The 10 Most Embarrassing U-Turns in British Politics ukposts.info/have/v-deo/q3SlaYqLjXeHxp8.html

2:10 The best joke I ever heard about this was someone calling Theresa May "Thatcher in the Rye."

2:27 John Prescott was pressed by Tony Blair (the then Leader of thr Labour Party) what happened. To which Prescott replied: "I was only following your orders, Tony: you told us to connect with the electrorate, so I did!"

Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich was one of the funniest sagas in politics. He was such a wet blanket though.

Some of these “PR disasters” are really just a storm in a teacup. It really goes to show how thick, out of touch and desperate for a story the media really are. Take for example the “fields of wheat” and Milliband’s sandwich. No one can actually explain what’s embarrassing about either of them. Let’s just touch on Milliband, he ate a sandwich and pulled a funny face, which by the way we all do if photographed at the right moment. Does anyone really think this incident lost him votes!? I sincerely hope not! I mean imagine that thought process when going to the polling station-hmmm, I really like his policies and I think he has a lot of integrity and seems like a good family man, but the way he ate that sandwich was a bloody disgrace! I’m voting conservative!!

John Prescott punching the bloke wasn’t a PR disaster. In Hull, the city that elected him, he earned points for that. Well done, Sir!

I didn't see the prescott punch as a PR disaster

John Prescott went up in my estimation when he defended himself against the thug. It was just what you'd expect of a true-born Englishman.

I wish May had completely fronted the interviewer out and said something like ‘ the naughtiest thing? Possibly the cocaine fuelled, marathon 3 ways I used to engage in at Uni ‘ lol.

In fairness to Theresa May that's not such an easy question to answer. "Naughty" implies - when she was a young child, not a teenager. She couldn't say shoplifting or anything like that, so she quickly came up with something pretty harmless, and something that kids often do - trespassing. It was a terrible example she gave because it came across as boring. Had she said she hid on the local wheat fields when she was supposed to be doing cross country run at school then everyone would have nodded in approval.

The problem with Ed Miliband is that he's not David Miliband.

Cummings was not forced to resign, he was forced to resign 6 months later in a separate issue.

To be fair to Prescot, he thought he might have been knifed. The guy came at him from his side, there was a contact and the next thing he knew there was warm liquid running down this neck. It was a fight or flight response and I think his reaction was justified.

I can't look at The Mound without seeing Bob-Omb battlefield from Mario 64

The only two which was a disaster was disaster was Gordon Brown calling the woman a bigot and Dominic Cummings seemingly breaking the law.

Prescott went up in my estimations when he punched the egg thrower.

I hate when people put gate after everything. People in other countries do know it was only called that cause the event took place at the Watergate hotel. Just adding gate to every scandal is just nonsensical.

The Prescott incident WAS NOT a disaster whatsoever 😳

4:48 how is this a PR disaster. Kier starmer saying that a diseased animal should be down?

I guess we're just ignoring Prince Andrews defence interview?

Edwina Currie and her comment that all eggs were contaminated with salmonella. Egg sales crashed, and so did her career.

This list is why I prefer British politics, rather than our politics in the USA

What about Diane Abbott forgetting to count?

Who left his daughter behind in a pub? Cameron.

Should do a list of the top worst things Prince Phillip ever said:- “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession). “You are a woman, aren’t you?” (in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman). “If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China). “You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got pot belly” (to a Briton he met in Hungary). “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands). “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor). “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh). “Still throwing spears?” (question put to an Aboriginal Australian during a visit). “There’s a lot of your family in tonight” (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians). “The Philippines must be half-empty as you’re all here running the NHS” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital). Oh yes and wasn't there one saying when he died he wanted to come back as a deadly virus? Yeah good one Phil.

Nothing about David Cameron leaving his child in a pub ??

Peter Bottomley has just said MP need more pay, after his party just stole £20 a week, off the poorest people in the country.

What about Theresa May's coughing speech? 😁

Now they have vans saying “come back” and “fix me sink”

I respect prescott for punching the guy

Surely the infamous "Ed Stone" should be on here?

Number 4 shouldn’t count because it wasn’t planned by him. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time & people really need to look back on why struggling to eat bacon is an apparent violation of becoming a PM.

The Russian Assassins lies were more convincing then anything Dominic Cummings said that day

You missed a classic from the 90's - Neil Kinnock's infamous US style campaign rally at the Labour conference in Sheffield 'we're all right!'.

Theresa May did make a mistake she should’ve got up and danced to style it out 😂😂😂😂

Bigotgate, what a complete non- event!

"Go home or face arrest" was almost a moment of hope for sad, lost England.

Dominic Cummings: Goes to Barnard Castle for an eye test Me: Goes to Barnard Castle to say I've driven on the A67!

Gonna be really honest...David Cameron's response by eating a hot dog with a knife and fork kinda put me off him xD

I like the Mound 😆

I dont understand the field of wheat furore? Surely it's the lamest "naughty" thing imaginable. Or is that the point?

The mound is the worst, the council decided to build that then feed hungry kids in the area. Didn’t even bother setting up food banks for people

Surprised the Ed Stone didn't get a mention

Geronmo was actually 2021 not 2020

That alpaca crap was a load of hot air

You missed Bojo saying that Mrs Ratcliffe was educating journalists, sadly it cost her more jail time

I kinda respect Prescott for punching that dude.

The mound, I WILL be going there!

Miliband: if it looks like a muppet, talks like a muppet, and acts like a muppet - it’s a muppet.

We would appear to have the politicians that we deserve.

Love how there is fuck all about Boris Johnson in this list

I think John Prescott decking the egger was 50/50 with the voters. It was "uncivilized" but earned a degree of respect.

I liked John Prescot more for connecting with the electorate

Prescott is a bad as the rest of the bent politicians but I do t blame him for hitting back that day.He did what anybody body with a pair would have done.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Yes

As an American, this entire list seems so tame, after witnessing four long ass years of Dongle Troomp. . .

What about Theresa May walking that was 🤣

It's worrying that all of these bar 1 has happened in my life time and I'm still in my 20s. The state of British politics/ politicians. Though I must admit, there are some really bad ones that this video misses. Maybe the people who made it are young too. But I would have thought Chamberlain's Munich Agreement would be up there, as would the Suez Canal crisis and the Profumo Affair

Replace Prescotts little incident with the Ed Stone

Prescott did a lunge that wouldn't have hurt a child, and the bloke was on him and had to be dragged off him. Prescott was getting a beating.

the fact that tories sending out vans telling immigrants to go home or be arrested ranked slightly below Ed Milliband making a weird face while eating sandwich really does say a lot about British political coverage doesn't it?

Just imagine how chaotic this country would have been under a messy bacon-sandwich-eater...

That dude Attack Prescott first. You don't toss eggs at someone and not expect to get punched.

I love that most of these happened within the last 10 years.

You forgot about the infamous Ed Stone!

Apparently British political PR disasters only go back as far as 1986

John Prescott, the madman

7:56 - Cummings didn’t resign because of this….

I would have put chamberlains policy of appeasement high up there. I’m guessing it’s a modern look.

When they put that Alpaca down, they mishandled it. He was almost suffocated by the way they lead him to the place they were using and we still don't know whether he had TB or not.

Where's Camerons "hug a hoodie"?

5:00 Update: it turns out that Geronimo the Alpaca did not have any signs of Bovine TB in his autopsy!

What would have been a good answer to the "naughtiest thing you've ever done question?

Hr, sir Norman fry little Britain sketches

Title should be amended to read "...in the last 25 years". Has the author not heard of Jeremy Thorpe, John Amery or the Profumo affair?

You mean stuff that worse than 'Fuck Off Back to Eton'? I'm an American and that was one of the funniest and most 'British' political moments ever....

I got a mound .. and it’s free

Where are the disasters?!

honest respect Prescott for this

"Bigoted woman" sealed Labour's fate for a good while

still angry about Geronimo

Number 10: been there and seen it, most atrocious thing I’ve come across and a total time waste 🤢🤢

To be fair to Theresa May she was a teenager at the time and as far as teenagers go it's quite droll by comparison. Back when I was at school I had friends who got up stuff that I can't discuss at risk of this video getting de-monitised.

Sadiq Khan Did The PR Stunt The Mound

I'm watching like 'if piggate isn't no.1 this is rigged'.

The UK will need those go home Vans again. 😂😂😂😂😂

Fair play to Prescott that feller deserved one.......

This could be updated nows with at least three of BoJo's specials don'tcha think? Hint: Fridge, Iran, Party

telling someone who is in a country illegally to go home in not a hate crime. It happens everywhere in the world and immigration detention centres especially in some south eastern Asian countries are full of British and common wealth citizens who didn't go home when they should have. This self loathing western wokeness is poisonous.

No.1. Boris Johnson

john "two jab's" prescott

I Saw The John Prescott Egg Incident In 1990

Best thing Prescott ever did, PR wise

Boris Johnson should be in each number of the scandals

No one remembers Profumo.

Prescott didn't floor anyone. Looked like the other guy would have floored him had security not got involved. Understand his reaction though.

No Ed stone?

You forgot to mention the fact that the pig in Black Mirror was alive during the intercourse.

8 is a pr win

Where's Peppa Pig?