You're an idiot. Who told you that the tories deliberately created unemployment. What utter rubbish. And for your information the last three Labour governments have resulted in the country being virtually bankrupted each time. Healey had to go to the IMF or have you forgotten that. Callaghan was inept and now Brown. As for us being money grabbing these days. We have to be because Gordon Brown takes so much more of in tax.
Isn't it ironic that this took place on April Fools Day. The 'Well Alright!' bit must have been meant as a sort of April Fool. Problem was that because this took place in the evening, in other words after midday, Neil became the Fool of the Year.
Labour's 3rd term with the shrinking economy is what would have happened if Neil Kinnock had won. At least from 1993-1997 we had Ken Clarke as Chancellor.
After the horror of Thatcher you would have thought the British Public would have learned but oh no. The election result was disaster for this country the effects of which which we are still suffering from even now.
This is just fantastic, I remember the Tories were completely beaten and then Kinnock absolutely loses it and turns this into a victory conference! Oh I wish I had seen his face when they got beaten the week after. Where are the people who were dancing to things can only get better in 1997? Labour will be smased in 2010!! Anyone got any footage of the Labour Conference and the speech "a labour council handing out redundancy notices by taxi!!" and Derek Hatton doing his nut? Priceless!
Viz comic once carried a Top Tip as follows: "Pensioners, save on heating bills by simply recalling the moment when Neil Kinnock repeatedly said "Well Alright!" at the Sheffield rally. The resulting warm glow of embarrassment will keep out the winter cold for days."
It's a mystery how he ever contrived to lose the election. One of the great ironies of British political history is that Labour never actually worked out how to beat Thatcherism; they simply joined it under a different guise in 1997.
The guy below is right. Had Kinnock won here, Labour would have been unable to use the Tories subsequent blunders as political ammunition for the next 16 years and counting.
Where's the whole "come on down" part? Did that actually happen? Can anyone help?
I may be wrong but I believe this is the only surviving footage of the Sheffield Rally. It's certainly been made very hard to get hold of anything else.
It's a mystery how he ever contrived to lose the election. One of the great ironies of British political history is that Labour never actually worked out how to beat Thatcherism; they simply joined it under a different guise in 1997.
The guy below is right. Had Kinnock won here, Labour would have been unable to use the Tories subsequent blunders as political ammunition for the next 16 years and counting.
We're alright! We're alright! We're alright! Ah Kinnock, you bloated Welsh windbag. If only you had won in 92. Then you'd have been kicked out in 1997, the Tories (under Ken Clarke) would have got back in and we'd have never have had Tony Blair. What a world that would be!!
En pessant,as a 21 year-old at the time,I did something you see happen in TV soaps-I watched this moment in a pub-I was so exhilirated at the thought of Neil Kinnock being PM,that when he yelled 'Well alright?' three times,I screamed at the top of my lungs;'GO ON NEIL MY SON YOU'RE GONNA WIN-N!!!!'-my outburst reverberated off the optics behind the bar,every window,and for a second or two,the entire pub went almost silent-I guess I alone scared off some floating voters!
A serious point:imagine you are potentailly 9 dys from being elected leader of Great Britain.A HUGE rally of 10,000 people cheers wildly as you reach the stage-in my opinion,you would have to be a very cold person to NOT react emotionally-I don't condemen Neil Kinnock for reacting as he did-as a 21 year old in 1992,I was pissed right of the Tories,and to this day,feel it was an injustice that Neil KInnock was not PM
How embarrassing..to be honest this didn't make much difference..it was only until they realised that they had the lost all the debates of the 80s, got rid of every principal they ever stood for, copied conservative policy that labour/new labour stood a chance of winning an election..blair campbell and mandelson knew this and that's why they won in 97
One theory is that because of Kinnock's confidence here, many middle class voters thought they were going to have a labour government which wouldn't financially suit them, encouring just enough to get out and relect the government of the day. I'm sure the Sun's election day headline didn't aid the 1992 Labour campaign.
I will always maintain that had Neil Kinnock not yelled 'Well alright? Well alright?'Well alright?' like a middle-aged pop star,he would have been elected Prime Minister 9 days later-don't get me wrong,I am Labour to the core,but that was regarded by many the pivotal moment of the 1992 election
You and about a million other pundits, I was only 12 at the time, but I remember hearing him yelling it on the telly and hoping to god that he wouldn't be the next PM
better than ten years of New Labour~
In most of its history the Labour Party is ruining Britain.
herenyuan01 2 years ago
Gordon Brown should try a similar rally. It couldnt make him more unpopular than he already is.
fakweet 2 years ago
This clown would have been an absolute disaster as prime minister.
Barsider75 2 years ago
every inch the blueprint of how not to prepare for an election...
ukeuro23 2 years ago 2
Thank god us british are too cyncial to fall for this image crap....just give us the policies.
36clashfan77 2 years ago 3
We're alright!!!! I keep playing it back to make sure it did happen!!!! Very funny!
Nosmos 2 years ago
A very corrupt party.
nitrambran 2 years ago
An example of the Labour Party forgetting the date of the election, and they hadn't actually won yet...
ayrtonaiko 3 years ago 4
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danny88101 3 years ago
like a nazi rally......
michaelclarke18 3 years ago
You're an idiot. Who told you that the tories deliberately created unemployment. What utter rubbish. And for your information the last three Labour governments have resulted in the country being virtually bankrupted each time. Healey had to go to the IMF or have you forgotten that. Callaghan was inept and now Brown. As for us being money grabbing these days. We have to be because Gordon Brown takes so much more of in tax.
grouchyguy 3 years ago
Isn't it ironic that this took place on April Fools Day. The 'Well Alright!' bit must have been meant as a sort of April Fool. Problem was that because this took place in the evening, in other words after midday, Neil became the Fool of the Year.
2627006 3 years ago 8
Labour were rubbish then and are rubbish now...
michaelclarke18 3 years ago 3
Labour's 3rd term with the shrinking economy is what would have happened if Neil Kinnock had won. At least from 1993-1997 we had Ken Clarke as Chancellor.
augustus7800 3 years ago 2
looks like these fools have just seen ''triumph of the will''.....hitler film....
michaelclarke18 3 years ago 5
It's wince-makingly unwatchable even now.
fendweller 3 years ago 3
Well alright! WELL ALRIGHT!!!
There isn't a day goes by when I don't think about this. Obama is about to be elected in a couple of hours which is why I took a last look.
kyletitterton 3 years ago
After the horror of Thatcher you would have thought the British Public would have learned but oh no. The election result was disaster for this country the effects of which which we are still suffering from even now.
RonniePeterson 3 years ago
How the tories would love to have had labour win this election, they would have been out on their ear after 4 years for the next 20 years.
gilpy74 3 years ago 2
If Labour had a gay leader in 1992 i feel they won of won the election.Who is in agreement?
PeteGeeza86 3 years ago
This is just fantastic, I remember the Tories were completely beaten and then Kinnock absolutely loses it and turns this into a victory conference! Oh I wish I had seen his face when they got beaten the week after. Where are the people who were dancing to things can only get better in 1997? Labour will be smased in 2010!! Anyone got any footage of the Labour Conference and the speech "a labour council handing out redundancy notices by taxi!!" and Derek Hatton doing his nut? Priceless!
SimonMarus 3 years ago
Major was an incompetent dullard and his government a disaster
TomthatiscalledTom 3 years ago 4
Never a truer word spoken.
onimod29 3 years ago 2
Oh fuck. Do I remember this! What a fuck up. Just devastating when the results came through.
DermotRathbone 3 years ago 4
Is this playing on a Commodore 64?
petegiddens 3 years ago
Gosh, it sounds like he's all right.
A week later he had his arse cooled.
The smiles were thinner then.
TroyaE117 3 years ago 5
We're alright (x 3). The most ineffectual Prime Minister Britain never had. Without him, we might never have had Tony Blair.
captainhowdy1967 3 years ago 3
What I find funny is that a Labour supporter uploaded one of the most embarrasing things the Labour Party has done collectively in its history!
jammythedodger 3 years ago 4
Anyone else think that Neil was taking the piss when he did the "Well Alright!" bit? I think the press coverage missed the irony.
tigerboy1966 3 years ago
Err no, I think he just made a fool of himself and 'possibly' lost the election through his own over-confidence.
danjouk 3 years ago 2
Viz comic once carried a Top Tip as follows: "Pensioners, save on heating bills by simply recalling the moment when Neil Kinnock repeatedly said "Well Alright!" at the Sheffield rally. The resulting warm glow of embarrassment will keep out the winter cold for days."
cumwhittonbogle 3 years ago 5
As usual Hattersley sounding like a drunken seal:)
JongeMatador 3 years ago 2
It's a mystery how he ever contrived to lose the election. One of the great ironies of British political history is that Labour never actually worked out how to beat Thatcherism; they simply joined it under a different guise in 1997.
The guy below is right. Had Kinnock won here, Labour would have been unable to use the Tories subsequent blunders as political ammunition for the next 16 years and counting.
Where's the whole "come on down" part? Did that actually happen? Can anyone help?
bluecobalt27 3 years ago
I may be wrong but I believe this is the only surviving footage of the Sheffield Rally. It's certainly been made very hard to get hold of anything else.
chris87x 3 years ago
It's a mystery how he ever contrived to lose the election. One of the great ironies of British political history is that Labour never actually worked out how to beat Thatcherism; they simply joined it under a different guise in 1997.
The guy below is right. Had Kinnock won here, Labour would have been unable to use the Tories subsequent blunders as political ammunition for the next 16 years and counting.
bluecobalt27 3 years ago 2
the 30 seconds that lost Labour the election
GeeGee3374 3 years ago
We're alright! We're alright! We're alright! Ah Kinnock, you bloated Welsh windbag. If only you had won in 92. Then you'd have been kicked out in 1997, the Tories (under Ken Clarke) would have got back in and we'd have never have had Tony Blair. What a world that would be!!
theeddielang 3 years ago 6
One minute forty seconds, the moment he lost the election.
spuddyfodno 4 years ago 3
En pessant,as a 21 year-old at the time,I did something you see happen in TV soaps-I watched this moment in a pub-I was so exhilirated at the thought of Neil Kinnock being PM,that when he yelled 'Well alright?' three times,I screamed at the top of my lungs;'GO ON NEIL MY SON YOU'RE GONNA WIN-N!!!!'-my outburst reverberated off the optics behind the bar,every window,and for a second or two,the entire pub went almost silent-I guess I alone scared off some floating voters!
patrick180271 4 years ago 2
Neil Kinnock worked a miracle that day. He got me to vote for Margaret Thatcher. And that took some doing !!!
mistermucky17 4 years ago
John Major had replaced Mrs Thatch by then
radiomartini25 4 years ago
Margaret Thatcher wasn't standing in that election. It's worrying to think that people like you have the vote at all.
slimes23 4 years ago 2
Idiot, how could you be so stupid? Major was PM!
053bss 4 years ago
I said it took some doing!
mistermucky17 4 years ago 2
Idiot!! I said it took some doing!
mistermucky17 4 years ago
God, I do apologise, I need stonger lenses, obviously! Am I forgiven?
053bss 3 years ago
A serious point:imagine you are potentailly 9 dys from being elected leader of Great Britain.A HUGE rally of 10,000 people cheers wildly as you reach the stage-in my opinion,you would have to be a very cold person to NOT react emotionally-I don't condemen Neil Kinnock for reacting as he did-as a 21 year old in 1992,I was pissed right of the Tories,and to this day,feel it was an injustice that Neil KInnock was not PM
patrick180271 4 years ago
This is embarrassing. Goes to prove that american style politics do not work in Britain. Kinnock was a disaster. As a fellow Welshman I am ashamed.
britishleylandcrap 4 years ago
I admit this rally didn't go well, but at least Kinnock had passion... More that could be said of that bowl of pea soup John Major
053bss 4 years ago
I remember watching this one back then, and begging him to keep yelling.
Everytime he yelled, he lost about 7 seats. They finished about 21 seats down.
3 x 7 = 21
Now he's an unelected talkmonger in Europe, and he's expensive still.
TroyaE117 4 years ago 3
Neil really had it taped that night.
All that jumping up and down like a hairdresser.
"We're all right!"
Then he lost.
Then it was all right.
The Welsh statesman himself, in his rabble-rousing element.
TroyaE117 4 years ago
Still cringe worthy after all these years. Worse in fact than David Steel's 'go home to your constituencies and prepare for government' speech.
tobias89 4 years ago 2
LOL.
dlk1dlk1 4 years ago
You can see the rot was already setting in. Its no coincidence that New Labour was set up to fulfill North American interests.
I'm not a tory so who do I vote for now?
Robertissimo 4 years ago
Vote conservative, they're not tories either . . .
FOARP 3 years ago
How embarrassing..to be honest this didn't make much difference..it was only until they realised that they had the lost all the debates of the 80s, got rid of every principal they ever stood for, copied conservative policy that labour/new labour stood a chance of winning an election..blair campbell and mandelson knew this and that's why they won in 97
steps1 4 years ago 6
Quite.
dlk1dlk1 4 years ago
One theory is that because of Kinnock's confidence here, many middle class voters thought they were going to have a labour government which wouldn't financially suit them, encouring just enough to get out and relect the government of the day. I'm sure the Sun's election day headline didn't aid the 1992 Labour campaign.
buggerhed 4 years ago
I will always maintain that had Neil Kinnock not yelled 'Well alright? Well alright?'Well alright?' like a middle-aged pop star,he would have been elected Prime Minister 9 days later-don't get me wrong,I am Labour to the core,but that was regarded by many the pivotal moment of the 1992 election
patrick180271 4 years ago
You and about a million other pundits, I was only 12 at the time, but I remember hearing him yelling it on the telly and hoping to god that he wouldn't be the next PM
FOARP 3 years ago
The British don't like this sort of thing - Kinnock disastrously forgot that.
heynow50000 4 years ago