Conservative Party Election Broadcast 25 April 1997

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  • @liamb8644
    @liamb8644 8 років тому +144

    History will be much kinder to John Major than Tony Blair I tell you

    • @importedmusic
      @importedmusic 7 років тому +10

      Clearly his education policy hasn't been kind - *you're.

    • @tomgibson6801
      @tomgibson6801 7 років тому +26

      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

    • @Blubatt
      @Blubatt 7 років тому +15

      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

    • @user-fd1cp9jt5i
      @user-fd1cp9jt5i 6 років тому +4

      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

    • @petermills542
      @petermills542 6 років тому +1

      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?

  • @Cashback13
    @Cashback13 6 років тому +60

    This works better as sleep therapy for me than any plinky plonky whale music.

    • @l_j_c_5397
      @l_j_c_5397 3 роки тому +5

      I genuinely watch this and it makes me feel better

    • @boulevard14
      @boulevard14 7 місяців тому

      ​@@l_j_c_5397 Aww ☺️

  • @loungejay8555
    @loungejay8555 4 роки тому +17

    Michael Caine was Prime minister ??

  • @marklawton1206
    @marklawton1206 8 років тому +90

    One thing and you can disagree if you want. He was right on so many things here

    • @Glenn1967ful
      @Glenn1967ful 2 роки тому +10

      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.

    • @MagicNash89
      @MagicNash89 Рік тому +6

      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.

    • @SplashTasty
      @SplashTasty 11 місяців тому +1

      yeah precisely lol @@MagicNash89

    • @DB-qj5kt
      @DB-qj5kt 7 місяців тому +1

      @@MagicNash89Blair wanted to enter the euro zone but it never got passed in parliament

  • @0954jamesa1
    @0954jamesa1 4 роки тому +19

    He foresaw devolution right

    • @brysonheslop4852
      @brysonheslop4852 4 місяці тому +1

      Yes (I highly doubt that you will see this )

  • @BrandonLast99
    @BrandonLast99 7 років тому +87

    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...

    • @DFandV
      @DFandV 5 років тому +17

      He sounds more sensible and not so conservative but more centrist. If I was grown at that time I probably vote for him.

    • @jacklewis9218
      @jacklewis9218 4 роки тому +10

      Probably not as good as blair but better than johnson.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +1

      @@DFandV Like Ken Clarke

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +4

      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

    • @ZiggyMercury
      @ZiggyMercury 4 роки тому +3

      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.

  • @andrewmyers9982
    @andrewmyers9982 7 років тому +65

    Jeez - the only thing missing from this Party Election Broadcast is a (correct) prediction of the lotto numbers!!

    • @ourhandsaretied
      @ourhandsaretied 6 років тому +5

      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
      @RBenjo21 6 років тому +11

      The public still had the 1970s union chaos still in their minds. Thatcher's 80s reforms of the unions were very popular.

    • @FatguyInthedeli
      @FatguyInthedeli 5 років тому +6

      ourhandsaretied not in my opinion, very negative

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому

      Blair had few achievements because he was idealistic. Boris is similar now. The reform of the House of Lords failed.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +1

      @@RBenjo21 Not with those inside. The people didn't want their services disrupted between disputes especially pushed by politicians for glory. Like Callaghan.

  • @cdgh99
    @cdgh99 7 років тому +60

    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.

    • @ourhandsaretied
      @ourhandsaretied 6 років тому +7

      Good- Scottish independence is both desirable and inevitable

    • @stanleypines1026
      @stanleypines1026 6 років тому +10

      @@ourhandsaretied Imagine thinking Scottish independence is a good thing. Be quiet, degenerate.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +2

      Yes and Blair have them up.

    • @roccoparks
      @roccoparks 3 роки тому

      I’m glad we aren’t in the EU he would have sold us out just like Blair did

    • @crazywiener11
      @crazywiener11 Рік тому

      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.

  • @zstarzzstarz189
    @zstarzzstarz189 6 місяців тому +4

    Spitting Image nailed this guy’s persona - more peas Norma?

  • @marzuqahmed218
    @marzuqahmed218 Рік тому +4

    2:05 If only he knew.

  • @curtisdelor5097
    @curtisdelor5097 8 років тому +50

    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.

    • @BoyBornFresh
      @BoyBornFresh 7 років тому +11

      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.

    • @stanleypines1026
      @stanleypines1026 6 років тому +4

      Ah well, better than independence :)

    • @DFandV
      @DFandV 5 років тому +1

      Devolution is some sort of independence. But true independence is being able to decide your own rules without being governed by Westminster.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому

      Yes England wasn't devolved together

    • @wessexfox5197
      @wessexfox5197 Рік тому

      @@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.

  • @wishbones170
    @wishbones170 Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @SRPC21
    @SRPC21 8 років тому +31

    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.

    • @SanFran51
      @SanFran51 7 років тому +3

      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"

    • @tomgibson6801
      @tomgibson6801 6 років тому +5

      the biggest mistake was thatcher without a doubt

    • @VincentRE79
      @VincentRE79 6 років тому +1

      +Samuel Coe You are spot on, voting Blair proved to be a very bad move for the country, he has changed this country forever.

    • @tomgibson6801
      @tomgibson6801 6 років тому

      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

    • @VincentRE79
      @VincentRE79 6 років тому +1

      +Evan Bernard Both changed the country more than we understood at the time, Blair was more damaging.

  • @tubularbill
    @tubularbill 7 років тому +30

    He was right and of course the UK did not listen....

    •  4 роки тому

      Yes should have stuck with him
      He was a bit weak though

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому

      @ Because Major didn't do the right thing on wages or the railways

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому

      inspector morse and crime too

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +1

      Imagine if we had Michael Howard instead...

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +1

      @ 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

  • @ZiggyMercury
    @ZiggyMercury 4 роки тому +8

    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.

    • @JD-Media
      @JD-Media 3 роки тому

      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.

  • @christopheroshea9799
    @christopheroshea9799 2 роки тому +10

    Major had a chip on his shoulders and he dipped it in curry 😂

  • @jacobmaksoudian834
    @jacobmaksoudian834 7 років тому +32

    As creepy as this video is, he was right

    • @thejoin4687
      @thejoin4687 5 років тому +8

      Was he right? Yes, I think so. And I'll tell you why....

    • @exucia669
      @exucia669 2 роки тому +1

      no he fucking wasn’t lol

    • @rachel.mcgowan
      @rachel.mcgowan Рік тому +2

      What on earth makes this creepy?

    • @JD-Media
      @JD-Media 8 місяців тому +1

      @@exucia669 His prediction for devolution was completely spot on.

  • @Fry2000
    @Fry2000 6 років тому +14

    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.

    • @nathanh5448
      @nathanh5448 5 років тому +12

      Yeah because he didn't want to leave, he just didn't want us to be too connected and more self independent

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +2

      Because they shared membership was better. Major wasn't as pro EU as Blair

  • @PatrickStephens-hc5sp
    @PatrickStephens-hc5sp 2 місяці тому

    Could he give us the lottery numbers too

  • @morganandrews9428
    @morganandrews9428 4 роки тому +30

    Scary how so much of what he said came to pass.

  • @JoeyXSmith
    @JoeyXSmith 8 років тому +62

    Im not tory supporter but he was right.

  • @AICabal
    @AICabal 6 років тому +17

    People really should have listened to Sir John Major. Too little, too late.

    •  4 роки тому

      Yes, he made a few minor mistakes but was mostly pretty decent.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +1

      @ Ask Edwina and long suffering Norma and the kids

  • @Deepakverma-yb5ro
    @Deepakverma-yb5ro 2 роки тому

    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

  • @nathanh5448
    @nathanh5448 5 років тому +17

    We should've listened

  • @MagicNash89
    @MagicNash89 5 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @trueblue5567
    @trueblue5567 4 роки тому +10

    This was the problem sadly Major was too nice for politics

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому

      He's not nice he called Bill Cash and John Redwood etc "b&&&&rds"

    • @trueblue5567
      @trueblue5567 4 роки тому +3

      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

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому

      @@trueblue5567 Having affairs is that nice? he was tough when he had to be. Ken Clarke is nicer

    • @militantman
      @militantman 4 роки тому +1

      @@veggie42 what we mean by nice is soft.

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 5 років тому +19

    Ground control to Major John

  • @jamesknight2382
    @jamesknight2382 Рік тому

    interesting watching this a quarter of a century later

  • @Fireglo
    @Fireglo 4 роки тому +10

    Mah name is Michael Caine!

  • @ThatGuy-fd5px
    @ThatGuy-fd5px 4 роки тому +9

    He was right. Yet, the public still voted Labour in 3 times and we are still facing the same issues or the consequences today.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +2

      Who weren't like Labour but the Hugh Gaitskell vision he couldn't bring in as he died

    • @StrongandStable17
      @StrongandStable17 2 роки тому

      New Labour and the Tories are crap.

    • @notsuretbh7215
      @notsuretbh7215 2 роки тому +5

      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

  • @davidruffle8996
    @davidruffle8996 8 років тому +9

    I don't think he was right about Scotland. I, thankfully, can't see us ever being independent.

    • @RBenjo21
      @RBenjo21 6 років тому +2

      Would you not agree that the more devolution given, the bigger the clamour for independence?

    • @FatguyInthedeli
      @FatguyInthedeli 5 років тому +3

      Less devolution the better

    • @jacklewis3803
      @jacklewis3803 4 роки тому +9

      Haha think again. You’ll have left the UK by 2035.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому

      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

    • @JD-Media
      @JD-Media 3 роки тому +1

      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.

  • @crazywiener11
    @crazywiener11 Рік тому +4

    He sounds like Micheal Caine.

    • @Kmc1qlAq8Dt6tpVC
      @Kmc1qlAq8Dt6tpVC 7 місяців тому

      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

  • @AdamfromBristol
    @AdamfromBristol 7 місяців тому +2

    He wants devolution for the UK, but not Scotland, or Wales.

  • @jimmyhopkins3589
    @jimmyhopkins3589 4 роки тому +7

    Major got completely obliterated by Blair. He stood no chance whatsoever suffered one of the most embarrassing losses for the tories.

    • @wotdoesthisbuttondo
      @wotdoesthisbuttondo Рік тому

      Was that because Blair bought m u s l i m block votes?

    • @crazywiener11
      @crazywiener11 Рік тому +1

      Be ause he wasn't cool. Just how bad does that sound today?

    • @DFandV
      @DFandV 5 місяців тому

      *coughs* Rishi Sunak

  • @gordanjenson5148
    @gordanjenson5148 3 роки тому +4

    3:09 - Insightful

  • @kevinhisee4265
    @kevinhisee4265 2 роки тому +3

    Statesman like.

    • @Alex-hj
      @Alex-hj Рік тому +2

      …it’s almost like he is a statesman. A sort of prime minister.

  • @rorysmith2415
    @rorysmith2415 2 роки тому

    Scotland has a right to devolution. Scotland is a proud nation. .

  • @jameswilson4555
    @jameswilson4555 8 років тому +10

    even tho I follower the labour movement I HAVE to say major was a great premier

    • @FatguyInthedeli
      @FatguyInthedeli 5 років тому +2

      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.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +1

      Major was poor on crime. Harold Shipman wasn't caught and Jamie Bulger and Stephen Lawrence among people dead who shouldn't have died.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому +1

      @@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

  • @pavanpatel4604
    @pavanpatel4604 8 років тому +11

    No wonder people said he was boring

  • @davidfoxall3344
    @davidfoxall3344 5 років тому +1

    John Major was wrong on this, the social chapter was definitely the right thing to sign up to.

  • @shanemckenna9416
    @shanemckenna9416 5 років тому +4

    John Major was Mr Charisma.

  • @justintcb5189
    @justintcb5189 8 місяців тому +3

    Honest John

  • @georgejob7544
    @georgejob7544 3 роки тому +3

    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?? 🤔

  • @realnoahsimpson
    @realnoahsimpson 3 роки тому +1

    clairvoyance

  • @edwardtjbrown1979
    @edwardtjbrown1979 2 роки тому +3

    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.

    • @edwardtjbrown1979
      @edwardtjbrown1979 Рік тому

      @GG (George Gapińska) Asian and African ethnic minorities.

  • @chidiikwuakolam6432
    @chidiikwuakolam6432 4 роки тому +6

    This is prophetic

  • @andylewis1480
    @andylewis1480 4 роки тому +2

    Hindsight is a great thing!

  • @lordmalcolm2675
    @lordmalcolm2675 5 років тому +1

    He was so right.

  • @BlyatimirPootin
    @BlyatimirPootin 7 місяців тому

    'Bri'un'. Wut

  • @bwilliamson3887
    @bwilliamson3887 8 місяців тому

    Look at him, not exactly political box office.

  • @alexrobisnon6288
    @alexrobisnon6288 4 роки тому

    at the ge i jm was a in a letter he said i told you so

  • @aguyinagreenhat6614
    @aguyinagreenhat6614 2 роки тому +1

    He was right on so many levels.

  • @bryanjohnson2466
    @bryanjohnson2466 Рік тому

    Make them think it was there idea. 😂If the country had only listened to him.

  • @pussyxi8795
    @pussyxi8795 4 роки тому +2

    the poorest PM in modern British history

  • @pobinr
    @pobinr 6 років тому +1

    After he'd taken us into the ERM disaster!
    The lying turncoat

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 4 роки тому

      No signed by Thatcher and when Lawson quit over rows with Alan Walters, the advisor and Major became Chancellor

  • @bermudarailway
    @bermudarailway 5 років тому +1

    Wet drip.

  • @jenpasit
    @jenpasit 3 роки тому +1

    So boring

  • @wotdoesthisbuttondo
    @wotdoesthisbuttondo 5 років тому +1

    Commie wolf in conservative sheeps clothing.