2005 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland General Election: PARTY: # of Seats Won (Vote Share %) ☑LAB: 355 (35%) CON: 198 (32%) LD: 62 (22%) SNP: 6 (2%) OTHERS: 25 (9%) Swing (LAB to CON): 3.1% Turnout: 61.4% (+2% from 2001) Result: -Blair to continue as Prime Minister. -Labour Majority Government with a 66 seat Majority. -Labour won 3rd consecutive victory (Labour's Hat Trick). -Smallest Labour Majority of all of Blair's Governments (1997, 2001, and 2005).
1997 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland General Election: PARTY: Seats Won | % Vote Share CON: 165 | 31% ☑LAB: 418 | 43% LD: 46 | 17% UUP: 10 | 1% SNP: 6 | 2% PC: 4 | 0.5% Others: 10 | 5% Result: Labour Party Landslide with 179 seat Majority. Tony Blair to be Prime Minister. Swing (CON to LAB): 10% Biggest Labour Landslide since 1945. BBC Exit Poll: -Overestimated LAB Vote Share by 4%. -Underestimated CON Vote Share by 2%. -Swing (CON to LAB): 13% (3% overestimated)
It's amazing how timeless some of this is, while other aspects have dated so much. Hague talking about how every opposition party is written off as being in such dire straits that they will never govern again, for example, which people also said about Labour, and now about the Tories. Then, the contempt for wearing a baseball cap, which has ironically become the trademark symbol for one of the biggest political movements on the planet. Funny how some things change so much, while others never change.
Nick Griffin was the best, & BNP will always be my party, I won't forgive what Farage did to them. Sadly Farage is now the best option, but he is too buddy with America to be trusted, the BNP really put the British people first.
It's not just that Jay was the daughter of a PM, Callaghan, but that Callaghan made her husband Peter Jay ambassador to the US, which was a highly controversial thing to do. So she benefitted twice from family ties but then sneers at those who got peerages and preferment in the same way as she did.
Remember seeing this clip back in the day. The protestors called themselves the "Stop The Conservatives Poncing On Tobacco Companies" party on this occasion but went under the "Daily Loonylugs Earring Up The World" party at an early by-election. Their candidate, Tony Samuelson, died in 2010 but he lived quite an eventful life having been in the army, film industry and the art/gardening world even winning an award at the Chelsea Flower Show. Thanks for the upload.
In 1996 the 'Daily Loonylugs' used to operate out of that glass pagoda on Charing Cross Road (in front of the new entrance to the NPG). Don't know where they got the money for that. Tony Samuelson, from the family which runs the well known Samuelsons film equipment company, was also a barrister in his youth - and observed the infamous trial of Derek Bentley, including a massively prejudicial outburst from Lord Justice Goddard.
They shouldn't have done that. And I'm a republican saying this. They serve as a check and balance, and as far as I know, there's absolutely nothing stopping the Commons from passing whatever legislative agenda they want to pass, and the Sovereign, whom for some stupid reason, has no veto power at least not one that can be exercised because you don't have a written constitutional, has to sign it. That the fatal flaw of having an unwritten constitution and a Sovereign who can't exercise the powers of their offices without being stripped of said powers or abolished all together.
I recently read that once in power Thatcher didn't implement the decision of the referendum that brought about this No Confidence vote. Did she surffer much criticism for this or did her parliamentary majority mean there was little the opposition could do?
That's a difficult question. The referendum was on whether to implement the Scotland Act 1978 to create a devolved government, but part of the Act said the Government must propose repeal of the Act if the number voting 'Yes' was less than 40% of the total number of voters. In the referendum the majority voted Yes, but it didn't reach 40%. So Thatcher argued the Act should be repealed, and in the general election promised further discussions on devolution. It was only after the election that she made it clear there would be no devolution. Of course there was nothing the opposition could do - but devolution became a big campaign issue in Scotland. The 1997 Labour government enacted a much broader devolution scheme than the ill-fated one from 1978.
Thanks for explaining. Given it was clear that there needed to be a vote in excess of 40% for a devolved government and total number of votes in favour was less than that why were the opposition able to put down this 'No Confidence' motion in the first place?
@@martindavis6115 One of the unwritten conventions in Parliament is that the main Opposition party has a right to put down a motion of no confidence at any time, and the government will find its own time for the debate.
@@DBIVUK Fair enough. I seem to recall Corbyn attempted to in late 2018 and the speaker refused to allow parliamentary time to debate it. I know Corbyn subsequently did a month later though (and lost).
If Callaghan had called an election in Autumn 1978 winning with a small majority or being the largest party in a Hung Parliament and then the Winter Of Discontent had happened is it possible his reputation would have still taken a nosedive resulting in Labour being forced out of power by 1983 if not earlier?
I know how it feels to be unemployed. It can wreak havoc on both the mind and the body together. It's the worst thing that could happen to a human! The problem is if you work for a donkey number of years in a field, and are suddenly laid off, then it is difficult to develop a new skill to enter into a specialized area of work, where you haven't had the experience of working before! So, I am unemployed due to diabetes and blood pressure, after quitting my last job in the Middle East. Cant adjust or adapt to new roles even if they are available. That is life! A mirror in which you don't see, but, where you are shown what has become of you. SAD ;(
Blair is so sharp here! Paxman just wants to spend the whole interview trying to catch him out rather than have a sensible conversation and Blair trumped him every time!! 😆 What a stupid question to imply "rich people should pay even more tax"! Paxman came across really badly here, terrible interviewing!!
