Question Time - Tony Blair hustings, 24 April 1997
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- On Thursday 24 April, with one week to go to the general election, Tony Blair takes questions from the Question Time audience.
Note: Opening titles and theme tune removed for copyright reasons. I have added annotations so you know what the voiceover said.
Wow. They don't clap inanely after every sentence.
Craig
Told not to obviously.
C J ~ Yeah,
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holy shit they actually talked about policy back then fuck me!!!!
I know right, it's bizarre.
Instead do shouting 'sovereignty' or 'traitors' or whatever bullshit the loons come out with
They do - get brexit done , save us all from the evil and smart virus , stop the boats and reduce inflation of course
6 minutes in was classic Blair. Slated by a member of the audience and he charms them. Saw him do this so many times and persuade those who were sceptical of him. Guess that's probably one reason why he was so succesful.
Agreed. He talks a good talk. I can see why he was so popular.
Such a shame he ruined his legacy with the Iraq war. I’ve been very interested recently in researching his earlier days. He was miles above anyone who has come after him. On a national level this is the kind of leader the country needs right now.
Amen
Tony was a supreme master of communication .and was able to present his case and confidently argue against opposing views ..whether he was right or wrong on a given topic,he knew how to make his case
He was fantastic and even with the Iraq war he was lied to by the Americans. The information he gave the country was what he knew at the time, his legacy was ruined by bush. Still he should’ve listened to the people instead of listening to the Americans.
@@malcolmjawohowelll2892He was a barrister before entering politics so that is perhaps why he was able to be so convincing in an argument. Aside from that, he was just naturally charismatic and had a smile and a way of talking that seemed to subliminally say “trust me”.
Agreed Kyle. Looking at all the stuff like winter fuel payments, free TV licences for over 65’s, the minimum wage, peace in Northern Ireland. Then backing a total idiot right wing president like Bush. He still believes today he did the right thing and I don’t shed a tear for that Monster Saddam Hussein who had killed 000’s of his own people but what happened after with the de- stabilisation that was always going to happen was a catastrophe of epic proportions. You listen back then and the tories still ran massive public deficits and increased taxation etc but have always apparently been the party to run the Economy better… yeah right. I say this by the way as someone who has voted Tory in my life more than Labour.
I love how polite people were back then.
Yeah. wonder what changed, eh?
The BBC used to have standards and didn't let in a bunch of fat, old, cunty UKIPPERS who shout after an answer they don't like
God bless you for saying that Novadruid. Some things that we have should be kept, we need to strongly reject the things that are unacceptable.
Novadruid standards dropped in UK after 1997 - due to Labours policies. Mid 90s were amazing in UK - been in decline since
TheCausation he let in Less than May!
No matter what people think of him he smashed this out the park!!
As much as anyone dislikes him, Blair would have walked over both Starmer and Sunak with a performance like this.
Look how far our society has denigrated. Imagine seeing a crowd that well dressed and respectful in questions and answers in 2023. Sickening.
You still get respectful people, the problem is question time is an awful show with loaded audiences that is more interested in pushing agendas than furthering debate.
The most impressive thing about this video is the amount of times Blair flat out told someone they were wrong. No politician these days would have the courage to do that
The young man at 5:25 is Andrew Griffith, now a tory MP and just appeared on the Question Time panel himself on 23/11/2023
Well spotted
Not just an MP, a minister right now!
Exceptional political operator. You don't have to like him. He was a cut above anything offered since, Labour or otherwise.
The quality of politics has truly diminished in this country! People here are competent, intelligent and polite, how has the quality of debate and intelligence diminished so much in twenty years?
Competent?
A snippet of the last 40 years.
225 billion PFI debt
virtually no council housing built
education grants cut
tuition fee's introduced
private landlords let rip
refused to renationalise the railways, more PFI
privatisation in the NHS introduced
And our children sent to kill and die in order to kill another nations children, on a pack of lies.
Competent??? Hardly.
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I meant the audience not the politicians. The quality of debate here is certainly higher than that in a 2017 QT.
That's because back then the audience was chosen at random, not selected by an "audience manager" who is known for re tweeting Britain first in her time, as happens today.
Question time has been owned by a small welsh production firm since 2013 which is a shell company to hide its real owners, an american venture capitalist firm called vitruvian partners LLC. The BBC no longer owns nor controls nor funds anything nor anyone on it.
Today on the panel you get two right wingers, a centrist a wet left and a sponge(an artist a poet etc). If a question is asked that makes the right look bad you give it to the sponge, if a question is asked that makes the left look bad, you give it to the right or the wet left depending on whom dimbleby thinks will do more damage to the left which wants to change the economics.
Welcome to era of manufacturing consent in order to hide the truth and prevent you from demanding that change.
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It's all a conspiracy! Maybe a better explanation is that people are less well informed these days. There is an abundance of information, but a lack of analysis. Analysis, whether you agree with it or not, helps you inform your own opinions, and perhaps that is what has changed a long with other factors. I think the growth of UKIP and growing voter apathy from 2005 onwards is also relevant. As for QT itself being selectively bias, it continues be criticised for that from all sides- suggesting it is actually quite unbias. Although in my opinion, it would seem that a softer left backbencher often seems to represent labour, rather than someone more aligned with Corbyn, however, over the GE campaign this year, the audiences seemed to me to be very left leaning. Cheering left wing policies and booing right wing stuff. I think if the audience was less vocal in terms of booing and clapping during the debate, quality would be enhanced, because that way viewers aren't influenced by what could be an unrepresentative audience.
It kinda coincided with access to high speed internet broadband.
You gotta admit Tony Blair was on the Ball.
Every Question he had a Answer Too and Was Never Owned.
The Truth is Tony Blair did his Homework.
He Just Outclassed and Totally Owned in the Tories in 1997 and 2001.
2005 was when he started to show the Tories Some Way Back into Office.
Tony Blair was a Leader however Gordon Brown wasn’t I am Afraid which is the Reason for Labour’s Defeat in 2010.
Dean 11785 Yes Brown was just made a scapegoat for Blair that’s why people chose him to mess up the left hoped that NL would fail to prove the left right
Yep in 97 and 01 he was suave and composed. You could tell he was shook in the 05 QT special, and he knew that he had to resign before the public saw his tenure as smoke and mirrors. Career politician, actor, coward and fraud - that’s Tony Blair summed up.
@@brumav9779 Hell even in 05 he still handled himself pretty well compared to other politicians.
He was a lawyer so of course he was able to do this
The key differences between Blair and Brown, in my view, concerned decisiveness and the ability to sense which direction the political winds are blowing. Blair was just much more adept on both of these fronts. Just a better politician.
Half of these people think he's a raging Tory and the other half think he's a closet communist.
Glad to see the Tony Blair discourse hasn't at all changed much in over 20 years.
It's hilarious, but the government he ran was exactly as he said- fundamentally center-left with certain inherited aspects of center-right social policy that was overwhelmingly popular
Tyler Tone Until the next election taxes begun to go up and then Iraq...
His activities at university and affiliations of him and many of his cabinet during their university days very much supports the latter. Go and read Peter Hitchens and realise that this man was a Machiavellian genius who introduced several cultural and institutional revolutions which have Americanised and changed this country forever.
@@wessexfox5197
And *his 10 years as Prime Minister* very much does not. But obviously his University days are more relevant then his decade in power huh.
If Hitchens said the sky was green would you believe him?
Unfortunately for him, *articulacy does not equal accuracy.*
Quite clear which sibling the smarts went to.
@@StrongandStable17 no I wouldn’t but if you can’t realise what Hitchens has written about Blair is the Gods honest truth then there’s no helping you.
I was born on this day. Time goes quick.
The gulf in glass this man had in front of a live audience compared to todays politicians is wild
Very interesting watching Blair at his heights I don’t agree with his ideas but he’s a smooth operator
It was all acting. The truth came out eventually, he taking money from the banks, on the board of major banks Goldmen and Sachs, hes Rupert Murdochs child's God Father. He spoke out for years about Jeremy Corbyn, stabbing the Leader of the Labour Party and destroying it. But what an actor. What a bastard, what a war criminal, he advises dictators now, because their the only people who'll learn to him.
@@themasteryourdaddy.6307 You disregard all the good he did, life was better under his rule than it was for a long time before and ever since.
@@countingcards1208 oh yeah, section 127 of the Communications act of 2003, devolution that has slowly destroyed the Union, manipulation of crime statistics etc he was terrible all throughout his tenure. Go read Peter Hitchens and watch Academic Agent and read his works (Neema Parvini) and wake up to the truth of what this Machiavellian traitor has done to Britain.
Lol@@countingcards1208
@@countingcards1208really?
I strongly disagree & actively despise some of the things Blair did, like Iraq to mass immigration, but by the time of the next general election he will be the only Labour leader to have won an election for half a century. The Corbynistas refuse to draw any lessons from this. Labour is now at a crossroads similar to that of 1983. Sadly, there is no Neil Kinnock to vote for.
C McG There was. His own son who refused to stand. Sir Keir Starmer is the front runner. He’s totally learned from Blair.
@@veggie42 I'm not too sure. Wishing to campaign to rejoin the EU doesn't seem smart to try and win back the traditional northern voters.
Polite,smart,humour.....watching this audience tells you how wrong this country has gone.The Q at 43.55 'What is your vision of the EU in 20 years time'....UK voted leave 19 years on!! Love to find out if the guy asking the Q was a leaver or remainer!
I watch’s this that night ! Still remember it. Everyone in school said parent were voting labour and it showed me how many were doing it.
It's amazing how the people's perception of good leadership changes over time:
Tony won a landslide majority by actually answering the questions set up by he media.
Boris won a landslide majority by hiding in a fridge, away from questions and the media.
Boris got a large majority because he actually delivered what people wanted.
@@BossySwan by hiding
@@yao052 no
@@BossySwan Corruption? Parties? A failed Brexit?
@@anonymousthanks4718 no
Imagine not being interrupted every 5 seconds. this was class
I like the old school politicians having ago back at the audience/public.
Thanks for adding this @davidboothroyd, important part of recent British history whatever your political views
He was a really smooth operator and was ahead of the game when it came to brand and spin and compared to John Major and the Tories at the time he was a breath of fresh air.
NT GREAT LEADER
'brand and spin' has ruined politics. blair was an absolute disgrace
@@deathspasm9 ‘‘twas ever thus. Trollope wrote novels about this in the late nineteenth century!
he was a crook who should be in prison
@@deathspasm9 for what?
The time before the internet... at least in my household. i think I first got on the internet about 2000/01 using aol dial up... those were the days!
Matthew Burns yh I was using internet before then at school and in the local library I even read the pages
That was 1995 but there wasn’t much of an internet until the millennium
@@veggie42 no Romanian girls either I've spread my seed in a few belive me and 1 or 2 polish
No notes; just knew his shit.
Wow that first question pretty much summed up his leadership from then on.
Tony Blair was did some extremely abhorrent actions as PM, obviously the Iraq War being the most notable but I think Labour today could learn a few things from the man who won them three elections. Labour shouldn't be ashamed of their past, they should embrace it.
fuck me God no I could think of nothing worse. This man is just blathering - it's similar to Theresa May. She's watched videos
Usman Akhtar yes I still liked some of what he did, the smoking ban, he dared to put up fees for university getting more to study hard and the foxhunting ban so good
*Watch carefully how Blair achieves his aims.*
To the tough questions (almost all) he's not afraid to push back. He does so politely without apology but directly. Well, almost. Because he's already moved on to Stage Two which is to say why he and New Labour are different. How he accepts Labour's faults of the past, but times have changed. The audience resonates with this. Then comes Part Three, which is about how he (and New Labour) have a plan to make things better - not exactly how you've raised the question, but by now, you start to see things as he does and are persuadable that he's right and worth a punt.
If one looks at the electoral map, one will see how difficult it is for Labour to win. England is pretty solidly Tory and Labour seats mainly in urban areas. Labour has to win more votes to secure a seat. Labour's presence in Scotland and Wales was much more secure in 1997 than now, and both offered Labour a solid base to make up for Tory shires and non-metropolitan seats. The position is quite different in 2022, and any chance of winning a GE by a majority is slim. It can only be done by appealing to a non-Tory vote in key marginals. The Labour surge of 2017 is often touted as proof that Labour can only win from the Left. This is a fallacy and a misreading of the figures. In a FPTP largely two-party system, battleground seats are so named because they make the difference and no amount of Left-purist dogma will bag these.
Finally, Labour in the late 1990s was hungry to win. It became focused and disciplined. I know many voices on the Left were hushed up (perhaps including mine) but as TB says, it was better to be in power than not. Mine might not be a popular view, but it is a pragmatic one.
My god he had charisma. Such a Well-spoken, confident, handsome man
Yuk
“Handsome” 🤢
It’s amazing that a lot of the same right-wing scare tactics they used in 1997 are still being used in 2024.
take me back to 1997 - What has happened to the UK
New Labour
@twiglet shut up
Ryan Carter Charming.
Twiglet. Without New Labour, the Tories would have been in power for 41 successive years
Take me back 2 years when you made that comment.
Whether you agree with him or not, there is no denying that he was an excellent leader. I remember him saying to Major at PMQs before the election “I lead my party, you follow yours” and, to be fair, he wasn’t wrong.
Anyone else click on this thinking that was a young Blair in the audience?
No that guy looks like that tosser labour MEP who held the sign up behind farage in Brussels saying farage was lying.
Hey maybe I wanted to listen to the theme tune :(
First question is a mic drop. The correct answer, Tony, is "yes, but no one will notice for another 20 years or so".
Cos Its 167 Cameron took off Blair in 2005 and ruined him! nowonder he didn't win in 2010 it was "Blair" v Brown like Brown saw a double of his rival! very sick ploy
Bizarre that you're equating labour led by Blair and labour led by Corbyn. Labour lost heavily in 2019 because they had an out of touch eccentric, Corbyn, as leader.
Even the announcer right at the start reminded me of better things. 1994 thru to 2001 were the best 7 years of my life, and I don’t think it was just due to me being in my 20s.
I don't blame you with the current state of politics
Thank you for uploading this. Do you have the John Major Question Time?
Sadly not.
Do you have any other editions of Question Time?
I doubt I have many, to be honest. Might have some other election specials. But given the struggle I had to upload this one I might have to be careful.
5:39 - Andrew Griffiths, former Tory PPC and CEO of Sky.
Wow, Boris has just hired him as an advisor also.
And now MP somewhere down south
@@BossySwan And now he's head of the #10 policy unit
@@fryliver4953 policy 1: free ice cream for anyone with blue front doors
It is good to hear from a young Tony Blair. He is dealing with a lot of populous concerns with him moving the Labour Party into the middle ground away from the far left. On the issue of referendum I fear he will be greatly disappointed in 2016. The faith he had with the Britons directly voting on the EU will surprise him.
George W Bush at 0.02
59:25 Tony Blair (to audience member) "You don't sound very Scottish to me"
"... Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was born at Queen Mary Maternity Home in Edinburgh, Scotland..."
Things can only get, er, worse
You still licking the Tories' boots now?
Please open auto subtitle for this clip. it’s very great clip.
the points on the EU at around 43 mins are so relevant now
Michael Salter and the fact Blair said “live within our means” and “older people are living longer “ OMG!! And yet not enough homes people didn’t know immigration would rise and who would join the EU by 2004... that changed everything
Fair play. He was excellent in this.
20 years on and Karen Haywood's prediction has come true. Who'd have thought Labour would loose in Stoke South?
wildsurfer12 luckily we're on the way back. The loss of Walsall north at the election was a legacy of Blair
@@georgehayes3494 what an absolute joke. We lost because we elected Corbyn, the most unpopular leader in history.
That's what you get if you elect an out of touch eccentric like Corbyn as leader.
Corbyn was trying to keep New Labour but using Old Labour’s economics which didn’t work in the past.
@@th8257 don't think so, the trends were there well before Corbyn ever became leader.
By the end he had them eating out of his hand. Blair was the ultimate master at this sort of thing
What an amazing speaker.
It was civilised, edifying discourse of this kind that elevated us and commanded respect the world over.
"That England that was wont to conquer others
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
Are you from a different universe??
Thursday 24th April 1997
0:01
Is that George W. Bush?
No
@@suhylatonse1881 Ok
The good things about the New Labour government, like the minimum wage, the sure start centres, and class size reduction, were things Labour would have done anyway. The majority of bad things New Labour did - tuition fees, Iraq War, escalation of privatisation through PFI, the lack of redress to the anti-trade union legislation, the reliance on financial speculation, no nationalisation of the infrastructure, were exclusive to them. The only thing they had in common were a lack of an industrial policy.
New Labour's faustian promise of electability no longer holds either - the only reversal of declining electoral fortunes since 1997 was 2017, when Corbyn was relatively unhindered by New Labour's absurd EU policy. Scotland has been lost to Labour too.
The hysterical anti-socialist questioning from the audience is more foolish than ever.
Fascinating how conservative this audience is. 60 percent of the country were supporting New Labour at the time and the questions are all about unions and socialism. What show was this? Lol.
my first election!!
Mine was 2010 when Tories came back to power.
J Hibberd the excitement that election May1st 97 hot day I remember it well and the feeling that swept across Britain of Hope so sad how quick it changed and I lost trust after the Ecclestone scandal and the book A woman was reading the actual Third Way
Its amazing to see how convincing a speaker Blair was back then. Major and the Tories didn't stand a chance, I especially liked how he dealt with the guy around the 15:00 mark.
Apart from the Iraq war I would say that on the whole Blairs leadership was quite good.
You're a mug. I bet you go to church.
RickkyP he didn't bring the separate care system into the NHS
*I especially liked how he dealt with the guy around the **15:00** mark*
He was a trained barrister. They deal with much worse in their profession.
Eh?
Not sure what religion has to do with it, but either way I'm an atheist.
Like any successful salesman selling you shit.
Tony Blair had not even been elected at this point and Britain actually meant something.
Anyone remember watching this? Did it change your opinion?
I think most people had made up their minds by then, if we're honest.
How many times did he say I SAY TO YOU?
Is it just me or does the guy on the thumbnail look like a nerdy version of Blair
He knows about housing especially in Bristol!! Ask him
funny old world, pretty sure that "audience member" speaking at around 5:30 was doing the media rounds earlier this year defending bojo and his lockdown parties 😂
It's amazing to think 18 years later we'd have Labour offering a slice of Clown Corbyn 🤡
My 17th Birthday! Dont remember watching this though.
33:38 - 34:26 is the most concise explanation for the 2008 financial crisis.
It was a GLOBAL financial crisis you stupid moron
@@jimmyhopkins3589 Yes. The root cause of which can be traced directly back through the collapse of the post-war consensus, the slash and burn deregulation of the thatcher/reagan era, and (with relation to the OP) the failure of post-thatcherite social democracy to address spiralling inequality caused by the neoliberalism of the previous two decades. Or, to put it in blair’s words, the idea that governments shouldn’t interfere with decisions that companies/the private sector make.
@@pgl0897 David Cameron was a fan of the bankers and thought the financial crisis was due to labour over spending. David Cameron was possibly one of the worst prime ministers there had ever been and had an easy ride during his time in office. Had he been in power during 2007-08 this country would have collapsed.
@@jimmyhopkins3589 agree on every point. Where it seems we differ is on whether blair was any better. Economically, his policy platform was and would have been indistinguishable from Cameron’s.
I love the way Blair battered the Tory boys in the audience
Beautiful isn't it
@@BlyatimirPootinIndeed
I noticed part way through that basically everyone is well dressed. Would this have been a rule by BBC for studio audiences for a question/discussion with Blair or other politicians?
Edit: it must have been a rule to be dressed a certain way. The well dressed quality of the audience is basically at 95% from what we can see in the video.
People just had higher standards back then. Everyone made an effort, regardless of class.
13:38 really enjoyed the David Byrne cameo
He may find himself quizzing Blair, how did he get there?
42:50 same applied to EU referendum.
6:35 His comment, about the Conservative threat to our pensions, rang rather hollow, after Gordon Brown's pension tax raid.
So interesting! He was what the UK needed then. Now it's Boris.
History in politics so fascinating, because when you vote its private. It's peoples real feelings :)
@Bro Down Well, I should say it's what people 'Thought' they wanted back then :D
We were all tricked by the Blair's and Obama's around. Trudeau now for example.
05:28 current MP Arundel and South Downs, Andrew Griffith
how refreshing a question time without baying hounds
probably the greatest promise and greatest failure wrapped up in one leader
If winning three elections is a failure, then please let labour have more failures than that
@@th8257 exactly this, and I find it astonishing that people have allowed the Iraq war to completely cloud their judgement of his skill and talent - he was a brilliant a politician.
You're thinking of Boris Johnson
16:10 is the guy on the right in the suit and tie ANDREW MARR???
I don't think it could be. For one thing, although the bloke in the audience looks a bit like Andrew Marr, he doesn't actually look like Andrew Marr looked in 1997. For another, Andrew Marr was Editor of the Independent in 1997 and it's highly unlikely the editor of a daily newspaper would be in the audience of a TV show in the last week before a general election.
No
Truly great man and the greatest peacetime leader the UK ever had.
Absolutely. New Labour's achievements and what they did for people's living standards and life chances in Britain are unparalleled since Attlee.
The argument that Blair was a secret Tory is a weak argument. If he was, he would have joined the Tory Party. I totally agree Iraq was his downfall, but it is tragic, he could have been a great Prime Minister.
3:54: Nothing has changed at all. In fact, things have become even worse for Labour under Starmer.
Why couldnt Labour have won just 2 more seats in 1997?
Youve failed us, Great Britain.
The guy in the thumbnail looks like Tony Blair
John Prescott red socialist okay
Question. Answers please. Why do people say that the late John Smith would have become the Prime Minister in 1997 under old Labour ? And would have been a good one. So why did Mr Blair engineer New Labour saying that was the only way Labour could be electable ??????
Steve Hillier Blair believed that John Smith was too complacent in thinking that it would take just "one more heave" to win the next election. That's why he reformed Clause IV once he became leader. Smith would have won the 97 election but perhaps with a smaller majority than Blair.
harmlessdrudge Smith would’ve won that election regardless. Anyone would’ve won it. Labour were going to win regardless of the leader similar to 1983. Tories were in complete destruction of themsleves and free fall. Smith would’ve won with a majority over 100 too I reckon.
harmlessdrudge labour were also 20 points ahead of the tories before Smith died
I've always wondered if John Smith was murdered
In the days before Bambi fucked everything up
27:25 She is the sort of hard left extremist who would argue young offenders shouldn't be punished at all
Blair - 1
Criminal Enabler - 0
1:02
15:49 dude got owned
Unwise to go against Large Anthony in this setting
After this I will vote for Tony Blair.
MrGranfield I did then
36:05 Tony’s face LOL
Karen was bang on!
OMG he's like Rees-Moggy!
Collette Post Why?
No.
Everything he says could be said by a Conservative. The rest is either anodyne or simplistic platitudes. Britain deserved so much better
That’s ‘New Labour’ for you.
2017 the current Labour Leader for the General Election has got better and will be like other after the election in need of the numbers to pass things
2017 the UK has rebelled against the EU
"rebelled"??? WTF?
2016
guy at 10:20 in is absolutely right
You were prime minister for 10 years and nothing changed.
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s; low mortgage rates; Introduced the National Minimum Wage; Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales; Cut overall crime by 32 per cent; Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools; Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18; Funding for every pupil in England doubled; Employment is at its highest level ever; Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries; 85,000 more nurses; 32,000 more doctors; Brought back matrons to hospital wards; Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament; Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly; Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time; NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice; Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year; Restored city-wide government to London; Record number of students in higher education; Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997; Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres; Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission; £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s; On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions; Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland; Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants; All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday; A million pensioners lifted out of poverty; 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty; Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents; Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships. Not nothing.
@@DBIVUK Blair built very little social housing, didnt reverse the de-industrialisation of the North, sucked up to the right-wing media, got us into an illegal war which killed 1m people and curtailed civil liberties.
The problem is you can't cut VAT on fuel while being a member of the EU...
EU nations set their own VAT rates. The UK was and is free to do so on any item at any time.
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Anonymouse not below a certain rate because of competition
Have to have unanimous agreement
Bollocks.
@@veggie42 nonsense. You can lower it to any rate you want. They just couldn't abolish it whatsoever, once introduced. They could have lowered it to 0.00000001% if they wanted
"I don't see any difference between you and the Conservatives." That lady was bang on. And that would be their downfall.
...and the reason why they get into power for 13 years. The middle-class vote become very important to winning elections, in the post-Thatcher years.
Yes I read a book The Third Way it was about the theory of creation of wealth to alleviate poverty via the capital of the wealthy and the welfare state would help working people but they stopped working
@@williamfrancis5367 Thatcher wasn't the Centre she was Right Authoritarian. It was for Labour to move to the centre to win left wing conservatives over
What a ridiculously stupid comment. They won three election in a row and stayed in power for thirteen years, more than any labour leader or government before or since. I wish to god labour had a "downfall" like that now.
@derby social club Ummm.... apart from the astronomical level of borrowing, the bloated public sector, insane levels of waste of public funds and subsequent debt... all of which are anathema to true conservative values....
Tony Blair seems like a angel of light but his worst then the devil himself...
we still paying the price for this sod