Tony Blair vs. John Major - The Drama of Election '97

A motivational, musical dramatisation that tells the story of Tony Blair's historic Labour triumph over John Major's Conservatives in 1997. Watch to the end for the message of this video, if we look at the bigger picture. I made this video because the storyline to this election could've come straight out of a Hollywood script. It was a classic bad guys(a very unpopular Tory government) vs good guys (yes, Blair was a good guy back then) story.

There are 2 songs featured in this video and they add greatly to it. All of this footage you see, remember, is footage you can watch elsewhere on youtube with audio intact.

This video is not suppoesed to be a wholly accurate representation or reflect my own political stance. The purpose of the video is to motivate and inspire yourself hopefully. It has a point. 1997 feels like a different time back then, we probably sometimes forget how OTT the reaction was to Labour winning. So many years of Tory rules caused this outburst too. Us flying our British flags to celebrate. It'll be a long time before you see that for a general election again.

And if your confused, "the death of a friend" means the death of former Labour leader John Smith in 1994.

Credit goes to the users who uploaded this footage to youtube. This video wouldn't have been possible without them.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• tories
• general
• election
• labour
• conservatives
• party
• killer
• seal
• waiting
• star
• fall

[darkstar1345a]

@IntellectFourtyTwo

ppl seem to focus on the negative but labour did modernise this country and made it better .

[gabrieltenon1]

Say what you want, and I agree that the Iraq war was horrible, but my sister and I were the first ones to go to university and my mother enrolled on a course, improved her language skills, found a job and has not claimed benefit since! New Labour had a profoundly positive impact on our family! Thanks Tony!

[britishjohn04]

@Dendiol Couldn't of put it better myself.

[Dendiol]

13 years later, we were bankrupt morally and financially. Thanks Labour.

[TheFakeAssGangsta1]

@MrBetterthanschuey Why do people not understand that the recent economic issues have been GLOBAL. Can't blame a British party for that....

[silversynth]

@darkstar1345a Reality check = they didn't

[silversynth]

Labour didn't make Britain better. Just stating the reality

[MrBetterthanschuey]

We can make this country better than it is - Tony Blair - 1997 - Bankrupt Britain - 2012, 3 million forecast unemployed by the end of this year, yeah, Great Improvement Tony, I'm so glad I've never voted Labour, it's up to the tories now to sort out Labour's mess. Labour created the same economic mess in the 70's by all accounts.

[darkstar1345a]

@BritishLibertarian

i am not supporting him . The credit crunch was caused by American bankers that we know as a fact wich led to the downturn or recession now brown may not have helped matters much but to say they caused it is an exageration . As i understand it The EU is just as much to blame , i dont really think we had much choice but thats what you get when you allow germans and french to dictate to your country.

[darkstar1345a]

@BritishLibertarian

i dont know about you but whenever i went to the benefits office to claim (so few times) i was never handed a wad of notes .... was you ? as i understand it it was american bankers that started this recession the only huge fuckup was the iraq war . Gordon brown must have been elected to the house of commons otherwise he is trespassing for 2 years ! and speaking of that isnt what this "coalition" is - a no majority goverment

[AMC231284]

Blair, he ran the country brilliantly, yet, the only stupid thing he did, was back bush, then he lost a portion of confidence, you could feel it in the country, i was about 9 when he won, the WHOLE country backed him, was immense. Yet come 2007, you knew the shit would hit the fan, labour had brunted the world recession, and the useless SOUTHERN assholes of the city ran the banks into the ground.. Tony should of stayed till 2010! The tories will have us thrown back to downton abbey times!!!!!!!

[Marnerbanana]

@weatherallc05

haha thanks! :)