Looking back at 14 years of Tory rule - where did it go wrong for the Conservatives? | Vote 2024
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- After coming to power under David Cameron in 2010 and led by four prime ministers since, we examine what the past 14 years of Conservative rule have been like.
Sky News' Mark Austin is joined by former No 10 communications director Sir Craig Oliver and former culture secretary Baroness Nicky Morgan as they explore the past period of Tory premiership.
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It went wrong the moment Cameron got elected in 2010. An awful, nepotistic, and actually rather cruel administration. He called the Brexit referendum, and resigned the moment it didn't go in his favour.
I didn't mind May despite my disagreements with her (I don't think any PM would have thrived under the circumstances). The rest were awful. Johnson was a sociopath, Truss devoid of intelligence, and Sunak was dim and out of touch. But it all began with Iggle Piggle and his band of Eton Hooray Henries.
...... specifically when Cameron caved under the manipulation of the British public by Farage and the right wing loons in his party by having a referendum. It was badly thought out and administered too quickly with no analysis of the disiaster it would create for the country.
Hopefully people will learn from this to never let them run our country again
he called that Brexit vote to keep himself in power and stop what happened this election....the right of the Tory right going to reform,Brexit,ukip etc ....
@@OrangeUtan1 is that run or ruin? ;)
Where did it all go wrong?????? It was never right, “we can’t go on like this” was their slogan, instead they gave us 14 years of austerity, made us the pariahs of Europe, smashed many peoples dreams of owning their own homes and put the cost of living through the roof, whilst inviting their cronies to rip off the NHS (PPE) and other quango inefficient contracts. Nothing good came from their 14 years and don’t get me started on Bojo’s handling of Covid.
By far the worst of them all was David Cameron, he caused this mess. He rolled the dice on the future of this country, not once but twice. First with the Scottish Independence referendum and then with Brexit, none of which he personally wanted or campaigned for. He didn't do what the people voted him in for but instead decided to do the bidding of the SNP and UKIP that hadn't earned any electoral mandate. And of course the second gamble didn't pay off and we will forever live with the consequences of that grave mistake.
If anything the independence referendum worked out well for him. The SNP hadn't been in power long enough to build up the level of trust they needed, he made sure to not have "Devo Max" on the ballot and the result was getting rid of Alex Salmond, the best politician in the country, and replacing him with the MI5 plant of Nicola Sturgeon.
@@drunkenhobo5039That referendum nearly led to the end of the United Kingdom and Cameron allowed that risk to happen. He put the petty party political disputes of the time ahead of the future of the nation and he didn't care how it went because he knew if his gamble didn't pay off, he wouldn't be the one paying the price. He risked permanent consequences over temporary squabbles. It doesn't get more reckless and irresponsible than that.
@@ElaborateTiger If he'd said "no" then support for independence would have increased a lot.
@@drunkenhobo5039 Or he could have simply endured it, instead of conceding to their demands immediately. Spain did that with Catalonia and it eventually died down. Typically when a party wins an election, they're expected to govern according to their own agenda, not the agenda of the opposition parties who lost.
14 years of destruction devastation austerity decline gaslighting
And it's finally over, thank goodness.
Immigration Austerity. Our wages are suppressed and our public services are overwhelmed. Torys love mass immigration.
and now more of the same
Sadly Reform is also at the gates
@@leerogers9949 Really?
Corruption and dishonesty... nothing else
And greed.
Outright scripted lies.
There should be an investigation on the billions the party stole for their own benefit we know it’s in the billions. And baroness Mone Mrs kerching 💰 🤑
Add to that nepotism and cronyism
@@ronniechan2041 thats all they have ever beem about
The damage this party has done to the country is beyond description.
BREXIT is where it all went wrong.
Yes where it started. Then there was Covid. If they had done more for cost of living and more support for the NHS they would have won.
And the only party pushing to rejoin are the Greens
Yup, all they had to do was deliver on the mandate given to them by voters. They refused.
@@notjustforhackers4252 Exactly!
Yeah they betrayed Brexit
They partied during quarantine, people died while they were having fun.
but but but they got the Vaccines first....
well... I may have to confess something. I may have had some fun during corona.. I know know.. I am sorry for it! I shouldnt have had fun while people were dying :l
Record level of debt while claiming to run a tight ship.
I hate to be the one to point it out, but if Labour have promised to spend more money on public services and not increase your taxes, they will have to borrow more money than the tories are currently.
@@vaust3026 Not necessarily, if they manage to boost GDP by deregulating the economy. This is, in fact, step one in their plan.
@@miguellama7618 GDP is a ponzi scheme. We've achieved negligible overall growth by artificially increasing the population.
GDP per capita has remained stagnant since the 2008 crash.
De-regulation is a perfectly sensible start but unless corporation tax is reduced businesses of all sizes will contine to struggle.
For legitimate growth we need jobs and industry outside of the London financial bubble, but investors won't invest in manufacturing if we are bound by nonsensical net 0 policy and excessive taxes.
I remain skeptical but open to persuasion.
Anything is better than the pathetic excuse for a Conservative party we've suffered for 14 years.
@@vaust3026 GDP is the sum of sales made in a country not a Ponzi scheme. GDP per capita can be increased by making an economy more efficient without increasing population. How this is done is up for debate but some early on solutions I can think of are:
1. Scaling back the town and country planning act.
2. Increasing law enforcement efficiency.
3. Going back to the EU (repeal Brexit) or reach a trade deal with Europe.
4. Increase spending on education.
5. Regulate monopolies (this is quite a problem in the energy sector)
@@vaust3026 nope. they could simply not waste it like the tories did. 500m to send 1 person to rwanda etc. hundreds of billions on useless PPE is another.
Shouldn’t that be titled 14 years of Tory misrule
Only David Cameron, "The Heir to Blair" was a Blairite.
Having set the stage, subsequent Conservative administrations didn't feel able to break from the policies he'd been following. The one administration which did, was torpedoed by the Bank of England within 6 weeks of being formed.
The current condition of the national finances is the consequence of 27 years of Blairite policies.
Yeah with the great help of Murdoch and Farage - never forget!
Can we recover after 14 years of corruption. I hope so.
"Looking back at 14 years of Tory rule - where did it go wrong" On day 1.
the last few years been a lot worse than ever been,Wonder what Labours rule going to turn out like,People even telling me they ant any better as well
Absolute incompetence.
Austerity + tax hikes, what could’ve gone wrong
The debt pile is still growing and Labour will need to address it. The interest alone is now more than the entire education budget. Hopefully, we can get back to strong growth, but that will need a strong Europe, and we're seeing the opposite.
@@st4331
Leftists love to increase taxes though not the other way around
When will people learn giving money to already rich people is bad 🙄
Sunak is the richest PM ever. Completely out of touch with struggling people
Where did it go wrong? When they were given power to rule.
Not given, but mandated by ignorant voters.
Oh God. Do we really have to? I'd rather forget those terrible years
It was like the boat ride in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
If we don´t learn from our history we are doomed to repeat it. Brexit was the greatest plunder in recent British history.
The worst is yet to come. Good luck.
Yes, rest of us aren't snowflakes
I support labour but dont consider uk economy will show sign of growth
People said the 1980s was bad, the 2010s was far worse. The people must never forget how horrible they were in power
As a poltical scientist in my view it went wrong extremely early in Cameron's premiership .... It was his loss of Andy Coulson that started a whole series of calamaties, ending in Brexit ... The tone of Cameron's governance changed noticably the second that Coulson was gone. Cameron went from confident leadership to huddled around the fire with a few cronies.
Theresa May never stood a chance ... The times created by the huge lie of Brexit, was only fit for the likes Johnson, Truss and indeed, Grey Man Sunak.
They'll not be missed. Hopefully people understand that it took the Conservatives 14yrs to create this mess, hence Starmer cannot fix it in 14 days or weeks.
They got 80 seat majority but went for mass immigration/ cheap labour for international finance capitalism.
They have reduced our ancestral homeland to an economic zone open to the World in the interests of international finance.
It will take DECADES to repair the damage Tories have done.
Andy Coulson, the guy behind phone hacking? Hmm... if that was what was keeping conservative together and strong then it says a lot about the party
Starmer won't be able to fix it in 14 years. At best, he might slow the decline, but he'll struggle to stop it, especially as he's reluctant to intervene on the scale needed. Hopefully he changes his mind...
The people will forget immediately and start blaming Starmer for the symptoms of those 14 years by the time his first morning tea has cooled.
Where did it go wrong??!! At what point did they do anything right!??!
Thank god it’s over. They had more leaders then I’ve had hot dinners.
lolol 🙂
Margaret Thatcher's premiership lasted as long as the tenure of the five PM one.
Britain was a real laughing stock
@@celtictarotreadings333 Funny how Charles has only been King for less than two years, yet during that time, he's welcomed three prime ministers from two different parties. That's gotta be something of a record.
How's it over? A Labour government with a weak and hypocritical leader js
is there anything they did right
They left.
Nope.
Of course! They feathered their own nests whilst fleecing the people of this country. They likely don't even care that they have suffered a huge defeat. That is how grifters operate.
No did nothing right!
At least they accept the election result.
Edit: i hear Liz Truss indeed does not.
Why???? We lived that nightmare. 😢😢😂😂
I'm no fan of the tories, but a big part of the problem has been a lack of effective opposition. The country has been let down.
It actually started going wrong with austerity all that time a go. The very worst effects of austerity are being felt today and those effects are very, very hard to fix, as obviously a decade of under investment is incredibly expensive to fix. If Cameron had chosen to invest in infrastructure instead, raise spending from 3% to around 10% in infrastructure and tackle archaic planning regulation by now UK would be booming with strong growth and have far more money to spend.
It's just not in their nature though. Their views on class simply do not allow the idea that a nation can prosper with a wealthy working class who spend their money on goods and services. To them, the money *needs* to be at the top.
These 14 years will likely be remembered as 14 of the worst and most incompetent governance this country has ever seen, especially the last 8. I really hope Labour can fix the problems the tories have caused and the UK isn’t too far gone
The *ERA* of Truss made me laugh... Out loud😂
Era? Hardly.
Austerity, brexit, the persecution of society's most vulnerable people.
This is why i can't feel any empathy for all these tearful politicians.
14 years and a trail of dead bodies
Money cannot not buy leadership skill. Sunk is wealthy but not wearily to solve problems of state.
No need to look back, just look around and see the damage and devastation the tories have left.
What a beautiful day for British politics ❤
Especially Reform........
Mark my words, UK is going to get broken and devastated...
Not doing what was voted for.... time and time again.
David Cameron. Now " Lord Cameron " , for " Services to the Country ! " l expect Boris will be next . Unbelievable.
Johnson will either become a Lord like Cameron or get a Knighthood.
Warlord
Like every country in the West, UK had become poorer in 2008 and never recovered. Populism arose everywhere - Brexit, Trump, the AfD, National Rally, Georgia Meloni - that's why the Tories lost. A total 14 year period which made everything worse, including abandoning the rules and criticising the courts and everyone else who opposed them. I'm a Remoaner.
The original sin was the decision to pin the blame for 2008 on our public services rather than the bankers who inflated the debt bubble. With that came the decimation of our public services, the immigrant-bashing, the shifting of responsibility to the EU. The Labour right are equally responsible for validating this narrative - their only solution in 2010 and 2015 was to tell voters that they would do austerity better than the Tories and would implement even bigger cuts. Everything follows from the original choice to save the capitalists by cannibalising society.
Most Western countries are actually wealthier than they were in 2008. But whatever the wealth of the West as a whole is, there is no denying that in the last decade, accellerated since Brexit, the UK fared among the worst of them. I can still remember the late 1990s when Germany was the sick man of Europe with no edge against the likes of the UK.
No it's just the UK. The economic crisis is much worse in the UK than any other G7 European nation. It's not populism, Trumps America did very well. It's the fact nobody will act on a much needed radical agenda. Years of mismanagement and being tame is what caused the system to fall. Brexit was no doubt a great mistake and I believe that if Stamer were to join the EU again, our problems would slowly but surely disappear.
@@BrokeInfluencerCash: If the UK rejoined the EU the Brexit problems would hopefully after some time disappear. _Then_ the UK could finally start working on the problems they had in 2010.
@@Nickname-ef9tv The UK isn't rejoining the EU for at least a generation, and that's even assuming the EU is alive and kicking by then. The EU could still be alive by 2040 but no longer offer any tangible benefits for the UK rejoining.
Finally... It's over.... I gave up hope
I hope Labour will learn from the Tories mistakes.
Taking money from the poor and vulnerable typical Tories
Almost immediately is where it went wrong for the UK.
*What a hellscape it was.*
Politicians & diapers need to be changed often.., for the same reason. Mark Twain.
The most rotten 14 years in my life...Seeing those pampered and cruel Etonians, Cameron and Osborne I knew we were f....d !
Cameron really brought the UK to its knees and things went from bad to worse from that moment on.
Clown warlord
Cameron can go back to lobbying.
He's still got his seat in the House of Lords thanks to Sunak.
The cracks started under Cameron, got wider under May, stretched to just beyond breaking point under Johnson, credibility failed spectacularly under Truss and Sunak lacked political experience to patch things back together, he didn't stand a chance, not that I'm complaining. Let's hope that Starmer's incoming government can at least stabilise things, to quote a former US President, "return to normalcy,"
Normal. That is exactly what we need. Weekly soap pantomime cancelled.
What exactly will Starmer do differently?
@@1compaqedr8 I reckon that although things won't change straight away, at least in a wider sense (after all, a government changing course is like turning a supertanker, it takes time), but at the very least, it won't be a daily soap opera in terms of the governing party turning on itself
@@1compaqedr8Hopefully consider policies that benefit the people. Ordinary people. Working people. Can't think of 1 under Tories. Labour left a list before going last time. Yes if people look they did!
The media became a laughing stock
When hasn't the mainstream media been a laughing stock
News has always been a joke since 1930s and will be a joke for forever.
I can't believe we lived through Theresa May's dancing.
lol
From the outset. The rest of the world grew its way out of the sub-prime aftermath but the Tories - at a time when interest rates were rock bottom for several years and finance was incredibly cheap - chose austerity. Then, just when they had made everyone angry enough at the system, decided that calling a Brexit referendum would solve their own divisions and stop UKIP from pinching a few seats from them. Everything since then has been chaos.
14 years of lies lies and more lies!!!! GOOD RIDDENS TO THEM!
Some importants events are left apart: Johnson's diners, Cameron's return in government, the civil war between the socialist and the liberal branch of the Labour...
Where did it go right for them? time for jail sentences
I can't wait until the PPE investigations. There's going to be criminal proceedings
Indeed!
I only wish I could have seen the look on Nick Ferrari’s muppet face when the results were announced 😂😂😂
They should never be allowed to lead the country again.
Don't worry after few years the those idiots will be in power.
2010 Cameron said it himself Britain needs to reform. History wise interesting- rishi failed due to procrastination
This video should be about 3 hours long.
Nick (I'll scrap tuition fees) Clegg.
I think we’d rather forget. Thanks
Where did it go wrong? I think a few seconds after the Queen invited Cameron to form a government in her name.
14 years summed up in 6 mins 😂
Rule... not service. There s the start of your problem.
A dark time in our nations history.
Theresa May saying a citizen of the world is a citizen of nowhere was a really dark turn in British history. It will haunt my nightmares for ever. 2:28
One word: hubris. Their own egos, arrogance and self interest tripped them up at every turn. Painfully predictable outcome and unnecessary suffering for us all on the receiving end of grotesquely punitive policies. We will NOT forget, we will NOT forgive.
5,168 days…that’s how long the UK has been under the Tories brand of managed decline.
What a disaster. It all went wrong when Cameron opted to appease a vocal minority to prevent ukip splitting a few tory seats
Yep and what has brexit achieved
@@celtictarotreadings333New trade deals across the world. Rolled out vaccine faster than any EU Country.stopped pick pocketing Romanians coming.
Cameron has a lot to answer for. The referendum was the beginning of the end for the Tories. It was a stupid decision to hold one, driven by sheer ego and self-interest.
What was it with the 'Rwanda thing' very bizarre!
A huge waste of money.
I think it was designed to look tough on asylum seekers and supposedly to stop the small boats crossing the channel between UK and EU. The crossings are highly dangerous and run by criminal gangs across Europe. The idea being to fly the asylum seekers to Rwanda where they will be held and processed instead of entering the country. Labour has outlined a plan to assemble a task force to target the gangs who facilitate the crossings in a hope to stop the boats at the source. The Rwanda bill was an expensive and divisive approach, it appealed to some but also many disliked the idea, the ethics and the cost. It also didn't stop the boats from coming so I'm not sure it was ever going to work. Bizarre and erratic flailing from a party that was ripping itself apart. That's my understanding of it. Others will probably have a very different take on it.
I just tried explaining it to my American friends and honestly just saying "Well, the government want to fly asylum seekers to the middle of Africa. The courts said it was illegal, so they made a new law to make it be legal instead" out loud sounded like some sort of parody
Labours plan is hot air, more of the same is going to happen @@CHEEEZ-UK
*misrule
The real question is: What even went right? Literally nothing.
they are simply not conservatives with conservative positions.
LOLLL People voted Labour in a landslide because they dont want anymore of your conservative bullshit. Not because they weren’t “conservative” enough
History repeats itself. I can remember when Blair trounced the Tories. It took years - and several changes in the leadership for the Tory party to recover. The same will happen this time round. The Tories are out for at least 10 years. In this time the Labour government will make mistakes and the country will want a change. During this time, the Conservatives will probably veer to the right with unelectable candidates, and then, realising that power in the UK is only achieved by centrist policies will elect someone electable - representing floating voters and their centrist policies. I'm optimistic. The centre will always prevail in the UK - it's not a country that tolerates extremism
After Partygate, there was no way back, and Liz Truss sealed the final nail in the coffin. Cameron did a good job, but it was all downhill after that. The Tories lost their grip, didn't know what they stood for any longer, and betrayed the trust placed in them.
Well its the End Game for Conservatives,now Labour is coming after Rishi and his very rich buddies with Unlimited Wealth Tax and not a single opposition to stop Starmer from going after the Rich.So Rishi not only lost the Election but also lost all is friends wealth 😂😂😂
They will just move their wealth to another country. So instead of getting "little" you'd get "nothing" from them. That is one way to drive your country in to greater debt.
The curtain finally came down on one of the longest running sitcom 😅😅. Thanks for keeping us entertained for the last 14 years 🙏🙏
Brexit, Covid and Ukraine.
It’s never their fault is it 😂😂🤦♂️
Record mass replacement migration.
everyone was happy having a free holiday.
@@evolassunglasses4673you do realise much of the NHS runs on immigrants right? Reforms obsession with immigration won’t do this country any favours.
Russian bot
Boarding school / Oxford boys such as Osborne, Cameron, Johnson, Hannan, Frost have proved to be totally incompetent. Keir Starmer is a state educated graduate of the highly regarded University of Leeds. He is almost certain to be more capable than any of the above.
The vote share was 51 - 49 in favour of Leave... Can we stop pretending that's a meaningful majority?
52 (51.89%) - 48% (48.11%) a difference by 1.3 million votes
1.3 million is a meaningful majority. Particularly when the question is a simple Yes or No
@@martinws8416 Plus - in a referendum like this, not voting is in effect a vote for the majority. Everyone who didn't vote was essentially saying "meh - i'll go with whatever the majority decide".
Abit of a silly comment 😂
@@eljay5009 Indeed
Sir Keir will make Britain Great again
Its all about cycles.
Sky did the same programme in 1997 when 17 years of tory rule came to an end.
BREXIT & WORSTED MANAGEMENT ECONOMY'S..THE PRICE THAT CONSERVATIVE PAY FOR THAT BIGGEST PRICE !!!!!!!
They got a 80 seat majority but went for mass replacement migration/ 1.2 million in one year
Ultimately, Tories lost because they didn't cut down on immigration. The mood was clear-people voted leave because they know the EU was too bureaucratic in UK's affairs to handle immigration. May, then Boris, then Truss and now Sunak-all failed to reduce immigration. It never reduce at all during those 4 prime ministers.
Now, Starmer is PM but only out of spit for the Tories who haven't delivered on their promise to cut immigration.
People voted Leave because they didn't understand immigration. They thought that somehow the EU was leading to non-EU migration, even though that was always under our countrol.
I am not sure why Sunak or anyone else would have wanted to be the PM during a time of crisis. Writing was on the wall and it was obvious that Sunak was going to be blamed for the ills that happened and was happening. He inherited most of the problems that was not easy to fix in a short period of time. Now his name is Mud. If I was in his shoes, I would not have touched the PM post with a thousand foot pole.
Wasn't in the job long enough to get the blame.
He was part of the problem. He was Chancellor before pm.
@@natyak5641 But by all accounts he did well in that position and navigated thru the COVID pandemic.
@@natyak5641 Chancellors who eventually become Prime Ministers always seem to get voted out of office - See also John Major and Gordon Brown, for future reference.
The Tories after a crushing defeat have nothing to show during its long tenure in power.
Labour Party ends 14 years of Conservative rule.
Chaotic governance, scandals, a cost of living crisis, inflation and a tumultuous exit from the European Union are believed to have contributed to the Conservative party's worst performance in its history.
Successive scandals, including Boris Johnson being seen at parties during the Covid-19 lockdown and Liz Truss's slew of tax cuts causing a market sell-off, had already eroded voter trust.
Rishi Sunak inept handling to its economic crisis and its social problems is a self-inflicted woes and catastrophe that he has created.
He replace an incompetence Liz Truss who replace another equally incompetence Boris Johnson for the premiership.
It is a great embarrassment for the British society as a whole when Rishi Sunak, an Indian origin to hold the highest office of Great Britain.
Netizens call Sunak clown.
Jacob Rees-Mogg says Rishi Sunak was not a successful chancellor and Nigel Farage slammed Rishi Sunak as a total and utter fraud.
The British has spoken loud and clear as voters appear to be punishing Rishi Sunak governing Conservative Party for its incompetence.
It would be difficult for the Conservatives to demonstrate competence and make a comeback in the 2029 polls.
No not 14 years of tory rule, more the case being 14 years of tory misrule and near encroaching tyranny.
Really well put together material. Shows how it all went..
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, and I’m feeling good. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Shocked at most people’s reaction to the end of Tory rule. As if the majority didn’t vote for them… 3 seperate times
What a shitshow
They just filled there pockets
Disastrous
Has Liz trust gone in the book of world records
How cheeky of him to say we had challenging times since world war nothing like it
I knew the tories would get more seats than the predictions suggested due to all those secret tories. I was dreaming of a Lib Dem opposition. The irony of falling behind a party they begged to join them in coalition. Great results for Lib Dem anyway
Good riddens to the clueless tory spoons
14 years of not so good plans
14 years of ridiculous tories
5 ordinary prime ministers
David Cameron (10-16)
Theresa May (16-19)
Boris Johnson (19-22)
Liz Truss (Sep-Oct 22)
Rishi Sunak (22-24)
I want to thank David Cameron for once again making Paris Europe's financial hub. As a UHNW individual I was reading myself to move from the city in 2013 but talks of Brexhit made every single relevant bank and corporation shore up their position on Paris and my incomes from rents on building I own in Paris quadruple between 2014-2016 and more than quadrupled since.
Also, UK was the largest taker in terms of farming subsidies so all my French, Spanish and Portuguese wineries but subsidised, something that couldn't happen before Brexhit. This man was a miracle worker for Europeans.
to be fair I really think Theresa may was in the wrong place at the wrong time
In retrospect, May wasn't that bad. A lot better than the 3 clowns we had after her.
What was the soundtrack they used?
wow, so well edited.
"even failing to win over those whose very instinct is to follow" was brutal
Then sky did a similar programme in 2010 when 13 yrs labour government came to an end.
Welp what else could labour ask for. 0 expectations and anything they do well will look a lot better now
People have become poorer and the rich have become richer ! People have had enough !
No matter if Britain has got a Labour leader as PM the country will remain conservative !
Conservative? This is one of the most dangerously left wing countries