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  • Let's dive into the top ten PR disasters in British politics! From unexpected gaffes to major blunders, these moments have left a lasting impact on the political landscape in the UK!
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Komentáře • 145

  • @Cjbx11
    @Cjbx11 Před měsícem +43

    When Prescott punched the guy his poll rating did go up.

    • @Amethysttredecim
      @Amethysttredecim Před měsícem +7

      Well Blair did ask for him to connect with the electorate more ;)

  • @SideQ-rr6my
    @SideQ-rr6my Před měsícem +82

    Number 1 should be partygate.
    Just this week Rishi Sunak had a PR disaster of his own after leaving the D Day ceremony early for a TV interview. This comes after the not knowing how to use a petrol pump or a debit card debacle on the heels of "I have lots of middle class and working class friends....well not working class" gaffe. To be fair the Tory party as a whole is just a walking PR disaster.

    • @Dee-gi4ge
      @Dee-gi4ge Před měsícem +8

      Gammons still vote for them.

    • @ethancantwell8549
      @ethancantwell8549 Před měsícem +3

      Or failing to use a hammer.

    • @Mikefizzled
      @Mikefizzled Před měsícem +4

      @@ethancantwell8549 I absolutely do not like the man but Rishi was hard done by that. He looked like he'd never held a hammer in his life but the lady had told him to do that. I'm all for clowning a completely out of touch politician but that isn't it. I'd say a better faux pas was when he asked the man in the soup kitchen if he has a business, very cringeworthy.

    • @ethancantwell8549
      @ethancantwell8549 Před měsícem +3

      @@Mikefizzled I never knew he was told to do that. I assumed that was his idea of what to do. Also the soup kitchen is a good shout for cringe worthy moments.

    • @Mikefizzled
      @Mikefizzled Před měsícem +2

      ​@@ethancantwell8549 YT obviously doesn't allow a link to the video but here's a transcription:
      "Let's go that one, but you're going to use this bit" She picks a hammer and points at the flat side
      "Oh, Sideways?"
      "Yeah"

  • @CG85-
    @CG85- Před měsícem +22

    Sunak could fill the top 5 on his own just from this week alone

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 Před měsícem +3

      Nah, last 2 weeks I think.

    • @Shoomer1988
      @Shoomer1988 Před měsícem

      A bit harsh. After all who could have possibly predicted that it might rain, what with the UK being basically a desert.

  • @AlBarzUK
    @AlBarzUK Před měsícem +20

    Prescott is a Yorkshireman - a bit like a Texan but more proud of his region.

  • @ShaneMence
    @ShaneMence Před měsícem +22

    It wasn't in David Cameron's autobiography it was in an unauthorised biography.

    • @xneurianx
      @xneurianx Před měsícem +4

      Literally says in the video "an unauthorised biography with no sources", accompanied by a graphic of the cover of the book stating "the unauthorised biography".
      WatchMojo is usually full of errors. Odd that JJ would get this wrong when even the article he's reading states it's an unauthorised biography!

  • @chrissmith8773
    @chrissmith8773 Před měsícem +27

    The sad thing about Jeronimo is the test for TB is notoriously unreliable and can give false positives. The autopsy revealed jeronimo did not have TB.

    • @danic9304
      @danic9304 Před měsícem +11

      Was just going to post about this. I could not get my heard around the refusal to do further tests before making that decision

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 Před měsícem

      They also half asphyxiated him, before they killed him, which is incredibly cruel. They DEFRA people were investigated by the RSPCA.

    • @sailorhms
      @sailorhms Před měsícem

      @@danic9304 Yeah, I immediately stopped the video to say the same thing, perhaps the narrator should have said.

  • @nigelhyde279
    @nigelhyde279 Před měsícem +12

    Dominic Cummings, I bet you didn’t drive 264 miles rough 5hrs, to get to your dentist. That’s the distance Cummings drove from London to Barnard Castle for his “eye test”. Coincidentally his wife’s parents lived there.

    • @katherinethompson4500
      @katherinethompson4500 Před měsícem

      That was hilarious - ´I drove a car with my wife and children to test my eyesight ´ 😂😂

  • @2000thORANGE
    @2000thORANGE Před měsícem +8

    If I remember rightly, Charlie Brooker (writer of Black Mirror) publicly stated that he did not know of David Cameron's actions when he wrote that episode

    • @BeeLZBeeb
      @BeeLZBeeb Před měsícem +1

      Really?
      I'm trying to remember when the episode came out, maybe it was just before the pig saga. If so, strange coincidence 🤔
      I guess the pm in that episode was being forced against his will rather than doing it for a sordid ceremony. Still weird

  • @LordTopley
    @LordTopley Před měsícem +7

    Prescott had every right to defend himself, he had no clue what had hit him and natural instinct is to defend. As a former boxer his reaction is more likely to include a subconscious punch in the direction of the attack.
    Fair play to John and I would never begrudge anyone reacting that way.

  • @jasonalldridge5784
    @jasonalldridge5784 Před měsícem +6

    Boris Johnson was also in that dinner club

  • @davidcollins9057
    @davidcollins9057 Před měsícem +11

    The thing you missed slightly is that John Prescott was deputy prime minister at the time. Like your Vice president. Imagine a VP doing this. He massively divided opinion but personally I thought he was one of the best politicians of my lifetime. John apparently had 2 Jaguar cars and was known as 2 Jags before this. Afterwards he became known as 2 Jabs. Great man.

  • @lloydcollins6337
    @lloydcollins6337 Před měsícem +5

    We've had people charged for throwing milkshakes over politicians, including one last week here in the UK

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 Před měsícem +3

      It's called common assault, it's also an offence you can get arrested for.

  • @katashworth41
    @katashworth41 Před měsícem +63

    British political disasters? The Tory party.

    • @EarthlyEden1
      @EarthlyEden1 Před měsícem

      They have been atrocious, just wait until Labour get in though. We are going to be effed up severely.

    • @Jamie_D
      @Jamie_D Před měsícem +9

      and the labour party,lmao

    • @Cjbx11
      @Cjbx11 Před měsícem

      I would wait to see how bad the next government will be before making any judgment.

    • @mikedaknight8854
      @mikedaknight8854 Před měsícem +2

      All of it for a long long time 😂

    • @mikryan6567
      @mikryan6567 Před měsícem +2

      SNP to be fair aswell

  • @KevFrost
    @KevFrost Před měsícem +11

    None of these are as big a gaffe as our current Prime Minister, standing on policies of national security, deciding to leave the 80th D-day ceremonies last week half way through in order to pre-record an interview to the mass dismay of everyone.

    • @HSolar
      @HSolar Před měsícem

      💯 % needs a fast revision but still have lots of time for more, lost count now how many Tories have made. 🔊 🎶 "Things Can Only Get Better" 😂

  • @robinsanders5541
    @robinsanders5541 Před měsícem +3

    I met David Cameron once, the whole time my head was saying "DONTMENTIONTHEPIGDONTMENTIONTHEPIGDONTMENTIONTHEPIG".

    • @Oxley016
      @Oxley016 Před měsícem

      Should have asked if he had any good pork recently.

  • @jasonvardy991
    @jasonvardy991 Před měsícem +11

    Teresa May was also one of the people responsible for The Windrush Scandal, which had racist assumptions at its heart. Says a lot for British politics atm that she's now considered one of the few sensible tories left and is growing an elder statesman reputation fml :P

  • @Jamie_D
    @Jamie_D Před měsícem +7

    Throwing anything at anyone is technically assault, even water 😅

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 Před měsícem +5

      Or a milkshake?

    • @Oxley016
      @Oxley016 Před měsícem

      @@stephenlee5929 Yes. Or cement. Or a coffee cup.

  • @nicw5574
    @nicw5574 Před měsícem +4

    Apart from Geronimo the alpaca which was incredibly sad, these are funny, yet highly embarrassing all at the same time.

  • @KevFrost
    @KevFrost Před měsícem +3

    17:30 the "dining club" was the British equivalent of the Skull and Bones that your presidents Bush were members of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones

  • @robertpierce4069
    @robertpierce4069 Před měsícem +6

    You need to check out Count Binface if you're aiming to get a truly rounded view of UK politics.

  • @InterMalager
    @InterMalager Před měsícem +4

    #2 Bigoted Woman - that happened on my estate, literally a few streets away, it was hilarious 🤣

  • @f0rth3l0v30fchr15t
    @f0rth3l0v30fchr15t Před měsícem +5

    So, the pig gate thing. The book was written by one Lord Ashcroft (who holds both British and Belizan nationality, and has 'belonger' status with the Turks and Caicaos islands, which has absolutely nothing to eva... I mean *avoid* tax, because being a billionaire just isn't rich enough), who - by virtue of donating a shitload of money to the Coservative Party - felt he was 'owed' a job in the Cabinet following the 2015 general Election, and didn't get it. So he put that in the book by way of revenge.
    Mature bloke, really.

  • @spnhm34
    @spnhm34 Před měsícem

    I never knew there were that many ways of saying ‘Gaveston’

  • @Rawk001
    @Rawk001 Před měsícem +2

    Am I the only one who caught him saying “Edward 2” reading “Edward II” 😂, he’s obviously not used to saying monarch’s names I know but still made me lol. Fyi for peops who don’t know it’s read/said “Edward the second”

  • @neuralwarp
    @neuralwarp Před měsícem +1

    In Tudor times, Cardinal Wolsey lost an eye to a thrown egg.

  • @richardkent
    @richardkent Před měsícem +2

    According to this British politics started in the 1980s. What about the Profumo Affair or Jeremy Thorpe (Rinkagate)?

  • @DianeLittle-dd6ej
    @DianeLittle-dd6ej Před měsícem

    They tried to have something like Arthur seat lol , that's an attraction to climb in edinburgh to view all of edinburgh london has some beauty but nothing like edinburgh

  • @ben-tendo
    @ben-tendo Před měsícem +18

    The admittance of how American media doesn't follow our politics, and yet the UK shows everything about American politics (especially elections) shows how blinkered the media is in the US in terms of educating it's people about the world around them. Sadly not very surprising. At least you as an individual are self educating however. :) Hopefully you find the BBC and ITV debates (the BBC was a seven party debate) to see what you think. (czcams.com/video/vuwQhZluOg4/video.html)

    • @iolog513
      @iolog513 Před měsícem +1

      Perhaps reflects the difference between UK and USA standing on the international stage. USA politics is more likely to affect UK lifestyle and world events than UK politics would affect USA lifestyle and world events.

    • @ben-tendo
      @ben-tendo Před měsícem +3

      @@iolog513 to a degree perhaps, but I do feel it potentially causes an introvert only America matters narrative for people. Plus the whole UK is America’s closest ally thing should mean interest is important.

    • @iolog513
      @iolog513 Před měsícem +1

      @@ben-tendo not sure I can fully agree with you. USA is one of the "super-powers" and so who is president, is of international importance and international media coverage will reflect this. I am not sure how many UK citizens would know a great deal about USA politics, beyond presidential elections or news involving the president. UK was part of the European Union for around 50 years and I don't think that many UK people even knew who the elected European Member of Parliament representing their own area was; let alone how the European Parliament worked. I wonder how many UK citizens could name the current leader of the European Parliament or comment on her election process; or could name 25% of the current leaders of European states. I also wonder what percentage of UK citizens would actually be able to name more than 2 or 3 members of the current cabinet in the UK. Make that 4 or 5 members - as I just tested myself and came up with 13 out of the 23 - still couldn't recall 10 of them and I am interested in politics! In the USA and the UK (even though UK general election turnout is usually pretty good) I am not sure how closely politics is followed in informed detail (beyond headlines) due to various reasons like busy work/home lives; more urgent matters such as immediate family issues/circumstances; dissapointment in it; mis-information; lack of trust in polititions/media; prefer to do something else. There is still plenty of info. and media discussion available in USA about international politics, for people that want to know about it - and even videos like this one, which introduces people to UK politicians (although not current.)ĵ

  • @carolineskipper6976
    @carolineskipper6976 Před měsícem +2

    The book which 'revealed' the 'Pig Gate' story was not written by Cameron. It was a biography which was low on sources for some of its claims. So no-one really knows the truth of this story- but we all like to think it's true!

  • @eddisstreet
    @eddisstreet Před měsícem

    it's a while ago now, but there was Kinnock falling over on the beach and getting a bit wet. And there was Kinnock at the Sheffield Rally.

  • @OneAngryPagan616
    @OneAngryPagan616 Před měsícem +3

    A shame about Ed Miliband. Actually a gd man.

  • @philhebden374
    @philhebden374 Před měsícem

    The van said if you're here illegally go home or face arrest. What's wrong with that? it could have said if you break the law stop it or you will be arrested. same thing

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 Před měsícem +3

    When they write a new list, they will have to add all Sunak's PR disasters, in the current general election. Some to be going on with, leaving the D Day 80th anniversary commemorations early, getting photobombed by a boat full of Lib Dem supporters and announcing the election, while getting soaking wet in the rain outside No 10, to the sound of Things Can Only Get Better, by D:ream, which was Tony Blair's campaign song. Also why does he keep saying the word plan? 😁😆🤣

  • @TCJones
    @TCJones Před měsícem +1

    Boris was in the same club...

  • @jackpearson5285
    @jackpearson5285 Před měsícem

    The reason people wanted to save Geronimo was because the testing system was faulty. He had tested positive twice but both times he had been primed with tuberculin, which produced false positives. The eventual postmortem report (which the govt took months to release) found that he did not in fact have any signs that should be present if he had TB.

  • @sailorhms
    @sailorhms Před měsícem

    Two Jags (the car)Prescott thus became Two Jabs Prescott, best publicity he had at the time,

  • @officechairpotato
    @officechairpotato Před měsícem

    Prescot's numbers did go up after the punch.

  • @adamtoms761
    @adamtoms761 Před měsícem +1

    Cummings wasn’t forced to resign over the Barnard Castle affair, just to be clear. He left No. 10 much later than that

  • @OneAngryPagan616
    @OneAngryPagan616 Před měsícem +1

    Dominic Cummings; one of the people responsible for the ruinous Brexit.

  • @stuartcollins82
    @stuartcollins82 Před měsícem

    Re: Starmer running for Prime Minister. In the UK, someone doesn't "run for Prime Minister". The Party is running for Government in the election. If his Labour Party wins, as leader of that Party, he will by default be made Prime Minister. The Labour Party could choose another Leader, or put someone else forward. So it's the Party that gets elected, not the Leader as such, although most people in the UK are confused by this too.

  • @MattCarter67
    @MattCarter67 Před měsícem +8

    (Queen E is a bit dead JJ)

    • @keithbeall7981
      @keithbeall7981 Před měsícem +2

      So possibly not following you think?

    • @MattCarter67
      @MattCarter67 Před měsícem +2

      @@keithbeall7981 Maybe Charlie is!

    • @sg-yq8pm
      @sg-yq8pm Před měsícem +1

      Pay attention Matt, JJ looked to the heavens as he was talking.

  • @GazGaryGazza
    @GazGaryGazza Před měsícem +5

    PieFace Cameron didn't put that in his book, it was written by Lord Ashcroft so totally unsubstantiated but because no one likes Cameron we were all more than happy to take it as gospel 🤣. The issue Prescott talked about after being egged was that he said he's just been hit in the face with something and he didn't know what it was and he felt something running down his face and neck which he thought may have been blood. It was just instinct and he didn't get any bad press that I remember, it's a natural reaction to defend yourself.

    • @Shoomer1988
      @Shoomer1988 Před měsícem +2

      I suppose it's possible Ashcroft was telling porkies.

  • @mikryan6567
    @mikryan6567 Před měsícem +1

    Yes Charlie wrote that about that

  • @declanb21
    @declanb21 Před měsícem +3

    "Queen smiling but not for long" is possibly the best intro I've ever heard!

  • @streaky81
    @streaky81 Před měsícem +1

    Prescott was definitely a PR win, he's relatively liked on all sides of politics generally, though there have been a few actual PR disasters in his career.
    Also it's assault, battery and criminal damage. I think it should be considered terrorism too - using violence and the fear of extreme violence to force people to disengage from the political process, IDK what that is if not terrorism, but apparently I'm alone in this legal theory. We have a common law legal system though so who knows..

  • @Naztash
    @Naztash Před měsícem +6

    lettuce?

  • @BeansBricks
    @BeansBricks Před měsícem

    8:04 Maybe the King does now instead.

  • @neuralwarp
    @neuralwarp Před měsícem

    TB is readily treated with antibiotics, and prevented with [the V intervention]. British law lags.

  • @janicekingham9043
    @janicekingham9043 Před měsícem

    Poor Geronimo 😢. What a disgrace 💜

  • @neilford7338
    @neilford7338 Před měsícem +1

    Thumping egg man did prescott no harm at all. Even Heseltine supported him in a TV interview.

  • @KevFrost
    @KevFrost Před měsícem

    8:00 Sadly Her Majesty the Queen died about 18 months ago.

  • @peanutbutterbruv
    @peanutbutterbruv Před měsícem

    The Millband sandwich was in part because he is from a Jewish background and there was antisemitism surrounding it. His answer was to eat a bacon sandwich in public.

  • @kerryannestevenson6099
    @kerryannestevenson6099 Před měsícem

    Cameron didn’t write the book,Lord Ashcroft did.

  • @youtoobah
    @youtoobah Před měsícem

    to be fair, those pork ribs might have ended up being a bit too.... salty...

  • @freddienewton8510
    @freddienewton8510 Před měsícem

    The Queen doesn't watch your channel, she's dead.

  • @Jamie_D
    @Jamie_D Před měsícem +3

    She watches your channel? You remember she's not with us anymore right? :(

  • @mikryan6567
    @mikryan6567 Před měsícem

    Prescott in general or party gate

  • @katherinethompson4500
    @katherinethompson4500 Před měsícem

    😂😂 I love watching your horror at how ridiculous uk is 😂😂😂

  • @spiritusinfinitus
    @spiritusinfinitus Před měsícem +1

    2019.. You're not serious about believing it was due to a bat, are you?! (The evidence for GoF research is overwhelming at this stage, and was provably suppressed at the time, as evidenced by now revealed high ranking communications in the British government)

  • @JacknVictor
    @JacknVictor Před měsícem

    Milliband being of jewish ancestry may be one of the reasons that he didnt seem to be enjoying his bacon sandwich?
    Saying that, i know many people with similar ancestry that enjoy a bacon butty. Ive heard that David Baddiel will snatch your fingers off if there's a free bacon sarnie on the go. Also a bacon sandwich is normally the first port of call for a few ex muslim friends of mine after leaving Islam. I asked some of them why bacon and not alcohol first, and they all confirmed that the bacon sandwich is a bigger F-you to their former life.
    I find that a bacon sandwich fixes everything. Except Milliband's career.

  • @JonathanElliotMay
    @JonathanElliotMay Před měsícem

    07:59 just to point out, Queen Elizabeth II is no longer with us, unless she already subscribed before her death, I’m afraid you’re gonna be waiting a while l lol

  • @mediocredan8194
    @mediocredan8194 Před měsícem

    Extra salty pork ribs 😃

  • @aaronbrown7217
    @aaronbrown7217 Před měsícem

    That's just politicans in general.

  • @williamwhitty7243
    @williamwhitty7243 Před měsícem

    its about money taking care of money

  • @PaulCoaley
    @PaulCoaley Před měsícem

    Ed Miliband bacon sandwich was told because he is a non practicing Jew

  • @nolasyeila6261
    @nolasyeila6261 Před měsícem

    Better not read "Papillon" 🐖

  • @richardk5246
    @richardk5246 Před měsícem +1

    We know the name of the bat from 2019. Anthony Faucci.

  • @mikryan6567
    @mikryan6567 Před měsícem +1

    Bulliginton club

    • @mikryan6567
      @mikryan6567 Před měsícem

      There's a fallout 4 room based on it right next to swans pond

  • @retrowatches1655
    @retrowatches1655 Před měsícem

    They certainly should go home ......

  • @Tcoldsteel
    @Tcoldsteel Před měsícem +1

    🇬🇧 Never heard of the mound or fields of wheat. Prescott just defended himself and we all knew it.
    I doubt the queen watches this channel as she died 2 years ago, and as regards to HRH Liz vs PM Thatch, just women eh?

  • @georgejones3172
    @georgejones3172 Před měsícem

    You really belive it was a bat huh

  • @enemde3025
    @enemde3025 Před měsícem +1

    Maybe they should have had other languages on the "GO HOME" buses so illegals could read it in their own language !!??

  • @floating_voter
    @floating_voter Před měsícem

    You still believe in the BAT

  • @Rawk001
    @Rawk001 Před měsícem +3

    Am I the only one who caught him saying “Edward 2” reading “Edward II” 😂, he’s obviously not used to saying monarch’s names I know but still made me lol. Fyi for peops who don’t know it’s read/said “Edward the second”