Phone-ins are a bit old fashioned now but you know, I think they could do with bringing these back. Very different when you hear a human voice instead of reading 140 characters
Thanks for uploading these - fascinating to see how politics has changed in fifteen years (I think Blair was in many ways more willing to challenge callers and tell them he thinks they're wrong) and stayed the same ("you're out of touch, you don't talk to real voters" - ironically on an hour-long phone-in...)
wasn’t he terrific,and what that Government delivered especially on Health really made a difference.Unfortunately when you look at the state of the NHS today you realise just how good it was back then.
@@DBIVUK Blair had already ruined it with his stupid devolution policy. No surprise under 60% of the electorate turned up to vote in 2001, the country knew a dead system when it saw one, Blairite Labour and Blairite Conservatives two useless cheeks of the same arse.
Man compared to the living standards now these people sound like spoiled brats 😂. I miss the times where NHS degrees were free and you didn't have to go through a million interrogations just to claim benefits and they were given easily and when the NHS waiting list wasn't a million years long. Tony blair and Gordon brown spared no expense on this country
It's a shame they no longer do this before General Elections. Can you imagine Sunak or that bumbling moron Boris, sitting for 45 minutes, taking un-vetted calls from ordinary people and giving straight answers to questions? No, me neither. Sad to see what British politics used to be like and how far it's fallen now.
I feel it's because we have social media and 24 hour news nowadays and people can influence each other's decisions easier just based on one thing that a politician says having been shared around, thus becomes harder for the politicians to cut through to people.
Did I just hear the first caller complain for ten minutes directly to the prime minister on a call that she wasn’t able to talk to the prime minister?
Phone-ins are a bit old fashioned now but you know, I think they could do with bringing these back. Very different when you hear a human voice instead of reading 140 characters
Thanks for uploading these - fascinating to see how politics has changed in fifteen years (I think Blair was in many ways more willing to challenge callers and tell them he thinks they're wrong) and stayed the same ("you're out of touch, you don't talk to real voters" - ironically on an hour-long phone-in...)
Fascinating insight into the politics of the recent past.
This was most certainly the golden years for modern 'political' & 'democratic' Britain.
wasn’t he terrific,and what that Government delivered especially on Health really made a difference.Unfortunately when you look at the state of the NHS today you realise just how good it was back then.
Did Linda say £400 for a pair of glasses?
2023, I get two pairs, £120 of a decent brand.
Doesn't that pensioner understand that under tories pensioners would get a bad deal.
Mr David do you know where I can find the documentary / from Beaconsfield to Bagjdad / ?
Have just uploaded it and it will be available imminently.
These CC subtitles!
RIP Peter Systems of Top Gear.
Or Peter Sissons of BBC News and for a time, of Channel 4 News, even.
Not related, but who’s the continuity announcer at the beginning?
They cancelled so many road projects, while being driven around in their ministerial limousines. Banana Republic stuff
Wednesday 6th June 2001
Children with brains eat a lot of food 😂
when Britain was Great
That's not where Bury is.
the ruination of great britain
Was indeed averted, when Labour won re-election.
@@DBIVUK Blair had already ruined it with his stupid devolution policy. No surprise under 60% of the electorate turned up to vote in 2001, the country knew a dead system when it saw one, Blairite Labour and Blairite Conservatives two useless cheeks of the same arse.
...is here today....after 14 years of Tory rule
Man compared to the living standards now these people sound like spoiled brats 😂. I miss the times where NHS degrees were free and you didn't have to go through a million interrogations just to claim benefits and they were given easily and when the NHS waiting list wasn't a million years long. Tony blair and Gordon brown spared no expense on this country
It's a shame they no longer do this before General Elections.
Can you imagine Sunak or that bumbling moron Boris, sitting for 45 minutes, taking un-vetted calls from ordinary people and giving straight answers to questions? No, me neither.
Sad to see what British politics used to be like and how far it's fallen now.
I feel it's because we have social media and 24 hour news nowadays and people can influence each other's decisions easier just based on one thing that a politician says having been shared around, thus becomes harder for the politicians to cut through to people.