Britain's Weird, Small Political Parties Explained

Britain's Weird, Small Political Parties Explained - TLDR News

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As Britain heads into election season (if you didn't know a bunch of elections are taking place on May 6th) we thought we should take a look at the parties which don't normally attract attention. So in this video, we look at Britain's fringe parties, the ones who have no real shot at winning but for some reason still take part.
Ft: The Yorkshire Party, UKIP, The Liberal Party, Aontu, the Monster Raving Loony Party and the Christian Peoples Alliance
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@JJMcCullough 3 жыл бұрын

I am honored! I was hoping someone would make a video inspired by mine! Fringe parties can be a very revealing window into a nation’s more obscure, but still recognizable, subcultures.

@Blargmaster-pf4bf 3 жыл бұрын

Your video was award winning so it makes sense someone made a video inspired by it.

@ajayjobanbhatti 3 жыл бұрын

Hi JJ

@micahg7004 3 жыл бұрын

💜

@georgwitzlack846 3 жыл бұрын

I loved that video, keep going man! Ur videos are super exciting and fun to watch

@ERROR-ve5qg 3 жыл бұрын

Award winning and internationally recognised video!

@corpclarke 3 жыл бұрын

I love that the Official Monster Raving Looney party includes the word Official in their name. Really helps so we don't accidentally vote for the Unofficially Monster Raving Looney Party by mistake.

@christopherdwane2844 3 жыл бұрын

You have to get approval from the party in order to stand as a candidate for them, hence why they are "official" candidates. There is at least one breakaway party (the Eccentric party) which has run candidates against them in by-elections.

@christopherdwane2844 3 жыл бұрын

Having said that, in the recent council elections, the OMRLP ran 13 candidates for a single council ward vacancy (Chessington South), so they are not afraid to split their own vote...

@vaclavkrpec2879 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the late reaction... But it seems that it didn't really work, did it? Seems to me that millions of people did vote for the unofficial one...

@imrollinb1500 Жыл бұрын

@@vaclavkrpec2879 maybe because they wanted to

@declanmcardle 5 ай бұрын

@@christopherdwane2844Splitters...

@ganrimmonim 3 жыл бұрын

Okay have to say I love! schrödinger's Brexit now that is a stroke of genius.

@Ellipsis115 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this is up there with lord bucket heads abolition of the lords (except me). I dislike first past the post in the U.K. but I love the fact that jokes parties exist.

@seriousmaran9414 3 жыл бұрын

It is true though, Brexit is dead/alive. Negotiations never actually ended. A truly quantum effect (not).

@titanuranus3095 3 жыл бұрын

How can a party be "big in wales but not on a national level " who else votes in wales' national election other than wales?

@seriousmaran9414 3 жыл бұрын

The whales don't get to vote, can't get to the polling booths or post box... 😜🤣

@ASLUHLUHCE 3 жыл бұрын

How do you put being in and out of the EU in superposition

@MichaelWarman 3 жыл бұрын

10:24 It was the Monster Raving Looney Party's idea to have passports for pets, which then did actually happen

@lizzie5337 3 жыл бұрын

And plastic money!

@somethingelse9228 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like they do have a not so insignificant amount of influence

@kara0kech1ck 3 жыл бұрын

Also 24 hour drinking. That was one of their policies too.

@danfromabove 3 жыл бұрын

Maximum voting age of 80 🤞

@myothersoul1953 3 жыл бұрын

@@danfromabove Minimum voting age of 80 would be looney.

@Greninjia 3 жыл бұрын

how can one even hate the monster raving loony party? To me, they sound like clever people and I think Lord Buckethead should get more votes

@crhu319 3 жыл бұрын

They are the lords of fringe.

@rebeccamiller1400 3 жыл бұрын

Iirc, some of the things they have come up with have legitimately been pinched by other parties and implemented

@takashi.mizuiro 3 жыл бұрын

what about count bin face

@PrinceRightyI 3 жыл бұрын

I guess Lord Buckethead and Count Binface are independents. 🤣

@rebeccamiller1400 3 жыл бұрын

Aren't they done by the same person? The politician formally known as Lord BucketHead

@TLDRnews 3 жыл бұрын

NOTE: Sorry for the terrible audio. We're in the process of moving office at the moment, so I had to record this on my laptop microphone! Hopefully we can be up to full quality again soon - Jack

@cuff1626 3 жыл бұрын

It okay

@neelvipani7417 3 жыл бұрын

Hey where's the intro music, your videos are incomplete without it?

@callumblake9003 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry it makes my day anyway when you release a video

@kizawski 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly didn't even notice 🤷🏻

@iAmTheSquidThing 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds fine to me. And I'm usually quite pedantic about audio quality.

@magnuspeacock5857 3 жыл бұрын

The SNP started as a fringe party, and grew into a major player on the national stage

@elliot04877 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much all parties start of like that

@crhu319 3 жыл бұрын

So did Canadian Greens. Who now have 3 seats going on likely 5. Good chance of balance of power.

@internationalarmy3984 3 жыл бұрын

If the SNP was a fringe party, then I’m praying that the Monster Raving Party becomes one

@magnuspeacock5857 3 жыл бұрын

@@internationalarmy3984 we can dream

@michaelgrundy956 3 жыл бұрын

I believe that move is called 'reverse Labour'

@waihopang3764 3 жыл бұрын

JJ and TLDR must be the combination no one ever expected but is the coolest

@Georgios1821 3 жыл бұрын

A combination of Centrist Western Propaganda

@ryaningham5374 3 жыл бұрын

@@Georgios1821 alright settle down sunshine

@Georgios1821 3 жыл бұрын

@@ryaningham5374 relax Princess

@OHYS 3 жыл бұрын

I can't stand that guy

@ComradeHellas 3 жыл бұрын

@@Georgios1821 How is JJ a centrist, he votes Conservative. Also TLDR doesn't have any political alignment, that's why people are watching them.

@mard5038 3 жыл бұрын

Never expected JJ to be referenced in a TLDR video, awesome.

@jamesquaine6264 3 жыл бұрын

It might have been worth mentioning that Aontú actually have a Dáil seat in Ireland along with a bunch of local seats and ~2% of first preference votes.

@truedarklander 3 жыл бұрын

They're Sinn Fein but pro life lmao

@OhEidirsceoil 3 жыл бұрын

Its not worth mentioning in the context of British politics though

@thehighlander6770 9 ай бұрын

Aontú is the best political party in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

@adamk8073 3 жыл бұрын

UKIP did actually win a seat in the House of Commons via the general election in 2015. They won 4 million votes overall, but famously only elected one MP due to the voting system (and it was Douglas Carswell, not Nigel Farage, who came second in his constituency.)

@davidmoule3067 3 жыл бұрын

@bothi00 3 жыл бұрын

Ya. They then had a conservative MP who defected to UKIP

@MrBizteck 3 жыл бұрын

And that worked out soooo well !

@James-sk4db 3 жыл бұрын

Shhh he doesn’t think that far ahead.

@86frieza 3 жыл бұрын

Electoral system in UK is fucked up. 4 million votes and only one representative. In proportional system it would result in several seats. UK will never see major change unless electoral system is changed but it's not going to happen because it favours two main players. Plenty of people vote for lesser of two evils or don't vote at all because of that rigged electoral system. You feel like like there's no point to vote because your vote will go to waste.

@nadeemchaudhry6585 3 жыл бұрын

Monster raving loony party all the way..... who wouldn't want a 5 day weekend?

@Sam-bl8vj 3 жыл бұрын

EVERY VOTE COUNTS, VOTE OMRLP

@seriousmaran9414 3 жыл бұрын

I already have a 7 day weekend. Gov won't let me work. I know, shocking!

@natenae8635 3 жыл бұрын

@@seriousmaran9414 Are you a foreign student by any chance?

@seriousmaran9414 3 жыл бұрын

@@natenae8635 stop being racist And no, I have health issues.

@therealrobertbirchall 3 жыл бұрын

I do belive the SNP are considering a 3 day weekend.😂

@petertrevorah7388 3 жыл бұрын

In the 2015 general election, Mebyon Kernow (The Party for Cornwall) achieved more than the 5000 vote threshold for this video. In the 2019 election, they decided to pour all their resources into getting just one (albeit outstanding) candidate elected. Sadly, this new strategy did not succeed but I think the party is worth an ‘honorable mention’ here as it consistently fields successful candidates in municipal elections.

@camwillsmusic7153 2 ай бұрын

Mebyon Kernow have been going since 1920s, 30s.

@joshuaellul4352 3 жыл бұрын

Your pronunciation of Peadar Tóibín was honestly hilarious 😂 (It's "pad-er toe-been" btw)

@benlowen9262 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that aswell 😂

@seanegan8150 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, well in my local dialect of Gaeilge it would be pronouned "egghead"

@ayrtonbarmecide4912 3 жыл бұрын

I'd actually like to see the Yorkshire Party win some seats tbh

@jordanirving9724 3 жыл бұрын

As a Yorkshireman, me too

@cmcofficial1964 3 жыл бұрын

They have seen a rise in popularity and have won quite a few council seats It’s possible that they soon will win a seat

@cmcofficial1964 3 жыл бұрын

@MantisSZNYA2 Yorkshire has went down due to covid and the mines being closed down in the 80’s and 90’s It’s coming back and it’s also a better reason to vote for the Yorkshire party as it’s mainly the government who did this

@dod6031 3 жыл бұрын

They came third in the recent West Yorkshire Mayoral elections which was quite a big success for them.

@alexpotts6520 3 жыл бұрын

@@cmcofficial1964 I suspect, like UKIP, they will struggle to win seats under FPTP but that some national government may feel the pressure to offer them a devolved parliament anyway.

@first-officerspock6191 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: UKIP has had 3 MPs in the House of Commons, due to a defection from the conservatives in 2008, Castle Point was a UKIP seat in the commons. However it only lasted for a short while until that MP became an independent.

@mrelephant2283 3 жыл бұрын

sees UKIP as fringe > laughs in Remainer

@a1990hussain 3 жыл бұрын

The most dominant party that never even won a ministerial position

@AdamWebb1982 3 жыл бұрын

At least we got brexit ;)

@todbaner3385 3 жыл бұрын

@@AdamWebb1982 brexit fuked everything up, thx you absolute baffoon.

@User-he6zd 3 жыл бұрын

@The505Guys Tony Blair is above Farage tbh overall, but if you're on about "influence exerted" proportionate to actual support Farage wins

@freestylevimto3109 3 жыл бұрын

@@todbaner3385 stay mad

@syedbilalnafees2002 3 жыл бұрын

We need Proportional representation in the UK, so that these parties actually get the seats they deserve and the politicians the people actually vote for get represented. FPTP is no better than the electoral college in the US and both are deeply flawed

@ou6775 2 жыл бұрын

so jack shit can get passed through?

@SuperKing604 2 жыл бұрын

Okay BUT party should at least get 10-12% before they can get seats

@ButherLi55ett 2 жыл бұрын

There was a vote some years ago to change the system to make it easier for small parties but no one could be arsed to vote in favour of it. I think it was a referendum?

@Jenkowelten 9 ай бұрын

@@SuperKing604Like Turkey?? No way

@Lunar_Pendragon 7 ай бұрын

@@ou6775What makes you think Conservative and Labour aren't jack shit? Are you a tool?

@Luredreier 3 жыл бұрын

Small parties like this is important for another reason. Them having *any* voters despite how unfair the UK electoral system is means that there's a *lot* more voters that *would* have voted for them if the electoral system was fair, but that either didn't vote at all or voted for one of the two biggest parties instead. Their existence makes people aware of that.

@kaitlyn__L 3 жыл бұрын

I wish we had ranked choice voting 😔 there’s a bunch of these I’d put as my first second etc choice and then the major parties with perceived chance of winning can be 4th or 5th or whatever.

@Luredreier 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L That would be preferable to the current mess, yes. I think you'd be better off with a proportional party list system though. But honestly pretty much *anything* is preferable to the first past the post system.

@kaitlyn__L 3 жыл бұрын

@@Luredreier hmm, I wrote like four paragraphs and then Google ate it. Probably held for review. But I said “best” a couple times when I meant “strongest” so, if it does show up, bear that in mind please.

@Chipster971 3 жыл бұрын

Really good video. One minor point: Douglas Carswell did win re-election at the 2015 general election as a UKIP candidate.

@sambarrett3059 3 жыл бұрын

Been watching JJ for years, glad to see both yours and his channels doing well.

@nuzayerov 3 жыл бұрын

Schrödinger's Brexit? No wayy 😂😂😂

@yrobtsvt 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, the first UKIP MP was named Reckless. This explains a lot

@theoelliott5944 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video! But in response to 4:52 and 5:16, I'm pretty sure that Douglas Carswell won Clacton for UKIP in the 2015 general election.

@markywarky1234 3 жыл бұрын

He did. I was going to point this out as well...

@JackWabbitTV 3 жыл бұрын

As a member of the Yorkshire Party it's great to see it gather some attention!

@ah1471981 3 жыл бұрын

Well done for giving full credit for the video idea. I like that a lot.

@GeoffreyHellington 3 жыл бұрын

Does this man just deny the existence of Plaid Cymru?

@spam.0319 3 жыл бұрын

I watched that JJ video yesterday as well, interesting video, glad you decided to do it as well!

@MervynPartin 3 жыл бұрын

I once read the manifesto of the Monster Raving Loony Party and it was actually a reasonable document with policies that made sense, and were economically viable, unlike some of the mainstream parties. It is regrettable that many voters have party loyalties based on what their parents voted, otherwise some real change could happen.

@mix3k818 3 жыл бұрын

Talking about fringe political parties in general is so fun to talk about.

@MRMixedup 3 жыл бұрын

So basically after watching your and JJ's videos. The Monster raving looney party is like the Rhino party of the uk.

@jedaye47 3 жыл бұрын

What's the rhino party?

@bruhboi4692 3 жыл бұрын

@@jedaye47 They want to repeal the laws of gravity

@MRMixedup 3 жыл бұрын

@@jedaye47 basically a comedic party who's there not to seriously contend but just for the jokes.

@Croz89 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much.

@seriousmaran9414 3 жыл бұрын

More like Monty Python's Flying Circus. They accept reality but lampoon politics.

@chrisdohertybass 3 жыл бұрын

Aontu definitely affected the Sinn Fein turnout in the Foyle constituency during the 2019 general election. They ran a strong ground campaign with many ex-Sinn Fein members, basically saying SF has become very left wing and is taking more traditional religious catholic nationalist votes for granted. The SDLP capitalised on this by not taking a strong stance either way on abortion and appearing slightly more centrist than SF. Sinn Fein's turnout halfed and the SDLP won back the seat in a landslide. (20k+ votes to 9k).

@ratherryan 3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff. Monster Raving Loony policy deserves a video of its own.

@Anonymous-sm8bv 3 жыл бұрын

I think Ashfield Independents could count as a fringe/minor party. They have a supermajority in Ashville District Council and came in second in the Ashfield constituency last general election.

@queeny5613 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for doing this

@dehcho99 Жыл бұрын

We used to have a party similar to the Monster Raving Loony Party in Canada called The Rhinoceros Party. It seems to have faded in the last couple of decades.

@mousquetaire86 3 жыл бұрын

I'm curious about the seniority of cabinet ministers. (Why is the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster the 5th most senior minister for example?) Would appreciate a video explaining that!

@a.rentertainment2232 3 жыл бұрын

I bet the Yorkshire party will be like “We have devolution, now let’s get our independence”.

@JackDrewitt 2 жыл бұрын

no, just devolution please

@a.rentertainment2232 2 жыл бұрын

@@JackDrewitt We all knew what happened when we gave the other UK nations devolution powers, think about that for one moment and then think what would happen if we gave Yorkshire devolution powers like London.

@ivandinsmore6217 4 ай бұрын

This is your best ever video. You have really improved your delivery.

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions 2 жыл бұрын

I have also watched JJ McCullough's Canadian fringe parties video! I found both videos to be quite informative! Thanks!

@callumdonley9474 3 жыл бұрын

Please can you do a video on the Northern Independence Party

@TiaanKruger 3 жыл бұрын

is there a video somewhere like this, but giving a bit more of a history of more of the parties (major would be nice as well, but not as important, maybe just some history). But would interesting to find out more about the minor and regional ones

@lewisb6206 2 ай бұрын

That's my A level revision for tonight done

@claren603 Жыл бұрын

What is the 3rd party on regional influence whit the green atomic symbol?, have been stuck trying to figure it out for months.

@peterj.francisdunleadebarr4367 3 жыл бұрын

Peeder Toy-Bin? His name is pronounced Padder Toe-been. Wouldn't have been hard to establish that. Although if you were going to include fringe Northern Irish parties like Aontú there's many other small parties there like the Transitional Unionist Voice, Progressive Unionist Party, People Before Profit etc. etc.

@m.g.3013 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah not one bit impressed tbh

@ParawhoreLoL 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, they have such typical Brit attitudes to Irish issues. Including selling an Ireland pin that doesn't include Northern Ireland. They don't seem to get it

@jamesquaine6264 3 жыл бұрын

@@ParawhoreLoL I wouldn't expect them to sell a pin with an all Ireland tri-colour as that would be very political

@m.g.3013 3 жыл бұрын

@@ParawhoreLoL Why would they do that? You don't seem to get it.

@bothi00 3 жыл бұрын

It's funny how Aontú have more of a presence in NI considering that Aontú was a split from Sinn Féin on the issue of abortion - yet sinn féin are famously much more pro lfie in Northern Ireland than they are in the Republic

@isnitjustkit 3 жыл бұрын

JJ makes some of KZfaq’s best content on cultural matters

@JasS19362 3 жыл бұрын

‘Why they even bother existing’ 😂 omg brutal!

@danielbentham758 3 жыл бұрын

great video

@fergusconnor7476 3 жыл бұрын

please do scottish fringe parties!

@torspedia 3 жыл бұрын

Will you be doing a video on some of the newer parties, that have formed since the last GE?

@Ludix147 3 жыл бұрын

You should have mentioned the UK branch of Volt, who did not stand in the last elections, but surely are relevant now.

@markselby9352 3 жыл бұрын

Who?

@Voidwurm1701 2 жыл бұрын

@@markselby9352 Volt. I think they are a pro-EU integrationist party (for the rejoiners).

@nadeemchaudhry6585 3 жыл бұрын

Another interesting video

@TRAVisty_James 3 жыл бұрын

i love to see one of these for Australia! we have such a diverse and interesting political landscape here

@braveninja111 Жыл бұрын

100%

@rtsharlotte 3 жыл бұрын

I wish this video was around a few months ago. I had an argument with someone who claimed the UK was like the US in terms of only having two political parties.

@dariushutchinson2424 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do a part 2 with more fringe parties? Maybe expand the criteria.

@tsareric1921 3 жыл бұрын

I think a super Fringe or what they call the regional players would be good. Super fringe is following JJ's videos more tho.

@perranbritton5090 3 жыл бұрын

Could you do a video on MK in cornwall it’s like the Yorkshire party but for cornwall

@bosserman444 3 жыл бұрын

Please do a vid on the regional parties

@aidangarner1181 3 жыл бұрын

6:50 “Aontú are a Northern Irish party” No they’re not, they are an all-Ireland party. They stand in the Republic as well as in NI, their headquarters are in the Republic and their leader sits in the Dáil.

@NoaManic 3 жыл бұрын

You haven't even scraped the bottom of the barrel! I have delved deep into Wikipedia's "Political parties in the UK" article/list, and I have never been able to truly escape this rabbit hole of crusty ideologies

@rthonlimbu8134 3 жыл бұрын

Its Nice to see TLDR Giving CPA a Mini Platform

@nicolek4076 3 жыл бұрын

I love the implied comment about UKIP, when you use a dollar symbol for their economic policy.

@DarkBloa 3 жыл бұрын

What about Mebyon Kernow ?

@georgwitzlack846 3 жыл бұрын

it would be super super cool if you guys made a video about the German fringe parties because it's super widespread and there are a lot of it but it would be super interesting

@johnlonergan8259 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, great video. Just from Ireland to say that Aontù is actually pronounced Aon-tuu - it's hard to pronounced since it's irish

@context_required 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't the monster raving loony party get tony blair to introduce 24 hour alcohol licences because they suggested it as a way to stop binge drinking?

@leegosling 3 жыл бұрын

The Monster Raving Loony Party did first propose the reduction of the voting age to from 21 to 18 in the 60s... so when it was enacted in 1969 and implemented in 1970, you could say they have probably had the greatest influence on democratic governance since women got the franchise.

@greenbutter3190 3 жыл бұрын

Stable video 👍

@OrechTV 3 жыл бұрын

8:30 :D :D Love the joke, exactly me when putting my ballot into the box while thinking "well, it's always shitty choice anyway" :D

@ruairihair 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the nutter Scottish family party putting an add on a video about fringe groups

@drakinkoren 3 жыл бұрын

Is this their new response vid one? It's bloody terrible 🤣

@realnoahsimpson 3 жыл бұрын

I saw a Conservative ad 🤣

@kaitlyn__L 3 жыл бұрын

The Scottish family party.. a friend sent me a picture of a leaflet of theirs that came through their door. It said “no more tired old arguments, we need new ideas” or similar; and then was all “ban abortion, ban trans ideology, ban sex education” and I’m like: those aren’t new ideas at all! False advertising!

@bluebelle8823 3 жыл бұрын

The Monster Raving Loony Party would do extremely well in Australia. We have the joy that is compulsory voting, fines aren't too bad but you still want to avoid them. (I do value my vote but so many do not)

@legallyblind393 3 жыл бұрын

Any fringe party stands a chance here. For example clive palmer or family first back in the day

@bluebelle8823 3 жыл бұрын

@@legallyblind393 I try really hard to forget about Clive Palmer...

@waynekerrgoodstyle 3 жыл бұрын

Lord Bucket head is a Ned Kelly lookalike lol j/k

@bluebelle8823 3 жыл бұрын

@@waynekerrgoodstyle Joke aside (though he does kinda look like a space fairing Ned Kelly) Can you imagine the chaos drunk Australians would come up with?

@waynekerrgoodstyle 3 жыл бұрын

@@bluebelle8823 As long as it's fun and nobody gets hurt I'm fine with that.

@jacquesy2520 3 жыл бұрын

Ok JJ and TLDR is a real crossover lol

@ThatTallGuy0 Ай бұрын

TLDR should do another one of these and include the Conservative Party as a fringe party

@prometheus7387 3 жыл бұрын

I never knew they existed, as a foreigner.

@conorcarmichael369 3 жыл бұрын

Would love a video explaining the difference between different ideologies. You mentioned libertarianism in the video. : )

@MartinJames389 3 жыл бұрын

What about the English Democrats? They argue for English independence from the UK, an English Parliament etc. The first elected Mayor of Doncaster was their candidate. Nobody was more astonished at his victory than he was. He knew nothing about anything except horse racing.

@mikeoxsmal8022 3 жыл бұрын

They must have got less than 5,000 votes

@disfordumboo4411 Жыл бұрын

my biggest question for those waffling monster raving loonies is where exactly this cardboard box is gonna go. will it run down the irish border or through the north channel? should we have a second box that surrounds all of ireland so that it can be both unified and divided?

@flappetyflippers 3 жыл бұрын

I wish we had more parties :(

@martinwyke 3 жыл бұрын

This focused on the smallest parties, but the fractured opposition vote is how the Tories hang onto power with only a third of the vote and fifth of the population.

@crhu319 3 жыл бұрын

Learn to vote swap

@-spudman2.054 3 жыл бұрын

Tell Scotland to stop wasting time with snp so labour can get back in power then 😂

@corpclarke 3 жыл бұрын

This presumes that everyone who doesn't vote Conservative would prefer a Labour government to a Conservative government. Which isn't true. If you were a pro EU remain voter in the 2017 election, you couldn't vote Labour or Conservative as they both had a policy commitment to deliver Brexit. Also, the Lib Dems have been in government more recently than Labour and got several of their key policy promises made into law. If Lib Dem voters would've just voted Labour or Tory, they wouldn't have got those policies realised.

@juliantheapostate8295 3 жыл бұрын

The same way Blair won a landslide in 97 with far fewer votes than Boris won

@RickSeymour 3 жыл бұрын

Ideally should have included reference to First Past the Post and how tactical voting can be a better option until (if ever) Proportional Representation is adopted.

@ewanknight3015 3 жыл бұрын

Great video... is the number of votes for the greens at the start a mix of all the green parties combined or is it just the English/Welsh Greens?

@talideon 3 жыл бұрын

"Tóibín" is pronounced more or less as "TOE-bean" (or "toe-BEAN", if you're from Munster). The accents matter, and Irish is not English.

@nuzayerov 3 жыл бұрын

I am so glad JJ has gone so far. I subbed him first from my another account before he had a 100K subs. I hope his channel grows a lot more. He provides true premium content, in my opinion.

@rebeccamacmillan3071 3 жыл бұрын

"Britain's Fringe Parties", I just completely misread that as being like parties at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, not political parties, yicks.

@danieleatwell7757 2 жыл бұрын

The Official Monster Raving Loony Party's position on Brexit was neither In or Out but Shake It All About.

@IndustrialBonecraft 3 жыл бұрын

Monster Raving Loony Party are such chads.

@Felly117 3 жыл бұрын

Yorkshire party gets my vote

@UKcuber 2 жыл бұрын

Could do with an updated version with the parties that had a counsellor elected this year. Aspire, SDP, Rubbish etc

@Brocklebury 3 жыл бұрын

Haven't several Monster Raving Loony Party policies become law? 10:22 For example, all day opening hours for pubs and the abolition of dog licences.

@theoelliott5944 3 жыл бұрын

I think the Social Democratic Party (SDP) should have been included.

@patrickthornbury7923 3 жыл бұрын

They would have came next after the CPA, and won 3,295 votes in 2019, so wouldn't have hit their threshold. But they seem to be growing really fast (they got nearly 10,000 votes for London mayor alone this year), so hopefully they'll get a mention soon!

@abdullahhared7403 3 жыл бұрын

I think it might have been helpful to look at elections before 2019 too, to show political subcultures in a more full light. There have been a string of Leftist parties such as Respect, the Socialist Party and the Trade Union party in this century alone, but a lot of the people supporting them stood down in 2019 in favour of Corbyn's Labour. I think talking about that would have made a really interesting addition to the video

@kaitlyn__L 3 жыл бұрын

The latter two are running together as TUSC now, though in some places they seem to still call themselves Socialist Party.

@2000Meilen 3 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to see a video like this about all the european countires, and maybe even beyon that.

@ParawhoreLoL 3 жыл бұрын

Those Irish name pronunciations are really rough. Aontú (Ian - too) and Peadar (Padder) Tóibín (Toe-Bean)

@huevofrito2255 3 жыл бұрын

0:02 Britian's? Apart from that great vid!!! ;)

@Alpha1200 3 жыл бұрын

10:24 - I actually have to disagree. Protest votes, imo, could very well affect the influence of established parties. At least theoretically. That's what the protest is, after all. Those people who vote for them trying to show the established parties that something is wrong. That the system isn't working for them.

@kaitlyn__L 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, spoiled ballots and votes for protest parties are tallied and counted, and registered as dissatisfaction. Not voting is merely counted as “voter apathy” and they don’t give a damn. (Even though those who don’t vote because “they’re all the same”, who live in hollowed out shadows of their former town, are arguably far more dissatisfied with the system than those who make protest votes. But that’s not how the system counts it.)

@theMoporter 3 жыл бұрын

Good video, though I'm perturbed by your decision to make Jack's little brother do the VO

@GuzziHeroV50 3 жыл бұрын

Please do a video on fringe independent candidates like Lord Buckethead!

@samooo6664 3 жыл бұрын

TLDR: We're not biased Also TLDR: These parties are weird!

@Zazz_Blammymatazz 3 жыл бұрын

At least you Brits have some third parties in the House of Commons, that NEVER happens in the US.

@kaitlyn__L 3 жыл бұрын

Isn’t Bernie an Independent? Albeit, he’s the only example I can think of. (Fun fact, he has a brother, Larry, who was involved in local politics in Oxford for a while.)

@Zazz_Blammymatazz 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L Yeah, we have two "Independents" in the Senate, but Bernie is sometimes a Democrat when he runs for President. The other is Angus King who used to be a Democrat, but still votes with them.