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Labour’s Lost Decade: Why They Just Keep Losing
Labour had three leaders in the last decade, each with their own vision for the party. So why did the country reject all three? What does this mean for Labour and can they expect to ever get back into Number 10 Downing Street?
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In this video we look at whether Andy Burnham get Labour back on track with regards to the housing crisis, and deliver what Starmer promised in his 2024 manifesto.
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Notes on Growth The Really Radical Policy in Labour’s Planning Rewrite
https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/the-really-radical-policy-in-labours
Gov UK NPPF
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a8334c03bd75b81e2329ac4/National_Planning_Policy_Framework.pdf
Gov UK Full Steam Ahead to Fast Track More Homes Near Stations
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/full-steam-ahead-to-fast-track-more-homes-near-stations
The Guardian Loosening of Planning Rules in England to Allow More New Homes Near Stations
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/17/loosening-planning-rules-england-more-homes-train-stations-rayner
Local Government Association National Planning Policy Framework Response
https://www.local.gov.uk/about/news/national-planning-policy-framework-lga-response
Independent Minister Admits New Homes Could Be Built on Green Belt
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/green-belt-grey-housing-building-labour-trains-b3034056.html
House of Commons Library Overview of the Planning System (England)
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10752/
Planoraks NPPF2026
https://www.planoraks.com/posts-1/nppf2026-welcome-to-the-future
Housing Today A Pretty Bold Swing – New NPPF
https://www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/a-pretty-bold-swing-new-nppf-ushers-in-an-era-of-permissive-nationally-led-planning-policy-but-could-be-scuppered-by-viability-crisis/5143747.article
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Since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister, Labour have risen significantly in the polls to overtake Reform, who’s fortunes have fallen alongside the Lib Dems and the Greens. So what’s behind this “Burnham Bounce”? And can he succeed where Starmer failed?
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We explain a little about the by-election itself, run through the results, and discuss where this leaves both Farage and Reform UK.
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In this video, we’re going to go through the scandals currently plaguing Reform UK, and explain the impact they’re having on the party.
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FT Reform Paid Tice Loan on Same Day as £1m Donated by Mother of Farage Aid Cottrell
https://www.ft.com/content/4abf8011-5570-4ad7-9170-fa655295070a
BBC News Police Investigate Donations by Tice Company to Reform UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yv4r5g55do
The Guardian Millions of Pounds and Many, Many Questions
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/08/untold-story-why-reform-figures-face-nca-scrutiny-nigel-farage
BBC News Reform UK’s Richard Tice Investigated by Parliamentary Standards Watchdog
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqe24qjgzdo
Reuters Reform UK Deputy Leader Tice Investigated by Parliamentary Watchdog
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-standards-watchdog-investigating-reform-uk-deputy-leader-tice-2026-08-03/
Bloomberg Reform UK Leaders Sue National Crime Agency Amid Donations Row
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-07/reform-uk-leaders-sue-national-crime-agency-amid-donations-row
ITV News Met Police Investigate Donations by Richard Tice Company
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-07-26/met-police-investigate-donations-by-richard-tice-company-to-reform-uk
Legislation UK PPERA 2000
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/41/section/61
YouGov Party Favourability Ratings July 2026
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/55307-party-favourability-ratings-july-2026
YouGov Support for Clacton By-Election
https://yougov.com/en-gb/daily-results/20260708-0098c-1
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@KK-cs6ou
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Hopefully NOT!!
@jonethomas3892
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Your voting in old red eyes Blair, he is running the show behind starmer.
@matthewrider5906
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
If not for the (New) Labour Party's 1st PM, & Chancellor of The Exchequer, Blair & Brown, respectively, hadn't supported George W. Bush's Iraqi War….
@navi2710
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Labour didn't win under Corbyn because part of the Labour Party was more interested in forcing Corbyn out instead of besting the Tories. I read more news about certain labour members constantly complaining about Corbyn.
@eewag1
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Rest in peace Alistair Darling
1953–2023
@jonson7079
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Labour can talk the truth why are you Tories lieing
@jonson7079
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Austerity means money for bankers
@public.public
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION NOW
@public.public
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
I still prefer Corbyn.
@martincheeseman5809
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
I don’t think the tories look after people like me my last job I was a prison officer working at Luton crown court
@martincheeseman5809
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Kier Starmer looks the best candidate
@martincheeseman5809
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Kier starmer
@martincheeseman5809
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
I will vote labour
@mylife2022
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
He's lost my vote after supporting the death and collective punishment of the Palestinian people. At the last count 53 people I know will not be voting for this spineless man,who with his recent comments is not fit to get our votes. The Green party is going to do very well at the upcoming election.
@Rowlph8888
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
British culture is built upon the idea of Personal rights and ambitions and private property, favouring calculated Risk-taking The Tories Have Successfully positioned themselves as the the Party of business and economy, despite 0 evidence of this.
The truth is the "Whig Party", Were in power for the whole time that Britain Rose to power and the Tories were Marginalised,, because they are incompetent with real business and Proved to be anti-innovation and Our aoMThe idea Of free-Market capitalism, Off The back Of marginalising the Monarch and enfranchising new Groups of people and pushing Forward industrialisation.
@oliverleonard7730
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
It's just as well the Tories are so good with the economy – Liz Truss oh well never mind.
@mafiablokes
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
I really want a Labour led government but I fucking despise Kier Starmer
@anonymousperson1771
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
All they had to do was stop immigration way back when during the Blair years and they'd probably have had a supermajority for most of the last 20 years.
@seamuspadraigsanders431
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Labour were on the TV this afternoon, and when asked about NHS spending they said "We will spend the current budget better than the conservatives" it took me a minute and then I remembered it was the very same policy of none other than Donald Trump. 😅
@rjmaxwell1963
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Not one of the current political parties are worthy of governing the UK. They all piss in the same pot, line their own pockets and not one of them gives a toss about the British people or the nation.
@marktaylor6491
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Different times, different reasons.
2010-15. Still recovering from the Blair years. A party bereft of purpose, ideas, or vision. The reluctant figurehead reflecting the one thing most in the party could agree on. New Labour couldn't be allowed back, under any circumstances. So the Party trundled on for five years, achieving close to nothing of consequence. But not quite. Twice ambushing the Tories, (Phone hacking and Syria), and once the Party Right (leadership election). But come 2015, and a Tory machine at the top of its game. There would only be one winner. If it was to have a legacy, it was (regardless of the inadverted nature of it all) to lay the groundwork for what came next.
2015-19. The question is, how long before we can have an honest discussion about what happened? Why it happened? The forces unleashed? What it really meant? And most importantly, how it posed to greatest threat yet seen to Thatcher's legacy. Hence once post June 2017, and after a short period of soul searching. The overwhelming forces leveled against it. For there can be no alternative. Low wages, high costs, poor public services, forever.
My guess is, a good long while. For as long as everyone who matters, and who wants to matter, relies upon the continuation of the socio-economic status quo. All efforts must be made to ensure it never happens again.
2020-now. Back to reality. The key moment came with the changing of the rules on the leadership election. With that, Labour was once more 'in house' and Johnson was 'surplus to requirements'. That forcefield of his went, and his time in office soon after. And after with a brief dalliance with Randism, it was back to the Cameronism. Which is brings us up to date, and the question of the day. Who will do Cameronism better, Starmer or Sunak? Considering the polls, I'd say the former.
But in all honesty, this is 'arranging the deckchairs' stuff. Neither party has any answers, save managed decline. The country gets poorer, more ignorant, and more divided. Whilst they, for keeping the right people rich, get their just rewards. Which is the only option open to us. There is no alternative. Low wages, high costs, poor public services, forever.
And God forbid should any of us suggest something else.
@jsan9389
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Let's be real labour wanted to de nuke us and can't even say what a women was for so long they are way to lefty snowflakes and would destroy proper British people life's .
@julieleah9913
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
I hope not Starmer is full of BS and spreads lies to get where he his 🙄
@knottybogeye6387
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
They keep losing because the 1 % control the UK ballot box, all this ballot box fraud is covered up by the BBC and sky news, the BBC and sky news are Tory controlled, sunak is a WEF puppet, the WEF will make sure sunak will win the next UK election, theres too much corruption in Tory government people from the wealthiest families only win elections,, but it's all a conspiracy. British people are easily manipulated. They believe what they are told to believe,
@robinmorris4540
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Communism should never have power in Britain,I would never vote for the traitorous left wing
@shaunryan-izzard8110
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
This feels very biased (though I grant this video is nearly a year old now).
I would agree to the reasons stated why Brown and even Milliband lost. However, Corbyn had two issues. The first (and arguably his biggest) was the Parlimentary Labour Party (PLP). Though the Corbynite polices were popular with the members (not only did he win two leadership contests with higher percentages that Blair, but he also presided over the largest increase in membership seen in decades) and was even showing traction with the electorate (the increase in share at 2017 is a good indicator there), the PLP were hell bent on removing him. This lead to a perception of weakness, which was compounded by the body of decanters pushing the Antisemitism narrative (to be clear, I dont see this as a conspiracy as such, but rather a convenient excuse to bring pressure to bare).
The second issue was that, after the party members decided to back the "Peoples Vote " campaign regarding Brexit, a campaign that the Lib Dems had already toxified beyond utility, the party tried an "Everything and the kitchen sink" policy approach.
@buckfuddy79
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Labour are just as bad as the Tories. We will never have any change while we stay on this Tory/Labour see-saw.
@babybear5001
December 19, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Labour's lost 5 decades. Yes there was a brief moment of tory b liar's New Labour. But the loss is the loss of the people. Oh well enjoy the yUK.