Britain’s political system explained

Britain is adjusting to a new political landscape after a shock election victory for Prime Minister David Cameron that decapitated the opposition and bolstered secessionists in Scotland. Cameron's Conservatives won 331 of the 650 seats in parliament, giving the prime minister a second term in office -- this time with a majority for his centre-right party. VIDEOGRAPHIC

[@whatever8282828]

Well this is a bit skimpy

[@kamalkunwar9665]

Was i only the one who did hear the conversation of prime minister and the queen as barking 😂

[@generalgrievous6648]

nope

[@SR-pw6pi]

Yes yes yes! 🤣😂😂

[@Knappa22]

That didn’t explain much. And UKIP have never had more than one MP.

[@elerillewellyn2654]

This was made at around the time of peak ukip when people expected them to get more seats.

[@lytrax3597]

That is the weirdest comment section I have ever seen

[@LearnEnglishESL]

Saw the UK government system praised in religious scripture, something that's rarely seen: "The system of government which the British people have adopted in London appeareth to be good, for it is adorned with the light of both kingship and of the consultation of the people." Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

[@thunderstraw864]

Written by white people of course

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Adopted in London. So what system has the rest of us who live there using?

[@ross8474]

Dreadful . In 2023 look what they have done to my country . When I watch parliament I see lots who are unqualified to be there . Basic yobs shouting at each other on each side .

[@andrewhubbard4044]

Artificial intelligence could do it better

[@josemiguelruizmeza888]

This is the video that i talked you yesterday, wich talks about, in general terms, of the political system of U.K. Actually, the current political system of Mexico have influence of this parlamentarial government by the division of the houses: the house of the lords it's the simile of the senators and the commons are the representatives. However, there are sustancial differences between the form of government of U.K. and Mexico; for example, that country have a Presidencial Regime.

[@malikrahman8649]

Well that led to a short climax???

[@ajp5556]

Lol

[@generalgrievous6648]

🤣

[@codyshi4743]

Are each region’s number of representatives in the House of Common base on the size of each region or every region just gets an equal number of representatives in the House of Common?

[@dylanbrownie]

There are 650 constituencies. 1 representative (MP: Member of Parliament) for each constituency, elected by who gets the most votes in each constituency.

[@benlewis1087]

Cody Shi There’s one MP for every ~70,000 people.

[@gilpetperdon9831]

Is that a rishi sunak cameo at the end? 🤣

[@podcastea311]

thank you ^^

[@SymonJustWatch]

The exam will be next week , of hope this video is going home help me to get a good mark, thanks Mr content creator ❤

[@youtubeazerbaijan2057]

so nice :D

[@diontaedaughtry974]

Thank you this was very helpful and informative 👍👍

[@sociallymatti]

When I read about how the Party Leaders are chosen, I always see that the, "Party Members", vote the Leaders in. Pardon my ignorance but what do they mean by, "Party Members"? Are they the Civilians that the Party represents or are they the Politicians that represent the Civilians?

[@Georgexb]

Dan M Nope, I have friends who are members of the tory party and they all voted in the leadership election, same with the lib dems

[@567secret]

(Almost) any citizen may choose to become a member of a party (some people may not be allowed in if they have evidence of hate speech etc. online), most parties charge yearly dues, the one with the lowest dues that is represented in parliament are the greens atm. These dues help fund election campaigns etc. These party members may then select one of their own to lead the party. The Prime Minister is a member of the House of Commons (an MP) or Lords (although this is unprecedented in the modern era and extremely unlike to happen) who manages to achieve the support of 50% of MPs + 1 MP (technically I think a PM can even be just some member of the public as long as they can achieve said support but our constitution is currently laid out in the same way as a document thrown through a shredder so I'm having trouble verifying that). This has always been one of the party leaders but this need not be a requirement.

[@catfacethemole9551]

So not MPs but everyone who gives money to the party or pays say, £20 like in the labour leader election, to vote I believe

[@josephrion3514]

​@@567secretwhat an incredibly useful comment. It's interesting to see how it's like an alternate universe version of ours in the us. I think I prefer the way you have it set up the more I read it. Seems like you reign in your politicians more relative to ours. At least on paper based on your rules.

[@TomiThemself]

The politicians - what I don't understand about you Americans is that you call yourself "republicna/democrats" when you're not party members? Like it's some sort of identity or a whole personality, rather than just a party that you vote for. So basically, "party members" here are just the people IN the party (obviously)

[@darkcloud8125]

The final insult - the temptation of ordering Ahsoka dvd season 1 from Australia for £35 including delivery whereby the title can't be released yet for legal reasons over the Disney broadcasting which finishes next week. Why do the government want to cause disappointment issues for the unemployed? I'll order my copy from a UK vendor at the correct price you bent bad bad people!

[@ks4733]

But how are the seats decided?

[@jacktheveganactivist]

People in every constituency (an area defined in politics) votes for an MP (member of parliament) to lead the constituency. The MP usually represents a political party. When people vote for a party, or an MP, the person who wins the most votes in that constituency wins what is known as a seat. The party with the most seats becomes the leading party of the country

[@mushfiqborat113]

Concept 10/5- Could you understand it will a highly huge destruction.A destruction held in some countries in a same day.Somebody inform me something like big cities are effected.Do you think how it is painful?

[@kaushalyanadge3606]

Nice video

[@danielkelly8756]

Going too quickly and brushing over stuff that needs fleshing out. Nice visuals though

[@justgivemethetruth]

Sweet, but short!

[@namireddyamarender]

But❌ And✔

[@hyperdog4565]

Why did The Queen bow to the Prime Minister?

[@sharllystar]

this is my favorite video🇬🇧

[@ashcurtismusic]

your favourite video on youtube is a politics one?

[@sharllystar]

@@ashcurtismusic since 11 days ago, yes.

[@wazar4501]

very nice video yes

[@McMillanGamers]

Job and knock was it?

[@kathynguyn6546]

How many party systems are there in British??? Plz

[@BritishRepublicsn]

As of now, there are ~12 parties represented in parliament, but of those, only 4 have more than 10 seats, and only 2 have over 100. Some people say this is a 2 party system- wherein only 2 parties are generally expected to form government. However, I prefer the term '2 party+' where 2 parties form government, but other parties still hold power

[@TomiThemself]

There are unlimited parties in the UK - in fact, only the US has two-party systems, but in all other parliamentary representative democracies, there is no limit to parties

[@jdhed.mcpack6947]

In other words, it means oDaaAaaaaAaaa

[@TokiroDKima]

Нифига не понял но очень истересно

[@aimeethomson7806]

All representatives voted in

[@aimeethomson7806]

Not the black panthers

[@blablablaj]

Interesting after the USA vs. Uk politics vids gone viral like that

[@haywood3874]

Powerful/Stable again? I think so

[@robert48044]

does the prime minister have to win a seat in parliament first or is it just the leader of the party that wins parliament?

[@benlewis1087]

Joey Dyker The leader of the parties has to be in Parliament, you cannot be PM unless you win your own constituency.

[@robert48044]

@@benlewis1087 that's what I figured

[@addazarmy6826]

@@benlewis1087 technically you can be PM from the house of Lords no? It's just generally to help perceptions if a lord is made party leader they will step down from the lords and instead fight a regular seat (normally a very safe one). Like Alec Douglas-Home in 1963/4.

[@benlewis1087]

@@addazarmy6826 You’re right, any member of the Parliament either Lords or Commons can become Prime Minister, but there is a technical reason as to why they transfer to the Commons. It complicates proceedings significantly if the Prime Minister were in the Lords and the Leader of the Opposition were in the Commons and vice versa as debating the executive is a key element of Parliamentary Democracy. There is also the fact that since the Parliament Act(s) 1911 and 1949 the Commons holds more legislative power than the Lords and so a Prime Minister would have less power in the Lords than in the Commons, those Statutes mean maintaining the confidence of the Commons determines the survival of a Premiership but that is not the case with the Lords as they can only delay bills as shown with the Hunting Act 2004.

[@grantno308]

so we eclectic people to become goverment and mp is the leader and the other to check the government if there doing bad and then if the mp dont agree they can go to supreme court to check if its legal tbh queen is the head but it proves that all power game because the supreme court has show us that they can reject your make them talk about it again if it effect human right's.

[@SuperChaosZero]

Who else is here after the recent election

[@user-a1a2a3a4a6]

The Parliamentary democracy 😅 .Both House are actually the residential home for jellyfish. Parliament an institution not fit for any purpose except personal mps tax avoidance

[@tomassholemuller8659]

Actually the queen doesn't have limited power, she can do whatever she wants.

[@chichi-iw2ik]

she secretly does get involved with politics. She works very closely with the bank of england because were apart of the world banking system scam and the queen owns the whole lot. She also works close with secret societies to screw over humanity. there was a buckingham palace Cleaner that said she eats humans because she saw human flesh remains in the freezer. And yes she is above the law so she can do anything she wishes

[@MAYONNAISEMOOSE]

@@chichi-iw2ik take your meds

No she cant

[@johnnicolson467]

England has two political parties and Scotland has one. Scotland may get another after Independence.

[@TomiThemself]

What? No. That is completely not true

[@NazSBG]

How's that Scottish independence going? 🤣

[@SIDEKICKONYOUTUBE]

WTF thats it ?

[@hentai7444]

Ok

[@othmanelouarti1896]

That's slavery, in plain words

[@BritishRepublicsn]

...how?

[@videogamecin]

@@BritishRepublicsn rule by unelected and unaccountable officials is political slavery

[@cristianoronaldo-lr2mw]

Parliamentary democracy 2chambers 1. House of Commons 2. House of Lords Constitutional monarch

[@helixzenith]

This chick yapped for 82 seconds str8 and said nothing we didn’t alr know. USA 🔛🔝 for a reason ig

[@sergiogo9188]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@emmanuelwood8702]

They have a King and Nobility The British are not Democratic at all. The Republic of Ireland is a Democracy, France, and Germany. You can't have a democracy if all your citizens are not equal. Privileges and Titles are not democratic they are aristocratic.

[@jaexiusnem1267]

Having a king isn’t even the least democratic thing about our archaic minority rule political system.

[@pa7447]

The queen signs bills into law and controls the armed forces but she has no power?????? The people vote for prime minister but the decision has to be approved by the queen. Sounds like she has all the power.

[@addazarmy6826]

In theory the monarch has a huge amount of power but if they ever actually used any the assumption is that parliament would just ignore them and carry on as is. My best guess is that during the ensuing constitutional crisis a new General Election would take place with parties fighting mainly on what their solution to the crisis would be, thereby gathering a proper mandate and then doing as they said they would.

[@No2traitor]

Vote Reform Party 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🎉

[@dariowiter3078]

Great Britain is a parliamentary monarchy, not a democracy or a republic! 😠😠😠😠😠

[@siononalundula1699]

A democracy is a system where the people choose who their political leaders are going to be. Constitutional monarchies ARE democracies. There are, however, NOT Republics, since Republics are kinda the opposite of monarchy

[@wush7985]

Parliamentary is better compare to expensive conservative US institution😂

[@darkcloud8125]

well i guess it will be the cream cargo pants from Urban Outfitters and served by a less than attractive girl or prepubescent part time male worker - £5 lost on a delivery charge from Amazon while the ebay white cargo pants I'll be keeping!

[@emmanuelwood8702]

You can't be a monarchy and a democracy, that makes no sense.

[@jarrod157]

Public elects House of Commons. House of Lords is a revising chamber of unelected officials that scrutinises and reviews legislation proposed by the HoC. They have no power to direct block and legislation and have to allow legislation to pass within a year of first debate. This forms the Legislative. Whichever party gets the most votes the PM is appointed from that party by the monarch. The PM then has the power to form the cabinet (senior MPs from HoC and HoL) they form the executive. The executive chooses what bills to introduce into the HoC. The queens role is mostly ceremonial but has power by appointing PMs that work in their favour as well as the senior MPs who can run unlimited terms. This system is called a constitutional monarchy. Basically all dealt by the government with the queen playing ceremony roles publicly. Who knows what happens privately.

[@emmanuelwood8702]

@@jarrod157 Not democracy. And then they wonder why they do horrible stuff all over the world.

[@yamyam2987]

This video does not really explained the british politics. Lame

[@hamzahamz7410]

You can massage and his grandparants is protocall are death in india you can help me

[@gerrardanderson6376]

That was a lazy ass video , If I didn’t know anything about politics I wouldn’t of understood the first 45 seconds at all

[@atadbitahistory9660]

Government is voted by people. Queen is politically impartial. Divided into two sections, house of commons and house of Lords. A political party with 326 seats+ will then be the new government and we'll have a prime minister from that party. It is not this difficult.

[@superchargedyt195]

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[@lilian8717]

coucou les fr cest cool anglais spé

[@malkhazjintcharadze7235]

❤❤❤ 🙏🙏🙏 🤲🤲🤲

[@generalgrievous6648]

this didn't help me :(. I don't know why I had to watch this video for my English tasks, if it does not answer any of the asked questions

[@generalgrievous6648]

👎👎👎

[@TomiThemself]

@@generalgrievous6648How is it the fault of the video? Blame the teacher, or whatever...

[@generalgrievous6648]

@@TomiThemself bold of you to assume that someone who wrote a comment over 3 years ago will actually read/ reply to this. Btw I can say now that my tasks were in fact not the problem. My classmates had the same problem and we agreed that the way the system is explained in the video was just deficient and incoherent

[@sharysquelk9189]

Ayuda por favor.... soy argentino y tengo 40 años, soy casado con 1 hija de 5 años con problemas de corazón.... vivo una situación muy delicada en buenos Aires hace 14 años que no tengo trabajo digno y no puedo ayudar a mi hija con sus problemas de corazon..... me gustaría que las naciones unidas intervenga por intermedio de los derechos humanos para solucionar estos problemas sociales... pido por favor asilo a los estados unidos donde estuve radicado entre el año 2000 al 2008... sino pido intervención militar en contra de el gobierno argentino, yo firmo donde sea para que sea una colonia inglesa donde sea un país organizado, estable y haya trabajo ... por favor necesito ayuda....

[@Kilobats305]

cómo estás ahora?

[@petervankas1352]

red or blue =💩

[@SmartVideosJarkaWatched]

So how is that different without Prince Harry & Meghan Markle? Not at all? Where does royal money come from, I guess I'm wondering.

[@morganbracey6977]

Harry Jude Royal money comes from tax payers

[@morganbracey6977]

5 percent of Harry and Megan’s money comes from tax payers and the other 95 percent comes from his fathers funding. Once they step down from their senior roles they will become financially independent.

[@TomiThemself]

They are part of the Royal Family, but obviously they are not political, as is the king - the head of state. The king usually gets a parliamentary sovereign grant each year, and also has private estate called the Duchy of Lancaster, while the prince of Wales has the Duchy of Cornwall

[@user-jb8vn7vf1y]

As a "KOREAN" this is why abolish spoils system! Meritocracy is RIGHT!! Have a Good merit Working class for the good chance! Have a Bad merit upper class for the Guillotine

[@practicing1]

Nothing about corruption and bribery?

[@gavinsenior50]

My god they wouldn't mention that,

[@anarchoprimitivist9335]

There should be no governments.

[@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385]

based

[@whirlwhind666]

​@@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385 Easy to say if you're already young and privileged. Try no government when you're 70 dying of Hodgkin's disease. Without the government, you literally have no rights.

[@whirlwhind666]

@@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385 Well you seem to think having no government is a good idea, which is the libertarian view. That's a bit like being a house cat - completely reliant on a system you don't understand. What's left without government? Corporations? Whose ONLY interest is profit? For all it's problems, the government is effectively the only institution that is on your side. We need reform instead of abolishment. You're romanticizing a cartoonish utopia but sadly big societal changes move at glacial speed and revolutions usually end up creating power vacuums (like in Russia, France and China).

[@whirlwhind666]

@@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385 Libertarians are like house cats - completely reliant on a system they don't understand. What's left without government? Corporations? Their ONLY interest is profit. For all it's problems, the government is effectively the only institution that is on your side. We need reform instead of abolishment. You're romanticizing a cartoonish utopia but sadly big societal changes move at glacial speed and revolutions usually end up creating power vacuums (like in Russia, France and China).

[@lmartin3761]

still dont get it

[@atadbitahistory9660]

Okay. There is a queen, but she doesn't have full power because she is a constitutional monarch, rather than absolute monarch, and there is still parlaiment. A general election is used to decide what party we're going with for the government. Recently, we've been stuck with the tories, so our Prime Minister ( PM ) will be for the Conservative party.

[@catscanhavelittleasalami]

@@atadbitahistory9660 is there a limit to how many times the same PM can be elected?

[@atadbitahistory9660]

@@catscanhavelittleasalami No ( half unfortunately ), for example, William Gladstone kept coming back as PM, I believe four times. Maggot Thatcher was in three times and Harold Wilson was in Labour longer than any mother

[@BritishRepublicsn]

​@@atadbitahistory9660please tell me 'maggot' was intentional lmao

[@user-wc9kg4lj5g]

🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿

[@PETE4955]

This is the reality : you vote and actually get the same party called the Government party. Conservative and Labour are the same party with brilliant skam of blaming each other for previous failings .

[@darkcloud8125]

well with the end of me being political in favour of reality and the world corporation bank alongside the laws of marriage and LGBT and continuing from below today was a CLASSIC! All those unemployed people running their account down to zero waiting another 2 months for the money while the shops launch the real BIG trainer sales for the working people, so nicely done with the PUMA white trainer boots for the pure shimmering white fleece jacket and white cargo pants (cheers Urban outfitters for the brown leather jacket beige cargo pants mannequin tip but you suck on choice of colours and girl staff quality has dropped alongside patrons, big ups Ebay and Amazon). So basically I'm rich but not rich enough for a wife and if you feel the need to say it to me then I'd rather use a transgender model that looks like a beautiful woman dolled up than sleep with your wife (and i already have) so I wont be marrying a dog over intimidation over paedophilia and transgender, while also apologising to 2 16 year old girls today that I'll never have the money...

[@jeffsmith3392]

Did you say both the Commons and Lords make laws? Wrong, only the elected Commons. The Lords is an unelected revisionary chamber that can propose amendments but can't enforce them. The Commons has full primacy.

[@user-ox6nk1fo2f]

Huh? Ok so American here and let me get this right... According to this video you have : Two houses, similar to America. A Prime Minister, which would be our President? (Side note - is your Prime Minister the leader of the army?) And if its a split the houses you do what again? A three way Prime Minister where you invited the third place party in? 🤔

[@jeffsmith3392]

@@user-ox6nk1fo2f basically if the US was like the UK... you elect the full house of representatives for 5 years. The majority leader is called to the Palace/White house by the President /King and is asked to form a government. The majority leader is then appointed Prime Minister with just about all executive powers including the nuclear codes. The minority leader becomes Leader of the opposition and argues once a week with the Prime Minister in the house of representatives /commons. The senate/lords is mostly appointed by both the PM and LoO. The senate can't propose or block laws. It can sent a bill back with advised amendments. The house of representatives /commons can accept the changes or ram through the law. Bills go to the Palace for approval. The President /King has little power because they reign, they don't rule.

[@jeffsmith3392]

@@user-ox6nk1fo2f Prime Minister authorises military force after the house agrees.

[@user-ox6nk1fo2f]

@@jeffsmith3392 OK, thanks for taking the time to answer.

[@tetsuderothchild9318]

In London there r prostitute houses in soho that don't move. Prostitution is illegal in England. I'd say it beyond setting an example to the word these lot r pedigree. Shameful. Boycott uk today remember oxfam scandal? Double standards? Boycott uk

[@jacobchristiansen572]

fake news

[@Joe13313]

Wish Labour was Elected!

[@romanm1287]

EBALO checks out

[@andrewhubbard4044]

LABOUR and the TORIES I'm SICK of these TWO parties always dominating the poles its time for CHANGE VOTE REFORM UK at the next election

[@ericcriteser4001]

Poorly explained.

[@microdot4374]

the haemasexual in the pics I will upload

[@user-ox6nk1fo2f]

Huh? Ok so American here and let me get this right... Two houses, similar to America. A Prime Minister, which would be our President? (Side note - is your Prime Minister the leader of the army?) And if its a split you do what again? A three way Prime Minister where you invited the third place party in? 🤔

[@skylink2661]

Just fooling. PM is just municipal head real power rest with gang of lords headed by God's representative