Rewatching the 1997 General Election (bbc iplayer) and memories of it

[chemn]

I was 12. I remember there was a wierd feeling of... what is it again? Hope, yeah that was it.

 

[belboid]

ohh, Rhodes Boysons face when he lost! I'd forgotten that pleasure.

Portillo's result is due in about half an hour, here's hoping!

 

[N_igma]

I was only 10 but for some reason I do remember the big song and dance made about Portillo losing his seat the next day and Cherie Blair answering the door in her nightie. Was too young to appreciate the significance of the election but those two stuck in my mind.

 

[marty21]

I'd just started my "career" in Social Housing when Labour won (1st job in 95) and hoped that they would build, build , build, and that my career would last. It has , still plodding about in Social Housing , 26 years later. But 14 years under a Tory government, I would have had a career under either

 

[not a trot]

I stay up for most of them. I can’t remember if I bothered in 2001 or 2005 though.

2010 and 2015 were just depressing and I probably didn’t last until the morning. 2017 was better because May fucked it and lost a controlling majority. I think I stayed up and toasted the beginning of her demise with a beer in the morning for that one.

I don’t think I bothered in 2019 because it was obvious from the exit polls Corbyn was going to lead Labour to a resounding defeat.

This upcoming one I will definitely be up through the night, with several feeds of TV, twitter, urban, 5 Live/LBC, some energy snacks, beer, tea/coffee and breakfast supplies.

First one I stayed up to watch was Feb74, I had just turned 16 and approaching exam time. It was a novelty watching TV that late at night, as up until recently it was shutting own at 10.30 due to the 3 day week.

 

[belboid]

Undoubtedly Stephen Twigg's finest half second

 

[skyscraper101]

97 was also when the Natural Law Party fielded candidates in most constituencies IIRC

I still have the flyer for this dude who was running in my then constituency. I have no idea what became of him.

 

[brogdale]

97 was also when the Natural Law Party fielded candidates in most constituencies IIRC

I still have the flyer for this dude who was running in my then constituency. I have no idea what became of him.

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Having their cake and eating it?

 

[planetgeli]

I was 18 so it was the first time I'd voted. I was in halls at uni and we went to a beer festival in the afternoon then bought some boxes of beer and had a big party watching it in the TV room. Had a great night tbh and it did feel like the start of a new era of some sort. Didn't quite work out like that though did it.

Wow. You're a bit younger than I thought.

My (aged 19), at uni experience was a bit different. 1983. Michael Foot, bless him. Thatcher landslide.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Wow. You're a bit younger than I thought.

Bit young to be a regular on the cricket threads?

 

[planetgeli]

I was 12.

And you.

I was only 10

FFS.

 

[planetgeli]

Bit young to be a regular on the cricket threads?

Basically, yes.

 

[moochedit]

97 was also when the Natural Law Party fielded candidates in most constituencies IIRC

I still have the flyer for this dude who was running in my then constituency. I have no idea what became of him.

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Didn't they get a party political broadcast?
Edit- yes..

 

[skyscraper101]

Didn't they get a party political broadcast?

Yes

 

[Silas Loom]

Yogic flying was oversold, it was merely yogic bouncing.

 

[moochedit]

Yes

You posted same time as me

 

[Elpenor]

Just watched the NLP, the guy looks like a mild mannered accountant who runs a scout troop at the weekend.

Wouldn't be surprised if the party also endorsed drinking your own piss as its natures medicine and doubt many of them had their Covid jab. What happened to them?

 

[krtek a houby]

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Undoubtedly Stephen Twigg's finest half second

Jack Nicholson and Nick Griffin blended

 

[DaveCinzano]

And you.



FFS.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Wouldn't be surprised if the party also endorsed drinking your own piss as its natures medicine

Well, Sarah Miles is 82 and it never did her any harm

 

[iona]

Whole thing pretty much passed me by at the time. All I really remember was some graphs showing either pre-election polling or actual voting results on Newsround and deciding I wanted the Lib Dems to win (I had no idea what any of the parties stood for) based on a childish sense of fairness and wanting to support the underdog plus being generally contrary and awkward. In my defence, I'd only just turned 5. (Sorry planetgeli )

First election I was old enough to vote in was 2010, which makes it hard to imagine ever feeling hopeful about an election result the way people sometimes apparently used to.

 

[Rimbaud]

I was 8 or 9 at the time, I remember my dad celebrating but I think I felt sorry for John Major for some reason. I think it was basically the first time I was aware that there were different political parties and that elections were a thing.

 

[Elpenor]

From the coverage, pretty much all the tributes made to Major call him a decent man (leading an awful party Pantsdown adds), and there was a general feeling of sympathy to him on a personal level as the euro sceptic wing had made life very hard for him for a few years; although compared to recent Tory soap operas it was fairly tame.

He took the defeat on the chin and after going to the palace famously went to the Oval to watch Surrey play cricket. Probably the first time he could relax for years.

I think he was entitled to take the PMs official car to the palace but then must leave in a government car, but instead travels to Buck House in a government car and sends the PMs car to Islington for Blair so he wasn’t a bad loser I suppose.

 

[PR1Berske]

I was seventeen

 

[Sue]

All the youngsters 'fessing up their youngness.

 

[belboid]

All the youngsters 'fessing up their youngness.

Worse than Boris bloody Johnson

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Just enjoying the fact that 45 is apparently 'young' here.

 

[nogojones]

Didn't they get a party political broadcast?
Edit- yes..

You know.... the world would probably be a better place now if these had pipped Blair to the post.

I'm older and stiffer now, but I reckon I could still get a couple of inches off the ground using yogic flying.

 

[Lurdan]

Just enjoying the fact that 45 is apparently 'young' here.

By that definition I was still young in '97

 

[moochedit]

I was 25 at the time which is obviously the correct age to have been all you younguns and old gits

Didn't stay up for it. Remember getting home late and my house mates were cheering (lived in a shared house at the time) but i was pissed and just wanted to go to bed