basically how to be a loser...lol

  • @thedukeofswellington1827
    @thedukeofswellington1827 Рік тому +1

    It is hard to picture Churchill and that cabinet sitting in the cramped shadow cabinet room hahaha its designed to make you look ridiculous