Alastair Campbell: Why I left Labour

[@tylersmith8854]

Think they need to change the name of this video He didnt leave he got kicked out

[@mum2jka]

Yes, but he also says he was appealing and had an 'air tight' case against the Labour Party. And, he does have a point on that.

[@bluecostanza]

It not like Campbell to twist the truth!

[@Adam04kley]

Your wronh

[@Rover109able]

Good Riddance !

[@lesvosace602]

@@mum2jka however conveniently he isn't going to present his "air tight" case. Probably because it has a bloody big hole in it.

[@MrValz0]

Campbell's self-reinvention as a hero of Remain has been thoroughly entertaining to watch. How he's been embraced as a hero after his part in the Iraq debacle. I guess all is forgiven... Oh wait, the Hague is on the phone!

[@rammiel9404]

Definetly not a hero. Im glad hes gone.

[@mediolanumhibernicus3353]

I have no doubt he will be one of those who will return to clean up corbyn's mess.

[@JONNOG88]

I know right. I mean back in 2004 this creepy old dickhead. Called Anti War Iraq protesters. "Smug idiots". Yet *now* . He's a "progressive hero". Pass me the bucket 🤢

[@HS-fm9kv]

Mots of Parliament voted for Iraq....

[@JONNOG88]

@@HS-fm9kv I know. But Campbell. As "Chief of Communications". Was the one drumming up support for it. & Co authored that bullshit dossier. About Iraq's "WMD"

[@BREXITBOXTV]

He was kicked out,he cannot spin that!

[@zydecobill]

A waste of space. Please leave the stage Alastair.

[@LONDON4KWALKS]

Alastair Campbell scaremongering all of us as usual ! 😡

[@georgeash4008]

He is the world's biggest liar.

[@cmdrlevianova1485]

So the former Labour spin doctor is spin doctoring out in the open and skys gobbling it up. Why is he doing this in france?

[@cmdrlevianova1485]

@Jim who sends a political open letter while on holiday?

[@angelb3111]

I don't care why he left, I don't care what he thinks, I don't care Campbell, go away.

[@matthewgodwin3050]

@Brian Smith That's not very fair on the dog mate. Just lock the pair of them in the tower, along with May and Hammond, and throw the key mid Atlantic.

[@LehartPro]

He's always been a Tory anyway, won't be missed

[@Slarti]

Perhaps the most self-promoting and at the same most uninteresting person on the planet. I'd be wiling to bet that he is doing this for money.

[@MrMassivefavour]

Absolutely on message here until he is asked to commit to something where he INSTANTLY changes the subject. His type never changes, full of chat, but when asked for actual policy...nothing!!!

[@AA-eb9fo]

This guy 100% fake I never trusted him

[@stephenconlon653]

He got expelled for not supporting Labour. So he’s not going to be missed

[@oneithegoyim]

Shorter version......I got expelled. Thankyou good night from Sky news

[@dolphin8596]

No denying Corbyn is inept. Labour should of walked all over the Tories during the past 3 years but Corbyn has hardly done anything and he can't even get his team in order. Politics in the UK has become a joke and a disaster.

[@nickc3864]

He’s absolutely right, I’ve always liked Alistair. With the exception of Blair’s three landslides this party hasn’t won since the early 1970’s. Their hard left is more unreasonable than ours in the US.

[@garystokes6407]

DANGEROUS Man MARXIST

[@patrickdoyle9304]

War criminal

[@HS-fm9kv]

18:35 "Global Joke"... As a Brit/ EU Dual National sitting in a 3rd country for work.... surrounded by people from around the world..... Couldn't agree more..... Having same conversation that AC had in Australia with my non british friends/ colleagues who are asking WTF....

[@lorrainelane6583]

He's just worried about his own finances

[@jamesrichards3183]

because he's not really a socialist.

[@grahamellis6029]

I wish he'd leave our tv screens LOL.

[@magnuswalker7957]

Leaving the country would be my choice

[@tonyryan649]

Because he's too corrupt even for labour. He would be better suited as guard in some pow camp or Sierra Leone when stuff went south.

[@MrMassivefavour]

This guy can not be off air, slagging off Labour for more than 45 minutes!

[@garrybastow1930]

It's not hard to slag of racist Labour mate.

[@leestinton8755]

Labour on the way to lose the next general election because of Corbyn

[@rdyfhi]

Not a spin Dr anymore, he is all out of date, everything about him...

[@garystokes6407]

He is a tosspot

[@JosephStealin]

He’s wrong about the referendum, we don’t one we had one it’s done just leave deal or no deal

[@kevinhayes7830]

He's quite right I don't understand what labour want weather there remain or out it's a mystery

[@MVERLAINE1]

Well done Alistair for standing up for what is right and basically saying Bollocks to Brexit in the face of a useless and impotent Labour Party

[@johnrafter8870]

Kinnock lost two general elections. Tories got a majority both times. If Campbell is criticising corbyn on his record on general elections, why does he praise kinnock in the same sentence? Kinnock was the biggest loser Labour's ever had!

[@hufclufc]

At least he tried!

[@johnrafter8870]

But, what does that mean on its own? And what does that's mean in the context of Campbell's criticisms that labour did not win in 2017? Campbell is quick to point out how "hard" kinnock worked, well, based on his results, he didn't work hard enough. Leader for nine years, trounced after 3/4 years, battered again in 1992. Tory majorities both times. Corbyn was leader for just two years before labour stopped a tory majority at corbyns first effort. So kinnock tried? Did he? And if he did, he didn't try hard enough!

[@awotnot]

@@johnrafter8870 Campbell supports Kinnock because they're both imperialist lick spittle

[@johnrafter8870]

Well, that's another way of putting it!

[@tripespur]

Labour made a mistake not electing David Milliband, is it too late?

[@heliotropezzz333]

There was hardly any difference between David Milliband's views and Tony Blair's. I don't think people would have been keen on a Blair 2.

[@heliotropezzz333]

@@kincaidwolf5184 *than. Cameron is a Tory, not Labour. He wasn't a Blairite. Cameron's government was much crueller than Blair's.

[@lawrencebrown3677]

@@heliotropezzz333 Yes indeed. He went to USA to work for a charity on a $ 300,000 annual salary. I wonder how much the recipients of that charity received. Another slimy individual.

[@lesvosace602]

"why I left Labour" because i was kicked out for telling everyone on national tv to vote Lib Dem. Nothing to see here then.

[@johnpullen72]

war criminal . why give him air time!

[@S4nLucci]

John Pullen why give Churchill a statue?

[@CaSteGra]

Campbell made a bollox of Iraq, no question. But he's absolutely right about Johnson, Corbyn and the state of British politics.

[@barongreenbackthe2nd418]

Horrible man.

[@knightstemplar1967]

Deserting a sinking ship springs to mind

[@MCCOLDT]

Looks like he's fallen off the wagon to me, frankly. He's not well.

[@Behindstage]

He’s correct on Corbyn but I don’t have much time for him in a political sence.

[@jamieb7503]

When I saw Campbell's face, I thought this was gonna be a propaganda video on "Why the West must bomb Iran"

[@mikehasted6348]

Everything is personal for Alistair Campbell who is only there for his own agenda and his own future wealth he is looking for a job somewhere ! Luckily most people dislike him intensely and as far as accusing other people being liars people in glasshouses should not throw stones... I'm surprised his nose is not sticking through the TV camera! A thoroughly disagreeable and malodorous human being reminds me of Gollum!!... my precious!

[@davidcarr3552]

Ask him how much he gets 4 his role in the BBC yes makes a mint from your TV licence

[@timcomley3241]

he''s back on the ale.

[@joeybarnes01]

Yet another lie from this odious man, he never left, he was expelled. Lying comes second nature to this chap.

[@awesomeavenger2810]

Anyone with a conscience left long ago. What took him so long?

[@markskoda8862]

Sorry Alistair. I'm not interested in the slightest.

[@tfbrooks1668]

He makes a bit of sense but he has no solutions

[@fredcollins3727]

He was the best of the labour party, cheating, lying, untrustworthy. The rest of them are total low life .

[@trevortaylor3774]

He's right about one thing Boris is crap Corbyn is worse I think we should go for Nigel farage and the brexit party

[@zadramm1]

Alastair Campbell was involved in years of bloodshed diplomacy and fabrication. Dr Kelly UK scientist killed, weapon of mass destruction was lie, Iraq invasion was wrong, sending UK young men and women to war is a criminal act.. all is done, in British name which had nothing to do with Britiain. it was ISRAEL business to fight these countries UK need to stay out of it. and luckily we have one guy in British politics who tell the truth and that is Jeremy Corbyn.

[@franknhonest]

This guy should be in jail with Bliar, not on TV

[@kenboon1478]

Needs to apologise in person to every arm forces personnel permanently injured and the families of the deceased during the Iraq war for misleading them into a false war !

[@dropkicks2107]

Is anyone really surprised that the master of spin has the temerity to characterise his expulsion as him “walking away.” The lack of shame here is breathtaking.

[@electromechanicalservicesu834]

To be fair to him, he could sell any thing. At his time, he had good politicians around Labour making good policies and lots of bad ones, then he could sell it all. Now no one at the Labour is making any real policies and there is no one to sell them!

[@nigellapaul6787]

Leave Labour ! Leave us alone

[@charbax]

I like listening to this guy. But he got kicked out. No big deal keep talking dude.

[@petermcdonagh7820]

Erm, ... I kinda like him. He's not a politician but he's a great student of political thinkers, Machiavelli maybe! He can accurately see/read the political landscape and situation and verbally he touches 'it' with a needle!

[@suziegraham7063]

David Kelly that is

[@NoBrad1]

I fail to understand the train of thought of people who deride AC / TB. Most of the individuals who do so base their derision on the fact that Britain participated in the Iraq war, which incidentally was due to the pressure from the then USA president GWB. Nobody seems to remember what New Labour delivered for the overall benificialty of the working person during their tenure, what people need to realize is that 99% of the UK population is working class, yet all the present cabinet appointments by BJ are members of the 1%.

[@jamienash5263]

He was expelled. He did not leave.

[@caromaro591]

Why is this man even being given air space?

[@jamesscurr571]

Most of the Members are more than Happy to be in Opposition, in Government they would have to make a decision.

[@awotnot]

bollocks

[@jamesscurr571]

@@awotnot YES that´s what they would do to the UK given the chance.

[@awotnot]

@@jamesscurr571 yeah fascist imperialism that rewards the rich for doing piss all is so much better than funding health care and schools after all

[@NoBrad1]

Incidentally regarding war participation associated with imperialism (not WW1 or WW2) over the last couple of centuries is not to be heralded.

[@david1731048]

Kay Burley letting someone speak. Jesus Christ

[@leedn5]

Is there something wrong with the sound? All I can hear is a baby crying.

[@ckelin13]

He's not influential at all, he's a 'has been' .

[@peacok01]

He didn't leave he got kicked out and rightly so. Good riddance!

[@adjk4169]

The name of this video is misleading. Alastair Campbell was expelled from the Labour Party after he voted for another party. He has chosen not to challenge this decision. He has not “left” the party . He was kicked out. Proper news reporting please.

[@theresamay247]

No deal is better than a Labour deal

[@aloprecurus2798]

i still cannot understand the airtime this guy gets. He should be in the Hague, or in Fallujah.

[@JMKeynes8491]

It is little wonder that Australians largely think Brexit is bad and BJ will be a disaster as Aussies are largely dependent on the BBC for its news about the UK...no prizes for guessing the BBC's 'policy' on Brexit and BJ!

[@lawrencebrown3677]

If this two-faced hypocrite and liar ever joined anything I was a member of I would resign immediately. He would be just as much at home in the Tory party just as long he could parade his mendacity to his own advancement and get paid well.

[@chriswilliamson7694]

Yes, Campbell is a hypocrite and has a less than reputable record. But that doesn't mean he's automatically wrong about what he's saying re: Labour and the state of the party. So far I haven't seen any comments which rebut any of his claims properly - just a load of stuff about 'Iraq, the Hague, expelled blah blah blah'.

[@armstronggermany2995]

Some people never realise that they are has beens. Blair, Brown and Campbell and others still live in their own little cloud cuckoo land. Had he resigned before being expelled from his Party, he may have regained a smidgeon of respect. Unfortunately the media hunger for 24 hour dross keeps them going on and on and on and on...

[@RobRoss-onlyone]

Shouldn't Sky News do a video about why the majority, probably, of Labour supporters are glad to see the back of him?

[@chrish12345]

spot the war crim (no prizes) and it is surprising that the snivelling reptile didn't also write a love letter to the Iraqi people

[@davidhenderson5890]

He would make a fortune with his face printed on bathroom soft tissue roles.

I thought they threw him out of the party

[@thejupiter1744]

A great shame because with this clown labour would have sunk even deeper.

[@cathhall2015]

He got told to bolt!

[@adrianlloyd6403]

Kay Burley interviewing Alastair Campbell.What a complete waste of eighteen minutes of anyone's life.The worst journalist on UK television asking questions to someone whose opinions and judgement no one respects anymore.

[@karenm7449]

He should have said he is cranky that he never got to be the leader.

[@kennyj851]

He was expelled for violating party policy.

[@paulkirk6989]

If his solicitors believe he has a water tight case I hope he has plenty of money to pay for another appeal that they will recommend after he loses.

[@olivergrumitt8033]

I wonder why Mr. Campbell is given so much air time these days. He may have been important when Tony Blair was Prime Minister but Mr. Blair left office 12 years ago. Mr. Campbell is in no position to complain at all about Brexit, he supported the Iraq War against the wishes of most of the population of the country. Sounds as if Mr. Campbell wants to have his cake and eat it.

[@TorbjornMain]

The sexiest man alive

[@marty3099]

He never left he broke the rules

[@martinsaint2182]

This WAR CRIMINAL does NOT DESERVE AIRTIME!

[@minimax9452]

these people have to go...they are the reason GB is in such a mess.

[@chipocasa5757]

An Old man still trying to be relevant in a Country that has no time for lies from no elected Old men , Its one of the reasons we want to leave the EU

[@RabbidTheNabbit]

Another Blairite bites the dust! #JC4PM

[@zadramm1]

Why Alastair Campbell hate Jeremy Corbyn, because Corbyn does not buy ISRAELI and NEO con of US politicians bullshit ! Corbyn think British NOT American or Israeli That is why ! simple as that.

[@martynjones8560]

Campbell's spot on.

[@luismanuel2612]

Campbell is the champion of spin-off...

[@Fry2000]

This man speaking "truth to power" what a joke.

[@jackyrants3912]

Its hard to believe he's from Keighley

[@colletteoconnor6516]

Why

[@simonb8464]

He should be spouting his 'opinion' behind a glass screen in The Hague. Ideally, with some company.

[@mana6969]

He lied about the Iraq war. Serial liar.

[@MrMassivefavour]

Me me me meeeeeeeeeee!!!!

[@rufanuf1]

Alastair Campbell, one of the countries biggest political knobs

[@freespirit2903]

Yeah like labour needs this war criminal,alistir should be in jail with his warlord tony Blair

[@Penfold-zn7ot]

Yesterday's man!#Irrelevant

[@djm9676]

Taxi for Campbell ......

[@tfowel]

Who cares what this man does? Why is he given air time?