UK General Election 1992 - Neil "We're Alright" Kinnock at the 1992 Sheffield Rally

[@alexistarr]

A Labour leader with a great future behind him!

[@johnkibbey1875]

Ha ha haaa😅😅

[@TheRepentersChamber]

John Major was probably pissing himself laughing when he saw this

[@ianhowlett4682]

A victory rally before you even win! A bold move.

[@orbisrex]

And, as it turns out, an exceedingly foolish one. Don't count your chickens until they've hatched!

[@andyhowpog]

I thought that at the time. They seem to have done everything right in that election campaign until that moment. I thought at the time "This doesn't look like a wise thing to do?". No, you NEVER celebrate a victory until after you've achieved it.

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

That’s about as bold as Diane Abbotts claim that she could pass a KS2 Sats test

[@halfaworldaway]

He really wasn't far off from his Spitting Image puppet.

[@ChrisPatrick-q6k]

The puppet was more sensible

[@robbryant52]

The more I look at this I cant believe what was going on in labour's mind its unbelievable to say the least

[@whouster]

Even after 26 years, this gets no less cringeworthy. As a Labour supporter, I remember being so embarrassed by this rally and its sheer triumphalism. Kinnock showed that he couldn't control his emotions, and his whole demeanour was of someone who assumed the election was won and that he'd be the next PM. That election was the fourth Labour defeat in succession, and Kinnock being a total berk at this rally was a big reason for that!

[@lw3646]

There's quite a few awkward moments, arriving by helicopter on a live feed, the live music there and then the rhetoric back and forward with the crowd. The whole thing seems very American and crass.

[@ChrisPatrick-q6k]

His Bob Dole moment just needed to fall off the stage

[@bmker5469]

My god 23 years later and my skin still crawls whilst watching this. It's like a sunday morning on the God channel.

[@MrGoneTroppo]

My toes still curl back into my feet

[@stephenroney3630]

Actually 29 years. This is 1992

[@zarrow50]

I remember the faces of some celebs after the rally

[@John-wz7yu]

The moment I saw this on the news I knew the Labour party had blown it , Nearly thirty years on and it still makes me cringe with embarrassment,

[@eightiesmusic1984]

It made no difference to the outcome.

[@Matthew-bu7fg]

@@eightiesmusic1984 and that is the problem. So much money and resources put into this and for what?

[@russellbishop5995]

I was in London on the Saturday evening before the election and The Observer newspaper said that a new opinion poll puts Kinnock in number 10. Then came the Sheffield rally and thousands of floating voters from their armchairs saw that and thought............... think I'll go with Major.

[@johnharts7798]

Losing the 1992 election turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Labour. They were committed, like the Conservatives, to staying in the ERM. Black Wednesday would likely still have happened, albeit under a Labour chancellor. Labour's economic credibility would have been further shattered and a 1997 election, fought with the tories saying "we told you so!" would have likely resulted in another period of Labour in the wilderness of opposition.

[@stevenverb5665]

Labour twenty-seven years later is now going to be in the wilderness

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Quite possibly who knows in the event it was a hollow victory for the conservatives

[@ChrisPatrick-q6k]

Major's legacy's better than. Blair's however.

[@misterelejota]

ME: Mr. kinnock, are you drunk?? Kinnock: We're alright!!

[@zarrow50]

repeat twice more

[@pactrolsolutions]

Kinnock - managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory!! - What an absolute bell end! - Cringe making performance - and the country agreed!!

[@stephenholmes1036]

He hasn't changed

[@TromsoTrauma]

I'm really glad Kinnock stuck to his principles and didn't accept a place in the House of Lords, stick his snout in the EU trough and use his influence to get his missus a highly paid place at the EU trough as well.

[@besserman1]

Well said

[@Philcopson]

Or get his influence to get his even more unpleasant son a job in politics either.

[@formulacountdown]

Only a Labour government would deliver videos in 144p.

[@jacklewis3803]

144p > 1440p

[@besserman1]

A Labour leader arriving by helicopter. No more needs to be said

[@justinneill5003]

Ha ha I had forgotten how good this was. I was just enjoying John Redwood pretending to sing the Welsh National Anthem... but this knocks spots off it, it actually makes me blush just watching it.

[@zarrow50]

That and the Labour stone tablet

[@jeffoliver7491]

I found this online: Baroness Glenys and Lord Neil Kinnock have six state pensions. The Kinnocks are Brussels’s very own "Lord and Lady Expenses” according to Bojan Pancevski and Robert Watts, Friday March 19 2010, in The Times “Glenys Kinnock, the new minister for Europe, has amassed six publicly funded pensions worth £185,000 per year with her husband Neil, the former leader of the Labour party. They have already received up to £8m of taxpayers’ money in pay and allowances, he as a European commissioner and she as a member of the European parliament. The pair are already drawing payments from three of their taxpayer-funded pensions. Glenys Kinnock, 64, soon to be elevated to the House of Lords alongside her husband, is collecting a teacher’s pension and from next month is entitled to another from Brussels with an estimated annual value of £48,000. Lord Kinnock, 67, is receiving one pension as a former MP and a second, worth more than £80,000 for his service in Brussels. Campaigners from Open Europe which argues for greater transparency, calculated the pair’s multi-million-pound earnings from allowances, wages and pension entitlements over a 15-year period. It worked out their salaries and perks included: A total of £775,000 in wages for Mrs Kinnock and £1.85m for her husband, adding up to £2,625,000; Allowances for Mrs Kinnock’s staff and office costs of £2.9m, the Kinnocks’ daughter Rachel was her mother’s research assistant at the European Parliament; A £64,564 “entertainment allowance” for Lord Kinnock; A total of five publicly-funded pensions, worth £4.4m, allowing them to retire on £183,000 a year; A housing allowance that allowed them both to claim accommodation costs even though, as a married couple, they lived in the same house in the Belgian capital between 1995 and 2004. The TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign manager Susie Squire attacked the scale of the earnings. She said “It does seem an awful lot, but anyone who has experience of the Brussels gravy train will be able to believe these figures. There are lots of eurocrats on massive pensions and massive salaries living the five-star lifestyle at taxpayers’ expense. Brussels isn’t at all transparent. It’s very difficult to get information”. Mrs Kinnock was given a life peerage and appointed to succeed Caroline Flint who resigned as Europe Minister, saying she was not content to be Gordon Brown’s “female window dressing. Time to clear out this rotten edifice!

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

Well, alright!!

[@MeganG25]

Well then, if he were looking into the future at the Sheffield rally, then Kinnock was quite correct to say “We’re aaalriiight”. They ended up being more than alright on the gravy train!!

[@patrickneylan]

All sadly true, but back in 92 Kinnock still had passion and principles.

[@mortensenegbert6619]

Sounds like he's saying "Well alright!" which would make more sense as a stirring chant at a rally.

[@kevint1719]

Neil Kinnock, a man who stood for prime minister on the principles of abolishing the house of Lords and leaving the Common Market, and then took a peerage and a high paying job in the EU (along with his wife) and now says the British people should not be allowed a referendum on the latter. A multimillionaire whose son is married to the prime minister of Denmark.

[@everready800]

Through the fullness of time and upon mature reflection he decided to do a 180 lol

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

It's quite common sometimes damascene other times gradual ​@@everready800

[@cielobuio]

Don't worry Neil. When you screw up like this, there's one institution that will still employ even you....... Oh, and your son....

[@kalamazootw]

....and your wife.

[@bigjohno242]

And your daughter

[@BusbyTreeSurgery]

and give you a 1.6 million pound pension

[@TheJacaranda01]

My god, i'll bet Kinnock's toes still curl to this day! That windbag almost single handedly gave the floating voters to the Tories in 1992.

[@zarrow50]

You have to laugh

[@slowdivebreeze1]

...you should always have someone in the room to pick apart and tell you why that great idea you think you've just had is not. Still a problem to this day

[@harbster1]

"we're alright" - this lost Labour the election.

[@evonne_o]

It did

[@eightiesmusic1984]

It did not at all.

[@tomgibson6801]

1992 election. a loud welsh man vs a shy brixton boy. such a weird election

[@arashh23]

"We're alright! We're alright! We're alright!" Narrator: Turns out they were not alright

[@markwhittaker6866]

CLEARLY NOT!

[@charliewartelle6720]

The Welsh Windbag. To this day it’s my favorite politician nickname.

[@thelastgreenelf]

The idea Neil Kinnock's utterances of “We're alright!” and the perceived over-confidence of the Labour campaign led to their defeat in 1992 is one I consider ridiculous. I believe Gerald Kaufman had the right idea on why Labour lost when he said in 1995 it wasn't Kinnock, the Sheffield rally or the party's tax policy that cost them the election, but the fact they were outward symbols of what was expressed in the Conservative campaign slogan of the time, “You Can't Trust Labour”.

[@Razamabaz]

I think you're right. I don't think that instance as cringe worthy as it was (and as a Labour supporter I found it very cringe worthy) had any effect on the outcome of the election. Still a mystery to me as the disaster waiting to happen with major was far more cringe worthy.

[@julesakers3051]

The 1992 result was, of course, a result of more substantial factors than one public performance by Neil Kinnock, ghastly as it was- but I believe that a good number of waverers were discomforted, not least those who were beginning to doubt Labour and Kinnock having initially considered supporting them. Mainstream voters in the UK may differ in many ways but one thing they have in common is a desire for our representatives to be stable and statesman-like. Launching into a vulgar meaningless call and response routine as you step up to the microphone is fine if you are a rock star, not a prospective national leader in charge of the economy, the armed forces, the NHS and so on. The occasion had gotten to him and he choked. Labour were already slipping and were headed for defeat but this nonsense (Helicopters? Darting spotlights? I ask you!) may well have consolidated the suspicions many were forming that he was just not up to the job.

[@TS111WASD]

I seriously doubt a silly slogan cost them the election. This smug, arrogant rally combined with Kinnock’s buffoonish behaviour turned them into a joke.

[@kailashpatel1706]

Kaufmann was right..

[@ubergeraldine]

The best comedy show in ages.

[@jonmortermusic]

Ghastly as this was I remember it well, but no, it didn't cost Labour the election. There were still many many voters out there who simply could not envisage Neil Kinnock as Prime Minister. I knew many Labour/Lib Dem waverers at the time who edged more towards Ashdown's Lib Dems. A new leader changed all of that.

[@MarkHarrison733]

John Smith lost Labour the 1992 GE.

[@samwilsamwil-pr6so]

The moment the british people thought "oh god we can't vote for this!"

[@telabib]

Google "Kinnocks expenses" then see what you think of this block head.

[@davidarmstrong1624]

He was actually saying "Well alright", in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis.

[@timcomley3241]

Never gets old 😂

[@MobinKiadeh]

R.I.P John Smith, if only he didn't die and would've gone on to become Prime Minister, then we never would've had Tony Blair.

[@zayn2476]

We would've had John major leading us into the 2000's. No human rights, no stable inflation, high interest rates, no peace in Northern Ireland, cut benefits, shrinking public sector, no minimum wage, lack of investment in education and health, no education or health reforms, no reduction in poverty and child poverty, higher unemployment, unprepared for globalisation, hit harder by 2008. Shall I continue or do you get the message?

[@plebjames]

What makes you think John Major would have won 1997?

[@zarrow50]

Did Tony have him bumped off like he did that Kelly bloke?

[@robertmason6366]

was whacked mate

[@kevinlongman007]

Mobin Kiadeh Smith would have won the General Election in 1997 and with a big majority and would have been a fantastic PM.

[@collinssheffield]

Without Kinnock's clown antics Labour could easily have won.

[@MrReco12]

Dave Collins Complete rubbish, Murdoch ordered the British to vote Tory and you obeyed. AS simple as that.

[@slowdivebreeze1]

think it would have been tighter, ..just feel that kinnock had not clinched the deal with the electorate

[@eightiesmusic1984]

No. It was used against Labour. False claims that Labour would increase taxes, making most worse off, worked for the Conservatives. Labour lost the election three months before April 9th, once it was clear tax was working for the Conservatives. Peter Mandelson's absence from running the campaign was a huge mistake even though I do not support him. Charles Clarke should have swallowed his pride and welcomed Mandelson, as he really did know what he was doing when it came to communication.

[@paulmannion1852]

Bizarre speeches and gags here from some of these tepid lads. "John Major's own box office disaster: Honey, I Shrunk the Economy". Honey I Shrunk the Kids was a huge box office success and moderate critical success. The "joke" just doesn't scan at all.

[@patrick180271]

As a 38 year-old former student of UK politics,I am sure Kinnock's opening line made the difference between a narrow Labour victory,probably largest in a hung parliament,and the actual narrow overall Tory majority; only 33 more seats,held by under 2,500 votes would have seen a minority Labour government.Lets be honest,who WOULD not get a bit emotional in that situation-you'd have to be a very cold person not to get carried away.I personally will forever regret that Neil Kinnock was not PM

[@andrewduffin5455]

omg patrick you're 50 years old now

[@largesatsuma]

Thank goodness these kind of stupid OTT rallies aren't commonplace.

[@julesakers3051]

Yes I think Mr Kinnock pretty much killed them off in the space of two idiotic repeated words.

[@C0NTR4B455]

Drubk on his own supposed success..'We're allright..We're allright...We better get some talking done here'..A victory parade before a victory.

[@trackdusty]

Political garbage then and political garbage now!

[@algeo1100]

What a prat! He lost Labour the election with this nonsense.

[@The4preston]

Because nothing is more 'prime ministerial' than screaming like a drunken football hooligan on stage.

[@stumclaughlan4425]

He certainly did. I also recall a dreadful party political broadcast from 1992 involving that windbag climbing up a mountain talking all about himself.

[@badjemima]

Don't forget managing to fall over on a calm, flat beach. Wankpuffin.

[@bankzie]

I'd be surprised if it swung a million or more votes

[@algeo1100]

Ric Jones I wouldn't, but I could be wrong. It was on the 6 o'clock news when millions used to tune-in in those days.

[@normwebs]

I squirm each time I see him. Falling over onthe beach; trying to get Bill Owen and Clive Dunne, Labour supporters, to prance around doing 'Singing in the Rain', during a wet election campaign. They looked too embarrassed for words;embracing/kissing Winne Mandela (she of the famous football team) at a Wembley pop concert. (He'd never met her before); 'We're alright' in Sheffield; how about when he reckoned he knocked 'shit' out someone or other. What a style-less object. And now he's a Lord

[@davidpike9590]

I remember watching this on the late evening news and his smugness, plus cockiness turned off many folks at Royal Mail, where I was working at the time! It was he, who cost the Labour party the GE!

[@00maharum00ma]

As an American, I have to say: What the fuck did he do wrong?

[@TS111WASD]

As an American, you would say that lol

[@johnyare8576]

Open his Mouth.

[@richf5165]

The cockiness, plus he Americanised his speech. We don’t -usually - do politics like you do in the USA.

[@JK-br1mu]

The weird we're all right part, that's what.

[@acasacas9844]

It's the real World. You Americans voted the biggest most cringeworthy sack of shit - Trump - by hillbilly fuckwits - and we don't like to brag - until we've won.Kinnock fckd it up....I'd laugh at Trump the moronic cunt if he didn't have his wondering ginger fingers on the nuclear button. This is nothing against you personally but as a Nation your a bunch of absolute fucktards. 😮

[@davidmb1316]

He clearly says "Well alright", not "We're alright".

[@zarrow50]

With every moment that passes Neil looks like the real tenant for No.10 until......

[@bozotheclown169]

"WE'RE ALL RIGHT!...WE'RE ALL RIGHT!...WE'RE ALL RIGHT!..WE'RE AL.. oh" *btw I think neil has since stated he was actually saying 'well all right!' (as in 'well all right how about this butt!') but it sounded like a crazed 'we're all right!' (as if to say 'we're all right we done it brah! we done it!') which of course angered the entire uk

[@philippankhurst6680]

Well, All right is/was the introductory catch phrase of Rock'n'roll pioneer Little Richard - even Kinnock's intonation is identical.

[@bozotheclown169]

@@philippankhurst6680 5 years later reply lol (usually i do the long belated utube reply - think 11years is my best)

[@philippankhurst6680]

​ @bozo the clown KInnock is trending on Twitter tonight ! I thought he'd died...

[@bozotheclown169]

@@philippankhurst6680 KInnock Lives!

[@zarrow50]

The speech its self is up there with the best political speeches, pity about the rest of the show.

[@merrymonarch]

Caught up in the moment

[@laneontour]

It surely cannot be... has Gordon Brown's "bigot" insult finally outdone this massive conceited Labour gaff?

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

I remember that one, the woman did rather make a fool of herself with "these eastern Europeans where are they coming from " she was of the type who with few exceptions would only vote labour and was seen as example of taken for granted loyalty being viewed with contempt by the grandees

[@ByzantineBob96]

He really thought he was going to win, lol

[@NYJALB]

@UNSCForwardontodawn.....That is probably the most succinct and accurate appraisal of British politics for the past 40 years, ever written!

[@bluecobalt27]

If I'm not mistaken he was saying "Well, alright!" rather than "We're alright!" Thanks for the upload.

[@zarrow50]

yea, he is interviewed about it on here somewhere and says something along those lines

[@MarkHarrison733]

Lord Kinnock betrayed the striking miners.

[@stevenpaulgoulding]

Because Arthur Scargill refused to hold a ballot on industrial action.

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@stevenpaulgoulding Scargill would have lost a ballot.

[@shaunspadah5790]

he got utterly rejected in 87 why would the voters want him 5 years later

[@SilverShamrock71]

it was around about this time I got totally switched off to uk politics... no fuckin' wonder...

[@timtranslates]

I still remember the conversation after election night. 11-year-old me in the morning: "Dad, who won the election?" Dad: The Conservatives Me: Really? But there's a hung parliament? Dad: No. An overall majority. 5 years later I was allowed to stay up for the night. Felt so much better in 1997.

[@moerans]

One of British politics most cringeworthy moments. FYI, John Major, a Conservative politician with less charisma than a dead haddock, went on to win the election with a working majority. I always think that it was this Rally that lost the Labour party the election.

[@TheAnn2shoes]

idontwantanickname I tend to agree with you. The great British public don't like vanity and cockiness. They rewarded Kinnock by not voting for him.

[@clairedemorgan5695]

Opinion polls always have a bias to labour. People lie and when they get into the booth vote Conservative. That was the case in 92 as well. While cringe making it didn't cost Labour the election. John Smith would have won in 97 with a small working majority if he hadn't passed away. Would we ever have had Tony Blair as PM?

[@kevinlongman007]

@@clairedemorgan5695 John Smith would have won with a majority of around 90 to 100 seats in 1997 had he lived. Blair got a majority of 179 which was due to his popularity with younger voters but Smith was a better politician.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

@@kevinlongman007 I have seen 60 majority suggested if John Smith had not tragically died. I am on the left but he ( Kinnock too) would have been a good Prime Minister. John Smith had no problem with left and right of the party working together even though he was on the right. The Blairites or right wingers lie about the left saying it does not want power and is nasty and bullying. The left does want power else it has no reason to be in politics and the behaviour of the right in undermining Corbyn was the worst treatment any Labour leader has suffered since Ramsay MacDonald in 1923/24. Today is the anniversary of the morning after the defeat in the 1992 election. Corbyn and Livingstone in the BBC studio were magnanimous to Kinnock despite their deep differences. No such compassion to Corbyn from many in the PLP from 2015 to 2019.

[@kevinlongman007]

@@eightiesmusic1984 the difference is in 1992 Labour won over 270 seats but in 2019 they won their lowest number of seats for over 80 years.

[@NYJALB]

I recall a TV interviewer asking an old girl leaving the polling station "may I ask who you voted for madam?" "Well, i was going to vote Labour, but when I got in there I thought of kinnocks silly grinning face ...and I just couldn't bear the thought of him being Prime Minister" No doubt the poor old girl had bloody nightmares when Balir and his inane grin and accompanying populist politics turned up!

[@christopherwadden-holmes2073]

As soon as Roy Hattersley started speaking I was looking to see if the room was flooding.

[@rjun67]

WE'RE ALLLRIGGGHT

[@erniemccracken2429]

He was saying "well alright!" because he was trying to calm down the crowd and get his speech underway.

[@RichLN]

The definitive 'Idiots Guide to Losing a General Election in 10 Seconds'.....

[@jamiearmstrong3487]

He was, in fact, not "alright".

[@tizzard1970]

WE'RE ALRIGHT

[@futureisgosub]

And that was a party political broadcast on behalf of the Conservative Party.

[@wilsonfisk6626]

Hattersley: "With every that passes John (Major) looks more and more like the real tenant of number 10."

[@Philcopson]

"Well - alright!" bawls nobody's idea of Mick Jagger.

[@jeffoliver7491]

The gravy train lifestyle of Europe would be what would happen for Kinnock after this, with lorry loads of taxpayer's hard-earned cash being shovelled into his bank account each month - and a colossal taxpayer funded pension later aswell.

[@maximillianphoenix9374]

When I saw this back in 92 on the following morning I actually blushed 😮

[@LambrettaFunk]

I remember this, I was 18 years old and a rabid lefty, now I know we dodged a bullet.

[@jamesb.8940]

Neil got it wrong, but only by 5 years. I wonder what Bliar thought of all this.

[@Formula1Madx]

He thought "Things can only get better" 🎵

[@ysgol3]

An Old Labour left winger wisely said 'never belch until you've had the meal' after this humiliating display.

[@harri2626]

I remember seeing this on TV in a hotel room in Holland, and thinking "This is cringe-worthy. He's going to lose".

[@malcolmwarrilow]

Now on the EU gravy train.

[@tdp1909]

I heard recently that this only shown AFTER the election, but this clip appears to give the lie to that rumour. An incredibly hubristic speech. A lesson in never underestimating - the first rule of military tactics...

[@ilovefacebookandebay]

Didn't he say, "Well alright". Not "We're alright"?

[@davidarmstrong1624]

Correct. Jerry Lee Lewis' catchphrase.

[@fossseseptique]

The Oxford dictionary definition of hubris..

[@lewars1912]

I tend to agree with the view that: "most of those directly involved in the campaign believe that the rally really came to widespread attention only after the electoral defeat itself," and had little influence on the result. What had a real influence was The Sun newspaper. The Sun's headline the following day: "It's The Sun Wot Won It" was probably one of their truer statements.

[@lw3646]

What were they thinking?

[@nickheather3624]

premature ejaculation.

[@ajs41]

John Smith only had to say a few words and he messed it up.

[@haydoncooper3744]

Political party's never learn Blue, Red or the rest.

[@DressyCrooner]

Men of Harlech playing in the beginning...

[@mandykhoo2473]

if Major knew this was going on he would have stayed indoors.....what a crazy joke!

[@splinterbyrd]

The Sheffield Rally didn't help, but I think Labour had blown it anyway

[@23rdjune]

I'm sorry, but every time I see Kinnock, I can only think of his Spitting Image puppet alongside the 'spitting' Roy Hattersley...wonderful! Especially the recreation of 'Silence Of The Lambs' prison scene, with Gerald Kauffman as Hanible, or in this case 'The Shadow' Foreign Secretary.

[@rhodiusscrolls3080]

The heady days of Mr Smith who did not go to Downing St..and Kinnock cavorting on the shore. Hebrew Slaves never sounded worse than Were All Wrong.

[@rhodiusscrolls3080]

This all lost them the Election and its worth remembering for that.

[@rhodiusscrolls3080]

The antithesis of Riefenstahl . Kinnock the Cymric jester descends upon Sheffield. His address consists of the Triumph of the Wimp who shouts Were all right when it is clear that everything is all wrong.

[@rhodiusscrolls3080]

Neil Kinnock arrived in a helicopter..the Red Wedge messiah.

[@nicemutant]

Lol saying it once would have been bad enough... but he had to keep saying it. Smh

[@johnturnef133]

The Welsh Windbag, never was there a more accurate and well deserved name. Luckiest so called politician alive.

[@haydoncooper3744]

They lost it way before and I was pissing myself laughing when I watched this back then and I still do!

[@Owen-hg3cu]

Will you be laughing next month when Labour win? 😂

[@PurushaDesa]

Honey I Shrunk the Economy? Hah! It's funny because 'economy' rhymes with 'kids'. How about the sequel, Honey I Blew Up the Campaign? No you're right, that doesn't work at all.

[@stephen-truthseeker]

I'm sure I remember Neil kinnock saying 'that wasn't me'

[@lostsoleful]

Neil had a bit too much coffee before this speech.

[@Fummy007]

Proof that hubris will get you no where.

[@besserman1]

Kinnock:Traitor to the Working Class

[@TomBartram-b1c]

"And I'm so confident, I 've just come back from William Hill's .... "

[@mulronie]

The point that the system is biased is valid though. Regardless of your politics, it's pretty embarrassing for a modern democracy that Labour got 35.2% of the vote in 2005, and won a big majority, whereas the Tories got 36.1% in 2010, and didn't.

[@GriefTourist]

come on did people really vote tory cos of this

[@jakecolburn8946]

millaband the second coming...hahaha

[@algeo1100]

Amazing, yes, they did - and I did ! I was all set to vote Labour because I was sick of the Tory's. But this was on the Six O'Clock News and EVERYBODY saw it - it was the most embarrassing moment in political history. And I, like many others, thought that there is no way we can have this loser as the leader of our, once proud, country.

[@GriefTourist]

i've since read that they were already hemorrhaging support big time before this

[@jakecolburn8946]

GriefTourist well Real Pillock turned that hemorrhaging into a blood bath

[@padrepio8105]

I was chatting to a 60 something yr old lady who lives round the corner from me the other day. We discussed politics, she was a former Labour voter turned to UKIP now. She read in the news recently that Chuka Umunna was touted as a future leader, she said there's no way he'd win an election because he's black. She told me the reason why Neil Kinnock lost miserably was because nobody wanted a Welshman as PM.

[@ajs41]

You can watch the entire 1992 election show on my channel.

[@eckesg2]

The UK version of the Dean Scream or vice versa

[@GiveMeAnOKUsername]

Didn't he address the audience as 'comrades'?