How to win an Election: A Panorama Guide

[@johnking5174]

At 19:20 Harold Wilson gave one of his best performances here. Just look at how he managed the pause after saying he saw Sir Alec Douglas-Home on television. Letting the audience react. And his sharp little quip. Perfectly timed.

[@DonJuanMarco1994]

20:10 "Who EXHUMED You" 😆 That a brutal thing to say to Alec Douglas Hume.

[@melgrant7404]

It's easy. Just have a party that have been in too long and bingo you've won.

[@rinkadink66]

just like Neil Kinnock did...ahhhhh..hmmmmm..

[@melgrant7404]

@@rinkadink66 they got there in the end.

[@PNETriffid]

Is it possible to have a documentary that can mention changes of decades without resorting to the same tired clichés and the same footage. 1950s: austerity and rigid social conservatism. However, on 1st January 1960 the World suddenly changes completely, cue stock videos of swinging London, miniskirts, and pot-smoking hippies. Then come the 1970s, 3 day week, rubbish in the street, the end of the Hippy dream. 1980s: show Thatcher waving from no. 10, mobile phones and Yuppies to contrast striking miners. It is all so boring, unimaginative and patronising. Can the BBC stop doing colour-by-numbers documentaries?

[@carlingblacklabel2864]

Also any documentary about an era will be played to an ill fitting soundtrack of the decades pop music with no relevance to the subject

[@danielrees613]

Been searching for this for years. Thanks for uploading!

[@eleanorclub]

Excellent, still-relevant analysis and history lesson. Thanks so much for posting.

[@unclestephen2722]

Staggering words at the close from Hume, seeming to predict Reagan and Blair.

[@Butlinsgvn6]

Great upload, thanks David. I noted your comment in the description about Dominic Sandbrook, I'm not familiar with him - why do you not rate him?

[@DBIVUK]

Even if I was inclined to overlook his awful columns for the Daily Mail, there are serious criticisms about how rigorous his work is. For a would be historical revisionist he seems to prefer comforting narratives. When has he ever produced a well-evidenced undermining of a previously accepted interpretation? His writing is also uneconomical - he seems to think the fatter the book, the better. Also you might want to read this blog: weneedtotalkaboutdominic.wordpress.com

[@garryprendiville8127]

An interesting perspective but could you provide a few examples, some specific books? Thanks for the link but the blog isn't great to be honest, not very well written and definitely not edited well

[@tyronebiggums8660]

@@DBIVUKeh, I disagree with some of Sandbrook’s opinions, but I wouldn’t entirely disregard him as a historian. For public historians it is important for people to reach wide audiences and make things fun

[@brianwarden7250]

His blog is very Tory & Corporatist. He doesn't scrutinize much at all. @@DBIVUK

[@TowelsKingdom]

I'm guessing the Torries didn't watch this in 2024

[@system1912]

Harold Wilson who learned how to have a sense of humour, incredible. 😅😂

[@wilverbal]

51:02 ---- "unfortunately"

[@brianmarshall4753]

Panorama programme is a current affairs I used to watched it with his son David Dimbleby in the seventies and eighties also Jeremy vine in the noughties

[@MultiVince95]

Monday 29th March 2010

[@joecurran2811]

Social media has made this even worse!

[@wilsonfisk6626]

Kinnock had such a bad comb over 50:09

[@BossySwan]

Well alright

[@wilsonfisk6626]

@BossySwan WELL ALRIGHT! WELL ALRIGHT!! WELL ALLLLRRIIGGGHHT! We've got to get some serious talking here. * *12 hours of gibberish* * Now is the time for change. Now is the time for LABOUR!

[@Calum_1940]

It does beg the question why upload the programme if you think it’s so poor?

[@DBIVUK]

It plainly does not 'beg the question'. It might raise, or prompt, the question, but it does not 'beg the question' (which is the logical fallacy of assuming an answer when supposedly openly debating a question). As to why upload it, several reasons: 1) You may disagree with me and like it. 2) It may be poor overall but have good bits. 3) I never promised only to upload good quality content. 4) Someone may be looking for it having not seen it.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

The only good points of the Thatcher era was when Thames couldn't playout one of their lying party political broadcasts to the ITV network and when she resigned!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Can you remove MultiVince95's comments?

[@robintyson591]

Brilliant. Love Margaret Thatcher! 52:32

[@johncambridge7339]

Brown envelope

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

I like Dominic, being familiar with his actual work, but then he is a Mail columnist so I suppose some feel relieved of making up their own mind about his merits as a commentator.

[@alanberkeley7282]

He's a Tory historian

[@merseydave1]

I am 58, I remember the 1970 General Election as my family were very News savey-political, so over my time I realized the observations/conclusions of this documentary are true. I am a Socialist, therefor I would have been very happy under Clement Attlee, Michael Foot, Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn, yet I recognize in todays society of media manipulation, the people who I wanted would never be elected as Prime Minister. People today Do Not Want High Taxation, they like "The Idea" of a fair equitable egalitarian society But Do Not Want To Pay For It. Another point is this ... most people are Not Political, they just want to see a person who looks Stateman like yet Not Imposing, I despair!.

[@zeddeka]

It's not just media manipulation - there's a huge streak of social conservatism that goes through the country and has done for centuries, and that very much includes in the working class - including among many who voted Labour. In the 1800s, working class areas of London and Lancashire swung to the Tories in protest at Irish and Jewish immigration. In the 1950s, a famous social attitudes survey found that the working class had the most right wing, authoritarian social attitudes of any social group, including strong support for banning mixed race marriages, support for sterilising the disabled, and very strong antipathy towards gay people and Jews. It was the working class who formed the bulk of support for Enoch Powell. It's one of the huge delusions on the left that support for the Tories is simply due to 'media manipulation'. It's much, much deeper than that.

[@TelexToTexel]

Why is it disappointing ?

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

38:20 I've never come across a political phrase more mocked than ''Who Governs''?

[@brianwarden7250]

I enjoyed this.

[@joshuaaaron125]

“It’s people respectable and reserved” Ahh where the hell has it gone wrong?!?

[@zeddeka]

I think that's the image they wanted to portray, but if we're honest, things were in many ways a lot worse back then. It was all just brushed under the carpet because people didn't want to imagine a lot of things existed. Just look at what the likes of Jimmy Saville was up to all through that period, and nobody said a thing.

[@johnnorth1961]

Lie, Lie and Lie, the sheeple will fall for it everytime

[@merseydave1]

Sadly you are On The Button !

[@brianwarden7250]

Television. The idiots lantern, Funny.

[@williamtoner8674]

In case anyone is curious, Smethwick, the place mentioned in this documentary with all the supposedly nasty horrible racists, is 58% ethnic minorities now. I'm sure they were very racist but were they wrong about their fate?

[@Joewizzard260]

Far too much Sandbrook!

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

Now we know what BBC does with politics the old restrictions grow less mad. There'd be a lot less fuss about the Licence Fee if half the country didn't feel sneered at by effeminate southern men and of late very un-effeminate women!

[@zeddeka]

U ok Hun?