BBC Election 97 part 3
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- As you would have seen it on the night*, here is the BBC's coverage of the 1997 election. Presented by David Dimbleby with Peter Snow, Anthony King and Peter Kellner doing analysis, Jeremy Paxman conducting interviews, and a host of reporters.
This section runs from midnight to 1 AM on Friday 2 May.
* This election coverage is elsewhere on CZcams but without the onscreen results graphics that were visible to viewers on the night
21:15
I recall watching it on that memorable night. Knowing Birmingham really well, I knew at that stage if Labour had taken Edgbaston, then a Labour landslide was on the horizon. It was surreal for people of my generation (born in the 1970s) as we’d only ever seen the Tories win elections for years.
Yes, I was born in 1969, so it did seem like an incredibly surreal night, you're right and an unforgettable one.
It might feel even more surreal with the hindsight from 2019 of knowing Gisela Stuart would end up actively supporting the Tories' flagship policy a generation later.
Everyone was on the Edg(baston) of their seats
@@shinydavidhowell sometimes politics really does shock you and of course now Edgbaston is safe lab ...
Indeed. This is the first GE I recall as I was 9 years old at the time & we had a day off school as the building was used as a polling station 😁. My mum & dad were in great spirits as Labour supporters. This was seismic & now nostalgic. A repeat or even better dare I hope for the next GE 🙏🏼
amazingly nostalgic, thanks for posting
This seems so long ago, but an unforgettable night.
It was arnd 24 years ago, so yea it was a while ago
Seems like yesterday to me.
50:30 Was the BBC commentator denoting Dennis Marx’s party or just simply announcing his own personal opinions regarding marijuana?
He was just saying the name of the party.
31:50 Gosh that was a profound insight!
1997 was the start of a golden age for Britain. Looking back now you have to ask where we went wrong; ending up with the Johnson/Truss/Sunak shit show
Agree.
It's tragic that Blair is mainly remembered for his disastrous involvement in George Bush's wars (though that shouldn't be forgotten). What his government achieved in a few years was amazing. I'm much further to the Left than Blair, but by 2010 they'd turned this country round. Then they lost because of a money crisis that wasn't their fault, and because Gordon Brown called a bigot a bigot. (And, of course, because the right-wing media wanted the Tories back.)
97 was the same year the UK last won Eurovision. hopefully 2025 will be the year UK wins its sixth title…after a thorough trouncing of the Tories.
And bloody hell, England finally winning the Euros after the Tories are flushed away. Might as well!
(And do squash Reform UK while you’re at it - no good Nazi pests)
Hi Mate are you doing BBC election 2010 mate/ BBC election 2005.2001 mate.
Just shows you how different the parties were - even though New Labour had steered itself so much closer to the centre - back then compared to now. A landslide now is nowhere near as significant as it was back then.
19:34 “Jame Dill Knight”
Brilliant
31:23 wow what a close projection
56:48 10 years? Labour had been out of power for 18 years. Does he consider 1987 year zero for the Labour party?
1987 was the big relaunch of Labour after they did a long research on how Labour could win. 1987 was the fight back.
Lets face it most of the MP's of today from both sides of the chamber are not fit to clean the shoes of the MP's of those days.
The same was said in 1997, and in '77, and so on... Tired old rhetoric, 'oh the good old days..."
@@SelfReflectiveIt's very true though. It just shows you that our once great nation has been on a gradual decline that is hitting a nadir. It's not "the good old days". It's the sorry truth
@@sithvsjedi9696It's true now, but it wasn't true back then? Is that what you're saying?
Are these the good old days?
15 January [1979]- Rail workers begin a 24-hour strike.
22 January - Tens of thousands of public-workers strike in the beginning of what becomes known as the "Winter of Discontent".[2]
1 February - Grave-diggers call off a strike in Liverpool which has delayed dozens of burials.
12 February - Over 1,000 schools close due to the heating oil shortage caused by the lorry drivers' strike.
April - Statistics show that the economy shrank by 0.8% in the first quarter of the year, largely due to the Winter of Discontent, sparking fears that Britain could soon be faced with its second recession in four years.
4 April - Josephine Whitaker, a 19-year-old bank worker, is murdered in Halifax; police believe that she is the 11th woman to be murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper.
Strikes by refuse collectors, leaving uncollected rubbish on streets and in public spaces, including London's Leicester Square. Additionally, NHS ancillary workers formed picket lines to blockade hospital entrances with the result that many hospitals were reduced to taking emergency patients only.
@@sithvsjedi9696shut up Tory scum. Shove your “good old days” up your stinking arse.
33:59 Pinchy McPincherface
The exact same pincher who's scandals would very recently help cause the downfall of Boris Johnson's prime ministership!
31:00 44:08
Ya know Thatcher caused this result now then as boris caused a starmer land slide..? THOUGHTS
Sad to see the labour traitor Gisela Stuart at 32:42 runing this video, she who ended up campaigning with the Conservatives in Dec 19.
Better times the 1990s ..2023 crap