Young Tony Blair | Beaconsfield By Election | Labour Party | TN-82-033-004

A young Tony Blair stands as the Labour Candidate in the Conservative stronghold of Beaconsfield
20/05/1982
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Thames News was the flagship regional news programme of Thames Television, serving the Thames ITV region and broadcast on weekdays from 12 September 1977 to 31 December 1992.

[@TheRollthedice]

welcome back thames news! we need more

[@bushwhacked7112]

If only I had a time machine.

[@johnmc3862]

Great times lol.

[@jeshkam]

1:41 John Prescott?

[@jakerado4236]

yes good catch

[@mattemery]

Blood on your hands blair

[@SquirrelKnight50]

The origins of a war criminal

[@andrewrobinson8305]

If he’s a war criminal for removing Sadam Hussein, then so is Thatcher (Belgrano) and Churchill (Dresden). Even a Tory like you would have to acknowledge that. Correct?

[@garrgravarr]

@@andrewrobinson8305 Why would you assume that someone who criticises Blair for his lead role in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths on the basis of a paper-thin lie would be a Tory?

[@angelacooper2661]

I was a month short of twelve and in my first year at senior school. That's how long ago this election took place, as forty years later I am now aged 52!

[@Glenn1967ful]

Blair nearly lost his deposit here, could have been one of a long list of Labour candidates who fought hopeless seats and were never heard of again, but was selected for a safe Labour seat a year later and began his march to power. Now ironically his old seat in Sedgefield is Conservative.

[@richardjones8699]

Won't be for much longer.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@richardjones8699 It was one seat I thought would always stay Labour like Workinton, but that election produced some huge shocks.

[@richardjones8699]

@@Glenn1967ful I'm confident Lizz Truss will do wonders for Labour's fortunes.

[@jmxtvarchive9064]

He must have been in with a certain clique to help give him a second chance if that's possible.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@jmxtvarchive9064 I think having North Eastern roots and being articulate won him the seat in Sedgefield in 1983. Also Theresa May and Tim Farron stood in the same seat in Durham in 1992, and were badly beaten, and weren't heard of again until the noughties.

[@jeremylyons6459]

Wow I now believe Tony Blair is gay after hearing his Dandy voice.

[@therespectedlex9794]

Well they liked to keep you guessing at Oxbridge in the sixties.

[@jmxtvarchive9064]

You have only just worked that out? Something that seemed clear to me not long after 1997?

[@olzdadon]

post more!!

[@lw1zfog]

when something so pitiful & seemingly innocuous results in the murder of millions. that’s why Miranda got off lightly in Bow St Magistrates Court

[@metallitech]

Tim Smith was 34; looked 44 but had the energy of 24.

[@SedriqMiers]

Tony Blair - should've been used to test novel vaccines for the foreseeable future until he expires.

[@stace3037]

I bet Blair wouldn't have done anything to stop the cat jumping over the lupins. 🙁

[@sanchoodell6789]

Blair would merely get his Marxist colleague Jack Straw to put some legislation through parliament and have the cat prosecuted for "hate speech"

[@harryantino]

A dark election for Britain and Iraq.

[@therespectedlex9794]

Take away 21 years leading up to it and you're spot on.

[@buddha1736]

He was not Labour, he was Conservative, Margaret Thatcher was once asked what her greatest achievement was, she said Tony Blair lol. 😂

[@bushwhacked7112]

All neoliberals.

[@buddha1736]

@@bushwhacked7112 I think 🤔 you could be right fella.

[@harryantino]

@@buddha1736 Blair was not a conservative and the fact that people think he was is this country’s problem. He was a stupid and dangerous radical.

[@mariocanfora9117]

Fake

[@mariocanfora9117]

@@harryantino Tony Blair radical? Ahahahah

[@Da1Dez]

1:25 Addressed hardly anyone yet within 15 years he's won the biggest Labour majority of all time. A classic example of how you'll never know how life will turn around.

[@acquiesce100]

England looked lovely

[@Cal-Valhalla]

Those days have gone unfortunately

[@acquiesce100]

@@Cal-Valhalla Sure have.

[@therespectedlex9794]

Where the horses were, all that's a knackers yard now.

[@jmxtvarchive9064]

@@Cal-Valhalla And thanks in no small part to Tony Bumboy. 😂

[@Cal-Valhalla]

@@jmxtvarchive9064 - Yep. New labour literally destroyed this country.

[@RobertK1993]

Such a great man.

[@lw1zfog]

seek help

[@soupman3285]

@@lw1zfog Tory supporters like you are the ones who should seek help

[@lw1zfog]

@@soupman3285 struggle free from your logic limiting dualistic party polytricks

[@johnmc3862]

Legend.

[@antonyjohn6136]

So........camp.........all of it.

[@johnwilliams2479]

Where is his Witch wife

[@therespectedlex9794]

Who's the Liberal Party guy?

[@nottmjas]

At 1:52, what he deemed to be bonkers turned out to be the correct option.

[@therespectedlex9794]

@@nottmjas I know, because they (Argentina) haven't set the jets on our troops for forty years.

[@nottmjas]

@@therespectedlex9794 this is the guy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tyler

[@therespectedlex9794]

@@nottmjas Thanks

[@therespectedlex9794]

@Neppy2612 Small population

[@equinox95]

Satan in his younger years....little did people know what was coming.

[@johnmc3862]

Better than any Tory counts.

[@saborfrancias]

Chosen by Satan

[@andybray9791]

Blair will never be forgiven for breaking up the U.K., btw I liked Gordon brown better

[@jonmortermusic]

Breaking up the UK? How on earth did he supposedly do that before Johnson and the Tories actually did do that? What are you smoking?

[@andybray9791]

@@jonmortermusic devolution in 1997 was the beginning

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Traitor ..

[@tmckboston417]

🤢 🤢 🤢Blair...... 👿!

[@rohitballal5654]

The greatest PM ever.