#old labour

[absurdlyvintage]

quite possibly the coolest thing ever, credit to politicsprincess on tiktok / @tonyblairwitchproject here and a great oomf on twitter. im obsessed. eeeeek

[yonderghostshistories]

Who is the Better Labour Tony B and why?

Tony Benn (The Good Tony B)

Tony Blair (The Bad Tony B)

Voting ended onAug 11, 2025

(this poll is for silly reasons btw <33)

(btw uhh if you wanna know what i think, I think Tony B(enn) is >>>>>>> than Tony B(lair), for the simple reason of BennBenn being a radical socialist who was also anti-war and also didn’t commit war crimes <33, unlike the Toe Nibbler lol)

[yonderghostshistories]

Cinematic Parallels

I mean if you think about it, the parallels make sense.

Cuz you got 2 Labour PMs (Harold Wilson/Tony Blair) who were fairly popular , charismatic and likeable to the public at the time, but who took too damn long to resign as PM due to various reasons (although in Harold Wilson’s case it’s more understandable cuz he had dementia, meanwhile Tony Blair’s case is not cuz, well, he’s a war criminal and a twat).

Once they *did* finally resigned, they left their best mates, both of whom were also Chancellor of the Exchequers (James Callaghan/Gordon Brown), to become PM, only to have their best mates have to endure their 3-year run as PM mostly dealing with chaos & shit in Britain during those 3 years (James Callaghan dealing with the Winter of Discontent in 1978-79; Gordon Brown dealing with the 2008 Financial Crisis), all of which was due to external factors and was beyond their control, and tbhf they both did their absolute best with dealing the situation.

Unfortunately, everyone kinda blamed them (JC/GB) for this mess, leading to the Tories to win in the next General Election of that year (Margaret Thatcher in 1979/David Cameron in 2010), leading to a long extended period of Tory Rule in Britain in which the mess that was there in the first place was just made even more damn worse by the Tories.

However, even though both JC & GB were kinda hated at the time, in later years both have been viewed fairly positively in retrospect, which has gotta be smth at least.

(oh and also, both Harold Wilson & James Callaghan’s relationship and Tony Blair & Gordon Brown’s relationship kinda had gay energy going on, soooo……yeah :)) )

Anyway, any thoughts on this guys? Do let me know in the tags/comments/reblogs people!!

[yonderghostshistories]

Yonder if you’re getting interested in that Nulab spin doctor, I’m legally obliged to try and get you into my girl Marcia, our OG special advisor. She worked for Harold Wilson and maybe maybe had an affair with him? We don’t know. She’s fun though

also I’m sorry for this ask, you got into lolitics and I really want to get people into things that aren’t the Blair years, I need people to talk to

Ooooohh, pray tell, tell me more about Marcia Williams (aka the OG female Alastair Campbell of the First Wilson Era) 👀👀??

I’m gonna be honest, I’m not *that* deep into the Lolitics fandom (as in, I don’t know much about the actual things going on, I’m mostly in it for the fun (and memes) lol, and also well Ali C is kinda fit too teehee 🤭) BUUUUUTTT-

However, honestly I would love to learn more about British Political History, both the past (pre-Thatcher) and present (post-Thatcher onwards) frfr!!!

Especially since I consider you to be the Certified Resident Old British Political History Expert™️ around here as far I know (at least on Tumblr lol), so I’d honestly be interested in your ramblings about it regardless tbh lol.

[yonderghostshistories]

Cinematic Parallels

(ifykyk)

[yonderghostshistories]

Ngl, a 1960s/70s version of “The Thick of It” would be pretty awesome nglll

Altho I think it’d be interesting if Malcolm Tucker was modelled after Marcia Williams (the special advisor to Harold Wilson) instead of Alastair Campbell (the special advisor to Tony Blair) considering that Marcia was apparently just as vulgar and sweary to the rest of her colleagues like Ali C is lol.

Femme!Malcolm Tucker perhaps?

Yes.

Do y’all see the vision?

[yonderghostshistories]

Which British PM do you think was done the dirtiest and why? (please give your reasons in the tags/comments/reblogs btw)

James Callaghan (left pic)

Gordon Brown (right pic)

Voting ended onSep 3, 2025

[iheartvelma]

Some more Tony Benn for y’all.