The fourth Conservative Party election broadcast during the 1997 election. This is one of three which simply consisted of John Major talking to camera, and concentrates on Europe and devolution.
blairs first 5 years were decent. after 2002 however he turned into a puppet of the americans. major was a ok prime minster but a decent man who was much better then his psychopathic predecessor
As a Labour supporter, I agree; The Blair years for me are the equivalent of a reputable band scoring a number one in the charts, and selling out to cater to that audience; forgetting the true fans and their original sound. Sticking with the band metaphor, Conservatism in 1997 is like that hit band from the 70's and 80's with the same hits, and nothing much more; and now they're back because people found there way back to them. So I agree. Major wasn't a bad PM; but he wasn't what we needed
It’s strange really. At university + college I had raving mad left wing professors and teachers (as you would expect I suppose) besides taking the mickey of his daft accent, they speak nothing but praise of Major and how he dealt with The Troubles whereas I have yet to hear them say a single positive thing about Blair. These are people who admittedly voted for Labour in 97 and speak of how wrong they were to be in favour of devolution
Ben Attwood. 'New Labour' could be described as more 'pragmatic' I think? 'Ideological' swings from Left to Right & back again does'nt seem to have worked very well for decades?
I'm labour, but I agree with what Mr Major says. A rather pleasant tory, rather then the so called "Nasty Party" now, that gets personal on every level. Major had respect...
Michael Howard was more my choice On crime he was right, he was my mum’s ex MP and he stood up for crime loads of times, my late stepdad was so fed up of hoodies running in their garden and misbehaving abuse in the streets and Howard said about it
I disagree with you on the whole EU thing (in my view, the EU is probably the most successful political union in modern history), but I absolutely agree with you about the issue of civility, decency and humbleness. It's a great pity that people like John Major are no longer getting to be prime ministers and presidents in today's world. Let's hope that Biden's election will turn out to be a turning point in this respect, worldwide.
When I was out of work in 1992/93, I cursed Major all the time, but as the economy picked up, I started to realise he was doing a good job. To me, he was the last decent British PM.
No he wasnt, Blair didnt say yes to federal Europe, nor to the euro, trade unions didnt regain powers undet the Social Chapter, ans Devolution is a democratic right very clearly requested by the Scottish people - you know, one of the NATIONS of the UK. This is noit a matter of "disagree if you want", this is just factually incorrect now as we can see.
He may have been boring but he was right. If we hadn't given more powers to Europe and we might still be part of the EU now. Scotland's own Parliament just means they never shut up about independence and a fragmented GB is what we are now seeing.
He wasn't boring he was too common for the tories. Maybe after thatchers no class country they thatought that would work, but it backfired because Labour reinvented it's own image. Yes, it is THAT superficial.
Many of the things he predicts (with varying degrees of success) are actually desirable, despite the fact he's trying to use them as a negative (i.e. strong unions and Scottish independence)
@@RBenjo21 Not with those inside. The people didn't want their services disrupted between disputes especially pushed by politicians for glory. Like Callaghan.
It seems to me like the UK never gave a real, whole-hearted chance to the whole EU (or European Community) thing, huh? Even John Major, who is clearly pro-European, felt he can gain votes (or at least not lose them) by trying to portray himself as somewhat of a Eurosceptic. Already 3 years after the UK first joined the European Community, Labor held a referendum about whether to stay or leave. Two-thirds of voters voted then to stay, but... It seems to me like the UK was always, constantly suggesting they're on the verge of leaving. Some UK prime ministers, including John Major and David Cameron, seem to have used these "one more step and we're leaving!" threats in order to gain (or keep) political powers, despite being staunch supporters of the UK remaining in the EU - and it seems that, perhaps, they've been casting doubt on the whole EU thing so frequently that eventually enough UK voters actually started to believe it, more so than those who were casting the doubts.
Not really true because exactly as John Major warned here Tony Blair fully embraced the EU and under his government squashed Europe as a nationwide issue. It wasn't really until the return of Conservatives in power and the rise of UKIP after the New Labour government did the European question become mainstream again.
@inspector morse No the guidelines are drawn up between Govt Home Secretary and Home Office, Civil Service, Police forces, Justice and Probation etc the cuts to community services then don't help with bored kids. We don't see youth clubs anymore. In future they would be needed for all the bored after the virus see an explosion in crime. Michael Howard was in opposition and was a home secretary of Major's imagine that
John Major was right, I'm Scottish and was born in the late-90s in the early years of the New Labour govt and I see through my own eyes that devolution has indeed been disastrous.
I'm Scottish and devolution was the best thing to happen to my country in hundreds of years. You are in the minority because the Scottish people voted overwhelmingly in favour of a parliament with tax raising powers and to this day most Scots support further devolution.
@@BendmydickCucumbersnatch yeah and the vast majority of the people in Scotland are wrong and have voted for those things based off false and twisted emotions and facts.
The Marketing and PR for this was awful but in hindsight what we got with Blair was a flash bullshitter full of empty promises. Electing Blair was (in my opinion) the biggest mistake we ever made in an election. I'd certainly rather have had a boring, but sensible and honest person as prime minister.
Despite the ERM disaster Major approved into entering, Sleaze, Bribery, IRA Prison Escapes. BSE. Cheating on Fishing Quotas, Disunity over the Euro currency, Rail Privatization...... "Major hadn't got a chance by 1997"
blair didn't do shit. he was a useless prime minster and did nothing he said he would do while in power. thatcher on the other hand ripped this countrys foundation open and fucked us up
Collette Post if calling somebody that denounces you then you know nothing about politics, I was a party activist and I still am and I knew John reasonably well, he was too soft and not ruthless enough
2:44 "Bri'tan" , I don't know of any pm least of all a conservative PM who would pronounce it like that. Major was actually from a somewhat working class background, he was from Brixton in south London
The irony that England hot the least devolution into cities and it's a disaster. England needed more national work so that regions stick together and share money and growth especially
He was completely right, it's only because of the devolution that the SNP became a mainstream party. Scotland leaving and damaging itself is pretty much a certainty at this point.
Yes such horrible consequences as the EDHR, a minimum wage, and a strengthened NHS for a start, shame Dominic Raab was right we should take human rights away to protect us from wokery
James Wilson he is in my opinion on of the reasons I became a Tory. we was in surplus, with high growth, falling unemployment, a united country and falling taxes and improving public services. Then Blair borrowed and in the long term this led to giant debt, deficits, austerity, rising taxes and reduced public services. Major was slowly bringing the country to prosperity, every indicator was good and getting better.
@@FatguyInthedeli That's because underinvestment in services and immigration was lower. Suddenly UK created a skills problem and China opened to the West more notice how Caribbean immigration rose before EU as further States didn't join till 04
About horse racing why do odds on favourites lose in horse racing . The bookies always say go for the favourites, the favourites never come in . Can a mp have a look into horse racing is it fixed
I respected (granted as an American voter look in) the Tories anti-Communism and the their support for the EU. But, I would have voted for Tony Blair/New Labour in 1997. The Tories were too slow to support cultural diversity, LGBTQ rights, and Labour -- back then -- was reinvented as a new, modern centrist party.
