@@Trekfanwanda Thank god. The lettuce has wilted and stunk something wild.
@ComradeCatpurrnicus
3 ай бұрын
@@jameskilgusii6967 Off he goes on his pennyfarthing Victorian bicycle...
@et34t34fdf
3 ай бұрын
She is probably happy, she can commit fully to what she really wants to do, griftin' in the US.
@trashsombra4411
3 ай бұрын
Liz cabbage
@AdamtheRed-
3 ай бұрын
It's amazing that Nigel Farage hasnt been run out of the country for being the figurhead of brexit.
@Isaiah.2003
3 ай бұрын
That’s what happens with austerity politics and neoliberalism. MMW.. Reform will be a force to be reckoned with in the coming decades.
@deanlowdon8381
3 ай бұрын
He was briefly whilst he cuddled up to Trump, but he’s wormed his way back in.
@Mark5mith
3 ай бұрын
Farage is doing what the other European countries are, scaring people with immigrants for a right shift, 4 million votes they got, yeah we have gullible people here too🏴
@Shadowman4710
3 ай бұрын
He's going to wind up as the head of the new merged Reform/Conservative party in 5 years.
@AdamtheRed-
3 ай бұрын
@@Shadowman4710 I doubt that.
@mr.ashenfire2624
3 ай бұрын
Nigel Farage has a seat. Fucks sake.
@jonmel
3 ай бұрын
Yeah drinking some of my anger away At the moment at he and other 4 reform mps have won
@coffeebuzzz
3 ай бұрын
@@jonmel Give it a couple of weeks for the scandals to emerge.
@evangeloevoxi
3 ай бұрын
@@jonmel As an American I understand your pain... Just try to stay safe and hydrated if you have to drink alcohol. A friendly reminder. 💜💙💚
@richardvernon317
3 ай бұрын
@@jonmel Have you ever been to those 5 area's??? I have!!! They are Shitholes.
@Darkstarr-ud2go
3 ай бұрын
Idiots … a town crushed by Brexit votes for the turd who lied to make it happen and he doesn’t even live there …. How thick do you have to be ???
@katyungodly
3 ай бұрын
Hopefully Brits see what's happening in the US being dragged into a far right theocracy and think "oh hell no" haha
@sophiepooks2174
3 ай бұрын
Sadly the new guy has absolutely no principles and what used to be 'Labor' are now just Tories lite.
@sharonhines3476
3 ай бұрын
Most of Europe is pretty secular. They are usually puzzled by our zealots here in the U.S. The Europeans I knew actually laughed at our fake puritanical nonsense. Unfortunately it's not so funny now.
@runrafarunthebestintheworld
3 ай бұрын
@@sophiepooks2174Yep unfornately I've been following British politics closely since Brexit and the Labour Party is also pretty bad on policy they are the like corperate democrats.
@theoclutterbuck
3 ай бұрын
We just elected our own Biden, sans dementia. We're a step behind the US, France, and Germany. And his majority is so large there's nothing we can do to stop him from making the same mistakes. It's also built on quicksand and a really thin voter base, so that's great, because it makes the far right surge at the next election even more dangerous.
@ethanstump
2 ай бұрын
as a 29M red state atheist, this is going to sound a bit counter-intuitive, but there's usually blow-back after a large change. a good third of 20 somethings answer polls as undecided when it comes to religion. that's 33 percent who claim no religion in particular. add the "cultural" Christians, the "just here for the buffet" and the "i like choir in public" Christians, and that's a good half of all young folks as at least ambivalent rather than fully engaged. that's why the old heads have to drag us back. all of us know that things are going to change radically in the decades to come, just like what happened in europe, which is why they are going straight franco.
@deelaw.
3 ай бұрын
I voted for the Green Party I just couldn't vote Labour at all.
@dalek604
3 ай бұрын
Same
@syleshwhycantileavethisbla802
3 ай бұрын
Same
@rosehollington6300
3 ай бұрын
The same as well.
@RichO1701e
3 ай бұрын
Same
@coachelly86
3 ай бұрын
How come?
@user-em6ie2be7x
3 ай бұрын
Keir Starmer wasn't The UK's Best Choice but after 14 years of Horrible Tories, anything is better at this point.
@robertsimpson8292
3 ай бұрын
Well buckle up, when Labour party inevitably continue Austerity. The Reform party (uk fascist party) will take control of the government in 2029
@relaxlibrary4249
3 ай бұрын
I dunno. Going centrist in an attempt to stave off the far-right doesn't seem to end well.
@garrett2439
3 ай бұрын
Starmer's policies are literally not better than that of the Tories, though.
@user-em6ie2be7x
3 ай бұрын
@@garrett2439 He basically a British Joe Biden.
@JC-ce1ks
3 ай бұрын
Nah
@gingergreek
3 ай бұрын
Reform ended up with 5 seats sadly. Pro-Palestine Independents got 6 which is great
@tylerhackner9731
3 ай бұрын
Happy for Jeremy corbyn
@Shsjier
3 ай бұрын
There was a few seats where independents beat labour, largely because of voters concerned with labour's stance on gaza and israel. Andrew Feinstein for example
@garrett2439
3 ай бұрын
@@Shsjier Andrew Feinstein lost.....
@Shsjier
3 ай бұрын
@@garrett2439 oh yeah he was running against starmer. There was 3 or 4 though cant remember the names
@jewiesnew3786
3 ай бұрын
I would be jubilant if he was the Labor head now.
@alexnorth3393
3 ай бұрын
Corbyn shattered Labour. Thank God he is no longer in charge.
@Cool_Calm_Cam
3 ай бұрын
So, tl;dw Labour didn't win so much as Conservatives (and fascists) lost.
@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu
3 ай бұрын
The pseudo-fascist faction are going to end up with the whip hand over the Tories, though. The moderate conservatives will have no choice but to surrender it because they can't win by being at odds with the extremists. It's basically the same dynamic Canada had when Reform split off and then ended up absorbing the previously moderate PC party as the subservient junior partner. I expect Farage will speed-run that process and win within 1 to 2 more election cycles, depending on how fast Starmer alienates people.
@Khazuki_
3 ай бұрын
debatable that the fascists lost, Reform gained seats, and the Tories that kept their seats were generally the more right wing ones.
@Shadowman4710
3 ай бұрын
Well that's how it works in most "Liberal" democracies these days.
@Shadowman4710
3 ай бұрын
@@Khazuki_ The Tories lost. The fascists won...but so did the Center Left in a way since the Greens picked up 3 seats and Corbyn kept his...which means Labour lost it.
@gillianinoz
3 ай бұрын
That’s every election everywhere.
@FRGGL
3 ай бұрын
Happy for the Greens, Corbyn and the other independents!
@joe94c
3 ай бұрын
As a brit, i cant tell yoh how happy i am. Do i like the state of labour? No, too centrist. Do they have policies i like? Yes. And thats an improvement
@Isaiah.2003
3 ай бұрын
As an American, I hate that our countries are ostensibly the pillars of civilization and democracy in the world and yet we’re stuck with unending neoliberal hyper capitalist rule. Ugh..
@AwkwardPain
3 ай бұрын
Other than his stance on the LGBTQ community moving back to the stone ages and him wanting to deport more people than the conservatives... it sounds like a grand time.
@cassiusdhami9215
3 ай бұрын
That just means you're a reasonable human being @@Isaiah.2003. 👍🏾🎯🧠💯👏🏾
@garrett2439
3 ай бұрын
Labour aren't even centrist anymore. They are actively right wing. Which policies do you like? The anti-immigration ones or the anti-trans ones?
@joe94c
3 ай бұрын
@garrett2439 nationalised energy. Nationalised rail. Student loans reform. Investment in green energy. Increased minimum wage. Reforming non dom status of wealthy people. 300,000 new homes built. This is just some of them. I don't like labour in its current form. But let's not throw baby out with the bath water
@jasonpdsi
3 ай бұрын
This makes our two party system look like kindergarten.
@NoJusticeMTG
3 ай бұрын
West Streeting almost lost a pro-Gaza independent, only winning by 1%. A real nailbiter and would have topped off an insurgent campaign for peace and justice (and possibly even have saved the NHS)
@RichO1701e
3 ай бұрын
*Weasel Wes Streeting
@jamieashton3835
3 ай бұрын
A lot of people didn't vote because the polls were saying Labour would win but yes we still have a lot of horrible racists in England no tories in wales
@Virjunior01
3 ай бұрын
I mean... that's been England biggest export for centuries...
@JasonAtlas
3 ай бұрын
@@Virjunior01 It does feel that was sometimes for sure.
@Virjunior01
3 ай бұрын
@@JasonAtlas if you aren't British, it is sheer fact, and we ALL know it
@TihetrisWeathersby
3 ай бұрын
The Tories hit their salad tossed
@fraliexb
3 ай бұрын
If trump wins the Whitehouse i might need to move to the UK for political asylum
@garrett2439
3 ай бұрын
I'm guessing you're not trans?
@erichskrika4041
3 ай бұрын
See ya
@nickjanczak9665
3 ай бұрын
I'll summarise what happened. It's like there was a race and there were 6 runners, 5 of whom were one-legged with a bad limp and the 6th who had both legs but was suffering from rickets won.
@ncedovilakazi1985
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@cassiusdhami9215
3 ай бұрын
👍🏾😆😅😂🤣👏🏾
@spicymemes7458
3 ай бұрын
Its Kier Starmer's Labour Party, not Jeremy Corbyn's. Thats like thinking you get Bernie Sanders voting for Barack Obama. There is a difference.
@OvercookedOctopusFeet
3 ай бұрын
You are correct. This channel needs correcting on so many things. Poor work here.
@MattCorrales
3 ай бұрын
He did clarify labor is now center right, like the us Dem party under genocide Biden.
@cassiusdhami9215
3 ай бұрын
When did they say otherwise @OvercookedOctopusFeet ? Didn't see that part. Go watch a source you think is credible. Coming here to whine that it's a "bad channel" makes you look pathetic. #L #F #zero #seekattentionelsewhere
@johnned2114
3 ай бұрын
Did you watch the video?@@OvercookedOctopusFeet
@thelogan4641
3 ай бұрын
He mentioned Corbyn, but only that he won as an independent after being forced out for caring about people, wtf did you watch?!
@GodsonSublime
3 ай бұрын
🤬 Labour. Anyway Congratulations Corbyn!
@TheJesselopez1981
3 ай бұрын
For those who are sick of both sides and dont know where to go, organize. Unionize your workplaces. Join or support established unions. Consolidate or voices on issues that actually matter and make them earn your vote.
@Akutabai5
3 ай бұрын
Center right labour party is a depressing sentence even if it's correct
@shivtaan5072
2 ай бұрын
Which it isn't...
@mariettawilson9256
3 ай бұрын
Well, I’m always for the workers and labor.
@ElfieBrown-i6s
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for covering our election, David. ❤
@Zizou_77
3 ай бұрын
As a Brit myself, who voted Labour, I always thought they were centre left *not* centre right. Though I’ve been consumed by US politics for a while, maybe I didn’t notice the shift in recent years? Historically, they’ve always been centre left, made up of trade unionists, social democrats, and democratic socialists.
@bishopbling4115
3 ай бұрын
To progressives the mainstream left party is always never sufficiently left-wing for them.
@marlonlo9661
3 ай бұрын
In terms of wanting war, they are on the right.
@Synodalian
3 ай бұрын
@@marlonlo9661 Where?
@OvercookedOctopusFeet
3 ай бұрын
You are correct. This channel is providing some very poorly researched info.
@martymoose8304
3 ай бұрын
Please watch Al Jazeeras Labour Files documenting the scheme to oust Corbin and push Labour to the right.
@seand1011
3 ай бұрын
Nigel Farage is why the UK had Brexit, right? How are they doing now?
@deanlowdon8381
3 ай бұрын
He’s partly responsible. Brexit has pretty much been the disaster anyone with half a brain knew it would be, but like any grifter Farage doesn’t take any responsibility for that.
@syleshwhycantileavethisbla802
3 ай бұрын
You underestimate the stubborness of the British people to admit when they screwed up.
@CloneDaddy
3 ай бұрын
@@syleshwhycantileavethisbla802 "Brexiteers", mate. *Brexiteers* still won't accept it, even though the architects of the plan have all stood up by now and denounced it as a failure.
@Glasma
3 ай бұрын
I swear he's the MTG of the UK
@syleshwhycantileavethisbla802
3 ай бұрын
@@CloneDaddy Well yeah, but I've been here 37 years and it's not a one side thing. Brits are stubborn af, and I'm including myself in that 😆
@Tyrgalon
3 ай бұрын
The smear campaigns against Corbyn from most of the british press (wich is owned by rich people) was disgusting.
@richardvernon317
3 ай бұрын
Nope. 50% of what comes out of Corbyn's mouth is Bullshit, and very dangerous bullshit at that!! I heard him do a speech at a Rally once and it was quite obvious that on a lot of subjects he really didn't know how the real world works.
@weezersthebluealbum9479
3 ай бұрын
Also important to point out that Sinn Féin won the most seats in the North of Ireland, making them the biggest party at local, national and at Westminster. Meanwhile the DUP lost three seats and almost lost another three.
@I_Evo
3 ай бұрын
Except it doesn't matter because SF wont take their seats at Westminster.
@ethanstump
2 ай бұрын
@@I_Evo if your part of the "brad sucks and i won't hang out with him" party, it kinda would be weird to attend the same party that you know brad's going to be at. the whole point of dissent, is to not consent. personally i would be more mad if they broke their policy. and i live in the US!
@kerstonhuston540
3 ай бұрын
Excellent coverage David
@gm9460
3 ай бұрын
It’s abysmal coverage. He doesn’t know anything about U.K. politics and all his sources are from fringe left wing Twitter accounts. He doesn’t even know that the Labour Party is centre left ffs
@kekwayblaze3176
3 ай бұрын
The Conservative Party of Canada better take notes of what happened in the U.K. Doubling down on hate, bigotry didn't go as well as the Tories in the U.K. thought it would.
@DougGrinbergs
3 ай бұрын
10:35 hoping Labour restores NHS funding, mends reputational damage
@maxtornogood
3 ай бұрын
Don't know how much a difference this will make!
@rosestone5091
3 ай бұрын
I guess around the world people are AGAINST parties as opposed to having someone they like to vote FOR!
@volk4523
3 ай бұрын
Still, great showing for Lib Dems! Hopefully they crush more seats in the next election.
@dty1207
3 ай бұрын
Lib Dems are to the right of Labour and they propped up the very first conservative government 😂
@talithamac
2 ай бұрын
Don't forget the implosion of the SNP--that was definitely a factor as SNP took a lot of the Labour seats in Scotland in previous elections.
@jujitsujew23
3 ай бұрын
the reason the greens aren't being talked about is because A, they didn't take away votes from the Tories and B, they don't have a known figurehead as famous as Nigel Farage. I wish the Greens did have someone who could get as much attention as Farage
@Ghengiskhansmum
3 ай бұрын
Farage gets the media attention because the BBC, Sky and the press actually promoted financed and produced him for nearly 30yrs. He's a product not a true politician.
@processlayer1212
3 ай бұрын
2 of the seats they won were actually from large Tory to Green swings.
@jujitsujew23
3 ай бұрын
@@processlayer1212 That has little to nothing to do with my point. My point is that they didn't divide the Tory vote like Reform did. I guarantee the vast majority of Green voters in those two seats have never voted Tory. This election only had a 60% turnout so many Tory voters either voted Labour, voted Reform, or didn't vote. The Greens one those two seats because they saw an opportunity to bring in people who are left leaning, which Tory voters are not. Do you get it?
@processlayer1212
3 ай бұрын
@@jujitsujew23 Turnout was about the same in the two ridings. There wouldn't have been enough Labour and Lib Dem voters to overturn 60%+ Tory seats without a significant Tory swing. They are Waveney Valley and North Herefordshire. Such voters are possible with the right playing cards.
@jujitsujew23
3 ай бұрын
@@processlayer1212 unless you somehow have direct evidence I don’t believe Tory voters started suddenly voting Green
@saranrathakrish8468
3 ай бұрын
The UK has the same first past the post system as Canada
@Cool_Calm_Cam
3 ай бұрын
And the USA. Maximum cringe.
@garrett2439
3 ай бұрын
Maybe the reason you still have FPTP is that whenever people from countries with proportional representation try to give you advice about how to get it for yourselves, you shout us down, handwave us away or simply ignore us entirely?
@sunseeker9581
3 ай бұрын
@@garrett2439 australias ranked system is better. We dont want to give farage loads of seats.
@TheDragonWhimsy
3 ай бұрын
@@sunseeker9581 But it isn't better... because you are still governed by either a far right party, or a center right party depending on who is currently in power at the time. Just like the UK and the US. On paper you should be in a better position but you are not. You're still in exactly the same position. Everyone makes fun of the two party system in the US and yet every parliamentary system also has two parties that are clearly the dominant parties with other small parties that don't matter in the least except in how they can take away votes from one of the two dominant parties. The left focuses too much on ranked choice voting as if it will change anything. But we can clearly see that it does not. You have to get lobbyist money out of politics or nothing else matters, no many how many parties you have in an election.
@winesap2
3 ай бұрын
So the party with 4 seats is threatening the one that got more than 100 times as many seats.
@samstone4320
3 ай бұрын
Blue Zionazis out Red Zionazis in. Zionazis and Benjamin Netanyatu still win 😂😂😂
@Mellowcanuck33
3 ай бұрын
First past the post really does suck.
@dalek604
3 ай бұрын
The First past the post system is messed up.
@alfredk471
3 ай бұрын
There is only one voice of reason in British (and American) party politics and that is the Green Party.
@peterboyd7149
3 ай бұрын
The Green party went from 1 MP to 4 MPs. The Liberal Democrats had there best election in over a century. Reform get most headlines because they help sink the conservatives but they still only have 4 MPs. If the conservatives keep chasing Far Right Reform voters they could be in the wilderness for decades. The average age of conservative voters is 70. If they don't realise chasing the Far Right is weakness it could a long time before conservatives are in government.
@betabenja
3 ай бұрын
even if the reform party did not exist, they would still have lost
@randomdisplayname
3 ай бұрын
Look at the votes. Comparing green and reform is one thing. Reform actually got 5 seats in the end. With just over 4m votes. The liberal democrats got 74 seats from 3.5m votes.
@erinmac4750
3 ай бұрын
Thank you, David! Although Starmer isn't rhe Labour leader i would've wanted, it's a move in the right direction. I'll take that as a positive in today's crazy politics. But, i can't believe how the media is puffing up Farage. I didn't realize they only won 4 seats! C'mon Brits, let's keep it that way! 💜✊🏴🇵🇸🍀
@ethanstump
2 ай бұрын
a villain is always needed for a "night in shining armor". but the fact that night in shining armor is overweight, old, has a temper, and seems to dislike everything you do, never seems to cross their mind.
@Spartisanhack
3 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, the only thing I see is that the donor class decided they needed to release some tension.
@lilmsgs
3 ай бұрын
ugh, bummer to hear that tories lost bc reform party split the right. Labour does have the opportunity to build popularity with good legislation
@1monki
3 ай бұрын
- "Change begins now! But rest assured that this is the change that doesn't change anything."
@Antonio-yg7io
3 ай бұрын
“We’re coming for Labour”?! Nigel Farage went after Labour in 2019 with the Brexit party. He’s been going after them. Not that he’ll need to. A few years of Starmerism will give Labour all the electability of John Delaney
@ethanstump
2 ай бұрын
"rabid dog comes after a kid" is a funner line for the press than "sick chihuahua barks at teenager".
@abeblaine3633
3 ай бұрын
Your political analysis is 💯% correct!
@MattCorrales
3 ай бұрын
Five independent anti-war voices, plus the four Green MPs who ran on an anti-war platform. That’s more than twice reform. :)
@vickiclee9332
3 ай бұрын
David should look into how the Reform 'party' is constructed
@joylloyd6636
3 ай бұрын
Oh David, I'm from the UK, you have not let me down. Your analysis is spot on. I wish the British MSM would reflect your conclusions. Even the british broadcasters I follow on KZitem have not summed it up as precisely as you have done. They have all been a great disappointment. I've followed you for a long time for your excellent USA political analysis. You've given me a little hope for the future. Unfortunately, Reform won a fifth seat very unexpectedly late in the day. They are going to wreak havoc in parliament during the next session. Farage is poison but very persuasive to a very small section of the population, who have no critical thinking skills and are mostly racist/ignorant. He'll strive to move the Conservatives further to the right. It's going to get even more nasty,
@gillianinoz
3 ай бұрын
Australia -also run by a Labor government right now - also reported a “landslide victory’ by Labour in the UK. Thanks for shining a light on this spin.
@streetcar6080
3 ай бұрын
Starmer is a Torie wannabe.
@mariemabed
3 ай бұрын
The Guardian headline about about Jeremy Corbyn's victory, a "surprise" win. What?
@Paul-gh6ng
3 ай бұрын
Update: There were 2 seats outstanding. 1 went to Reform so they now have 5 MPs
@jonmel
3 ай бұрын
Yep that last one was preventable
@stma05
3 ай бұрын
Even though Ian Duncan Smith won his seat, Faiza Shaheen lost to labour by 79 votes! 79!! I’m incredibly proud of her for running as an independent and will 100% blame labour for losing this seat
@MrProng999
3 ай бұрын
I hope this doesn't turn into another Alberta-like situation
@jean-lucpicard5510
2 ай бұрын
Client media "Reform are the threat, beware" Green party "And what am I, Advacado toast?"
@ethanstump
2 ай бұрын
we are the chia seeds. unassuming, incredibly powerful, but ignored by the majority. personally, i know i'm getting old once they start talking about us. i hope that day never comes, but i know it will.
@jean-lucpicard5510
2 ай бұрын
@@ethanstump Must be a bot because that is unintelligible.
@ethanstump
2 ай бұрын
@@jean-lucpicard5510 great that mean's i'm a "creative". all without going to art school, being apprenticed to a sculptor, or learning how to code. to translate, we don't even enter their field of vision, which tends to mean that in the game of baseball, we can steal more bases than they can. to dumb it down even further, they are unaware of our growing power to even demonize us. it's when they start to demonize us, that's when you know we've jumped the shark, and are now so out of touch we are the subject's of the mainstream media.
@Homer4prez
3 ай бұрын
What, the UK doesn't have gerrymandering?
@bethanduke2566
3 ай бұрын
You only need to look at the break down of my town in England, it's called dudley North and yes we turned back to labour but when you look at the breakdown of the results you realise there was two right wing party's that if one side dropped out it would have been a right wing town. That would be awful to say the least.
@richardvernon317
3 ай бұрын
My Home Town (Bishops Stortford, one third of the towns of the Hertford and Stortford Constituency) got their first Labour MP in the history of the constituency (and its predecessors) ever yesterday. Thanks Reform and the Lib Dems that voted Tactical!!
@daniellanctot6548
3 ай бұрын
*_Great Job breaking the numbers down, David! But i think what this shows m ost of all is that the UK's election system, like many other democracies in the world today, is not proportionally adequate to represent the will of the people: If Labour can win such an overwhelming number of seats while getting 3 Million less votes than in 2017, finishing far behind the Conservatives with nearly a hundred seats less than them, but this year ending up with nearly three hundred seats MORE than the Conservatives (!??) ... Well, if anyone can claim that that system is a fair and equitable model of democracy: I would love to hear their arguments in favor of that!_* *_To be clear, I am not at all sad to see the Conservative get the beat down they deserved, but clearly that system of electing representatives is incredibly deficient and one has to even wonder if the Conservative really would have won the elections for the previous 14 years had the system been properly reformed._* *_I think this should be a wake-up call to all democracies that they need to reevaluate and change these archaic ways of choosing representatives and come up with a more fair and balanced way to distribute power amongst the parties!_*
@Adamo99
3 ай бұрын
Surely you mean the Labour Party is centre left.
@rachel.mcgowan
2 ай бұрын
Yes, calling them centre-right is almost as absurd as those Tory supporters who still insist the Tories are centre-right. The UK no longer has a mainstream centre-right party.
@MJH1703
3 ай бұрын
Starmer won't fix any of Britain's problems therefore people's lives won't improve and labour will decline. The same thing happened during the new labour years but this time the decline will much faster for two reasons 1) Starmer is a weak and Incompetent leader 2) The country is in a much worse state now then in 1997.
@ethanstump
2 ай бұрын
while i love your optimism, i'm not so sure new labour was as strong as it was made out to be. as for the country being in a worse state, is there a drop in the number of bike lanes since 1997? personally i'm pretty much over collapse politics, most transitions look like collapses in the short term.
@martincook1412
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for you're summary and analysis. For someone who claims not to follow UK politics too closely you're analysis was better than most. I'd like to pick up on 3 points. 1) You describe the Labour Party as centre right.. I think this is correct. In the UK most people view them as a left wing party, which is just not the case any more (not in the parliamentary party anyway). 2) You point out that the Labour party received half a million more votes in 2019, and over 2.5 million more votes (I think) in 2017. This is an important fact to point out, and you are the only pundit I have seen to have done it. 3) You showed a pundit in the UK pointing out how if all the Reform voters would have voted Conservative there may have been a very different result. I think this is a red herring. Many of those people would have not voted, and I think a significant number would have voted Labour anyway.
@bigrob1887
3 ай бұрын
still won't be enough to recover from brexit
@tamdsms
3 ай бұрын
I heard on DDN Double Down News, Keir Starmer is just as much of a sell-out to the influential & affluent, as the previously recent PMs. He's about as interested in Labor's interests as a snake is in vegetarianism.
@richardvernon317
3 ай бұрын
Bullshit. He comes from the same Background as myself. Son of a Toolmaker who ran his own small firm.
@ethanstump
2 ай бұрын
@@richardvernon317 brother, your tattling on yourself. the petit bourgeois have been labeled as part of the affluent since the time of marx. your basically doing the "i can't be racist, i fuck israelis" of classism. no one who isn't affluent "run's their own firm", and being a nepo-baby just twists the knife further. their are levels, of which most people who are privileged don't even look at the levels below as valid. please at least acknowledge your luck, and the randomness of birth.
@omnipotent_arcanis
3 ай бұрын
Reminds me of Jean Chrétien winning in 93, 97 and 00. By being the default when the right is split getting majorities.
@dmercury292
3 ай бұрын
This is great news for the world.
@garrett2439
3 ай бұрын
Why? Starmer's policies are the same as the Tories.
@iam.damian
3 ай бұрын
First-past-the-post system is very undemocratic.
@groovygrover190
3 ай бұрын
When Labour does the exact same thing, then what?
@lenmil8421
3 ай бұрын
Street Fighting Man.
@airliebird58
3 ай бұрын
One good thing is that the overall look of the Parliament is progressive. I was hoping for the Lib Dems to be the opposition. But for now we've got rid of the Tories, & thank God for that!
@tonyswarm8829
3 ай бұрын
I saw this somewhere, had they had proper proportional representation: Labour 220 Tories 153 Reform 93 Lib dem 79 Green 44 SNP 13
@Jcewazhere
3 ай бұрын
They, and everyone, need ranked choice. Would help prevent messes like this and get actually popular people in power. Now if only those popular people could actually be good for humanity all the time.
@5PctJuice
3 ай бұрын
The fact that Starmer himself got 10,000 fewer votes than in 2019 should tell you everything about how much of this election was decided by a collapse in turnout.
@Caperhere
3 ай бұрын
Are Brits aware of the manipulation of Cambridge Analytica?
@sovelissskirata8105
3 ай бұрын
I would agree with this assessment about the Tories vote being split except the liberal and moderate vote has always been split for decades by the multiple other parties. So the conservative block finally having a taste of that same medicine isn't necessarily a bad thing.
@nintendo64isking
3 ай бұрын
Labour is such a step up from Conservatives, i have some optimism now
@ASaund-qb6wy
3 ай бұрын
Goddamn at least the reich isn't taking over EVERYWHERE.
@wass81
3 ай бұрын
Change will happen now - yeah right
@nicholasstocker8864
3 ай бұрын
I can take a boring Keir Starmer over a chaotic 14 year long Tory nightmare.
@szabolcsszilagyi6
3 ай бұрын
A win is a win. The UK has a very bad system (same as the USA but with more parties) of electing MPs but this is what they have to work with at the moment. Seeing how Europe started shifting to the right it is nice to see an election where the left got a big majority. they have 5 years now to prove they are different than the tories. at least this is my central eastern european viewpoint
@howmanybeansmakefive
3 ай бұрын
Just a minor point, reform won a fifth seat by 90 votes, after a recount in South Basildon.
@barrybogart5436
3 ай бұрын
It's still good news (that we are desperate for). But they deserve Proportional representation. And Scotland should be independent.
@zombiegamerally
3 ай бұрын
Reform now has 5 seats as 1 area where a automatic recount occurred has now been finalised and reform won that constituency by 98 votes.
@pennywise556
3 ай бұрын
No change now. Yey.
@kimnzg8195
3 ай бұрын
Great headline 😂
@KatSauceUp
3 ай бұрын
Somewhere out there John Oliver is celebrating 🎉
@chaserseven2886
3 ай бұрын
props for sunak for not trying to pull a Donald trump
@charisma-hornum-fries
3 ай бұрын
The story is that he gave up and wanted an election before his kids starts school in California.
@poneill65
3 ай бұрын
I know he's a cherished and protected member of the public school mafia and a bankster but that's setting the bar a little low don't you think. Can I get MY props for not sacrificing and eating any babies today?
@chaserseven2886
3 ай бұрын
@@charisma-hornum-fries and? i don't really care why im just glad it didn't happen
@Brickerbrack
3 ай бұрын
@@chaserseven2886Point is, he didn't _want_ to win, for his own self-serving reasons. Not that we're complaining.
@logicbees
3 ай бұрын
He can’t, They have a King who has the Ultimate Say so! 👑
@marchekate
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for describing Labour as centre-right and the Tories as far-right. At least not everyone's Overton window is smashed. The British media keeps describing Labour as left and the Lib Dems as centrist even though the LDs are now to the left of Labour. They haven't rebooted since the 70s. Though to be fair the grass roots of either are still formatted like that, the leaderships are not.
@thumper8684
3 ай бұрын
A lot of Labour MPs have really slender majorities. Hopefully that will be on their minds over the coming five years,
@philip013
3 ай бұрын
basically in the UK parliament there are 650 seats. In each seat there is an election. As a party you have to win as many seats as possible. It's no good coming second and racking up the votes country wide. you've got to win the seats. Winners are grinners, losers are..............................losers.
@DiscomasterZero
3 ай бұрын
This was Canada in 1993, essentially. Reform split votes away from the Progressive Conservatives, helping Liberal candidates win in places they wouldn't normally. The rise of the Bloc Quebecois ate away the remaining seats the Tories could have won, and they were reduced to 2 seats in the HoC.
@markdohrmann5983
3 ай бұрын
While you’re overall points are important and true, Labour winning over 400 seats is a resounding victory. That gives them a broad majority to pass laws and earn a larger share of the vote in the next election. I care less about how they got the majority and more about how they’ll use it and hopefully not squander it.
@SSNewberry
3 ай бұрын
The ace in the hole for the right is that the is only one place to hang your vote. This election changed that. The UK should go to a proportional representation.
@howardmctroy3303
3 ай бұрын
The Tories weren't going to be in power forever, the only question is whether Labour will prove better.
@BigSlimyBlob
3 ай бұрын
That's what elections are. You're given a bunch of generally bad options and you vote strategically against the worst one.
@dieterradeke4612
3 ай бұрын
This is something were the US should learn about: the kicked out the right wingers.
@RawMaterialENT
3 ай бұрын
The cycle that never ends
@ethanstump
2 ай бұрын
i mean, that's the circle of life of a parasite. kzitem.info/news/bejne/qJ-Yz4KvbZZlmpg i no longer fear the snake that i have stepped on.
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