The Tories in the north-east: the new 'workers party' goes into battle

The Tories in the north-east: the new 'workers party' goes into battle | Anywhere but Westminster

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General election 2015: Across most of post-industrial Teesside, the Conservatives face a political desert.
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But a few doughty campaigners are trying to hold the Tory line - and even win a seat from Labour. John Harris goes door-knocking with candidates trying to push a gospel of work, self-help, home ownership and even more welfare reform, to people often cut off from politics. A few seats here could make the difference between victory and defeat - but has David Cameron really got any friends in the North?
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@joshuam2962 4 жыл бұрын

And now four years on, the young guy at the start, Jacob Young, is the MP for Redcar. 16.2% of the vote in 2015 (fourth place behind Labour, Lib Dems and UKIP) and now 46.1% and in power.

@elliot7753 4 жыл бұрын

Joshua M - it’s probably down to Boris and his successful promise to get Brexit done

@numanhussain6080 3 жыл бұрын

And Simon Clark is also a tory MP in the North East now. Amazing how fast things change

@charliedring4092 3 жыл бұрын

@@numanhussain6080 Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland MP

@goattoon6372 3 жыл бұрын

Lol and 10 months later they deeply regret being conned out of a vote for a Brexit deal that didn't exist.

@R3586 3 жыл бұрын

The North is finally waking up

@whentheleveebreaks3962 5 жыл бұрын

As a North Easterner, this picture is all too familiar. The Tories do nothing for the region because its not in their interests. Labour does nowt because they don't need to - they'll always be elected.

@BP-xv7fj 3 жыл бұрын

Keep dreaming labour gonna help. if it does, keep dreaming you have a strong country like UK. Pathetic

@ExBuryBoy 9 жыл бұрын

This is so biased. Labour were in power for 13 years and didn't fuck all for places like this.

@francesdoherty4232 7 жыл бұрын

KPOPFANBOYUK blairites were not Torys they were centrists like macron and they will not be removed from the Labour Party they're the only way the labour has a chance of winning back seats Corbyn is too far left for a lot of voters though I am a labour supporter I know that Jeremy Corbyn will never get in power with his views and a more centre labour government will come in power the next time labour wins

@samarium557 6 жыл бұрын

Frances Doherty Well we just won back 30 seats through him...

@rjwgraves1 3 жыл бұрын

I'm an Easington lad, im an exile now in leeds. It hurts to see my home in such a state. It really hurts.

@johnlouisville 9 жыл бұрын

As in the USA with the Republicans and Democrats, both Labour and the Conservatives have signed off on the same Neoconservative economic policies....free trade, de-industrialization and the marginalization of unions. Most high paying jobs are in financial and hi tech in Greater London. The rest of the UK gets the scraps. Yes, being on benefits is not good for a person but if there are no decent jobs, what's a person to do?

@josephmurphy6519 9 жыл бұрын

johnlouisville The benefit London receives in terms of jobs is being subsidised in terms of money to the rest of the country. Unfortunately that money goes into public spending rather than investment in business up north.

@user-wk4ku2fi5h 9 жыл бұрын

There are many people in the greater London, that live in the shadows of the bankers and struggle to get by.

@josephmurphy6519 9 жыл бұрын

There are many people in the country and world that struggle to get by. It would help if we didn't have so many more people than jobs though..then there'd be less in that situation.

@josephmurphy6519 7 жыл бұрын

Hassananari Vindailooorange What an idiot, you are!

@johnlouisville 7 жыл бұрын

you are a communist

@piercoucy 5 жыл бұрын

I live in East Anglia, not in the North: the whole of Britain seems more and more a third world country.

@MrRockstar1968 4 жыл бұрын

How about explaining why the Conservatives give less funding to Labour councils than to Conservative councils?

@MrNobody808 9 жыл бұрын

2:05 "A lot of people around here have to go out and make their own living". Surely not! Thats just terrible!

@landofold 8 жыл бұрын

2:06 Why the hell is he the one driving?

@alecz478 4 жыл бұрын

hahahahahha mans off his head

@riyadhul-hoque6851 4 жыл бұрын

Init.... haha

@numbestdumbest 9 жыл бұрын

Why at 8:23 do the subtitles say "Oh Mrs Thatcher, dear me she worked wonders, didn't she? - when the actual comment was "...she RUINED us, didn't she."

@thisdrinkinglife 4 жыл бұрын

ha this aged well, lol

@MrRooibos123 4 жыл бұрын

It's crazy how fast it flipped blue

@saxoungrammaticus9132 9 жыл бұрын

After watching these videos I can safely say our country is completely dysfunctional and we're doomed

@billymeths8708 4 жыл бұрын

Its even more dysfunctional now, UK reminds of New York in the days of the Mafia

@jamisbillson4872 5 жыл бұрын

The Tories are not for the people. They are for the few. “I work so I vote Tory”!!! The Tories gave done this to our people. Not Labour. Not the EU. The EU fund the worst areas of poverty in Europe. 9/10 in the UK. Thats the Tories.

@WarrenIrelandUK 5 жыл бұрын

How do you conserve something you dont have?

@salliecinnamon 9 жыл бұрын

Wow! Your underserved neighborhoods are so clean and well kept compared to California's 'hoods! No politician would dare go door to door ! That's awesome because it means your citizens care about the neighborhood even though they are renting.

@ian9037 8 жыл бұрын

+salliecinnamon look up "Hillman Avenue, Jaywick" and you'll see.

@user-ku1np8bs8n Жыл бұрын

It actually means their government invests more in the low income neighborhoods more than our government does. Also systemic racism plays a role in why the hoods in California are not as funded.

@Frfrfr_ 7 жыл бұрын

It's insulting for the Tories to even think about campaigning in the Northeast.

@ShrunkedDude 4 жыл бұрын

The North East surrendered to the Tories a month ago, we in Scotland will never do such a thing.

@rosspatterson1233 3 жыл бұрын

No one asked.

@MrKillingGuy 9 жыл бұрын

Live in the Whitby and Scarborough constituency and our seat's been Conservative for a while now, feels like it too, ask the people of Whitby what their council does for them, compared to what it takes, but we keep putting Robert Goodwill back in, a thief and liar that consistently votes against our interests.

@daaamicahel6863 7 жыл бұрын

Pay as you go 😂😂😂

@paulmiller6979 4 жыл бұрын

Plenty people that work, vote other parties rather than Conservative

@decrox13 4 жыл бұрын

As someone from Chicago - I have never seen so many overweight and straight up obscenely obese people in mobility scooters as I have in these video tours around rural British towns. It’s sad. You hardly ever see that here in the states nowadays.

@maykrupskaya4967 4 жыл бұрын

"life is 2 or 3 weeks at a time" its ever been any different??!?

@darrenwilson8042 5 жыл бұрын

He'd have become an industrial chemist at ICI. That and all its high skilled high pay jobs have gone - as have the steel jobs - as have the manufacturing jobs - governments of all hue's have devastated this area

@numanhussain6080 3 жыл бұрын

Shows how much perseverance pays off

@harisadu8998 3 жыл бұрын

The Tories came in 4th in 2015 and in 2019 have won this constituency.

@RonWylie-gk5lc 7 жыл бұрын

The two of them would not have been laughing if they had knocked on my door I can tell you. Nothing against the young man except his youth, "A hand up opposed to a hand out!?", the people of these parts ALL worked, Thatcher killed this area flat decades ago. Now they have had a futher7 years to give this area a "hand up" but they have not. It is a ghost town like many others that the Tories have shut down decades ago and not bothered to help people retrain . Simon is very much like Simon, they dont know what they are talking about

@adzoo586 4 жыл бұрын

Oh dear. What happened north East. Merseyside stayed labour all the way in 2019. Hope you like YOUR PM.

@archdornan3068 3 жыл бұрын

As being from Sunderland we still mostly labour a couple tories here and there

@bell191991 Жыл бұрын

"Why do you vote conservative? Cos I work. As opposed to? As opposed to not working." Love this guy 😂

@NikoHL Жыл бұрын

So he votes Conservative for Low wages, poor working conditions, and anti Union legislation.. Turkey voting for Christmas.

@djtobs2 5 жыл бұрын

I think its quite interesting that even in the heartlands Labour are not that strong it says much to tee damage new Labour hand on the party

@petermizon4344 4 жыл бұрын

Quite stupid to go there as a tory. I did same for father in law a staunch tory. Soon found out i was on a losing path. Labour all the way

@simonedgbaston 4 жыл бұрын

Disabled people shouldn't have any money reduced,but work that pay's is best for most 🌹

@chrisrogers3457 Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if I VOTE never again

@jamesherold8655 4 жыл бұрын

support for leave means making an alliance in these areas conservative is not a word used so the bet is leave or labour

@delboy4407 6 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh i've just farted VOTE FOR ME FOR A BETTER CLASS OF SHIT

@kiolpyouarebom634 4 жыл бұрын

I been to Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough looks so run down even the first couple of miles going from the A19 into Middlesbrough are so run down.

@garymay799 4 жыл бұрын

That’s the posh part .

@archdornan3068 3 жыл бұрын

@@garymay799 go to Hendon Sunderland if you want to see run down

@jamiecalder3543 9 жыл бұрын

Tories are so out of touch

@sandanenu8475 3 жыл бұрын

Vă salut din România sunteti niste oameni minunați am locuit in livarpool in zona kesington 8 luni nu m am putut acomoda cunosti bine multe locuri din oraș si centrul dar din păcate nu am reusit sa ma acomodez sunteti minunați aveti suflete mari va iubesc

@aardvark2641 2 жыл бұрын

The intelligence is palpable

@stephenroche5107 3 жыл бұрын

Who created a housing crisis yes the tories nothing about affordable social housing.

@stephenroche5107 3 жыл бұрын

Zero hour minimum wage yeah jobs.

@lawrencevincent1 4 жыл бұрын

2020 and the tories are holding on to power. When will this Insanity ever end.

@michaelheeheejackson7255 4 жыл бұрын

It will end when Labour finds out how to prove themselves ready for government, and if they don’t they will be replaced

@lawrencevincent1 4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelheeheejackson7255 Errrrrr...what? lmaoooooo. It will end with civil unrest just as was the poll tax riots. Did you say Labour would figure it out? Let me know when you have woken up from your dream.

@mishapurser4439 2 жыл бұрын

Tories being the party of working people? Is that a joke? lol

@planetyouranus22 5 жыл бұрын

..... " it's all Gov't. 'innit! "....

@highfeelinggood2268 7 жыл бұрын

The poor people in Europe the British people

@vafanapoli5396 3 жыл бұрын

Moldova and Ukraine too

@alftupper9359 5 жыл бұрын

Vote Labour, get EU Vote Tory, get EU Vote to leave the EU, get EU Vote Chuka Umuna and his mates who want to challenge the status quo, get EU It's not been about Labour/Tory for a long time.

@AlexAlex-vn2dz 2 жыл бұрын

North east now has 10 Conservative mps

@garymay799 4 жыл бұрын

Pay as you go man 9 min on Granville rd I think sounds like the boro Tony Montana Scarface

@inphanta 5 жыл бұрын

And then they overwhelmingly voted Leave so the joke’s in them!

@bencrawshaw1227 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the North East has some sense.

@glenquinn6853 7 жыл бұрын

a bus ride home

@poolshufc1493 5 жыл бұрын

2:09

@callumhardy5098 5 жыл бұрын

The only way out of poverty is employment

@JackCoxMSquirrel 5 жыл бұрын

The whole point the people in this video make is that there are so few jobs around and not enough money to move. And then, even if they get a job, there's not enough money left after rent to save. If the solution to poverty were so simple, don't you think people would take it? They're trapped and the disconnected Tory asking them if they'd like to buy a home is only going to rub it in.

@callumhardy5098 5 жыл бұрын

Jack Cox Yes and they’ll be even fewer jobs after (if it happens) Brexit.

@wake-and-ariseyou-workers890 6 жыл бұрын

The gap between rich and poor is getting wider and wider now . For centuries the rich have ruled the peasants and it still goes on now in 21st Century Britain . What did one Tory minister say , he said that all Working class men should be sterilised , that is your Tories for and what they really think of the Working Class .

@Havensand 5 жыл бұрын

Run by labour council why do they keep voting for them ?

@GlumoTV458 4 жыл бұрын

cos the local council is not the one with the money is it

@archdornan3068 3 жыл бұрын

Lad the local council needs money of the government and the government if it’s run by the tories are not exactly going to give money to labour councils

@petermizon4344 4 жыл бұрын

Welfare is something i imagine people get used to when you chase jobs with no success .

@RageRabbitGames 3 жыл бұрын

they are the class of the working people because labour has become the party of the people who don't want to work

@planetyouranus22 5 жыл бұрын

Definition of madness!....Continually doing the same thing and expecting a different result. ( like voting Labour!) It doesn't matter what party you vote for. You'll always get the same result. As that young man in the car's quote below says.

@danielpooleoriginal 5 жыл бұрын

Brexit party is the way forward for this community in my opinion.

@JJ-te2pi 7 жыл бұрын

Voting Tory won't make things better.

@vsls85 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for voting Tories. You ll get endless lockdowns + unemployment squared

@richardb1949 6 жыл бұрын

Thirty years of Tory lies

@barnbersonol 5 жыл бұрын

The Tories brought Nissan and 7,000 jobs to Sunderland in 1984. But obviously they're still tuncs.

@geezalee1677 4 жыл бұрын

All the power is concentrated in the south. If this video is shown around the world, immigrants would think twice before paying thousands of pounds to smugglers risking their lives suffocated in refrigerator lorry.

@cuckingfunt9353 9 жыл бұрын

The only reason to vote Con is to teach Labour a lesson for abandoning the working people (the poor). I can't see any situation where I would vote Con though. Unless you are a multi millionair you would be a moron to vote for that party. Plenty have switched to UKIP though, myself included. Labour turned it's back on us, UKIP welcomes us. Simple.

@josephj714 7 жыл бұрын

It's among the whitest places in the UK

@josephj714 7 жыл бұрын

Redcar I mean

@WeAreWafc 5 жыл бұрын

Racist Labour voters

@juliataylor2623 3 жыл бұрын

Brexit is the one hope for this area.

@sidevans1 3 жыл бұрын

how's that all going

@louisbanaszak3125 5 жыл бұрын

vote brexit only please

@public.public 4 жыл бұрын

or slash your wrists... same thing really.

@W12MODS 9 жыл бұрын

BELIEVE IN BRITAIN VOTE UKIP

@W12MODS 9 жыл бұрын

***** you answered your own question Germany would enter into a trade agreement with the UK because you sell more goods to us than we do to you. Germany has brought up more British companies franchises like Mini which is massive you are hardly going to pull out and leave. Yeah go to Greece with a failing economy yeah go to Spain with a failing economy. The Pound will always be strong that's why thank god we didn't join the Euro.

@W12MODS 9 жыл бұрын

***** how are we going to demonise it trade with Europe be friends with Europe but not controlled by its laws. Howard Carpendale Du Hast Mich.

@josephmurphy6519 9 жыл бұрын

***** It is estimated that some 2 million jobs in the UK and 3 million in Europe depend on our trading links so it would be beneficial to the both of us to have an agreement. Also there is no anti-german party in the UK besides BNP. UKip just dont think Britain benefits from being part of a political union when we could simply revert to an economic union. We demonise many countries: USA, Argentina, France, Germany and Russia mostly. All for different reasons. The thing is with Germany which I think you're referring to is that WW1 cost us the markets while WW2 cost us the Empire. The debt and economic depression caused by WW2 is associated with the failings of the 50s-70s where the Empire was disappearing, we owed a lot of money and we could only become smaller in the world from then on.

@W12MODS 9 жыл бұрын

***** Nigel's wife is German so don't go there. We might have a laugh and a joke over football but that is where it ends. I went through Germany on holiday with my parents on the way to Italy and stayed in Cologne. My first experience of a Wendy's and continental breakfast where we stayed over night. You don't depend on the UK and we don't depend on you. Fuck the Tory posh boys and fuck the establishment that's what we are fighting against. We are under attack from the establishment much like your AFD.

@KarlEvansloveslife 9 жыл бұрын

***** BMW are a global company, they produce vehicles world wide, many are sold outside Europe so any business commitments would have to be considered very carefully. The taxes and tolls would just be reciprocated which could possibly make it cheaper to import from outside the EU. The Germans are not stupid they will know a trade agreement with the UK would make trade stronger not weaker, obviously the Germans would have to stick to EU regulations and principles but overall the trading restrictions for the UK would not impact as much as the naysayers say.