This was the first State Opening of a Labour government's first parliamentary year in 1997. It occurred on Wednesday 14th May 1997 after the whopping victory of Labour over the Conservatives at the 1st May 1997 election. Tony Blair's Labour won with a whopping 179 seat majority in the House of Commons.
@musiclive36353 жыл бұрын
And never to happen again looking at the last Tory election results!
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
@@musiclive3635 It happened in 2001 and 2005, and Blair won a 60 plus seat majority even in 2005 after the disaster that was the Iraq War, so never count anything out.
@musiclive36353 жыл бұрын
@@johnking5174 you definitely can count it out when you have fools like starmer and corbyn who have been running the party, and thanks to public shift in opinion since brexit torys are way more popular as shown in last local election with nearly 200 council seats lost from labour too torys
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
@@musiclive3635 Amazing that it took a centre right Labour leader to get the party three very good majorities.
@musiclive36353 жыл бұрын
@@johnking5174 Blaire was a right lefty and war criminal, flooded this country full of uncontrolled immigration and was a remainer as well as being president of the eu ffs
@aghaayubahmadzai30464 жыл бұрын
Nice State opening of Parliament, Dennis Skinner was heckling even then. 2108, 29/08/2020.
@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff9 ай бұрын
Dennis Skinner is a rude vile boy
@randerson25259 ай бұрын
you mean HECKLING
@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff9 ай бұрын
@@randerson2525 he was a rude boy
@johnking51745 жыл бұрын
John Major at 4:15 says to the rebel Labour MP and anti-monarchist Dennis Skinner something like "It should be you making the speech"
@ciaran75594 жыл бұрын
i think he was saying "it should be you over there [opposition benches]" lol but i'm not sure
@PC-lu3zf Жыл бұрын
RIP Queen Elizabeth. I now watch these to pretend she’s still with us:(
@Audacious.Winterhalter Жыл бұрын
😢😢😢
@suzykieckers4883 жыл бұрын
Last time we were in London was in nineteen seventy