@RWJ11 Imagine how fucked we could of been if we had a mixed Labour/Torie coalition if no one voted the lib dems. If that happend we would all of been better of dead.
@RceaEripsa Definitely. Better off dead is a bit harsh, people have lived through more brutal tyrannies than a regime of soundbytes, passive-aggressive policy making and inadequacy. It is so difficult to have any confidence where either no-one seems to know what they're doing, or sit back while people we are supposed to trust use the world's infrastructure like a Monte Carlo casino.
Given the lack of credible popular opposition I can see that coalition happening. Best get the shotgun ready...
I don't think the one next to Ken Livingston is Gordon Brown, it looks more like Jack Cunningham. I think this was '88 so Gordon wasn't yet very well known, although he soon would be.
That's an excellent question... I really don't know. Can anyone help? There's two I don't recognize here, the one at the far left, and the drinking whiskey.
@Sparrowmaiden The one to Kinnock's left, next to Ken Livingston is Gordon Brown, I think. Looks a fair bit like him and it was about this time that he was active in the Labour Party.
Anyone else see the photograph of Marx in reading glasses behind Neil's head?
@jmorrison230582 I doubt its Gordon Brown, he would have been too young back then the character portrayed is relatively old. Might be right about Gould though.
@cjjmccray Well done, yes Cunningham. He comes from the same place as me and used to be on party political broadcasts, interview programmes and the like quite often.
@alphabetaxenonzzzcat Jack Cunningham possibly. He was a senior Labour figure of the time.
I always thought Thatcher came off better in Spitting Image. She was lampooned mercilessly, but at least came across as a strong leader. Kinnock was a buffoon and came across as such very convincingly.
LOOOOOOOL!!
ldnleeds 2 months ago
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New Labour was a complete incompetent rambling wreak of a reformed party. So much damage after 13 years and nothing beneficially lasting came of it.
Such a disastrous come back reformation..
segano1 2 months ago
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segano1 3 months ago
Is this about the '92 or '87 election?
KidMalone 4 months ago
@KidMalone 1983
berlinmitte10117 3 months ago
carl marx in the background lol
TheJaaysog 4 months ago
@TheJaaysog Haha...hadn't noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out!
OfMiceandTransmen 3 months ago
LOL
foxcell 4 months ago
Yes - Brian Gould on the left and Jack Cunningham on the right
berlinmitte10117 7 months ago
@charlottevictorias Denis Healey! He is still alive, he was born in 1917, he is getting on a bit!
hellsbells056 7 months ago
I would love to see the US congress men and women look like this! Really ugly,especially w. bush! XD
359lillian 8 months ago
The image of Neil Kinnock with a blue dress and a handbag. Classic...
13agibson 10 months ago
@13agibson Not a nice thought!
madandyb 1 month ago
Incompetent.
Pretty much sums up the labour party when in power.
UNSCForwardontodawn 10 months ago
Ken Livingstone's puppet - "So we become Tories?"
Fantastic!!
madandyb 11 months ago 2
LOL at Denis Healy's eyebrows =D
kezzieb42 11 months ago
Whose the guys who says 'incompetent?' that made my day x]
StephenFiorentini 1 year ago
In....in..........
incompetent?
^funniest thing I've heard in a while
WSWarthog 1 year ago
"We Become Tories?"
"No, we just have their policies."
"Yes yes, getting closer..."
Very true.
RWJ11 1 year ago 44
@RWJ11 Imagine how fucked we could of been if we had a mixed Labour/Torie coalition if no one voted the lib dems. If that happend we would all of been better of dead.
RceaEripsa 1 month ago
@RceaEripsa Definitely. Better off dead is a bit harsh, people have lived through more brutal tyrannies than a regime of soundbytes, passive-aggressive policy making and inadequacy. It is so difficult to have any confidence where either no-one seems to know what they're doing, or sit back while people we are supposed to trust use the world's infrastructure like a Monte Carlo casino.
Given the lack of credible popular opposition I can see that coalition happening. Best get the shotgun ready...
RWJ11 1 month ago
In hindsight this highlights the importance of Kinnock's leadership.
slimes23 1 year ago
@slimes23 How so?
NaMgKCa 1 year ago
@NaMgKCa He's the only one talking seriously about getting into government. He gave his party the will to win again.
slimes23 1 year ago
@slimes23 hahahaha
Christian121y 11 months ago
I don't think the one next to Ken Livingston is Gordon Brown, it looks more like Jack Cunningham. I think this was '88 so Gordon wasn't yet very well known, although he soon would be.
Dragagirla 1 year ago
love it!
TrippleLProductions 1 year ago
lol guvvermeat.
753hill 1 year ago
lol, good stuff
mrfrostynova 1 year ago
Okay thank you for the reply.
alphabetaxenonzzzcat 2 years ago
Who is the man drinking whiskey?
alphabetaxenonzzzcat 2 years ago 6
That's an excellent question... I really don't know. Can anyone help? There's two I don't recognize here, the one at the far left, and the drinking whiskey.
Sparrowmaiden 2 years ago 3
@Sparrowmaiden The one to Kinnock's left, next to Ken Livingston is Gordon Brown, I think. Looks a fair bit like him and it was about this time that he was active in the Labour Party.
Anyone else see the photograph of Marx in reading glasses behind Neil's head?
MedlarGW 1 year ago
@Sparrowmaiden the one drinking whiskey is the young gordon brown
teedan89 1 year ago
@Sparrowmaiden I think its Jack Cunningham drinking the whiskey and Bryan Gould on the far left.
pridoxide 1 year ago
@pridoxide
I think you are correct. That is Jack Cunnigham drinking whisky, and it may be Bryan Gould.
lukequixotesanjose 1 year ago 2
@Sparrowmaiden The one drinking whisky is Jack Cunningham
jmorrison230582 9 months ago
@Sparrowmaiden The one on the far left is either Gordon Brown or Bryan Gould.
jmorrison230582 9 months ago
@jmorrison230582 I doubt its Gordon Brown, he would have been too young back then the character portrayed is relatively old. Might be right about Gould though.
BVargas78 9 months ago
@Sparrowmaiden I think the one on the right is Jack Cunningham and the other is (whatever happened to) Brian Gould.
rh65536 8 months ago
@Sparrowmaiden Freeze at 13 seconds in, and I think they are, left-to-right:
Bryan Gould, MP for Dagenham at the time
Dennis Healey (the eyebrows give him away), MP for Leeds East
The Member for Islwyn, the now Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty
"Red" Ken Livingstone, then MP for Brent East
Jack Cunningham, then MP for Copeland (Whitehaven, Cumbria) and was Labour's 1992 election campaign manager
Roy "tub of lard" Hattersley, Kinnock's deputy and MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook
cjjmccray 4 months ago
@cjjmccray Well done, yes Cunningham. He comes from the same place as me and used to be on party political broadcasts, interview programmes and the like quite often.
alanheath 3 months ago
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alanheath 3 months ago
Looks like Jack Cunningham
GeeGee3374 2 years ago
@alphabetaxenonzzzcat Jack Cunningham possibly. He was a senior Labour figure of the time.
I always thought Thatcher came off better in Spitting Image. She was lampooned mercilessly, but at least came across as a strong leader. Kinnock was a buffoon and came across as such very convincingly.
Kidsgrove49 1 year ago
@alphabetaxenonzzzcat
I think it's John Smith
NorthernSoul29 1 month ago
the welsh windbag.
Konform2zoidberg 2 years ago 2