Tony Blair imitates Dennis Skinner

[@Oprey22]

Apart from the minimum wage, LGBT rights, peace in Northern Ireland, Sure Start, real progress on child poverty. winning three general elections, one of those after the Iraq war, keeping the Tories out of power for 13 years, what did Tony Blair ever do for us?

[@pov_music]

Not nowhere near enough

[@dreamer2260]

Exactly.

[@jonathanbuss7538]

His support for homosexuality is not something to applaud. We need to return to biblical moral values.

[@henryficklin3333]

He catches his tone so accurately

[@aperson22222]

Yet Anthony Charles Lynton Blair never lost Bolsover; Corbyn can’t say that.

[@andrewashdown3541]

Skinner - living embodiment of the Pythons '4 Yorkshiremen ' sketch

[@ratkomladic1814]

Gosh I hate how arrogant he is thinking he's so much better than the working class it utterly disgusts me.

[@Oprey22]

But Skinner isn't arrogant to think he's better than Blair for being working class? Snobbery cuts both ways.

[@SoulRippster]

Anyone is better than a money grabbing killer.

[@FrankieHchannel]

SoulRippster Grow up.

[@benusmaximus3601]

He doesn't think he's better than anyone - he just thinks he's right. Being correct doesn't make you any better than anyone else - I'd drop this regressive mindset if I were you mate...

[@Leebo9372]

And the entrance of Blair to Labours stage, not just him but a new style of politician, brought about the inevitable change to politics. The clear, thought about arguments about the economy, about education, about politics and the way the country should run. Beforehand, there was a lot of class-beating. "We're working class!" to cheers. Although, Skinner is one of the greatest and cleverest. I think they both could learn a lot from eachother. Or, could of. Blair won't be back in politics soon.

[@timcomley3241]

for all those who hate blair now where were you when he won 3 in a row.

[@amos2000]

Tim Comley I was saying, "where's that Labour government I voted for? What's the point of having power if you don't do anything with it?"

[@davidengland05]

What does this comment even mean

[@youngian]

Blair thinks loyalty and solidarity is something to mock-says it all

[@dreamer2260]

Except that's not his actual point.

[@danielbentham758]

Skinner lost his seat under a "solidarity" leader

[@grumpydharmabum]

Sincerest form of flattery.

[@bquinn4533]

He was and is a class act.

[@jacobesmith12]

Yeah upper middle class

[@bankzie]

this man doesnt deserve to impersonate the great david skinner

[@Oprey22]

He's obviously so great that you don't know his name is Dennis even though it's in the title of this video. Pay attention!

[@kristiana5347]

David?!

[@shazza1692]

Go Dennis. A legend! Blair's a tory!

[@benusmaximus3601]

Tories win, tories change things - Labour are a party of protest and town meetings...

[@Jmcinally94]

@@benusmaximus3601 AKA if you have wealthy backers in your pocket you can achieve a more holistic smear campaign across the media. If you stand by the little people and organize locally, you somehow end up completely powerless.

[@decap008]

Fascinating, Dennis had him figured right at the start.

[@amos2000]

And history has shown that, in this and many other things, Skinner was right all along.

[@leegibbs1727]

Is that why blair won 3 general elections while corbyn consideres putting a dent in the torys majority as a victory?

[@ng53mfz]

Tony...Tony!!!..The fact you mock what Skinner said says more about you as a man and a so called Labour politician than I ever can. You are not fit to wipe the arse of Dennis Skinner and should pray for forgivness for this shocking act of disrespect of a fine and sincere MP... Knob.

[@edshed968]

Blair's the antithesis of Dennis Skinner. The former, corrupt and rotten to the core, and the latter, decent and honest.

[@PaulusNMagnus]

I do not think so Aalim. Estimates vary about the number of casualties during the Iraq invasion, but most observers put the figure between 100,000 qnd 150,000. How many deaths was Sadam Hussein responsible for during his reign of terror? If there is still war in Iraq it is because of the murderous split in Islam between the Sunni and the Shia.

[@Oprey22]

There would have been blood anyway when Saddam fell. He kept the lid on the sectarian violence by fear, somewhat like Tito in Yugoslavia. To blame the sectarian violence on Blair is misguided.

[@19sept76]

Reminds me of those faith healers. I don't believe everything Dennis Skinner is right by a long streak, but I never question his love of the British people and his dedication to duty, like Enoch Powell, his total opposite. I have no respect for Blair I believe he used the Labour party for his own ends.

[@tony13a]

I'm from London,i know,i know but we're not all banker's.But Skinner was right AGAIN

[@Alan1918]

Pity the rest of the Party did not recognise the Tory he is as soon as Dennis.

[@mizzyroro]

Why do Brits shy away from voting labour? In my conscious lifetime there's only been one labour stint that is Blair/Brown in over 40 years. The torries are always in a mess of confusion but keep winning elections. I mean Boris Johnson got an outright majority for godness sake? Can someone explain it to me please?

[@borjon23]

Ah, how wise young Tony was and how poorly treated! Except then everyone did take his advice and he left office with Iraq in flames and and an unregulated financial sector about to collapse because peace and economic justice are from the black and white TV era..

[@SoulRippster]

Was this before or after he was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people?

[@liamb8644]

SoulRippster he's talking about an occasion with Skinner in 1983, 20 years before Iraq. Whereas the memoir was written after his premiership

[@Oprey22]

Funny, I was under the impression that a guy called Saddam Hussein was mainly responsible for the way things are in Iraq. And if we hadn't fought the Gulf War there's every chance he'd still be there, just as Assad is in Syria.

[@SoulRippster]

So Jedediah, your logic is that to save people from their own government, we should bomb them, occupy their territory, steal their resources, unleash extremism, all in the name of “democracy” or to “save the children” or some other propaganda slogan. Fact is, people are still dying today, running away for their lives and their children are being born with defects due to illegal use of depleted uranium ammunition all thanks to an also illegal invasion of a foreign power for no reason whatsoever other than the fact that Iraq sits on one of the richest oil deposits on Earth. At this point I’d thought that there was no sentient being in the land left to defend the illegal war in Iraq… but here you are.

[@jwood36]

He's no Mike Yarwood is he, just goes to show what a great speaker Dennis is, Blair doesn't come close to capturing his passion.

[@TheEnlightened77]

Neil Kinnock got it right, Tony was a winner. New Labour rue the day they replaced Tony with Brown. Brown has a reputation as being a pretty good chancellor but he was out of his depth as PM. He was ill at ease in front of the public and just looked dull and couldn't cut the mustard. Tony should have sacked him when he was PM just like Thatcher did to her Iron Chancellor.

[@alastairmackay4861]

Should face the full impact of the law for what he did. Lied to us all and has blood on his hands.

[@Jangalene1]

Dennis Skinner for Prime Minister...!!

[@tricky1992000]

Skinner was right, it's bad enough the tories wage war on the poorest in society, without the disaster of things such as ATOS.

[@Jangalene1]

My point is that people will pay their fair share of tax if they can see those at the top-rate are paying theirs'.It's all about fairness in my opinion'..YesI agree' th expenses scandal has left a nast-taste in peoples mouths.We have o have a proper system to root-out fraud'..and that should start at the top with the Bankers' then a review of MP's Salaries. Dennis Skinner does have controvercial views'But I still respect his principles and I wish I could say the same for a majority of MP's

[@FW10826]

Dennis was right

[@kathybramley5609]

Is that his real voice? Why are these few videos on this channel!? He ought to have known that he wasn't speaking politely to the oppressed!? His was the only leadership contest bumpf to mention socialism. Je protested too much. I knew nothing about him and I was a young teenager below general voting age, but I could see that. There's progress, openness to criticism and change, and then there's the stuff Blair did directly, PFI, dossiers, special relationships; that, besides what a labour government got done or kept at bay in the meanwhile.

[@ysgol3]

MURDERER MURDERER MURDERER.

[@MrKirklandLaing]

I think the Labour voting public have finally spat this lemon out. Rejoice!

[@leegibbs1727]

And are doomed to eternal opposition

[@kris3933]

War Criminal

[@davidforster8650]

@BleatedCommiseration...dont you mean Northern IRELAND

[@HenrikAkselsen]

@TheEnlightened77 I think Blair would have sacked him if he felt he was powerful enough, but Brown had substantial support, and it would mean the end to Blairs rule if he would try something like that. Also Blair was probably always angling in for top jobs in Europe and would need Browns support in the future.

[@csmith1234567891]

The "Core voter" you speak of, i'm assuming you mean the working class, miner? Well sorry to break this to you, but that comfy voter client base, is all but demolished for the Labour Party. It happened after they replaced Clause IV of the their party constitution. Look it up. But it changed everything. The working class today have different views than from 1983, they care more about immigration, and unfortunatly, the nationalists have taken advantage of this. BNP for example

[@CitizenK60]

Tony Blair's attempt at an impersonation of a working class man is an embarrassing caricature. Sounds like he has taken notes from the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

[@ajs41]

Especially as Skinner is from Derbyshire.

[@mrbigstuff6149]

New Labour=Old Tory.

[@RonWordwelder]

1:18 "In those days I had everything written out..." ...by his globalist/Zionist bosses. Still reading the same script today.

[@dreamer2260]

Deranged antisemite.

[@HenrikAkselsen]

I agree

[@aperson22222]

Good impression.

[@shortmotions]

Say what you like, but the accent was pretty spot on. Could have slowed down the cadence ever so slightly.

[@pov_music]

Hah well at least back then they understood his poltiical philosophy and what was to come

[@TheLooville]

War criminal

[@BelatedCommiseration]

Gotta luv the 'up north' Skinner impression by Blair! Its a shame really because there is lots of stuff on the Blair record that were good political achievements like Northern Island (although of course the Tories started the peace process he finished it, with Mo Mowlams key help of course), serbia and kosovo also. But financial deregulation (and Brown bear most of this) and Iraq especially will always overshadow everything else. Such a shame.

[@kevinnoscoe6284]

War criminal 😖😖😖

[@kpreynolds1]

Tory Boy from the start

[@benusmaximus3601]

Alright, dinosaur...

[@tdp1909]

@PlathFan09 True - poor Dennis never learnt the lesson.

[@tyrchoddaear8026]

Horrible. He shows what he thinks of working-class people. But he calls them working clarse.

[@StephenGTitleytv]

Great marketing expert. Overdid it in the end though and marketed the Labour Party to the edge of irrelevance. Pity he didn't take on some of Dennis's jibes and we wouldn't have drifted so far to the right and do a John The Baptist for a lot of Tory policies.

[@tony13a]

His last words here "I did" he did'nt.

[@MrGranfield]

Tony Blair was the consummate politician plus charismatic personality.

[@19sept76]

We would have been just as well with the Tories. I learned from the Blair government don't trust him

[@aidanrosewell75]

arse bandit blair

[@PB-mo1fs]

The best Prime Minster this country has ever had.

[@MrPhllo]

Yes,and this country has been had under BLIAR