Election night 1997

[Harty]

With Hereford less than 48 hours away I was on tenterhooks but stayed up to watch the results coming in.

I had two children under 5 years of age, worked for someone else with a normal size mortgage, had a good life but like everyone wanted better for my family.

After some shut eye saw Craplan take Hove then watched Blair addressing the press, thought here was someone that could make it a better nation not just for my family but for everyone.

NSC'ers I ask you, where did it all go wrong?

 

[wigman]

With Hereford less than 48 hours away I was on tenterhooks but stayed up to watch the results coming in.

I had two children under 5 years of age, worked for someone else with a normal size mortgage, had a good life but like everyone wanted better for my family.

After some shut eye saw Craplan take Hove then watched Blair addressing the press, thought here was someone that could make it a better nation not just for my family but for everyone.

NSC'ers I ask you, where did it all go wrong?

When our bus left Chapmans for Hereford and got stuck in 2nd gear all the way to Boxhill.
Live hasnt been the same since!

 

[ryeseagull]

As I woke up the next morning, covered in vomit.

And then went to school to vote for myself as Head Boy. Still covered in vomit.

I won.

 

[simonsimon]

Was in the Hare @ Hounds in Worthing.

Thrown out and banned for being a labour supporter.

Landlord upset about impending Labour landslide.

Reinstated the next day due to landlords impending loss of profits.

True.

TORY ****

 

[Harty]

Was in the Hare @ Hounds in Worthing.

Thrown out and banned for being a labour supporter.

Landlord upset about impending Labour landslide.

Reinstated the next day due to landlords impending loss of profits.

True.

TORY ****

Would that landlord have been none other than Mr Tony Hills?

 

[simonsimon]

The one & only.

 

[Napper]

It didn't all go wrong. Its been very right but as with all thing political the mass's have turned and the press has brain washed the mass's.

It will all go full circle once the Torys been in for a while regardless of the job they do. It's what happens in this country.

Labour have sorted the country out and are steadying us in this world reccession.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Election Night 1997 felt just like a liberating army had rolled into town.

 

[Don Quixote]

Tony Blair best PM we've had in my lifetime.

 

[Silverhatch]

You had to have lived thru Tory sleaze and Maggie's crusade to have felt the euphoria of Tony's promise that "change" was coming. Sound familiar?

 

[Chicken Runner61]

I was so pleased that night that the tories were gone but both me and a mate said the next day that Blairs New Labour would continue mainly in Thatchers shoes and policies and real socialism was dead.

We were not wrong

 

[Colossal Squid]

I were just a schoolboy.

I remember most of the kids at school were uninterested BUT the head boy came in wearing a black armband. He got pummelled.

Everyone was singing Things Can Only Get Better just because it had been all over the telly and radio.

Despite my school being deep in one of the UK's safest Conservative seats there did seem to be a positive and uplifting sense that times were changing for the better. That may well have been because all the teachers paying off their student loans thought there might be a chance of them buying houses with the change in government. Obviously there wasn't

 

[Eastleigh Seagull]

Labour have sorted the country out and are steadying us in this world reccession.

I cant believe people still think this shit. We are the last of the major economies to get out of this recession, our economy contracted more than pretty much everyone elses, we have the one of the highest deficits in the world and the spending commitments Labour have made compared to tax income means that if each government department was a company then they would have all been declared bankrupt by now. Brown has just lost the plot.

And that comes from someone who worked in Millbank Tower in the 1997 election campaign

 

[Gwylan]

I was so pleased that night that the tories were gone but both me and a mate said the next day that Blairs New Labour would continue mainly in Thatchers shoes and policies and real socialism was dead.

We were not wrong

This.

I was at the opera on election night and felt a bit shielded from the goings-on. I walked over Waterloo bridge that evening and saw the Labour people arriving on the South Bank for the post-election party. I must say that I didn't feel like a new era beginning, it was like looking from pig to man and man to pig and not telling the difference.

I must admit staying up late and enjoying the discomfort of Mellor and Portillo though.

 

[Greyrun]

Felt disconnected from the euphoria as i knew it would all end in tears,never thought it would be this bad though.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I were just a schoolboy.

I remember most of the kids at school were uninterested BUT the head boy came in wearing a black armband. He got pummelled.

Everyone was singing Things Can Only Get Better just because it had been all over the telly and radio.

Despite my school being deep in one of the UK's safest Conservative seats there did seem to be a positive and uplifting sense that times were changing for the better. That may well have been because all the teachers paying off their student loans thought there might be a chance of them buying houses with the change in government. Obviously there wasn't

Head Boy? Pummelled? Wot wot!

 

[simmo]

With Hereford less than 48 hours away I was on tenterhooks but stayed up to watch the results coming in.

I had two children under 5 years of age, worked for someone else with a normal size mortgage, had a good life but like everyone wanted better for my family.

After some shut eye saw Craplan take Hove then watched Blair addressing the press, thought here was someone that could make it a better nation not just for my family but for everyone.

NSC'ers I ask you, where did it all go wrong?

I voted Labour that election and I really wanted them to win, but the reality of the situation has dawned on me since that whomever you vote in nothing really changes, the expectation was so great because we believe that politicians can actually make a real significant difference in our lives. They don't (in fact the only party that has a real significance in my life is the LD in respect of their position over Falmer and because of this I will NEVER vote for them again) in the end those in power become corrupted by it, abuse it and take the electorate for granted.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I voted Labour that election and I really wanted them to win, but the reality of the situation has dawned on me since that whomever you vote in nothing really changes, the expectation was so great because we believe that politicians can actually make a real significant difference in our lives. They don't (in fact the only party that has a real significance in my life is the LD in respect of their position over Falmer and because of this I will NEVER vote for them again) in the end those in power become corrupted by it, abuse it and take the electorate for granted.

I think Pete Townsend said it best "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, don't get fooled again !"

 

[BadFish]

does anyone remember a band playing in the pavilion gardens at some riduculous time in the morning? i remember walking home from a mates flat in st james street, hearing a big party and going to investigate. it's a bit hazy after that.

my memory from that period is very sketchy can anyone confirm or refute this occuring?

ta

 

[Barrel of Fun]

"Things can only get better"

Labour committed our troops to a war that will never be won. They have overspent. Crime continued to fall, but to a lesser extent than under the Tories. Many thousands of children are being produced through our schooling system without a basic grasp of literacy. We have wated billions on nothing.

Labour had it good for a while. They inherited a healthy economy, thanks to Ken Clarke and they blew it.