Fall All non-Brits that don't know, John Smith was VOTED into power with a huge majority against the Conservative party, NOT Tony Blair, who ended up with the position by default.
John Smith was a decent and honourable man that the British people wanted in power to help sweep away the perverted corruption of the previous Thatcher party.
He then 'suddenly' dies from a heart attack.
Given the current retrospect look at the past decade's lies and BS of 9/11, Iraq etc. did he die of natural causes?
@Itsmeeman1 when exactly was Smith voted into "power"?? - he was voted internally to the party - leader of the labour opposition, but never won a general election.
Which is sad because I think he would have been a great prime minister.
@offpatsmile The nation was so sick of Thatcher and her cronies that a monkey from Mars would have won. The people took one look at Smith and knew that he was the guy they were going to vote for without a second thought. Blair would not have made the same impression on the people. Too young, too fake and shiny(no Martian monkey but the next best thing to one). You know what I mean. Smith just wasn't around long enough to see himself voted into office.
@RichardElden @RichardElden What is this thing you have with being happy people that people died, and notably with Cancer... you have said you are pleased Oliver Reed, Brian Clough, Mo Mowlam, Harold Wilson and Gordon Brown's daughter are all dead.. you say you wish Michael Parkinson dead.. well I am pleased Cameron's son, Denis Thatcher, David Evans, George Gardiner and Franco are all dead..
John Smith was killed, he was the last decent Labour politition who actually cared about the british. Tony Blair is a war criminal and a racist bigot.
@RichardElden I see you have favourited a vid containing loyalist songs. Did you know that Franco was a vicious anti-protestant? Protestants in Franco's Spain were harassed and often imprisoned.
@RichardElden oh of course in the mean time you conveniently overlook his violent purges against his own countrymen (Basque's included) you clearly need to be held under The Mental Health Act because what you are saying and supporting are not actions of a rational human being.
@RichardElden uh huh and you seem to overlooking the Tories support of what became the Taliban and Al Qaeda during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan also the backing of the Fascist dictatorships in Spain, Portugal and Chile.
@RichardElden so not only are you vile but you're delusional as well. We have a couple of places for people like you least of all the Magistrates Court and the good old Swanston Centre
@RichardElden Actually we found it quite refreshing that a UK citizen called for us to become a republic. it wasn't until 1984 that Australia actually severed all legal ties with the UK.
@RichardElden Again, you don't want to understand when you're capable. There is no such thing as a 'champagne Socialist'. You want to label people from this country as hypocrites because they don't give away EVERYTHING they have worked for and live their lives according to Communism. I'm not a Communist but, it doesn't stop me from saying I have socialism values and care about looking after those less fortunate and supporting people who want to implement that. You don't understand Socialism
@RichardElden THAT'S 'evil' ?, Lol. You are WAY too judgemental about everything and everyone, except it seems yourself.Get things into perspective for once, for God's sake. Lots of people have opinions which they see as practical and modern and doesn't mean they're hypocritical etc. Evil is terrorists who blow up innocent people etc. Australia IS independent to a large extent already. Treason, Lol
@RichardElden THAT'S not evil even if it were true, but when I pointed out that many huge cities in England overwhelmingly voted Labour, you just glibly dismissed all those ENGLISH as 'worthless scum on benefits'. If you expect ANYONE to take some of your comments even half seriously, you can't just sweep reality aside. You can't have both ways and only class as 'English' those that you want to. Also, you define the likes of Parkinson as 'evil' and he's done nothing wrong
@RichardElden But Major won in 92 as you know, so it's not surprising he had landslide victories. Thing is you declare things and people as 'evil' without understanding what evil is. YOU, my friend are not redrawing anything either
@RichardElden You never write objectively, which is pointless. Also account for the landslide Labour victories in 1997 and 2001 then ; where did ALL those Labour voters come from in 97 ? ; explain THAT after all that Tory rule. People just had a titful of the Tories
@RichardElden really the polls at the time said otherwise, Major won 1992 because he played politics the best, not because of policies its because he played on the 'better the devil you know' card, and he did it very well, does that mean that no one wants Cameron especially since he doesn't have majority.
@RichardElden Major had run a decent campaign, but I know from experience (2010 Victorian State Election) despite moderate policies and a reasonable track record my party lost the election purely because people wanted change, 1997 was about that too the Tories had been in power for a long time they could've promised everyone the Treasury and Labour would've still won.
As a Canadian with a slight interest in U.K. politics, I cannot help but see a parallel between John Smith and Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party (Canada's equivalent of the Labour Party), who died last week at age 61. Like Smith, Layton was a very popular leader--indeed, in last May's Canadian election, he led his party to its best electoral showing ever, becoming Official Leader of the Opposition. But as he was at the brink of wielding this power, he died fairly young.
I would have thought this would have come out by now, but seeings as it hasn't i will say what happened. How do i know what happened? Well, my sister was his house cleaner.
John Smith was one of life's luckiest guys who not only influenced life in a positive way, but died doing what most of us love to do.
He died in his bed with his wife....and they wern't sleeping.
RIP John and condolences to his wife.
PS. thanks for paying my sis waaay over the minimum wage. :)
I have never voted Labour, but in my opinion no British politician in my lifetime ever came close to the integrable John Smith. I am still very suspicious of his heart attack. Should he have lived, it was an odds on bet that he would have had an election victory. If that would have happened he would have been the only major western leader bar one to refuse to attend the Bilderberg meetings. The only other one was JFK !
@stagefright31 It's David Blunkett's dog, he stayed with him in there for years, but later I think it's likely when David went on the backbenches that he used to leave the dog somewhere else, and probably got help from a fellow MP to get in and out of the commons
I remember this (it was a month short of my seventh birthday). I grew up in Edinburgh five minutes from his home there and the church where they held his funeral.
I still go past the church almost every day and remember the massive crowds that formed.
@osummuso if you've never heard of him it's difficult for you to say John Smith was the greatest - John Smith was a great leader of the opposition but not the greatest PM we never had
@spectrumpulse Would labour of got in if he wasn't leader do you think? He paved the way for that bloody handed Blair, who I'm sure nobody would of voted for! Blair probably bumped him off!
@spectrumpulse That's the same tittle that the Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskell had in 1962 after his death and Wilson taking the leadership and winning the election in 64, : )
I have posted on I F***ing hate the Sun newspaper and Anti-Daily Mail on Facebook. I have attacked the Poll tax saying how was it fair that a millionaire living in a house on his own should pay the same as a family of five in a 3-bedroomed semi. Does that sound like I agree with Frank?
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the UK and the Labour Party would have been so much diffreant if Mr Smith would have been alive and been PM instead of B-Liar.. Yes I say B-Liar instead of Blair..
People ironically see Smith as a socialist when he was, and always had been a Gaitskillite, a centrist and a reformer. He was a keen advocate of Blair and a massive figurehead in Blair's rise through the ranks, Smith even pairing him as a junior MP with Brown at the same office in Westminster. Great man, extremely missed and would've been a vastly experienced as Prime Minister. It is wrong to speculate how his leadership would've panned out.
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This is gonna get the thumbs down but I think John smith was pretty useless. The modernisation process slowed to a crawl under his leadership. He's been seen much more favourably due to his death. It's nothing personal; he was a great man but that doesn't make him a good leader of his party.
In 1997 the Tories were like Labour were in 1983... utter unelectable... I don't care what the Blairites or Thatcherites might say, there is no way the Tories would have won in 1997... regardless of their policies, regardless of who was their leader or regardless of who was the Labour party leader or their policies. The public was utterly pissed off with them...
In May 1987 he and Brian Clough both spoke at a Labour rally in Nottingham. In death, they have two things in common. One was the best PM we never had and the other the best England manager we never had.
Anyone would be better than the autistic freak Brown. I saw an interview with Clough where he described his views as "extreme Left" and went on to praise Russia.
Well if he is in his 70's and working-class Frank, he's probably a product of his time and social-class, and where he comes from, if is a rock-solid working-class area, voting Labour will be seen as a article of faith. Just as in some areas of the UK like Kensington and Chelsea or Beaconsfield, if a drunk teletubby was the Tory candidate they would get elected.
However he is anti-fox hunting and pro-union. I thought it quite funny that he always admired John Prescott until he was caught having an affair, and then he lost all respect for him.
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Would you fucking let FrankClanton say it to YOU??? No fucking way!! You'd fucking throttle the little cunt. He has no fucking right to express defamatory offensive slanderous and libelous views. There are laws in the United Kingdom against bastards like Clanton 'expressing' their sick lying 'views'.Clanton is a fucking little middle class wanker! Quite!! LOL
Maybe you're another of the boring little cunt's aliases? LOL
I don't agree with any of his views whatsoever and I have told him that they are crap, time and time again. Look at his posts on Thatcher no no no and Oliver Reed. I am a socialist, and I think Clement Attlee was the greatest peacetime PM of the 20th Century, I support the NHS and hate the Daily Mail and hope the Tories lose on May 6th. However, has it dawned on you that perhaps he is a wind-up merchant and by getting like this, you are giving him what he wants?
Me a monarchist? LOL I'd line the whole parasitic bunch of them up against the wall and shoot the fucking lot of them.I accept that you're not that cunt FrankClanton. My mistake. Sorry. So why don't you do me a favour and lodge a complaint against the Tory shithead FrankClanton?
Complain against him if you want... I am not bothered one way or the other... I have told him to stick to the issues and not get personal, like calling Brown an Autistic freak, being glad Oliver Reed is dead and saying he is glad Cloughie got Cancer and died. If he doesn't get personal, he is entitled to his opinion, though I don't agree with him. I am not reporting him, because by saying this stuff, he is just condemning himself.
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like texanbloc i am not a labour supporter, im actually a tory, and tbh i h8 the party in the way they've messed up this country. But i must say that i think John Smith would have been a great prime minster, he was a wonderful man, who wanted to make things better for the people and the country, not for himself. I great man, and if only. God Bless you John Smith. R.I.P.
yes i agree i do hate labour but i believe that john smith could have made the country better instead we ended up with war criminal money grabbing blair its a terrible shame
A great politician, and a genuinely good bloke. We never got to see his true potential, and I often wonder what the country would've been like post 1997 general elections (let's face it, Labour would've won regardless of who was party leader). "The opportunity to serve our country, that is all we ask." Brilliant.
Two weeks earlier, on 28th April, (I remember this), Smith visited that same hospital to save a ward that the Tories were planning to close down, and he met Professor Mike Besser, who I believe is speaking, and tried to save his life, two weeks later, on Thursday 12th May 1994.
The doctor, whom you claim to be "not very professional" met John Smith just a couple of weeks earlier during a campaign to stop a ward being closed down by the Tory Government. This same Doctor was then part of the team which tried to, unsuccessfully, save his life following the heart attack. So yes, you could say they were close colleagues.
A paradox occurred with Smith. He was always on the Gaitskellite wing of the Labour party from 1956 when he joined, yet posthumously, he became an iconic figure for the Labour left.
The day the UK was robbed and left with Blair as a replacement ;-\ Does make me ponder what could of been.
ghostfaced1 3 days ago
its all done in plain view of the public now no hiding crime the people are brainwashed into thinking the not normal is now the normal
17hevan 1 month ago
For, not Fall. My spelling error there!
Itsmeeman1 1 month ago
Fall All non-Brits that don't know, John Smith was VOTED into power with a huge majority against the Conservative party, NOT Tony Blair, who ended up with the position by default.
John Smith was a decent and honourable man that the British people wanted in power to help sweep away the perverted corruption of the previous Thatcher party.
He then 'suddenly' dies from a heart attack.
Given the current retrospect look at the past decade's lies and BS of 9/11, Iraq etc. did he die of natural causes?
Itsmeeman1 1 month ago
@Itsmeeman1 when exactly was Smith voted into "power"?? - he was voted internally to the party - leader of the labour opposition, but never won a general election.
Which is sad because I think he would have been a great prime minister.
offpatsmile 1 month ago
@offpatsmile The nation was so sick of Thatcher and her cronies that a monkey from Mars would have won. The people took one look at Smith and knew that he was the guy they were going to vote for without a second thought. Blair would not have made the same impression on the people. Too young, too fake and shiny(no Martian monkey but the next best thing to one). You know what I mean. Smith just wasn't around long enough to see himself voted into office.
Itsmeeman1 1 month ago
@RichardElden @RichardElden What is this thing you have with being happy people that people died, and notably with Cancer... you have said you are pleased Oliver Reed, Brian Clough, Mo Mowlam, Harold Wilson and Gordon Brown's daughter are all dead.. you say you wish Michael Parkinson dead.. well I am pleased Cameron's son, Denis Thatcher, David Evans, George Gardiner and Franco are all dead..
Kevinasp 2 months ago
@Kevinasp In that respect, I hope Murdoch gets Cancer and dies.
Kevinasp 2 months ago
@TheJaaysog It's David Blunkett's guide dog
Alexanderpetrov1990 2 months ago
why is there a dog in the chamber?
TheJaaysog 2 months ago
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yoursir100 1 week ago
@TheJaaysog David Blunkett's guide dog
yoursir100 1 week ago
John Smith was killed, he was the last decent Labour politition who actually cared about the british. Tony Blair is a war criminal and a racist bigot.
MetalMachineManiac 3 months ago
@RichardElden I see you have favourited a vid containing loyalist songs. Did you know that Franco was a vicious anti-protestant? Protestants in Franco's Spain were harassed and often imprisoned.
npe1 3 months ago
and then Blair slithers on to the scene
donnyab 3 months ago 3
@RichardElden it was like NATO
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden you mean SEATO
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden which had a conservative government
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden oh of course in the mean time you conveniently overlook his violent purges against his own countrymen (Basque's included) you clearly need to be held under The Mental Health Act because what you are saying and supporting are not actions of a rational human being.
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden like I said your comment reeks of delusion and hypocrisy.
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden do you have any idea what Franco, Caetano and Pinochet did to their own people, you're comments reeks of delusion and hypocrisy.
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden uh huh and you seem to overlooking the Tories support of what became the Taliban and Al Qaeda during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan also the backing of the Fascist dictatorships in Spain, Portugal and Chile.
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden so not only are you vile but you're delusional as well. We have a couple of places for people like you least of all the Magistrates Court and the good old Swanston Centre
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden Actually we found it quite refreshing that a UK citizen called for us to become a republic. it wasn't until 1984 that Australia actually severed all legal ties with the UK.
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden you're avoiding the issue, did the public want Heath then.
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden Again, you don't want to understand when you're capable. There is no such thing as a 'champagne Socialist'. You want to label people from this country as hypocrites because they don't give away EVERYTHING they have worked for and live their lives according to Communism. I'm not a Communist but, it doesn't stop me from saying I have socialism values and care about looking after those less fortunate and supporting people who want to implement that. You don't understand Socialism
TheKenfig 3 months ago
@RichardElden THAT'S 'evil' ?, Lol. You are WAY too judgemental about everything and everyone, except it seems yourself.Get things into perspective for once, for God's sake. Lots of people have opinions which they see as practical and modern and doesn't mean they're hypocritical etc. Evil is terrorists who blow up innocent people etc. Australia IS independent to a large extent already. Treason, Lol
TheKenfig 3 months ago
@RichardElden uh huh need I bring up 1950 where the Tories ended up with a majority despite losing the popular vote
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden THAT'S not evil even if it were true, but when I pointed out that many huge cities in England overwhelmingly voted Labour, you just glibly dismissed all those ENGLISH as 'worthless scum on benefits'. If you expect ANYONE to take some of your comments even half seriously, you can't just sweep reality aside. You can't have both ways and only class as 'English' those that you want to. Also, you define the likes of Parkinson as 'evil' and he's done nothing wrong
TheKenfig 3 months ago
@RichardElden But Major won in 92 as you know, so it's not surprising he had landslide victories. Thing is you declare things and people as 'evil' without understanding what evil is. YOU, my friend are not redrawing anything either
TheKenfig 3 months ago
@RichardElden You never write objectively, which is pointless. Also account for the landslide Labour victories in 1997 and 2001 then ; where did ALL those Labour voters come from in 97 ? ; explain THAT after all that Tory rule. People just had a titful of the Tories
TheKenfig 3 months ago
@RichardElden never underestimate the will of they who must be obeyed
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden really the polls at the time said otherwise, Major won 1992 because he played politics the best, not because of policies its because he played on the 'better the devil you know' card, and he did it very well, does that mean that no one wants Cameron especially since he doesn't have majority.
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden Major had run a decent campaign, but I know from experience (2010 Victorian State Election) despite moderate policies and a reasonable track record my party lost the election purely because people wanted change, 1997 was about that too the Tories had been in power for a long time they could've promised everyone the Treasury and Labour would've still won.
irishgodfatherchris 3 months ago
@RichardElden Ha ha ha ha, what a surprise Elden boy ; glad he's dead are you ?, you betch !!, Lol
TheKenfig 3 months ago
As a Canadian with a slight interest in U.K. politics, I cannot help but see a parallel between John Smith and Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party (Canada's equivalent of the Labour Party), who died last week at age 61. Like Smith, Layton was a very popular leader--indeed, in last May's Canadian election, he led his party to its best electoral showing ever, becoming Official Leader of the Opposition. But as he was at the brink of wielding this power, he died fairly young.
arejayseeottawa 5 months ago
Out of all these tributes Blair deserves the Oscar for 'sincerity' of performance
TheKenfig 5 months ago
poor man was turning in his grave for 13 years
snowstorm80 5 months ago
shame he died he would have lost 1997.... :D
angliaknightident 5 months ago
@angliaknightident you know as well as I do (and I'm an Australian) that Labour would've won the election regardless of who was the leader
irishgodfatherchris 5 months ago
a mind blowing intellect
dermotoblong 5 months ago
The day the Labour Party died. Never to return...
jobcalabash78 6 months ago
Five Prime Ministers in this clip - two former ones, Callaghan and Thatcher, the current one at the time, Major, and two future PMs, Blair and Brown.
The1985Channel 6 months ago
He was a good man..then after what did we get?
WELLBRAN 7 months ago
Such a great loss
Dendiol 7 months ago
Paddy Ashdown is also a great man, the Lib Dems were a better party with his leadership.
emmyjo720 8 months ago
He was killed IMO, to put Blair in who is a career politition fronting for an agenda. Smith was an honest, decent man, who was a true leader...RIP
UrbanGuerilla88 10 months ago
@UrbanGuerilla88 He had a heart attack in the shower....I think it was a tragedy for the country, he would never have taken us into Iraq.
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siteforonemillion 10 months ago
i think thatchers comments are spot on!
hearts76100 10 months ago
Oooh! His home in the Barbican. How socialist!
cuntylishus 10 months ago
@cuntylishus Shut up.
binstig 9 months ago 10
Lol, look at Blunkett's dog at 3.38. Probably wondering what all the fuss is about.
santana26491 10 months ago
So who slipped the shellfish toxin in his drink at the function?
2001perseus 1 year ago
I would have thought this would have come out by now, but seeings as it hasn't i will say what happened. How do i know what happened? Well, my sister was his house cleaner.
John Smith was one of life's luckiest guys who not only influenced life in a positive way, but died doing what most of us love to do.
He died in his bed with his wife....and they wern't sleeping.
RIP John and condolences to his wife.
PS. thanks for paying my sis waaay over the minimum wage. :)
Maurizio77 1 year ago
6:27 lol so hard
AndyPipkinsLB 1 year ago
R I P JOHN, IT IS A PITTY WE HAVE NOT GOT YOU HERE TO HELP US OUT NOW,
coalfires 1 year ago
Whose that whos nodded off at 2:29?
KoAham 1 year ago
A good and decent man taken early
hearts76100 1 year ago
I can see Alex Salmond 4:57-5:10.
animegalc4 1 year ago
I have never voted Labour, but in my opinion no British politician in my lifetime ever came close to the integrable John Smith. I am still very suspicious of his heart attack. Should he have lived, it was an odds on bet that he would have had an election victory. If that would have happened he would have been the only major western leader bar one to refuse to attend the Bilderberg meetings. The only other one was JFK !
ALBIONTYKE 1 year ago
sadly it was on the cards he had one heart attack before what a prime minister he might have been
xandy1959 1 year ago
R.I.P Comrade
codiebeth 1 year ago
Unlike the conmen and liars who took over from him,John Smith was a decent and honourable person,completely straight and down to earth.
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Sorry but you are wrong!!
llanberis100 1 year ago
que jonh smith me chupe las bolas asi como todos los que crean en el jajja putos mormones
pive1000 1 year ago
okay, someone PLEASE explain to me what the dog is doing in the house of commons? That is hillarious. (around 4 minute mark).
stagefright31 1 year ago
@stagefright31 I'm fairly sure it's David Blunkett's guide dog.
CaptainRhoo 1 year ago
@CaptainRhoo That makes sense. I thought it might be someone's whacked out ego (common in the house of commons). Thanks!
stagefright31 1 year ago
@stagefright31 It's David Blunkett's dog, he stayed with him in there for years, but later I think it's likely when David went on the backbenches that he used to leave the dog somewhere else, and probably got help from a fellow MP to get in and out of the commons
Lab356 1 year ago
@stagefright31 David blunket is blind, its a guide dog, dont no why its lieing down like that though ^_^
98smithg 1 year ago
@98smithg its been sedated to ensure it doesn't interupt the session lol
biggest007fan 10 months ago
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ALBIONTYKE 1 year ago
Killed by the NWO just like Robin Cook
W4LL5 1 year ago 2
You can't help but wonder what the UK would be like now had he not died, and become prime minister instead of Blair.
JonnyBoyMach2 1 year ago
I remember this (it was a month short of my seventh birthday). I grew up in Edinburgh five minutes from his home there and the church where they held his funeral.
I still go past the church almost every day and remember the massive crowds that formed.
UK31337 1 year ago
did The Master have anything to do with this?
thomasedge4life 1 year ago
he was murdered
BrimstoneAlpha 1 year ago
Why do you think he was murdered?@BrimstoneAlpha
astralwarrior8 1 year ago
John Smith was a political giant. He would have been a fantastic PM. RIP.
Honeysucklewhore 1 year ago 6
he was a massive intellect and i was gutted. would have been a great prime minister
dermotoblong 1 year ago
i can remember hearing the news in Edinburgh, in the car, on the radio, on the way back from school. pretty shocking.
sof2finchy 1 year ago
John Smith was the best Prime Minister we never had!
Thatcher and Major were leeching puppets who ruined this country.
osummuso 1 year ago
@osummuso it's Comrade Brown that's ruined the country, Labour is trash, with the economics of the mad house
TheZanipolo 1 year ago
@osummuso the best Prime Minister we never had was R.A. Butler
gwhite79 1 year ago
@gwhite79 never heard of him.
Do you not rank John though?
osummuso 1 year ago
@osummuso if you've never heard of him it's difficult for you to say John Smith was the greatest - John Smith was a great leader of the opposition but not the greatest PM we never had
gwhite79 1 year ago
@gwhite79 It's a pity there isn't more footage of him speaking for you to formulate an informed opinion.
osummuso 1 year ago
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Better dead than red, lol
PedroHochbichler 1 year ago
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Would have been a poor Prime Minister. While his death was very sad, as a politician he was never fit to wipe Thatcher or Major's boots.
lonegroover 1 year ago
@lonegroover
Oh yes, Major that great leader who once said that he couldn't believe a "wimp" like himself was party leader.
Smith was a colossus. Deal with it.
Samcyrusxerxes 1 year ago
@Samcyrusxerxes What's to deal with? He's dead, and mostly forgotten. Sad for his family, but no great loss politically.
lonegroover 1 year ago
@lonegroover That's what a real nobody would say.
2replybiz 1 year ago
@lonegroover Nah, he's not forgotten, otherwise these comments would not exist!
What makes you comment though?
You suggest that Blair, Brown, Major or even Thatcher offered this country more?
osummuso 1 year ago
@lonegroover That comment shan't be dignified with a reply.
Naoisevl 1 year ago
It's been said no doubt: No matter what your political leanings, he was greatly respected by all sides. Certainly, a great natural leader.
daddyofjames 1 year ago 20
Tony Blair looks so fake here
thelostlibertine 1 year ago
To quote a newspaper headline at the time: 'The Best Prime Minister We Never Had...'
spectrumpulse 1 year ago 36
@spectrumpulse
No that was William Hague
usainlightning 1 year ago
@spectrumpulse Completely agree.Would have been a tremendous prime minister.Its time like this you look back and see what we could have had.
Venom8419 1 year ago
@spectrumpulse Would labour of got in if he wasn't leader do you think? He paved the way for that bloody handed Blair, who I'm sure nobody would of voted for! Blair probably bumped him off!
wyrda222 1 year ago
@spectrumpulse That's the same tittle that the Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskell had in 1962 after his death and Wilson taking the leadership and winning the election in 64, : )
AdnanRiazx 1 year ago
To quote a newspaper headline at the time: 'The Best Prime Minister We Never Had...'
spectrumpulse 1 year ago
may john rest in peace
starbabe58 1 year ago
Good god it's Gordon Brown before his hair went grey.
xNeverthought 1 year ago
i might had voted labour had he not had died.he was a decent man unlike blair
xandy1959 1 year ago
I believe he was murdered to make way the Bilderberg and the free mason tony blair.
vaj99 1 year ago
Why on earth is there a prostrate dog by the Labour front bench at 3:37???
piecesounds 1 year ago
David Blunkett, the MP for Sheffield Brightside is blind, so it is his guidedog. He has been an MP since June 1987.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
@piecesounds That would be David Blunket's Guide Dog.
baseballfan99 1 year ago
Makes you wonder how the course of events and the shape of the the Labour Party up until 2010 play out, without John Smith's untimely death.
TheConciseStatement 1 year ago
I have posted on I F***ing hate the Sun newspaper and Anti-Daily Mail on Facebook. I have attacked the Poll tax saying how was it fair that a millionaire living in a house on his own should pay the same as a family of five in a 3-bedroomed semi. Does that sound like I agree with Frank?
Kevinasp 1 year ago
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beatIequeen06 1 year ago
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If you think I agree with Frank's views, check my posts on Daniel Hannan Enoch Powell NHS, Clement Attlee 1945, Robin resigning over Iraq war part 1, The rich should pay more tax. There should be a minimum wage of £7 an hour. I agree with civil partnerships. I would abolish the House of Lords. I don't like what he said about being glad Cloughie got Cancer and died or Gordon Brown and Autistic freaks. I have told him to stick to the issues and avoid the insults.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
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Kevinasp 1 year ago
A troll called..........KEVIN???!!
LMFAO
beatIequeen06 1 year ago
I would prefer it if you didn't insult me in that fashion... it was about as funny as winning the national lottery and then losing your ticket.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
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WANKER!!!
usuIkane 1 year ago
Who is that stood next to Neil Kinnock at 1:30 and sitting on the left while Margaret Beckett is speaking at 4:30?
OutStack 1 year ago
Jack Cunningham...
Kevinasp 1 year ago
@Kevinasp Thanks!
OutStack 1 year ago
the UK and the Labour Party would have been so much diffreant if Mr Smith would have been alive and been PM instead of B-Liar.. Yes I say B-Liar instead of Blair..
UKNightClubber 1 year ago
People ironically see Smith as a socialist when he was, and always had been a Gaitskillite, a centrist and a reformer. He was a keen advocate of Blair and a massive figurehead in Blair's rise through the ranks, Smith even pairing him as a junior MP with Brown at the same office in Westminster. Great man, extremely missed and would've been a vastly experienced as Prime Minister. It is wrong to speculate how his leadership would've panned out.
thegreatloy 1 year ago
Yet after his death he became an iconic figure amongst the Labour left.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
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This is gonna get the thumbs down but I think John smith was pretty useless. The modernisation process slowed to a crawl under his leadership. He's been seen much more favourably due to his death. It's nothing personal; he was a great man but that doesn't make him a good leader of his party.
slimes23 1 year ago
In 1997 the Tories were like Labour were in 1983... utter unelectable... I don't care what the Blairites or Thatcherites might say, there is no way the Tories would have won in 1997... regardless of their policies, regardless of who was their leader or regardless of who was the Labour party leader or their policies. The public was utterly pissed off with them...
Kevinasp 1 year ago
That's because people in this country are stupid.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
In May 1987 he and Brian Clough both spoke at a Labour rally in Nottingham. In death, they have two things in common. One was the best PM we never had and the other the best England manager we never had.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
I'm glad Clough died of stomach cancer.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
Why? Because you didn't rate him as a football manager? or because he was a socialist or because you thought he was cocky and arrogant?
Kevinasp 1 year ago
He was a Communist and a sad pathetic little alcoholic.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
Cloughie was an alcoholic there's no doubt... but he was a socialist rather than a communist... who would you like to see as PM then?
Kevinasp 1 year ago
Anyone would be better than the autistic freak Brown. I saw an interview with Clough where he described his views as "extreme Left" and went on to praise Russia.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
Yes I know but which politician? Cameron? Hannan? Osbourne? Milliband? Hague? Clegg?
Kevinasp 1 year ago
Smith died in the month you were born as well... May 1994....
Kevinasp 1 year ago
Yes I know.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
He died on the 12th.. were you born then?
Kevinasp 1 year ago
No I was born on the 20th.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
That was the day of his funeral. I remember watching it on TV.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
I find it absolutely amazing that my grandfather is anti-immigration, homophobic, pro-death penalty, anti-Europe and yet always votes Labour.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
Well if he is in his 70's and working-class Frank, he's probably a product of his time and social-class, and where he comes from, if is a rock-solid working-class area, voting Labour will be seen as a article of faith. Just as in some areas of the UK like Kensington and Chelsea or Beaconsfield, if a drunk teletubby was the Tory candidate they would get elected.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
However he is anti-fox hunting and pro-union. I thought it quite funny that he always admired John Prescott until he was caught having an affair, and then he lost all respect for him.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
Quite funny. HOW POSH!! You fucking Conservative parasite and sponger!! stop stealing from the Queen!! You welfare fraudster and cheat!! To report FrankClanton Go to youtube com/safety_help
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usuIkane 1 year ago
I think it is good stealing from the Queen.. I don't agree with Frank Clanton's views... far from it... but I suppose he is entitled to express them.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
Would you fucking let FrankClanton say it to YOU??? No fucking way!! You'd fucking throttle the little cunt. He has no fucking right to express defamatory offensive slanderous and libelous views. There are laws in the United Kingdom against bastards like Clanton 'expressing' their sick lying 'views'.Clanton is a fucking little middle class wanker! Quite!! LOL
Maybe you're another of the boring little cunt's aliases? LOL
usuIkane 1 year ago
I don't agree with any of his views whatsoever and I have told him that they are crap, time and time again. Look at his posts on Thatcher no no no and Oliver Reed. I am a socialist, and I think Clement Attlee was the greatest peacetime PM of the 20th Century, I support the NHS and hate the Daily Mail and hope the Tories lose on May 6th. However, has it dawned on you that perhaps he is a wind-up merchant and by getting like this, you are giving him what he wants?
Kevinasp 1 year ago
If you were a real socialist you would crush this Nazi nasty Tory piece of shit! Wind up merchant or not FrankClanton must be DESTROYED!!!
No excuses - no appeasement!! CRUSH HIM!!
usuIkane 1 year ago
I think his views are more extreme than the Tory right.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
If you have stolen from Her Majesty or intend to do so you WILL be reported to the police!!
beatIequeen06 1 year ago
I am no monarchist unlike yourself.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
Me a monarchist? LOL I'd line the whole parasitic bunch of them up against the wall and shoot the fucking lot of them.I accept that you're not that cunt FrankClanton. My mistake. Sorry. So why don't you do me a favour and lodge a complaint against the Tory shithead FrankClanton?
beatIequeen06 1 year ago
Complain against him if you want... I am not bothered one way or the other... I have told him to stick to the issues and not get personal, like calling Brown an Autistic freak, being glad Oliver Reed is dead and saying he is glad Cloughie got Cancer and died. If he doesn't get personal, he is entitled to his opinion, though I don't agree with him. I am not reporting him, because by saying this stuff, he is just condemning himself.
Kevinasp 1 year ago
Your fucking grandfather was hanged at Nuremberg for war crimes!! You lying cunt!!
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usuIkane 1 year ago
You weren't born. You were spawned from a tadpole lost in a piece of dog shit!! To report FrankClanton Go to youtube com/safety_help
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Kevinasp 1 year ago
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Oh I shouldn't believe him. In any case it is well known that George V was happy to see the Irish Free State created because he wanted an end to the fighting. To report FrankClanton Go to youtube com/safety_help
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usuIkane 1 year ago
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Quite funny. HOW POSH!! You fucking Conservative parasite and sponger!!
What a posh cunt this FrankClanton is. And the cunt lives in a council house!!! LOL
Oh I shouldn't believe him LOL
usuIkane 1 year ago
like texanbloc i am not a labour supporter, im actually a tory, and tbh i h8 the party in the way they've messed up this country. But i must say that i think John Smith would have been a great prime minster, he was a wonderful man, who wanted to make things better for the people and the country, not for himself. I great man, and if only. God Bless you John Smith. R.I.P.
scunny1994 1 year ago 14
yes i agree i do hate labour but i believe that john smith could have made the country better instead we ended up with war criminal money grabbing blair its a terrible shame
charlieiscool1000 1 year ago
@scunny1994
maybe even another callaghan
Galacticmaster 1 year ago
A great politician, and a genuinely good bloke. We never got to see his true potential, and I often wonder what the country would've been like post 1997 general elections (let's face it, Labour would've won regardless of who was party leader). "The opportunity to serve our country, that is all we ask." Brilliant.
pterobsven 1 year ago
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pterobsven 1 year ago
So wish he'd had his chance as PM...
Dendiol 1 year ago 4
he had a wife
nuffydude1994 1 year ago
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LARRSON77 1 year ago
Major made a good statement on Smith's death.....
Kevinasp 1 year ago 3
John smith would have made a great prime minister,not like sneaky,arrogant Tony shittyarseblair.........
alfreddunn03 2 years ago
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Was John smith gay gay?
TheZioman 2 years ago
Two weeks earlier, on 28th April, (I remember this), Smith visited that same hospital to save a ward that the Tories were planning to close down, and he met Professor Mike Besser, who I believe is speaking, and tried to save his life, two weeks later, on Thursday 12th May 1994.
Kevinasp 2 years ago
What if.... Blair is a phoney who stitched us all up like kippers and destroyed everything John did and built
kenfig 2 years ago
I hate the way the doctor is being all melodramatic, behaving like a close colleague or family member. Not very professional.
sammyseefatpoon 2 years ago
It might be due to the fact that they actually knew each other.
aristopha 2 years ago
dont be so bloody stupid
deedrichard86 2 years ago
The doctor, whom you claim to be "not very professional" met John Smith just a couple of weeks earlier during a campaign to stop a ward being closed down by the Tory Government. This same Doctor was then part of the team which tried to, unsuccessfully, save his life following the heart attack. So yes, you could say they were close colleagues.
pterobsven 1 year ago
RIP John. You should have led us, and you will never be forgotten.
doddsoreric 2 years ago 4
I'm not a Labour supporter, but I always felt John Smith was an excellent politician and would have made a great prime minister.
texanbloc 2 years ago 6
The best PM we never had R.I.P John
papermariob 2 years ago 2
A paradox occurred with Smith. He was always on the Gaitskellite wing of the Labour party from 1956 when he joined, yet posthumously, he became an iconic figure for the Labour left.
Kevinasp 2 years ago 2