Top 10 Biggest PR Disasters in British Politics
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2021
- Whoever thought these were good ideas?? For this list, WatchMojo UK counts down the most infamous, awkward, embarrassing, and career-defining PR disasters in British politics. These people are supposed to be running the country... but these moments show them at their most clueless!
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2:10 The best joke I ever heard about this was someone calling Theresa May "Thatcher in the Rye."
2:27 John Prescott was pressed by Tony Blair (the then Leader of thr Labour Party) what happened. To which Prescott replied: "I was only following your orders, Tony: you told us to connect with the electrorate, so I did!"
did you also watch New Labour revolution?
@@clefton3112 I’ve watched that this week
@@Fleeb-pb7zo Did you enjoy it? I thought it was really well made and certainly very interesting.
I absolutely found that clip hilarious!!
it came at the perfect time to be honest. Blair got caught off guard by an angry cancer patient in Birmingham and Jack Straw got hecked at the Police Federation Confrence in Blackpool. i wouldnt say the rumble in Rhyl was a disater at all, worked well for Blair
Some of these “PR disasters” are really just a storm in a teacup. It really goes to show how thick, out of touch and desperate for a story the media really are. Take for example the “fields of wheat” and Milliband’s sandwich. No one can actually explain what’s embarrassing about either of them. Let’s just touch on Milliband, he ate a sandwich and pulled a funny face, which by the way we all do if photographed at the right moment. Does anyone really think this incident lost him votes!? I sincerely hope not! I mean imagine that thought process when going to the polling station-hmmm, I really like his policies and I think he has a lot of integrity and seems like a good family man, but the way he ate that sandwich was a bloody disgrace! I’m voting conservative!!
Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich was one of the funniest sagas in politics.
He was such a wet blanket though.
At some point i felt sorry for him literally could do anything right i was just waiting for him to accidentally kill someone and burn the flag like a mr bean routine.
hes so fine icl
Huh?@@gutghoul
John Prescott punching the bloke wasn’t a PR disaster. In Hull, the city that elected him, he earned points for that. Well done, Sir!
I didn't see the prescott punch as a PR disaster
No, but being a labour man and driving 2 Jaguars certainly was
@@davidhinde3229 Why is that an issue? People can buy whatever cars they want
Edit: Spelling
@@CharlieGB03 It is champagne socialism in it’s purest form. To say you stand for the working man against the oppressive rich who drive multiple cars and live in massive houses whilst its the working man who toils in the coal mines etc etc etc.
And then as soon as you yourself are lifted out of the cesspool by the vile capitalist system that you hate your values and morals go out of the window. Stinks a bit of Animal Farm doesn’t it?
It wasn't. Most of the UK people shrugged and went. Yea fair enough I'd have done the same.
@@davoman5781 So would I actually, but then I am a tory and would think you are too.
John Prescott went up in my estimation when he defended himself against the thug. It was just what you'd expect of a true-born Englishman.
And it was a sweet punch!
If it was a Tory MP would you have said the same thing
@@kirkham111 Absolutely 100%!
John Prescott was a member of Parliament who should be setting an example not grappling with members of the public like so common thug
Imagine calling someone who threw an egg a "thug".
I wish May had completely fronted the interviewer out and said something like ‘ the naughtiest thing? Possibly the cocaine fuelled, marathon 3 ways I used to engage in at Uni ‘ lol.
In fairness to Theresa May that's not such an easy question to answer. "Naughty" implies - when she was a young child, not a teenager. She couldn't say shoplifting or anything like that, so she quickly came up with something pretty harmless, and something that kids often do - trespassing. It was a terrible example she gave because it came across as boring. Had she said she hid on the local wheat fields when she was supposed to be doing cross country run at school then everyone would have nodded in approval.
Being ''boring'' was not the issue, being a hypocrite now that's something.
They basically said this on Mock The Week. She can't exactly say she tried Heroin or stole mobile phones on mopeds, can she?
The problem with Ed Miliband is that he's not David Miliband.
Cummings was not forced to resign, he was forced to resign 6 months later in a separate issue.
Pushed out by Carrie Antoinette
I can't look at The Mound without seeing Bob-Omb battlefield from Mario 64
🤣🤣
To be fair to Prescot, he thought he might have been knifed. The guy came at him from his side, there was a contact and the next thing he knew there was warm liquid running down this neck. It was a fight or flight response and I think his reaction was justified.
Even if he did know it was an egg I wouldn’t blame him.
The only two which was a disaster was disaster was Gordon Brown calling the woman a bigot and Dominic Cummings seemingly breaking the law.
@Gevorg1989 Nothing wrong with the word just it probably cost him a lot of votes during the election
It revealed Labour’s true colours about not giving 2 shites about sorting immigration
@Gevorg1989 who is “they” referring to?
She was a bigot, lol
Prescott went up in my estimations when he punched the egg thrower.
The Prescott incident WAS NOT a disaster whatsoever 😳
I hate when people put gate after everything. People in other countries do know it was only called that cause the event took place at the Watergate hotel. Just adding gate to every scandal is just nonsensical.
People are dumb and made it a thing unfortunately. They also add it to stuff that isn't even that controversial
Watch the Mitchell and Webb sketch on Watergate-gate.
Yeah, do you remember Cow and Gate and Gardengate?
Its pretty dumb because most people including most Americans have no idea what “Watergate” was, who was involved, what happened, and the potential reasons why it happened. They know the term “Watergate” and associate it with major scandal, but thats mostly it.
@@Deeplycloseted435 And then some people wonder why state level politicians seem to get away with corruption
4:48 how is this a PR disaster. Kier starmer saying that a diseased animal should be down?
it turned out not to be diseased.
@@GeoffreyBronson not true
@@GeoffreyBronson lol
I guess we're just ignoring Prince Andrews defence interview?
Yes, because this video is about politics. But if we're talking PR in general, then yes, it should be right up in the top slot.
@@leopold7562 the Royal family isn't political in your mind? What does "UK" stand for again?
@@TheMightofDab What a disingenuous question. Okay, let me explain it for you:
The UK is a political term for the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. That's the United part out of the way. The Kingdom part is because we have a monarchy. And that's it. A Kingdom is the term for a country ruled by a monarch. Except the monarch in our case doesn't wield any political power and hasn't since 1649. The whole notion of being ruled by a monarch in this country is just an affectation.
The Queen herself is the head of state for the Commonwealth, but is nothing more than a figurehead. She's not supposed to be involved in politics, even to the point where she's not allowed into the House of Commons. And that applies to all of her family, whether they are direct descendants, distant relatives or those who marry into it.
To put it another way, if we ever decided to give Northern Ireland back to the Irish, the need for the term UK would disappear. We already have the name Great Britain for the unity of England, Scotland and Wales, so we'd just use that instead. That's how important to politics the royals are; a complete dependence of the term "Kingdom" based on the continued occupancy of a bit of Ireland.
@@leopold7562 "the monarch in our case doesn't wield any political power" pull the other one.
@@TheMightofDab Our monarch is literally just a figurehead at this point that’s the best way to look at it.
Edwina Currie and her comment that all eggs were contaminated with salmonella. Egg sales crashed, and so did her career.
This list is why I prefer British politics, rather than our politics in the USA
Trust me mate its the tip of the iceberg
Should do a list of the top worst things Prince Phillip ever said:-
“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession).
“You are a woman, aren’t you?” (in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman).
“If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China).
“You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got pot belly” (to a Briton he met in Hungary).
“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands).
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor).
“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh).
“Still throwing spears?” (question put to an Aboriginal Australian during a visit).
“There’s a lot of your family in tonight” (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians).
“The Philippines must be half-empty as you’re all here running the NHS” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital).
Oh yes and wasn't there one saying when he died he wanted to come back as a deadly virus? Yeah good one Phil.
It all seems to have been forgotten, how the media controls people's thoughts.
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Lol. Chill, bro. Actually most of them were really funny
@@immortalfrom90 number 6 is a personal favourite
@@bigladnathanclips my favorite is the first one) good dark humor)
What about Diane Abbott forgetting to count?
look all 10 would be about Diane she says and does so much stupid things
Or Philip Hammond getting the cost of HS2 wrong by £20 billion. Or when Priti Patel gave the wrong number of Covid tests. Or when Theresa May stated that the drop in sterling had nothing to do with Brexit.
@@mihohobaba shhhhh
@@jamez_hamez8131 Why should I "shhhhh"?
Can't criticise Abbott though.....
Peter Bottomley has just said MP need more pay, after his party just stole £20 a week, off the poorest people in the country.
It was an awful idea to pay it in the first place. It wasn't necessary. It's not now, there's plenty of jobs out there
@@Steve-gc5nt They make disabled people who can't work live off it. They took proper disabled benefits off people and make them live on less than £ 80 a week. Meanwhile they lie about protecting the vulnerable. They are nouveau riche 💩💩. 😠
I think it's worse that they took this money off people in poverty, and then a couple days later Boris went on holiday to somewhere that cost 25k a *NIGHT* . MPs need more money, eh?
@@scottdixon2505 What's more he gets to borrow the villa of a party donor.
Number 4 shouldn’t count because it wasn’t planned by him. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time & people really need to look back on why struggling to eat bacon is an apparent violation of becoming a PM.
Now they have vans saying “come back” and “fix me sink”
Nothing about David Cameron leaving his child in a pub ??
yes but they were still drinking there pints so he had to leave them he was sending the car back for them later
hehehe
Hey we’ve all been there
Didn’t he leave some top secret documents on a train as well
Who left his daughter behind in a pub? Cameron.
And his passport but it seems that the police do a courier job...for some
Surely the infamous "Ed Stone" should be on here?
What about Theresa May's coughing speech? 😁
Or her whole PMship
Have you seen her bow to the Queen or her dancing 😂proper lizard
@@D-A-A- In those leopard print kitten heels. 😆
@@julianaylor4351 just been re watching all the clips of her then cringe as feel sorry for her, got rickets or stn
The Russian Assassins lies were more convincing then anything Dominic Cummings said that day
You missed a classic from the 90's - Neil Kinnock's infamous US style campaign rally at the Labour conference in Sheffield 'we're all right!'.
Bigotgate, what a complete non- event!
Theresa May did make a mistake she should’ve got up and danced to style it out 😂😂😂😂
The mound is the worst, the council decided to build that then feed hungry kids in the area. Didn’t even bother setting up food banks for people
I respect prescott for punching the guy
Me too, it was purely reactionary hitting back and the guy deserved a better punch in my opinion. That egg could've been anything thrown at him
@@WillMiall Yes, he reacted before working out what it was. Had it been a rock, grenade etc., Prescott would have been widely praised.
yeah wacked him one
i see no reason why he could not defend himself since his security was not between him and the attacker
it was still assault by the man on Prescott. and did the man pay to have the suit cleaned
2 jabs
"Go home or face arrest" was almost a moment of hope for sad, lost England.
Don't forget her subsequent revelations that John Major, our apparently terminally boring PM, had been a bit of a tiger between the sheets!
That alpaca crap was a load of hot air
Dominic Cummings: Goes to Barnard Castle for an eye test
Me: Goes to Barnard Castle to say I've driven on the A67!
I dont understand the field of wheat furore? Surely it's the lamest "naughty" thing imaginable. Or is that the point?
that is the point
Yeah, that's very much the point
@@TheEternalOuroboros thanks for that. Not lived in the UK for decades so not really up to speed with pop culture. So she was hardly the Sex Pistols on the Grundy show then!
@@terranceparsons5185 It's all good, take care!
You missed Bojo saying that Mrs Ratcliffe was educating journalists, sadly it cost her more jail time
Surprised the Ed Stone didn't get a mention
Geronmo was actually 2021 not 2020
We would appear to have the politicians that we deserve.
Prescott did a lunge that wouldn't have hurt a child, and the bloke was on him and had to be dragged off him. Prescott was getting a beating.
I think John Prescott decking the egger was 50/50 with the voters. It was "uncivilized" but earned a degree of respect.
I kinda respect Prescott for punching that dude.
I like the Mound 😆
You need to get out more often
the fact that tories sending out vans telling immigrants to go home or be arrested ranked slightly below Ed Milliband making a weird face while eating sandwich really does say a lot about British political coverage doesn't it?
Apparently British political PR disasters only go back as far as 1986
Gonna be really honest...David Cameron's response by eating a hot dog with a knife and fork kinda put me off him xD
Replace Prescotts little incident with the Ed Stone
I liked John Prescot more for connecting with the electorate
That dude Attack Prescott first. You don't toss eggs at someone and not expect to get punched.
Love how there is fuck all about Boris Johnson in this list
Where's Camerons "hug a hoodie"?
Just imagine how chaotic this country would have been under a messy bacon-sandwich-eater...
Title should be amended to read "...in the last 25 years". Has the author not heard of Jeremy Thorpe, John Amery or the Profumo affair?
Miliband: if it looks like a muppet, talks like a muppet, and acts like a muppet - it’s a muppet.
Prescott is a bad as the rest of the bent politicians but I do t blame him for hitting back that day.He did what anybody body with a pair would have done.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
John Prescott, the madman
What about Theresa May walking that was 🤣
It's worrying that all of these bar 1 has happened in my life time and I'm still in my 20s. The state of British politics/ politicians. Though I must admit, there are some really bad ones that this video misses. Maybe the people who made it are young too. But I would have thought Chamberlain's Munich Agreement would be up there, as would the Suez Canal crisis and the Profumo Affair
It's watch mojo they aren't known for doing much research. Plus this video is based on controversies they have easy to find video footage of. This video feels like eating junk food.
The person compiling this list must be your age and is unaware of British history prior to 1986! He cannot ever have heard of Sir Winston Churchill, for example on being told he was drunk replying and you madam are ugly, but, nyahhhh, I will be sober in the morning.
Munich was immensely popular at the time. Many people thought Chamberlain had saved the world. It wasn't until some months later, when people realized Chamberlain had been conned, that they turned against the agreement and Chamberlain.
The mound, I WILL be going there!
As an American, this entire list seems so tame, after witnessing four long ass years of Dongle Troomp. . .
Have you been watching paedo Biden 😅😅🤣🤣
Yes
7:56 - Cummings didn’t resign because of this….
I love that most of these happened within the last 10 years.
When they put that Alpaca down, they mishandled it. He was almost suffocated by the way they lead him to the place they were using and we still don't know whether he had TB or not.
Well if they find he was healthy I hope the owner sues Defra and keeps embarrassing them publicly. I certainly would.
@@cbcdesign001 There could a case of cruelty because how they lead him away.
You forgot about the infamous Ed Stone!
"Bigoted woman" sealed Labour's fate for a good while
I would have put chamberlains policy of appeasement high up there. I’m guessing it’s a modern look.
Appeasement was a PR success at time, and only widely seen as a collosal mistake in retrospect.
telling someone who is in a country illegally to go home in not a hate crime. It happens everywhere in the world and immigration detention centres especially in some south eastern Asian countries are full of British and common wealth citizens who didn't go home when they should have. This self loathing western wokeness is poisonous.
Where are the disasters?!
still angry about Geronimo
I got a mound .. and it’s free
You mean stuff that worse than 'Fuck Off Back to Eton'?
I'm an American and that was one of the funniest and most 'British' political moments ever....
This could be updated nows with at least three of BoJo's specials don'tcha think? Hint: Fridge, Iran, Party
5:00 Update: it turns out that Geronimo the Alpaca did not have any signs of Bovine TB in his autopsy!
lol
Hr, sir Norman fry little Britain sketches
What would have been a good answer to the "naughtiest thing you've ever done question?
Imagine if she revealed she got Spitroasted on her 18th or some shit
honest respect Prescott for this
Number 10: been there and seen it, most atrocious thing I’ve come across and a total time waste 🤢🤢
Larry the cat for PM. Meowrr. 😁
Fair play to Prescott that feller deserved one.......
john "two jab's" prescott
No one remembers Profumo.
To be fair to Theresa May she was a teenager at the time and as far as teenagers go it's quite droll by comparison. Back when I was at school I had friends who got up stuff that I can't discuss at risk of this video getting de-monitised.
No.1. Boris Johnson
I'm watching like 'if piggate isn't no.1 this is rigged'.
Prescott didn't floor anyone. Looked like the other guy would have floored him had security not got involved. Understand his reaction though.
Aye. He was bringing up the mullet for a one-two after the eggs.
Boris Johnson should be in each number of the scandals
No Ed stone?
You forgot to mention the fact that the pig in Black Mirror was alive during the intercourse.
Where's Peppa Pig?
Best thing Prescott ever did, PR wise
Going on top gear has to be up there though
How about Boris in general? Is a constant disgrace anywhere he is
UK Labor needs a better relations with the press because they have bad PR.
No, Labour's PR is perfect for the party that is nothing more than a 6th form debating forum. They have no intention of forming a government. They detest working people, not one of them has done a day's work in their lives. All career politicians - the worst kind.
Above all, Brexit is bollocks.
It doesn't matter what this Tory Government do or what mistakes they make, the right wing majority here in the UK will always forgive them no matter what. In effect, this means they can get away with absolutely anything. However any gaffes made by members of the supposed political opposition are treated in a quite different manner. Ed Miliband publicly eating a bacon sandwich quite obviously upset many Tory supporters, since the way he ate that sandwich was most definitely not the way a well heeled Tory would've eaten their bacon sandwich. I mean, how common can you get Ed? It's so obvious the way you tore into that bacon sarnie that you're one of those "big bad communists", and quite obviously an atheist to boot. We live in a democratically elected right wing Tory dictatorship Ed, or had you simply forgotten?