Sir John Major questioned by Oxford students 

You are right.

He and Joe Biden are the same age. Such a difference between them...

who?

John Major was, in my opinion, an excellent and wholly underrated prime minister. I think this interview highlights why I think that way.

cheating on his wife with Edwina Currie I wouldn’t call excellent values

Compare him to Joe Biden, or Trump who are both 'of the same generation' as JM.

@@philipdawes2661 exactly, that’s kind of where my mind was going.

Of. Sir. John. Was. 20.would.u......

​@@philipdawes2661Wow. That's hard to believe.

Was Edwina with him?

@@niburu1508 No.

@@8mm2digital 😳😳😳were you there as well? Another 3 in the bed?

1 am is always in the morning

Wow, no one else would be able to do that. All the restaurants would have closed well before then. Might have managed a kebab 🤣

If you miss him just sell the use of your property debt free to a European for pennies on the dollar and then rent them back from them at what ever rate they desire to charge you.

​@@stuff2008 What an odd comment. Are you ok?

I miss him too.

You do not miss him you miss the Briton that existed before the changes people like him made took effect.

@@robertcottam8824 I'm ok I just understand the structural impact that these guys make. I do not see it as progress. You could have a society with pensions decent wages and a quility of life. In all sectors there is dysfunction developing. One example is the privatization of the water utilities. Billions of dollars in dividends were extracted and payed to forien owners, so that profit is not even being spent in the UK, the water infrastructure was not invested in an allowed to decay. The knowledge and skills of the ppl in that sector has decayed and the rivers are polluted. To fix the infrastructure is monstrously expensive as a result. The short term windfall of selling it off is not even worth the lost dividends and lost money in the UK economy. And it is true for most UK sectors. Even the money that would have been available to British capitalists has been squandered.

Unfortunately, you won't get to vote for such a person again.

Then tell the half wit students at Oxford-who evade debate-as they're too politically illiterate and sanctimonious to do so-and scream and yell and no platform anyone who can pull their infantile drivel apart. Oxford is for political fuck wits (ALL party's) These pompous morons would die if they saw Brian Redhead. Hugo Younger, Robin Day or Harold Evans rip the political hubris of the left and right apart back in the day-they'd 100% no platform them. Underlining the level of fuck wits there are at Oxford these days

yeah I'm sure you would if this was a debate

Did you vote for Starmer?

Post-Thatcher he almost sounded like a socialist!

They don't only care about the rich, that's a leftist trope. How could you win an election by only caring about the rich? John Major was a hopeless Prime Minister. He's bragging here about the Good Friday Agreement - it's easy to surrender to the IRA. He and Bliar gave immunity to terrorists whilst prosecuting British soldiers and hounding them to their graves, soldiers who put their lives on the line to serve his government. Major-Ball is beyond disgusting.

I also believe that becoming a Lord has become too easy, and is an insult to the other great democrats working in that chamber. Mr Major makes another great point that the numbers need to be halved at least. A lordship has become a mark of service, rather than something to be earnt and respected.

Unfortunately, the corruption is very real and definitely not a small problem

So much integrity that he sold more British publics property to Europeans for pennies than Hitler would have annexed if he had won. In fact more Europeans recieved dividends from the former public water utilities, mail, ect than the Germans payed in war repetitions. Maybe that is why you infrastructure is crumbling.

​@Capri One thinks that the Brexidiots ought to be a little quieter at the moment. You've done quite enough damage, thank you.

@@robertcottam8824 When the EU implodes, you'll thank us for our prescience. You're welcome 😁

@S M These things are relative. One would get an expression of regret from Sir John. I doubt any such thing would be extracted from Boris, or Trusstastic - both of whom had extra-marital affairs. Count the number of children that DePfeffel has had outside marriage. I think it's five. How far do you want to go back? Churchill? All the way back to the 19th century if you can be bothered.

Integrity 🤣

INTEGRITY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Major was risking everything having a FOUR YEAR LONG affair with Edwina Currie whilst in public office , he was breaking his marriage vows and lying about his principles whilst trying to become Prime Minister ! Here were his PRINCIPLES during that time that wanted everyone ELSE to live by :- Selflessness, INTEGRITY Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty and Leadership. Don't make me laugh , the guy is a disgrace .

Integrity 😂😂

The view at the time was Thatcher was too militant and so people voted for John because he was balanced and sensible, not ideological. He's the only one I have ever voted for!

@@Andrew-rc3vh ideological or not he still privatized. And that privatization has not reaped any public benefit. It just created flight capital in the form of forien payed dividends. And the cost has been to the small to medium sized business owners. Increasing bills and a shrinking market of well payed Britons to sell goods too. Inflation is caused by this. Not simply because of increased costs but because it is increased cost chasing less dollars.

@@stuff2008 Yes i understand that, but at the time it was the thing to privatise. Maybe it was British Leyland that made it so popular to do so.

80 is not that old. He can become Prime Minister again, maybe?

Edwina Curry as well?

Well I find that hard to believe considering britian joined the EU in 1973 and major wasn’t prime minister until 20 years later….

You are drunk.

​@alanb9443 we joined the EEC, just a trade market. The EU was not created until years later and we never had a public vote to join until 2016 and we said, no.

Is it talent, or is it just having a private school education?

Young people are not talented because of private school they are talented because of hard work and commitment. That can happen any where.

@@dougdellwo3274 No doubt the moderator has talent to come up with those questions. However, a better quality of education is often what provides people with access to the confidence, communication skills, and platform via which to ask demonstrate what they can do and subsequently have it disseminated so as to receive broader recognition from those such as yourself.

@@dougdellwo3274 yes, but unless you have a private school education ( and the right accent , then you're unlikely to get the same opportunities !!!

i don't think the moderators education is in order here. however he did looked for answers to hard questions, hardly made public, and john major answered them with some level of transparency

@MrArchie800: a beacon of sanity. Frankly, Britain has become a laughing stock

I wouldn't call him a 'profound thinker'l; he is more of a pragmatic, common-sense politician who tried his very best doing the 'right' thing.

Sweet Jesus you need to read a LOT more on political thinking.

Just goes to show how far we've fallen.

Don't be absurd.

Wow ' profound ' thinker , all his thoughts for four years was in his underwear ( or more accurately, Edwina Curries Lingerie 😢) He put the country at risk as later he became PM and open to blackmail by the Russia and the Chinese , or whomever might have found out about his secret affair .

Edwina Curry? What is she ?

@@niburu1508 You ask that question a lot. Perhaps your keyboard is stuck?

@@adamrobinson8620 If a couple of times is A-LOT to you! Just asking what she is if he is a gentleman. You don’t seem to have an answer anymore than any other dipsticks do.

@@niburu1508 The fact is that he's still married to Nora - 53 years - so they have clearly worked through those difficult years. People, glass-houses, stones etc. spring to mind.

He banged a sl-t.

He is kwowleageable erudite and at ease with the subject matter.Iam labour but I like Margaret Thacher and Jo hm Major However,the students have not been allowed to participate.

I love your left wing wit

At last someone who catchers my drift 😉

@@stavrosk.2868 bless you brother

Bless you too,sister.

Ask the railway workers if hes honourable?

CHRIS - Edwina Curry?

@@sdrest here is the way to do it 🤢🤮- think I might join you 😄

Rather than rely on a saviour, I think we all need to contribute to solving problems. I've joined the UN in my country and am promoting John Major's sentiments regarding Security Council reform. I have been waiting for literally decades to hear any significant figure say them. An excellent man.

Was he Dull and Grey , whilst conducting a FOUR YEAR long affair with Edwina Currie , and at the same time espousing 'principles' we should try to live by , and whilst having ambitions to lead the country ?

He hasn’t aged at all. Still looks like John major.

​@@binghamguevara6814he's 80years old

By destroying our railway system.?

He was a good Prime-Minister. A true consensus and pragmatic figure who managed his party in times of crisis.

Could not put better myself

Well put. It was a spectacularly bad decision by Major and his government.

He is a tory

Pffftttttt hahahaha.

Australia has one now- the son of a welfare single mother. Albo is a decent man who has the good of the country at heart.

Australia had one up until last year.

Tabloid newspapers... yes they've always been there but they've gotten worse over the years. They've rotted the brains of many people in UK, I notice it when I regularly visit.

Unfortunately all the old school tories with a bit of sense, dignity and compassion have left/been kicked out over brexit.

@@TheSurrealWolf it's been bad longer than 6 years imo, it's gotten worse over the past 20 - 25 years, as someone who lived there a couple of times, once in the late 80-90's, once in the 2000's and goes back regularly.

We voted them away.

@@aaropajari7058 Which landed us in the current mess. . We are so stupid.

He put the country at risk as later he became PM and open to blackmail by the Russia and , Chinese , or whomever might have found out about his four year secret affair with the dodgy Currie. For all we know he could have been compromised and was a spy as well as an adulterer .

And what return on capital / investment has those dividends been?

There is no credit available from us Irish in fixing the problems caused by the British government in the first place.

You're doing him down, Edwina Currie was the lady!! She was the one to kiss and tell. And when you look at who were those that rebelled against him, well what would you expect from them? after all they're the same bunch that shafted Margaret Thatcher.

I supported Legs-it.

Then I would say have a good look at Japan, good sir. ;-)

@@rich8436 I presume that you are referring to the railways. If so, I can honestly say that I know little about the Japanes train system. By contrast, I have quite a lot of experience with the Swiss rail network; and it is run very well. The privatisation of our rail netwroks has been a disaster.

@@xelakram Indeed, their rail network is all privatly run and works great. This video is a good overview. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GgKcksId8IE.html

@@rich8436 Thank you for the link. Naturally, I will check it out. I am sure that it works well in Japan. But privatisation of railways has not worked well in the UK. This is a huge subject, which cannot easily be discussed properly on RU-vid. However, I would like to make a few points. They are as follows: Many small communities lose their rail services when the system is privatised because they are unprofitable to run. When the rail network is government-run, those communities enjoy rail services as a courtesy and to help the small communities survive. Private companies couldn't care less about such things. Also, when the rail network is privately-run, all profits go to CEOs and shareholders. Even though I am generally in favour of privately-owned businesses, not all businesses should be run that way. Some businesses are better run by government. One also has to think of what would happen in times of war. Especially when the privately-owned rail network is in foreign hands. This is a big subject. Our differences cannot easily be resolved here on RU-vid. However, it is always a pleasure toe exchange ideas.

@@rich8436 I have just checked out the video link. Clearly, Japan has got the privatisation of trains sorted. One cannot compare the pathetic rail service in the UK with that of Japan. But I would say that the cultural difference between the Japanese and the Brits also plays an important role here, too. Thanks for sharing the link.

He was always clear and articulate on the madness of Brexit.

@@martinmcdonald4207 I fail to see how seeking the restoration of sovereignty could be regarded as mad. You exemplify the madness of the debate that was Brexit.

@@foxtrot6612 It's obviously not the only thing you fail to see.

Brexsh*t; the gift that keeps on giving?

@@markpalmer8083 I see the remainers (actually, rejoiners is more correct) are expressing themselves with their normal, moderate and considered reserve. How are your German and French lessons going? Well I hope, if you succeed in overthrowing the referendum you will need to speak both.

Obviously the country disagrees with you after the 1997 General Election.

@@lloydnaylor6113 they thought differently at the time about the party. The party not John Major.

What about Edwina Curry - what is she

@niburu1508 She’s a former Conservative MP.

And a desk top cheater

A shame he didn't bring all those alleged good qualities to his Premiership.

@Harry Wolf obviously your knowledge of the history of the period is very poor. He left the economy booming with Treasury finances in excellent shape allowing the next Labour government to spend spend

See my reply above I definitely agree with you well stated I like Sir John Major and am so glad to have met him I just adore and love handsome and intelligent men and it doesn't hurt that he's older than me tall and has pretty white hair and gorgeous eyes lucky Norma Major !

@Lara Lucky Norma? I wonder how she felt when she found out her (handsome and intelligent 😂) husband was poking Edwina Currie! I bet she was so proud . . .

@Harry Wolf A person's private life unless it impacts on their effectiveness or efficiency in the workplace is totally irrelevant. It's a private matter full stop. And only narrow minded bigoted people believe otherwise.

Yep more PMs with skeletons in his cupboard that could be exploited by foreign powers . ( and maybe he was blackmailed , we don't know that either). Sure we need more people like Major and Johnston 😂😂😂😂

By who - Mrs Thatcher?

@georgeiii2998 By virtually everyone at the time. Hence Tony Blair's unfortunate victory. His most exciting accomplishment was the Cones Hotline.

@@tomharrison1849 😂 Funny, but come off it. The economy ebbed and flowed quite a bit under Major, but by 1997 it was in admittedly quite good shape. Without Major's negotiations Britain would have the euro and there would be no peace in Northern Ireland - plus he secured the largest voter majority in British history in '92. He was successful in what he wanted to do: just not quite good enough to stave off defeat in '97.

@georgeiii2998 Well Ken Clarke was a jolly good Chancellor which straightened out the economy by the end. But he won the 92 election because even Basil Brush would have won against Neil "you're all right" Kinnock. But don't you remember how tired and out of ideas the Major government was? Yes the preliminary negotiations in NI should be applauded. But what else? I remember a Telegraph Matt cartoon from the time. A man is sitting up in bed with a beaming smile saying 'I didn't get a wink of sleep all night thinking about the new Citizen's Charter.' That was about the pinnacle of his achievements.

His Government and party were in an ocean of sleaze by 1994 and in 97, the country couldn't wait to rid of him and them. Black Wednesday? Privatising rail and coal? Back to Basics'? The 'Blood' scandal? Those 18 years of Tory Government that ended with him were a disaster.

@@MrLesterGibson yet the Conservatives won four elections in that time, obviously the British public disagree with you.

@@MrLesterGibson I'd rather listen to John Major's views on those days than yours.

And completely useless.