blairs first 5 years were decent. after 2002 however he turned into a puppet of the americans. major was a ok prime minster but a decent man who was much better then his psychopathic predecessor
As a Labour supporter, I agree; The Blair years for me are the equivalent of a reputable band scoring a number one in the charts, and selling out to cater to that audience; forgetting the true fans and their original sound. Sticking with the band metaphor, Conservatism in 1997 is like that hit band from the 70's and 80's with the same hits, and nothing much more; and now they're back because people found there way back to them. So I agree. Major wasn't a bad PM; but he wasn't what we needed
It’s strange really. At university + college I had raving mad left wing professors and teachers (as you would expect I suppose) besides taking the mickey of his daft accent, they speak nothing but praise of Major and how he dealt with The Troubles whereas I have yet to hear them say a single positive thing about Blair. These are people who admittedly voted for Labour in 97 and speak of how wrong they were to be in favour of devolution
Ben Attwood. 'New Labour' could be described as more 'pragmatic' I think? 'Ideological' swings from Left to Right & back again does'nt seem to have worked very well for decades?
When I was out of work in 1992/93, I cursed Major all the time, but as the economy picked up, I started to realise he was doing a good job. To me, he was the last decent British PM.
No he wasnt, Blair didnt say yes to federal Europe, nor to the euro, trade unions didnt regain powers undet the Social Chapter, ans Devolution is a democratic right very clearly requested by the Scottish people - you know, one of the NATIONS of the UK. This is noit a matter of "disagree if you want", this is just factually incorrect now as we can see.
I'm labour, but I agree with what Mr Major says. A rather pleasant tory, rather then the so called "Nasty Party" now, that gets personal on every level. Major had respect...
Michael Howard was more my choice On crime he was right, he was my mum’s ex MP and he stood up for crime loads of times, my late stepdad was so fed up of hoodies running in their garden and misbehaving abuse in the streets and Howard said about it
I disagree with you on the whole EU thing (in my view, the EU is probably the most successful political union in modern history), but I absolutely agree with you about the issue of civility, decency and humbleness. It's a great pity that people like John Major are no longer getting to be prime ministers and presidents in today's world. Let's hope that Biden's election will turn out to be a turning point in this respect, worldwide.
Many of the things he predicts (with varying degrees of success) are actually desirable, despite the fact he's trying to use them as a negative (i.e. strong unions and Scottish independence)
@@RBenjo21 Not with those inside. The people didn't want their services disrupted between disputes especially pushed by politicians for glory. Like Callaghan.
He may have been boring but he was right. If we hadn't given more powers to Europe and we might still be part of the EU now. Scotland's own Parliament just means they never shut up about independence and a fragmented GB is what we are now seeing.
He wasn't boring he was too common for the tories. Maybe after thatchers no class country they thatought that would work, but it backfired because Labour reinvented it's own image. Yes, it is THAT superficial.
John Major was right, I'm Scottish and was born in the late-90s in the early years of the New Labour govt and I see through my own eyes that devolution has indeed been disastrous.
I'm Scottish and devolution was the best thing to happen to my country in hundreds of years. You are in the minority because the Scottish people voted overwhelmingly in favour of a parliament with tax raising powers and to this day most Scots support further devolution.
@@BoyBornFresh yeah and the vast majority of the people in Scotland are wrong and have voted for those things based off false and twisted emotions and facts.
Although I quite like John Major and he seems to be a decent guy, so many of the things he said here were just not true. We didn't join the euro, we didn't join a federal europe, the trade unions didn't become omnipotent, and Scotland didn't become independent. It's complete fearmongering.
The Marketing and PR for this was awful but in hindsight what we got with Blair was a flash bullshitter full of empty promises. Electing Blair was (in my opinion) the biggest mistake we ever made in an election. I'd certainly rather have had a boring, but sensible and honest person as prime minister.
Despite the ERM disaster Major approved into entering, Sleaze, Bribery, IRA Prison Escapes. BSE. Cheating on Fishing Quotas, Disunity over the Euro currency, Rail Privatization...... "Major hadn't got a chance by 1997"
blair didn't do shit. he was a useless prime minster and did nothing he said he would do while in power. thatcher on the other hand ripped this countrys foundation open and fucked us up
@ No the guidelines are drawn up between Govt Home Secretary and Home Office, Civil Service, Police forces, Justice and Probation etc the cuts to community services then don't help with bored kids. We don't see youth clubs anymore. In future they would be needed for all the bored after the virus see an explosion in crime. Michael Howard was in opposition and was a home secretary of Major's imagine that
It seems to me like the UK never gave a real, whole-hearted chance to the whole EU (or European Community) thing, huh? Even John Major, who is clearly pro-European, felt he can gain votes (or at least not lose them) by trying to portray himself as somewhat of a Eurosceptic. Already 3 years after the UK first joined the European Community, Labor held a referendum about whether to stay or leave. Two-thirds of voters voted then to stay, but... It seems to me like the UK was always, constantly suggesting they're on the verge of leaving. Some UK prime ministers, including John Major and David Cameron, seem to have used these "one more step and we're leaving!" threats in order to gain (or keep) political powers, despite being staunch supporters of the UK remaining in the EU - and it seems that, perhaps, they've been casting doubt on the whole EU thing so frequently that eventually enough UK voters actually started to believe it, more so than those who were casting the doubts.
Not really true because exactly as John Major warned here Tony Blair fully embraced the EU and under his government squashed Europe as a nationwide issue. It wasn't really until the return of Conservatives in power and the rise of UKIP after the New Labour government did the European question become mainstream again.
About horse racing why do odds on favourites lose in horse racing . The bookies always say go for the favourites, the favourites never come in . Can a mp have a look into horse racing is it fixed
Collette Post if calling somebody that denounces you then you know nothing about politics, I was a party activist and I still am and I knew John reasonably well, he was too soft and not ruthless enough
Yes such horrible consequences as the EDHR, a minimum wage, and a strengthened NHS for a start, shame Dominic Raab was right we should take human rights away to protect us from wokery
The irony that England hot the least devolution into cities and it's a disaster. England needed more national work so that regions stick together and share money and growth especially
He was completely right, it's only because of the devolution that the SNP became a mainstream party. Scotland leaving and damaging itself is pretty much a certainty at this point.
2:44 "Bri'tan" , I don't know of any pm least of all a conservative PM who would pronounce it like that. Major was actually from a somewhat working class background, he was from Brixton in south London
James Wilson he is in my opinion on of the reasons I became a Tory. we was in surplus, with high growth, falling unemployment, a united country and falling taxes and improving public services. Then Blair borrowed and in the long term this led to giant debt, deficits, austerity, rising taxes and reduced public services. Major was slowly bringing the country to prosperity, every indicator was good and getting better.
@@FatguyInthedeli That's because underinvestment in services and immigration was lower. Suddenly UK created a skills problem and China opened to the West more notice how Caribbean immigration rose before EU as further States didn't join till 04
I respected (granted as an American voter look in) the Tories anti-Communism and the their support for the EU. But, I would have voted for Tony Blair/New Labour in 1997. The Tories were too slow to support cultural diversity, LGBTQ rights, and Labour -- back then -- was reinvented as a new, modern centrist party.
History will be much kinder to John Major than Tony Blair I tell you
Clearly his education policy hasn't been kind - *you're.
blairs first 5 years were decent. after 2002 however he turned into a puppet of the americans. major was a ok prime minster but a decent man who was much better then his psychopathic predecessor
As a Labour supporter, I agree; The Blair years for me are the equivalent of a reputable band scoring a number one in the charts, and selling out to cater to that audience; forgetting the true fans and their original sound. Sticking with the band metaphor, Conservatism in 1997 is like that hit band from the 70's and 80's with the same hits, and nothing much more; and now they're back because people found there way back to them. So I agree. Major wasn't a bad PM; but he wasn't what we needed
It’s strange really. At university + college I had raving mad left wing professors and teachers (as you would expect I suppose) besides taking the mickey of his daft accent, they speak nothing but praise of Major and how he dealt with The Troubles whereas I have yet to hear them say a single positive thing about Blair. These are people who admittedly voted for Labour in 97 and speak of how wrong they were to be in favour of devolution
Ben Attwood. 'New Labour' could be described as more 'pragmatic' I think? 'Ideological' swings from Left to Right & back again does'nt seem to have worked very well for decades?
This works better as sleep therapy for me than any plinky plonky whale music.
I genuinely watch this and it makes me feel better
@@l_j_c_5397 Aww ☺️
Michael Caine was Prime minister ??
One thing and you can disagree if you want. He was right on so many things here
When I was out of work in 1992/93, I cursed Major all the time, but as the economy picked up, I started to realise he was doing a good job. To me, he was the last decent British PM.
No he wasnt, Blair didnt say yes to federal Europe, nor to the euro, trade unions didnt regain powers undet the Social Chapter, ans Devolution is a democratic right very clearly requested by the Scottish people - you know, one of the NATIONS of the UK. This is noit a matter of "disagree if you want", this is just factually incorrect now as we can see.
yeah precisely lol @@MagicNash89
@@MagicNash89Blair wanted to enter the euro zone but it never got passed in parliament
He foresaw devolution right
Yes (I highly doubt that you will see this )
I'm labour, but I agree with what Mr Major says. A rather pleasant tory, rather then the so called "Nasty Party" now, that gets personal on every level. Major had respect...
He sounds more sensible and not so conservative but more centrist. If I was grown at that time I probably vote for him.
Probably not as good as blair but better than johnson.
@@DFandV Like Ken Clarke
Michael Howard was more my choice On crime he was right, he was my mum’s ex MP and he stood up for crime loads of times, my late stepdad was so fed up of hoodies running in their garden and misbehaving abuse in the streets and Howard said about it
I disagree with you on the whole EU thing (in my view, the EU is probably the most successful political union in modern history), but I absolutely agree with you about the issue of civility, decency and humbleness. It's a great pity that people like John Major are no longer getting to be prime ministers and presidents in today's world. Let's hope that Biden's election will turn out to be a turning point in this respect, worldwide.
Jeez - the only thing missing from this Party Election Broadcast is a (correct) prediction of the lotto numbers!!
Many of the things he predicts (with varying degrees of success) are actually desirable, despite the fact he's trying to use them as a negative (i.e. strong unions and Scottish independence)
The public still had the 1970s union chaos still in their minds. Thatcher's 80s reforms of the unions were very popular.
ourhandsaretied not in my opinion, very negative
Blair had few achievements because he was idealistic. Boris is similar now. The reform of the House of Lords failed.
@@RBenjo21 Not with those inside. The people didn't want their services disrupted between disputes especially pushed by politicians for glory. Like Callaghan.
He may have been boring but he was right. If we hadn't given more powers to Europe and we might still be part of the EU now. Scotland's own Parliament just means they never shut up about independence and a fragmented GB is what we are now seeing.
Good- Scottish independence is both desirable and inevitable
@@ourhandsaretied Imagine thinking Scottish independence is a good thing. Be quiet, degenerate.
Yes and Blair have them up.
I’m glad we aren’t in the EU he would have sold us out just like Blair did
He wasn't boring he was too common for the tories. Maybe after thatchers no class country they thatought that would work, but it backfired because Labour reinvented it's own image. Yes, it is THAT superficial.
Spitting Image nailed this guy’s persona - more peas Norma?
2:05 If only he knew.
John Major was right, I'm Scottish and was born in the late-90s in the early years of the New Labour govt and I see through my own eyes that devolution has indeed been disastrous.
I'm Scottish and devolution was the best thing to happen to my country in hundreds of years. You are in the minority because the Scottish people voted overwhelmingly in favour of a parliament with tax raising powers and to this day most Scots support further devolution.
Ah well, better than independence :)
Devolution is some sort of independence. But true independence is being able to decide your own rules without being governed by Westminster.
Yes England wasn't devolved together
@@BoyBornFresh yeah and the vast majority of the people in Scotland are wrong and have voted for those things based off false and twisted emotions and facts.
Although I quite like John Major and he seems to be a decent guy, so many of the things he said here were just not true. We didn't join the euro, we didn't join a federal europe, the trade unions didn't become omnipotent, and Scotland didn't become independent. It's complete fearmongering.
The Marketing and PR for this was awful but in hindsight what we got with Blair was a flash bullshitter full of empty promises. Electing Blair was (in my opinion) the biggest mistake we ever made in an election.
I'd certainly rather have had a boring, but sensible and honest person as prime minister.
Despite the ERM disaster Major approved into entering, Sleaze, Bribery, IRA Prison Escapes. BSE. Cheating on Fishing Quotas, Disunity over the Euro currency, Rail Privatization...... "Major hadn't got a chance by 1997"
the biggest mistake was thatcher without a doubt
+Samuel Coe You are spot on, voting Blair proved to be a very bad move for the country, he has changed this country forever.
blair didn't do shit. he was a useless prime minster and did nothing he said he would do while in power. thatcher on the other hand ripped this countrys foundation open and fucked us up
+Evan Bernard Both changed the country more than we understood at the time, Blair was more damaging.
He was right and of course the UK did not listen....
Yes should have stuck with him
He was a bit weak though
@ Because Major didn't do the right thing on wages or the railways
inspector morse and crime too
Imagine if we had Michael Howard instead...
@ No the guidelines are drawn up between Govt Home Secretary and Home Office, Civil Service, Police forces, Justice and Probation etc the cuts to community services then don't help with bored kids. We don't see youth clubs anymore. In future they would be needed for all the bored after the virus see an explosion in crime. Michael Howard was in opposition and was a home secretary of Major's imagine that
It seems to me like the UK never gave a real, whole-hearted chance to the whole EU (or European Community) thing, huh? Even John Major, who is clearly pro-European, felt he can gain votes (or at least not lose them) by trying to portray himself as somewhat of a Eurosceptic.
Already 3 years after the UK first joined the European Community, Labor held a referendum about whether to stay or leave. Two-thirds of voters voted then to stay, but... It seems to me like the UK was always, constantly suggesting they're on the verge of leaving. Some UK prime ministers, including John Major and David Cameron, seem to have used these "one more step and we're leaving!" threats in order to gain (or keep) political powers, despite being staunch supporters of the UK remaining in the EU - and it seems that, perhaps, they've been casting doubt on the whole EU thing so frequently that eventually enough UK voters actually started to believe it, more so than those who were casting the doubts.
Not really true because exactly as John Major warned here Tony Blair fully embraced the EU and under his government squashed Europe as a nationwide issue. It wasn't really until the return of Conservatives in power and the rise of UKIP after the New Labour government did the European question become mainstream again.
Major had a chip on his shoulders and he dipped it in curry 😂
As creepy as this video is, he was right
Was he right? Yes, I think so. And I'll tell you why....
no he fucking wasn’t lol
What on earth makes this creepy?
@@exucia669 His prediction for devolution was completely spot on.
Talks about Europe and how Blair wanted to hand powers to Brussels yet in 2016 he campaigned along side Blair to keep us in the EU.
Yeah because he didn't want to leave, he just didn't want us to be too connected and more self independent
Because they shared membership was better. Major wasn't as pro EU as Blair
Could he give us the lottery numbers too
Scary how so much of what he said came to pass.
Im not tory supporter but he was right.
People really should have listened to Sir John Major. Too little, too late.
Yes, he made a few minor mistakes but was mostly pretty decent.
@ Ask Edwina and long suffering Norma and the kids
About horse racing why do odds on favourites lose in horse racing . The bookies always say go for the favourites, the favourites never come in . Can a mp have a look into horse racing is it fixed
We should've listened
As an Age of Empires 2 player...when he said "Britain is booming" at the end...😅🤣🤣Sorry, I laughed at that, totally unrelated to this eloquent speech
This was the problem sadly Major was too nice for politics
He's not nice he called Bill Cash and John Redwood etc "b&&&&rds"
Collette Post if calling somebody that denounces you then you know nothing about politics, I was a party activist and I still am and I knew John reasonably well, he was too soft and not ruthless enough
@@trueblue5567 Having affairs is that nice? he was tough when he had to be. Ken Clarke is nicer
@@veggie42 what we mean by nice is soft.
Ground control to Major John
@chris jones *Tony Blair
Love a Bowie reference
interesting watching this a quarter of a century later
Mah name is Michael Caine!
He was right. Yet, the public still voted Labour in 3 times and we are still facing the same issues or the consequences today.
Who weren't like Labour but the Hugh Gaitskell vision he couldn't bring in as he died
New Labour and the Tories are crap.
Yes such horrible consequences as the EDHR, a minimum wage, and a strengthened NHS for a start,
shame Dominic Raab was right we should take human rights away to protect us from wokery
I don't think he was right about Scotland. I, thankfully, can't see us ever being independent.
Would you not agree that the more devolution given, the bigger the clamour for independence?
Less devolution the better
Haha think again. You’ll have left the UK by 2035.
The irony that England hot the least devolution into cities and it's a disaster. England needed more national work so that regions stick together and share money and growth especially
He was completely right, it's only because of the devolution that the SNP became a mainstream party. Scotland leaving and damaging itself is pretty much a certainty at this point.
He sounds like Micheal Caine.
2:44 "Bri'tan" , I don't know of any pm least of all a conservative PM who would pronounce it like that. Major was actually from a somewhat working class background, he was from Brixton in south London
He wants devolution for the UK, but not Scotland, or Wales.
Major got completely obliterated by Blair. He stood no chance whatsoever suffered one of the most embarrassing losses for the tories.
Was that because Blair bought m u s l i m block votes?
Be ause he wasn't cool. Just how bad does that sound today?
*coughs* Rishi Sunak
3:09 - Insightful
Very much so
Statesman like.
…it’s almost like he is a statesman. A sort of prime minister.
Scotland has a right to devolution. Scotland is a proud nation. .
even tho I follower the labour movement I HAVE to say major was a great premier
James Wilson he is in my opinion on of the reasons I became a Tory. we was in surplus, with high growth, falling unemployment, a united country and falling taxes and improving public services. Then Blair borrowed and in the long term this led to giant debt, deficits, austerity, rising taxes and reduced public services. Major was slowly bringing the country to prosperity, every indicator was good and getting better.
Major was poor on crime. Harold Shipman wasn't caught and Jamie Bulger and Stephen Lawrence among people dead who shouldn't have died.
@@FatguyInthedeli That's because underinvestment in services and immigration was lower. Suddenly UK created a skills problem and China opened to the West more notice how Caribbean immigration rose before EU as further States didn't join till 04
No wonder people said he was boring
John Major was wrong on this, the social chapter was definitely the right thing to sign up to.
John Major was Mr Charisma.
Honest John
This is the guy who flogged British Rail off for a song, for an £11 billion loss to the UK taxpayers!
Whose wallets got greased?? 🤔
clairvoyance
I respected (granted as an American voter look in) the Tories anti-Communism and the their support for the EU. But, I would have voted for Tony Blair/New Labour in 1997. The Tories were too slow to support cultural diversity, LGBTQ rights, and Labour -- back then -- was reinvented as a new, modern centrist party.
@GG (George Gapińska) Asian and African ethnic minorities.
This is prophetic
You mean pathetic surely.
Hindsight is a great thing!
He was so right.
'Bri'un'. Wut
Look at him, not exactly political box office.
at the ge i jm was a in a letter he said i told you so
He was right on so many levels.
Make them think it was there idea. 😂If the country had only listened to him.
the poorest PM in modern British history
Ummm one right now is 😂
After he'd taken us into the ERM disaster!
The lying turncoat
No signed by Thatcher and when Lawson quit over rows with Alan Walters, the advisor and Major became Chancellor
Wet drip.
So boring
Commie wolf in conservative sheeps clothing.