UK Labour Party Political Broadcast - April 1992

[linktrivium]

its a shame all those old people at the beginning, many of whom probably served during the great war are no longer with us :(

[nationalistactivist]

Labour25

[DanielJennings10]

As a Conservative I am baffled as to why Kinnock didnt come to power he clearly had more charisma than John Major but his triumphalism cost him.

[Kevo00]

Lol, I'm amazed a Labour guy would even stick up a clip of the infamous Sheffield Rally...

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Im not a Labour supporter but I like Kinnock. He done the right thing taking on Militant.

[sailingforde04]

God , I love my party

[McGeachan]

Hi, does anyone know the title of the classical composition played at the Sheffield Rally? Thanks in advance ...

[sheltorx]

It was specially composed for the Labour Party election 92 campaign. I doubt if it was ever put on commercial release.

[skeating06]

how labour lost the general election in 1992 i do not know!!! anyone couldve won in 1997 but tony was something else!!!

[BNP4EVER1989]

VOTE BNP TODAY.

[CULAVE]

BNP4EVER1989-

I will put considerable thought into your well argued, highly articulate and stirring lament of that funny LITTLE party.

BNP MPs- 0

keep dreaming..........

[RationalResponsive]

lol

[alewisuk]

Why waste your vote on the BNP? Vote Labour.

[Catholicism777]

Why waste your vote on Labour? Vote Conservative

[MacJaxonManOfAction]

Why waste your time? Don't vote.

[sheltorx]

Kinnock was the greatest Prime Minister this country never had.

[bobzilla211]

and possibly the most embarassing. still, anybody could have won in 1997.

[Erech01]

Actually, that would be Paddy Ashdown.

[Redcarpet01]

Tony Benn is, in my view ;)

[mrfrostynova]

Thought he was kissing a bloke at 0:55 - how progressive, lol

[LANbritain]

he did

[CULAVE]

Great soundtrack. A bit of New Labour coming through here.

[CULAVE]

Great soundtrack in this. I think Kinnock is sometimes unfairly underwritten. It could be argued he was a pioneer of the New Labour project. And im not even a Labour voter.

[123212k8]

he was n still is a gr8 man x

[123212k8]

he was n still is a gr8 man xxx

[endlessraining]

How could Kinnock live with the shame of losing to bloody JOHN MAJOR

[UKNightClubber]

Tory's just as bad.. BNP thats the way forward

[zzxzqwq]

No way they are holocaust nazis.

[theredraven]

Apart from kicking people out what sound ideas do they have? An assault rifle for everyone in the country? Are you mad!?!?!

[spookyspider1122]

if they give me an assault rifle id vote bnp

[ThreeWordsFirstWord]

Stop generalising it is thick!!

[kayman92]

@endlessraining I think it was the way they portrayed themselves

Kinnock gave big rally speeches and major got on a soapbox and appeared to descend to the level of the ordinary voter.

[slimes23]

@endlessraining Kinnock had been leader of his party for 9 years and was bloodied by battles with the loony left. John Major had been in for 18 months. Imagine that reversed. (How would John Major have looked in 1999 !!!????)

[Dalek1230]

@endlessraining Because he was an idiot

[nikolaibarber]

i agree with left888. kinnock was wishy washy and a politician of no real substance at all. he waffled and giggled and harangued for nine years and left the labour party more out of touch than ever. i hope and pray for a day when we'll get a labour leader who actually listens to the left.

[gilpy74]

Listen to the left? Why there ideas always end up with strikes and the ordinary people getting shafted. Better off without them.

[053bss]

Speaking as a current Labour Party member, I think THIS is how the party should align itself again; Democratic Socialist progress over 'third way' stagnation and militant autocracy. Neil Kinnock got that right, Blair and his cronies got it terribly wrong.

[worcesterwombat]

there no help for Labour, they're totally useless - irreparable

[thekrew09]

1992....the Conservatives won it with a small lead. John Smith looks a bit weak in his speech, most probably because of his heart problem.

He deserves the respect of people cuz he put Labour back on track, even though it was still another 5 long years before the party took power!

[h8bigbro]

I would hardly say that Labour stands for the working people anymore, more like the Billionaires. Still, its better than a Tory government.

[JackDavis16]

sarcastic thumbs up

[masslib]

A nice political broadcast.

[masslib]

An excellent political broadcast. It's a shame Neil Kinnock never became Prime Minister. He would have NEVER been a yes-man to George W. Bush. Thank goodness Gordon Brown is now Prime Minister.

[JackDavis16]

2 months on how stupid that sounds.

[tommy2daextreme]

I notice there's no mention of the famous "We're alright!" quote. Wonder why?

[t4change]

I was disappointed too...

[falkirkbairn01]

Alex Salmond stole"Its time" from Neil Kinnock!

[gilpy74]

Kinnick would have been better than blair, at least he was not false. The Tories are finished, cameron is the new blair and britain is tired of politicians like him.

[steps1]

could you imagine if kinnock had won in 92..oh dear..sends trembles up and down the spine..thank god for that shambolic rally at sheffield

[blondieee77]

wot wud av happend then?

[HildaMinogue]

Thursday April 9th 1992 I came the closest to suicide ever, but I was only 17 and got violently drunk instead and gatecrashed the Tory club armed with a marker pen

[eaglepies]

Amazing, and so inspirational. This is the first political broadcast in a long time that actually got my heart racing a little.

[joelabour2]

i miss john smith im onlly 20 but i still cry i can not believe hes died he is my hero and oh god i cant write any more im 2 upset please i would love some of u 2 rember john smith. its all crap now

[andrewshere]

If Labour hadn't modernized we would still be stuck with the Tories. They showed that it was okay to be middle class and vote for the left - well, yeah, not that far left. Some of my best friends are socialists, but most of the country isn't. That, I think, is the point. Anyway, just watched Gordon Brown's PM speech.

[HildaMinogue]

The old left cannot work in todays society. Why shouldnt people born with nothing move up and be successful. We must encourage those who can and look after those who cant. The Labour party have never been Socialists, look back to J Kier Hardie.

[steps1]

modernized? lol..yeah certainly one way of 'looking' at it..got rid of everything they stood for because they knew they had lost every debate in the 80s and stole tory policies is another way of looking at it

[stewartcopulate]

Could any right thinking person have possibly envisaged this country under a Kinnock premiership? The guy was (and still is) a pygmy. Why do people still pine for socialism? Why? Everywhere it's been tried it has led to disaster. The only core belief all socialists share is envy.

[left888]

"Everywhere it's been tried it's lead to disaster." What about Sandinistas in Nicaragua where the literacy rate went from less than 40% to about 86% in 2 years. Look at the establishment of welfare state in Europe. Look at the improvements for the people in Venezuela compared to 10 years ago. The only core interest capitalists share is personal greed.

[666NORTHERNSOUL666]

Although I will continue to support labour, there is an element of discomfort regarding the way labour have taken a right turn and seem to have increasing numbers of middle class MP's. Is it moderism or defeatism. ia the working class spent? Do we have to climb the ladder of capitalism or else? If we didnt vote Labour, who would we vote for? Dont say Tory or lib cos id rather die.

[stewartcopulate]

Northernsoul are you utterly naive? Classic socialist mentality - envy, class prejudice and rank stupidity. That's why prats like Kinnock and Foot were never elected - because thank God the British people still have some common sense.

[peaceoman]

I've stopped supporting labour myself.A vote for the tories or labour is a wasted vote.Iraq and ID cards being the reason.

[eaglepies]

Labour has swung to the right a little in the last decade, but I think Brown will bring it back. This can be seen for example by the way that he has promised to give the public sector a much greater role in sponsering city academies, asking universities instead of big companies.

[mustainestheone]

Bloody hell if the Labour Party was still anything like this think what a great country we'd have.

"now is the time to make our country safer, cleaner"

if only blair was like that

[left888]

Of course Blair SAID things like that. He just didn't carry them out. It's the same shallow rhetoric that Kinnock and Blair both used. Expansive gestures about target issues and little policy follow-up.

[deniro999]

kinnock is a legend. he was and is the real deal. spoke truth and from the heart. he wasnt too far left either. lets be frank if he looked and sounded like blair or cameron hed have beaten major. sadly uk wasnt ready for a bald ginger welsh guy speaking the truth. he spoke of eveyrthing that mmatters now. John smith was a tragic loss RIP.

[raygillespie]

I know exactly why we didn't elect him in '92! Two words: Sheffield Rally.

[slimes23]

That's a myth. it had very little effect. it was only afterwards that it came to simbolise the style of Labour's campaign. See martin Westlake's biography of Kinnock for a full explanation: if you can understand why Kinnock lost in 1992, you will understand why Cameron will lose in 2009.

[666NORTHERNSOUL666]

camerons high in the opinion polls.

[eaglepies]

Not any more! Brown's overtaken him by at least 4 points, may be more by now.

[left888]

Cameron's been about 10 points or more ahead for months now.

[worcesterwombat]

Cameron's on his way, how great it will be to have a PM with a brain

[219970]

Surely the opposite is true. Brown is the highly-intelligent, analytical, cerebral one who can't play the PR game and come accross well because he answers questions in so much detail. Cameron is the one who can play the game, has the quips, the sound-bites, comes over as being more approachable...but many think he has little substance really apart from being a showman.

[Ukbattlefront2604]

This was a Labour moderniser who still stuck to socialist roots - he would have made a terrific leader. Not like neoconservative Blair.

dalisback1 - we didn't elect him because the media - particularly the Sun - did not like him.

[dalisback1]

Why didnt we elect him in 92

[lilorooon]

Sheffield rally was a mistake but Neil was hated. What cold times it was.

[RJT]

Wonderful charismatic guy. Makes me sad we don't get politicians like him anymore.

[gilpy74]

he would have been better than blair.