Top 10 Biggest PR Disasters in British Politics 

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2:10 The best joke I ever heard about this was someone calling Theresa May "Thatcher in the Rye."

Sunak on D Day celebrations: Hold my Beer

2:27 John Prescott was pressed by Tony Blair (the then Leader of thr Labour Party) what happened. To which Prescott replied: "I was only following your orders, Tony: you told us to connect with the electrorate, so I did!"

I didn't see the prescott punch as a PR disaster

John Prescott punching the bloke wasn’t a PR disaster. In Hull, the city that elected him, he earned points for that. Well done, Sir!

John Prescott went up in my estimation when he defended himself against the thug. It was just what you'd expect of a true-born Englishman.

Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich was one of the funniest sagas in politics. He was such a wet blanket though.

Some of these “PR disasters” are really just a storm in a teacup. It really goes to show how thick, out of touch and desperate for a story the media really are. Take for example the “fields of wheat” and Milliband’s sandwich. No one can actually explain what’s embarrassing about either of them. Let’s just touch on Milliband, he ate a sandwich and pulled a funny face, which by the way we all do if photographed at the right moment. Does anyone really think this incident lost him votes!? I sincerely hope not! I mean imagine that thought process when going to the polling station-hmmm, I really like his policies and I think he has a lot of integrity and seems like a good family man, but the way he ate that sandwich was a bloody disgrace! I’m voting conservative!!

I wish May had completely fronted the interviewer out and said something like ‘ the naughtiest thing? Possibly the cocaine fuelled, marathon 3 ways I used to engage in at Uni ‘ lol.

To be fair to Prescot, he thought he might have been knifed. The guy came at him from his side, there was a contact and the next thing he knew there was warm liquid running down this neck. It was a fight or flight response and I think his reaction was justified.

In fairness to Theresa May that's not such an easy question to answer. "Naughty" implies - when she was a young child, not a teenager. She couldn't say shoplifting or anything like that, so she quickly came up with something pretty harmless, and something that kids often do - trespassing. It was a terrible example she gave because it came across as boring. Had she said she hid on the local wheat fields when she was supposed to be doing cross country run at school then everyone would have nodded in approval.

The problem with Ed Miliband is that he's not David Miliband.

If you do this again, there should be a whole segment for Liz Truss

Cummings was not forced to resign, he was forced to resign 6 months later in a separate issue.

The only two which was a disaster was disaster was Gordon Brown calling the woman a bigot and Dominic Cummings seemingly breaking the law.

When asked about what Blair thought of the punch, Prescott said (I think it was on HIGNFY) "I only followed Tony's orders. He told me to connect with the electorate, and I did". It's the only thing I respect him for

Prescott went up in my estimations when he punched the egg thrower.

I think the Prescott punch helped his PR massively

The Prescott incident WAS NOT a disaster whatsoever 😳

I guess we're just ignoring Prince Andrews defence interview?

I can't look at The Mound without seeing Bob-Omb battlefield from Mario 64

I hate when people put gate after everything. People in other countries do know it was only called that cause the event took place at the Watergate hotel. Just adding gate to every scandal is just nonsensical.

4:48 how is this a PR disaster. Kier starmer saying that a diseased animal should be down?

Who left his daughter behind in a pub? Cameron.

Should do a list of the top worst things Prince Phillip ever said:- “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession). “You are a woman, aren’t you?” (in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman). “If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China). “You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got pot belly” (to a Briton he met in Hungary). “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands). “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor). “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh). “Still throwing spears?” (question put to an Aboriginal Australian during a visit). “There’s a lot of your family in tonight” (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians). “The Philippines must be half-empty as you’re all here running the NHS” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital). Oh yes and wasn't there one saying when he died he wanted to come back as a deadly virus? Yeah good one Phil.

This list is why I prefer British politics, rather than our politics in the USA

Nothing about David Cameron leaving his child in a pub ??

Presscott gained a lot of respect for that punch

Now they have vans saying “come back” and “fix me sink”

No. 3: Shortly after the incident, Brewdog made a beer called "Barnard Castle eye test"... 😂

What about Theresa May's coughing speech? 😁

What about Diane Abbott forgetting to count?

The “Pubic Mound” 😂

2024 here, and they are all defeated by D-Day...

Edwina Currie and her comment that all eggs were contaminated with salmonella. Egg sales crashed, and so did her career.

Peter Bottomley has just said MP need more pay, after his party just stole £20 a week, off the poorest people in the country.

I respect prescott for punching the guy

Surely the infamous "Ed Stone" should be on here?

You could make a whole top 10 on just Boris Johnson’s PR disasters

The Russian Assassins lies were more convincing then anything Dominic Cummings said that day

Update this to include Sunak’s Sky TV gag.

Number 4 shouldn’t count because it wasn’t planned by him. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time & people really need to look back on why struggling to eat bacon is an apparent violation of becoming a PM.

I liked John Prescot more for connecting with the electorate

"Go home or face arrest" was almost a moment of hope for sad, lost England.

You missed a classic from the 90's - Neil Kinnock's infamous US style campaign rally at the Labour conference in Sheffield 'we're all right!'.

I like the Mound 😆

Gonna be really honest...David Cameron's response by eating a hot dog with a knife and fork kinda put me off him xD

The background music on this video is ridiculous lmao. Feels like I'm watching contestants purchase antiques on a daytime tv show

Apparently British political PR disasters only go back as far as 1986

I think this video needs a remake as a top 20

The only problem with the "Go Home Vans" was that there weren't enough of them and the policy of kicking out illegals wasn't pursued with any determination. Even several years ago there were estimated to be over one million illegals in the country.

Running through the fields of wheat? And now forever known as Thatcher in the Rye!

Rishi Sunak retreating from the D day beaches faster than a curry sampler on laxatives.

The mound is the worst, the council decided to build that then feed hungry kids in the area. Didn’t even bother setting up food banks for people

Dominic Cummings: Goes to Barnard Castle for an eye test Me: Goes to Barnard Castle to say I've driven on the A67!

2 Jags Prescott! What a legend!

Surprised the Ed Stone didn't get a mention

Jeeze. This video is just 2 years old but if you made it again today none of these items would make the cut.

I dont understand the field of wheat furore? Surely it's the lamest "naughty" thing imaginable. Or is that the point?

Plus: 1. Rishi in the rain 2. Rishi getting laughed at by audiences 3. Rishi the D-Day Dodger 4. Rishi standing by the exit sign 5. Shapps calling Sam Coates on air.

You missed Bojo saying that Mrs Ratcliffe was educating journalists, sadly it cost her more jail time

Yes, thats right folks, here in Britain we pick our Prime Ministers on the basis of how they eat a bacon sandwich. Pretty pathetic really. No wonder we're screwed.

Leaving early for a DD commemoration, when you are prime minister, to film an interview that won’t be shown for another week (where you are just defending a lie) ranks very highly

The mound, I WILL be going there!

That alpaca crap was a load of hot air

We would appear to have the politicians that we deserve.

2024 election: hold my beer.

Geronmo was actually 2021 not 2020

You forgot about the infamous Ed Stone!

Also it’s possibly worth mentioning that Gordon Beown’s “Bigotgate” was indeed an issue for him but at a local level, the MP he was there to support went on to win the seat.

#8 wasn't a disaster, it improved Prescott's public perception lol.

I kinda respect Prescott for punching that dude.

Replace Prescotts little incident with the Ed Stone

Miliband: if it looks like a muppet, talks like a muppet, and acts like a muppet - it’s a muppet.

Forgot about the go homes vans lol literally the stupidest idea ever. Especially when most who are here illegally can't even read English 😎

Theresa May did make a mistake she should’ve got up and danced to style it out 😂😂😂😂

Two Jags Prescott was a proper bloke politician

The Mound has gone now. What always got to me was the idea that it was there partly because the council thought Londoners needed green spaces…right opposite Hyde Park and you’ll never guess what colour that is…

I would have put chamberlains policy of appeasement high up there. I’m guessing it’s a modern look.

The first one someday didn't think about the fact that plants take time to grow

the fact that tories sending out vans telling immigrants to go home or be arrested ranked slightly below Ed Milliband making a weird face while eating sandwich really does say a lot about British political coverage doesn't it?

What about Theresa May walking that was 🤣

Prescott punching back shows he wasn’t a gutless mug.

Yes

No mention of the muppets! Either of them!

When they put that Alpaca down, they mishandled it. He was almost suffocated by the way they lead him to the place they were using and we still don't know whether he had TB or not.

Have to add 'leaving D-Day memorial to go back and defend lies'

Think you need to update this, there is a new Number 1.

Love how there is fuck all about Boris Johnson in this list

Think this might need an update...

Dodgy Dave🤣😂

Where's Camerons "hug a hoodie"?

Way up there would be Rishi Sunak flying back to the UK instead of doing an international DDay celebration

Camerons wife likes the old charlie ,she was a goer in her uni days

Hr, sir Norman fry little Britain sketches

7:56 - Cummings didn’t resign because of this….

I love that most of these happened within the last 10 years.

It's worrying that all of these bar 1 has happened in my life time and I'm still in my 20s. The state of British politics/ politicians. Though I must admit, there are some really bad ones that this video misses. Maybe the people who made it are young too. But I would have thought Chamberlain's Munich Agreement would be up there, as would the Suez Canal crisis and the Profumo Affair

I don't remember 'The Mound' at all???