UK - Tony Blair speaks of Diana's death
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday (31/8) expressed his sadness and shock at the death overnight of Diana, Princess of Wales. Before a church service in his Sedgefield constituency, Blair spoke of the grief felt by all of Britain at Diana's death. He paid tribute to the late princess's warmth and care of the sick,dying and disadvantaged.
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SEDGEFIELD, UK 31/08
Prime Minister Tony Blair and wife Cherie with children walking towards press;
Blair walks to microphone;
SOT Blair: "I feel like everyone else in this country today. Utterly devestated. Our thoughts and prayers are with Princess Diana's family. Particularily her two sons, the two boys. Our hearts go out to them. We are today a nation in Britain in a state of shock, in mourning, in grief that is so painful for us. She was a wonderful and warm human being. Though her own life was often sadly touched by tragedy she touched the lives of so many others in Britain and throughout the world with joy and with comfort. How many times shall we remember her and in how many different ways with the sick, the dying, with children and
the needy when with just a look or a gesture that spoke so much more than words she would reveal to all of us the depth of her compassion and humanity. We know how difficult things were for her from time to time I'm sure we can only guess at but the people everywhere, not just here in Britain but everywhere, they kept faith with princess Diana. They like her, they loved her, they regarded her as one of the people. She was the people's princess and that's how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and in our memories forever";
Blair walks into St. Mary Magdalene church;
ws church;
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"She was the people's princess and that's how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and in our memories, forever" rest in peace
Whether you personally like Blair or not, there’s a time and a place.
This was a pleasant speech & it communicated what most people felt about Diana, whether you believe he was being personally sincere or not.
While I DO follow the Royals, I am not too well versed on Tony Blair. However, I do feel it was very appropriate for him to make a statement, regardless of how the queen felt. Diana was a public figure, the Peoples' Princess. It matters not that HRH was taken away.
You're a gullable one aren't you
@@saakib9426
How am I “gullible”.
I said “It communicates what most people felt about Diana, whether you believe he was being personally sincere or not”.
Perhaps you can’t read?
I wonder who is the umbrella man? Was this his fulltime job? To hold Blair's umbrella? Notice that he was holding it prior to the speech yet as they were walking away after the speech Blair took the umbrella from him and held it himself. Long live the umbrella man.
@@jamescampbell5495 his name is John Burton, he was Blair’s constituency agent.
A lot of people don't know but Diana became close to Tony and his team as she served as an informal adviser to Tony in the run up to the 1997 General Election. She advised him on how to relate more to people. That's why Tony's was emotional and his struggle to get through his remarks were real and authentic. That's why every word that he said here came from the heart.
If you believe that your a fool. Alistar campbell said they rehersersed this speech over 100 times, to create a narrative that made TONY look relatable to the people.. it looks + feels fake, and this was tony doing what tony does best... using a situation or person to try and get the people to trust him... do your research.
@@gtavmj-1852 Absolutely, the guy's here for HIMSELF, and that's all.
Meow! 😂
In spite of what many Blair haters say; that he was merely "acting" when giving this statement, I always believed he was sincere, thus your information is greatly appreciated.
@@artconsciousness As sincere as when he delivered his "lets help the US invade Iraq because they have weapons of mass destruction" speech even though intel suggested otherwise. This guy serves his Yaldabaoth/Archonic force masters well. Come on, consciousness is in your name, navigate through the deception.
Oh stop it. Blair admired Diana deeply. He is the one who forced the palace to release a statement.
Great speech. R.i.p HRH Princess Diana💜
I was totally gutted when this happened. Glued to the television. Disbelieve. Anger. Grief. And he did gave the right speech at that moment.
Great speech.
It's been 23 years since her demise and I still feel the strings of my heart being pulled. I do follow the Royal family and if the queen actually felt that distant and cool, shame on her. Diana was the mother of two of her grandchildren and a possible future King. Thank you Tony Blair.
yes!
And so you should!
It’s a private matter. She’s head of state, not a politician
Love or hate Tony, he was a master speaker
Blair captured the mood of the nation
Perfect.
He wanted to cry but had to stay strong for the nation 💔😭
You've just been duped by a psychopath.
What amazes me more then this very deep and highly controversial topic , is that we as people can’t have a difference of opinion or a friendly dialogue. There’s always defensiveness , nasty words thrown and the most incredible sanctimony .
Nothing wrong with opinion differences, but have some dignity and respect for others .
Anyone here after watching The Queen 2006 starrring Helen Mirren?
Her Royal Highness....Princess of Wales.... Lady Diana Spencer..... She had many titles. However, the People's Princess (a term coined at this moment documented above) is a title that resonated with those who loved her around the world. 25 years after her death and she's still the People's Princess.
Tony Blair spoken from his heart
Bullshit
Charles and Camilla made Diana stressed. Charles told Diana that Camilla was just a friend to him, however it was more than that. Camilla and Charles weee together, and still were when Diana was married to Charles. Diana didn’t need to go through that and Charles was jealous of Diana getting media attention more than him
Somebody has watched the Crown!
@@user-km7rc4qc2j rather an insipid view of circumstances, isn't it?
A hell of speech summing everyone’s thoughts.
Not everyone, Only 25 million people watch her funeral on tv, 35 million didn't. I thought the country had gone mad with hysteria.
@@fuzzstar7878millions more watched around the world, me & my family included and we lived halfway around the globe.
I have a eulogy to give for my mother on Monday, and I've been repeatedly watching this video and EMK's eulogy for RFK because in both instances the speaker absolutely hit it out of the park
Sorry about your mum. Must be a tough time for you.
@@jennytaylor3324 there are nice people on youtube and jenny taylor is proof. By the way, my eulogy went over extremely well
@@bucksdiaryfan Thanks! Glad it went well for you, mate. x 😉
currently parked up at the exact spot where this speech was delivered
Still there?
Vibes
What an acting masterclass. He should have got an Oscar for that
Why the fuck was it acting? He spoke for the people and tgere was sincerity in his voice. I know he had grad admiration for Diana!!
@@Burnstein209 He planned and practised the statement for two hours that morning with Alistair Campbell. It's in his diaries
@@chrish2359 and that is telling me what exactly about my comment??
Ian Burns that it was acting
@@chrish2359 So there wasn't any sincerity or admiration because somthing was rehearse? So again that tells me what about my comment??
I am shocked about how many people keep attacking him over Iraq, as if he was the only leader misleading his people about it.Britain was much better off when he was a prime minister. Education was better, social care’s standards were high, NHS thrived, communities got back together. Seriously, look at Britain’s Prime ministers after him to realise he was the last leader of this country.
Exactly!
It's about the state of the countey when he leave suffice which matters. And just look at them.
Yes, it's called a bubble that popped in 2008.
Yannis Papalexandris..............yes so you must have been EXTREMELY APPALLED as well as 'shocked' at the monumental MESS Bliar and his Champagne-Socialist-Partners-in-Crime LEFT THE STATE OF THIS COUNTRY'S FINANCES IN THEN after they were kicked out then?
The "money" that lunatic pumped into all those "Services" (and Wars he supported) was all doner by using 'BORROWED MONEY' ATTACHED WITH MASSIVE PAY-BACK-INTEREST-RATES which our kids would be paying back for years to come.
And to add insult to injury, the men "working" in his Treasury Dept left a a hand-written NOTE on the table for their In-Coming- Conservative Replacements which said.........
"Sorry - there's no money left!"
which the outgoing-Nutjobs obviously thought was a "very apt & funny comment" considering the Serious State they left the country in.
Not a SCOOBY-DO about how to even run a MENTAL INSTITUTION let alone letting them out to run a COUNTRY.
That's why the people have never trusted nor voted in a Labour Government since.
@@elizabethsheffield6609 I would suggest you get yourself educated with regard to history and politics. The note thing is an irrelevancy. It's been a thing for a long time. A jest between political friends. A Conservative Chancellor left a note saying the exact same thing to Harold Wilson's incoming Labour government. The tabloids have seized on a joke in an attempt to turn it into proof that Labour failed when, in fact, Gordon Brown's leadership during the crash and the London G20 was a major reason that recession didn't turn into depression. Read books by Jeremy Heywood and others who were at the conference. It was a good thing for the world that those people were in the Treasury at that time. The current government would have bungled it far worse. Also, government budgets aren't like household budgets. Borrowing isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, Britain has been in debt since before 1800. More damage was inflicted by subsequent Conservative governments than in the entire of the New Labour years. Blair, Brown and Co. weren't perfect, no leaders are, but they were certainly better than the Conservatives.
There's a lot of people saying that Blair was "acting" or "faking" because of the things he said about Iraq later on in his premiership. However, the event was a national tragedy and I don't think there's any reason to doubt Blair's sincerity in this address. He definitely made mistakes, but he wasn't "evil".
Oh he cared.
He cared that he was seen as caring!
he WAS and still is complicit if Diana's murder.
They conjoined and collaborated together on how they could kill Diana and get away with it.
And they truly believed that it was for the "common good"
But they NEVER cared for the common good.
The only people who thought he was insincere and phony are right wing nutters, who probably adore Donald Trump.
I noticed that as much as people have done dark things at some point in their lives, they have done something good. there was a moment when I prayed for him to repent of his mistakes.
He did the job that the Queen should have done on that day. He was sincere, she wasn't.
Blair's was as stagey a performance as I have ever seen in my life. And I remember Donald Wolfit.
Norman Bates: correction - still is!
Fake Labour Men of the People - him AND his hissy-fitting side- kick Gordon Brown. Since faking it as a Prime Minister and Deputy they've become multi millionaires. Gleefully rubbing their hands together in Downing Street counting down the days til they could capitalise on all the financial 'connections' they made.
Never forgot the little hand-written note they left in the Treasury which read "there's no money left" after they were booted out.
Anthony Raz He was not sincere. He was using her death for his own political end.
Good speech writer he's got.
He said this without a script or notes actually!
@@swimminginhoney He's got a good memory
What an acting!Masterclass
From the man who forced the palace to release the statement
You may hate him as a person, but Tony Blair got to know Diana quite well in the run up to the 1997 election. Blair would've been grieving like anyone else in the aftermath of that awful news. Whatever Blair did in 2001 and 2003 onwards is rightfully up for scrutiny and vilification. But these words in 1997 came from the heart.
It would say this moment and the week that followed was amongst the peaks of Tony Blair's premiership.
Plato2017 The peak of his insincerity. He milked her death to bolster his own popularity.
@@mscott3918 No he did not. I suggest you keep your crass opinions to yourself!
Watching this again, Michael Sheen did a really good job in The Queen (2005).
Great actor even in his early days.
The dupers delight still crept out at times tho
@@philly3901 no he was sincere.
Can't critical of Blair here he gave a good speech.
My god learn how to conjugate a verb
@chris jones Is it? It resonated with a nation of grieving people, for someone they never met but felt they knew. And Diana's death sent shockwaves through the way the royal family operate.
If you can't see that then fine, it's your opinion. But take your trolling comments elsewhere. Theres plenty of videos where your criticism of Blair would be more than justified, but instead you pick a video of him paying tribute to a deceased lady.
Disgusting.
@chris jones You’re just in pain yourself so you struggle with empathy
@@CursedWheelieBin You're a very unhappy person Robo, why are you so unhappy?
RIP Elizabeth II
As a descendant of Scotland/ A lover of the isles/Tony Blair with his perfect hair did the dare/ and did the job/ went home ate corn on the cob!
You are Awesome boyo!!!! held it together like a Man,,,nobody but you! YOU!
D
Hell yeah!!
We don’t say “boyo” in Scotland mate 🤦♂️
He’s a war criminal who overplayed intel, and lied about WMDs in order to start a war in the Middle East
Was that Des Lynam carrying his brolly?
Dave Appleby John Burton
Dendiol it was actually a joke. Guy was a dead ringer for Des
Rain
Great words from Blair. The words people's princess was just perfect.
Compare this to our current PMs statement, who couldn't even bother remembering her speech and just read off a script
Tony Blair should not have gone to iraq. Tony Blair did Di right here though. He was the one who made queen lizzie come back and talk. Queen Lizzie didnt think Di's death meant anything. She stripped HRH title due to jealiously.
That title should have been given back once she passed. I'm from the state's and clearly know where I was when I heard the news. I will never forget to. I'm not a fan of Charles at all.
The phrase “people’s Princess” was a master stroke by AlastairCampbell.
Even the prime minister referred to her as 'Princess Diana'😬
Is it just me or does he low key look really happy?
Dupers delight. Cant help himself
Mr. Unctuous himself!
Although a psychopath is a master at feigning emotion, in reality, the psychopath has very shallow emotions or virtually no emotions at all. Most psychopaths learned at an early age that others expected them to exhibit certain emotions at certain times, therefore they learned to fake these emotions.
We ask governments in all countries to unite the bridge pillars as high as one or two meters so that if a car hits a bridge support, it can still slide not as badly as a car crashes into a bridge pillar so that an accident hitting a pillar like what happened to Princess Diana does not happen again, sorry and thank you.
Having the family follow behind him . Politics is so fake
mad drivers as prince willialm my mother was loved through out all of England and the world she died purley by acident
What amazes me about the ongoing condemnation of the Royal family and anyone associated with them for their contentious relationship with Dianna, is how people just ignore how the media contributed to it by lying to her. They showed Dianna falsified documents alleging the Queen had paid for someone to follow and spy on her. Prince William himself said he believed this was the number one reason why her last years were so contentious with family and hindered any chance of reconciliation. So at Dianna’s death it’s logical to assume they were all painfully shocked that they lost her under such circumstances. Think people! Have you ever had a close family member with whom you had a falling out and they died before you reconciled? I have and it’s very painful mourning.
Blair was untouchable during this era
Ok
And now Liz Truss has to give a speech for Queen Elizabeth's death.
I wish so desperately to be among needy people to help them i feel like POW oppressed in my own country like diana i try to escape those around me who i thought i could never be without now i can no longer go on being oppressed being lied to deveived definitely not loved appreciated treated way father wanted for me im mocked not sacred targeted not loved i wish to leave usa be sent to.people who love me always instead of when people r watching i understand what she lived through same make my life hell too please take me from them my father has proved their love is untrue due to way i live in oppressed state on welfare food stamps clothes falling apart is that love if so i will do without their true colors show more
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👉 🇧🇷
it was no accident. everyone knows she was assassinated
Not making her wear a seat belt was a masterstroke.
Tending to the sick and needy was one of the reason why she was killed tho
m scott what do you meant of your messeges to me i dont get.who do ypu meantmany staff had also suffet og unkindness.Who is unkind you meant?
He doesn't look sad at all, it is all acting
Bull shit!!
Didn't he tell the whole of uk that Iraq has weapons of mass restriction and he lied and lied about Iraq? He lied to everybody and forced uk into Iraq war. Well said in your comment! Makes you wonder if he is telling lies here!!!
Agreed - he looks and sounds like a novice actor. He's the coldest son of a bitch I've ever seen.
Another act of pure evil under Tony's watch...
What a sick thing to say. Nobody knew what Tony Blair would turn out to be then. He was elected to office only four months earlier. Mr Blair was a brilliant Prime Minister at first who captured the mood of the nation spot on. 😢👏
So clear looking at this year's on.. NO NATURAL EMOTION.. the words, the timing, it all screams ROBOT. This announcement should have been VERY DIFFERENT... instead, we were all given a PROJECTION AND PORTRAYAL OF A ACTOR who ALWAYS struck me more like a DODGY 2ND HAND CAR SALESMEN who just needed you on side.. than any kind of MODERN MORAL STEWARD.
This GUY watched, learned, targeted, Flattered, and decieved through out his premiership.. becoming and supporting what ever he thought would get him in office.. including the meeting and marrying of cherie to enter a starting point for his OWN PERSONAL AMBITION.
so sad to think we went to war because this guy wanted a LARGE PAY CHEQUE and FINIACIAL SECURITY.
My sentiments exactly!
Weird Freemason hand shapes, blinking too much which shows a lack of truth, too many scripted pauses rather than any true emotion from the heart. He’s hardly giving an intellectual speech to NATO why does it come across as so robotic
Actually if he was faking he would’ve been looking at his bottom right that he did not
@@deadchat6509 thats only true if your consciously unaware your body language is being watched. Anyone that has looked into how to project a fake narrative like tony is FULLY AWARE of what you shouldnt do in terms of body language that gives you away. He spent hours at times practising speeches in front of body analists and spin doctors to appear genuine in that period of time.. now,.. he can be seen as fake due to the almost immaculate presentation AVOIDING ALL NORMAL BODY LANGUAGE complately.
@@gtavmj-1852 complatly? You don’t have to use body language to be sincere eg McCartney it’s his personality it’s science when you lie your eyes move down to your right
remember watching this live...on second look it all seems a bit fake.Probably shouldnt have said that, will be expecting a rogue bomb in my letterbox. If I dont post in the next week, then you know its true :-)
Sorry but that is vomit inducing.
I’ll give him this one speech this one time ok back hating him
Agreed.
But.
And it's a big but.
What's with the acting?
The lies?
The murder?
i always love princess diana and hate camilla and prince charles. they were the one who causef misery life of princess diana.
Linda Deocareza And what about the several dozen of her loyal Staff who's lives she made such a misery that rather than put up with her unkindness that they resigned. To prevent them from wrecking her reputation Prince Charles paid them three times the amount that they would have been awarded had they taken their cases to an industrial tribunal. He saved her from the consequences of her actions.
The People’s princess 👑
what a hot man!!! I couldn't pay attention to what he said
as soon as he turns around he is laughing, because she didnt die, such an act and he's not very good at it, duping delight the whole way through,brolly man also laughing
If she didn't die, then what happened to her?
I think she died but agree with u abt the dupers delight. He knew what really happened.
Just seems so fake...
What like your hair do! Lol
@@Burnstein209 calm down
@@composingwithjames Hahahahaha. Took someone a year to tell me to call down! LOL
@@Burnstein209 hope you have by now. I can't imagine the damage that has been done if you haven't!
poce blo
MDRRR je m'attendais à tout sauf à ça sous cette vidéo
@@astra3627 je me souviens pas d’avoir mis ce commentaire lol
@@LNey-kx8xb oklm c'était y'a 3 ans
Diana death, morning after, William Hague and Blair on tv - Blair nails it. OK it's a bit staged but he does make a rememberance that those that saw it live won't forget.
All had a hand in it who was it in the killing?
Gibberish! Doesn't make sense!
Blair was clearly a ham actor before he mastered the art of being more convincing, at least from an acting perspective, and convincing himself that he ‘really believed’ in such policies as joining in on the Iraq War. Back in 1997, his acting talents were still clearly being developed. But his ability to be insincerely sincere was still amateurish. Even so, the spin machine, the creation of a fake reality and the politics of fantasy started in earnest with the ghastly ‘People’s Princess’ speech, one carefully choreographed by the sinister and aggressive Alistair Campbell who would play a central role in trying to manipulate the British people into invading Iraq. This speech is important in conveying how much contempt Blair and his regime had for the Intelligence of the British public. The successful manipulation of incontinent herd emotions through such media spin after Diana’s death, the ability to tap into and exploit emotionalism, whether of phony ecstatic ‘love’ of Diana or of fear of WMDs and 45 minute threats, was also part of the way proper political debate based on reason and evidence was displaced by populism. In that sense, the Blair regime, with its post-modern insistence that, as the slimy Peter Mandelson put it, the truth could be created was the real precursor of the post-truth politics implicit in Brexit and forms of nationalist-populism. It is deeply hypocritical of the deranged Blair to condemn populism in 2018, when it was he who foisted this sort of Latin American politics, with its peasant style hagiography of a supposed saint in Diana, on to Britain and did so much to pave the way both in policy decision making and style to the decline of Britain into a third rate country. In a sense, Blair alone cannot be blamed for exploiting popular gullibility and credulity. The media class were complicit in absurdly building up this banal mediocrity and showman into a supposed statesman rather than accepting he was a canny manipulator of opinion and of the media. Too many were mesmerised by how he appeared on the telly, in the days before the Internet revolutionised the media and communications. Though Blair is now a demonic figure, much of this is due to the resentment those who feel conned vent on those who they felt deceived them, as with Iraq. Yet the fact Blair was an actor and fantasist was clearly on view after Diana’s death, but few were paying attention to those voices then in the wolderness who warned about how dangerous and deranged this man was.
A satanic force
He is acting, and not very well
........an EXTREMELY HAMMY ACTOR - and still ii - not to mention a big Champagne Socialist
It were prolly im wot dun it.
Pretty heart felt for a fucking war criminal.
Shang Chunsong ....... You're a liar. War criminal my ass. Defender of democracy is his legacy.
You are a typical lying leftist that can't understand the first thing about defending a nation against terrorists.
Bill Jones Bill, how can you be a Beatles fan and hate lefties?
Saddam Hussein never sponsored terrorism against Europe or the US with as much as a Dinar. That doesn't mean he wasn't a murderous git. But the war had absolutely no connection with defending us against terrorism.
WolfGratz I've big carb loading I look like a house brick
He wasn't a war criminal yet at that time. muh
Robot
Tosser
He returned the favor by killing a Million Iraqi's.
Didn't invent anything Didn't write anything Didn't entertain anyone Didn't discover anything hmmm.. Someday there will be a prince of New York
Blair was as glad as the Royal family were
BRAD PITT He was happy because she knew about the time when he did Prince Charles in the shitter with an octopus leg.😂😂😃😃😃😄😯😯😯😂😂😂
@@TheKonga88 interesting.
Brad Pitt has tried to fool me a few times.
But Brad Pitt is a puppet.
A puppet in this whole dreadful, wicked and terrible saga.
T[he]y should have just left me alone like t[he]y said they would.
Needless to say
I'm all for good people being on my team.
@@drzd6105 But you told me that you was wearing your Christmas hat on that day 🤶🤓🤡🛸👽🌃💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼🧸🚀🎢🎠🎡🌙🌕🎅🏼
Toni liar