So politicians are making TikToks now

Which political party will win tiktok? Time for some cringe.
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0:00 Hook & Intro
1:19 Conservative Party TikToks
9:49 Labour Party TikToks
14:08 Reform Party TikToks
17:27 Plaid Cymru TikToks
18:51 Liberal Democrats TikToks
23:16 Green Party TikToks
27:30 Ranking All Political Party TikToks
28:43 SPON
29:50 Outro
30:00 Ukulele Outro
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[@evan]

If your fave UK political party wasn’t in this video, it’s probably because they don’t have a TikTok… or because tiktok’s search UI is an unintuitive mess that doesn’t actually serve you relevant search results after 4 attempts. (TikTok kept only showing me the ScotlandSNP account that has no videos). Sorry SNP! Blame TikTok for bad UI and me for not wanting to retry my search a fifth time

[@nathanlafferty1309]

I think you should speak about the WPB or CPB and their policies. Some interesting manifestos for your run down of the election 👍😄

[@mildlydispleased3221]

At the beginning you show the account for the Irish Labour Party.

[@Meritania]

I’m surprised Count Binface doesn’t have a TikTok.

[@Louisyed]

What about the SNP? They're on TikTok and the 3rd largest party in Parliament at the moment (also in chaos in the last couple of years, so could be a funny one!)

[@seamstressdragon8707]

Evan, can you get a meeting with the Green Party and give them some tips on making good TikToks? 😊

[@cloudycolacorp]

If he wanted gen Z's votes rather than their bloodthirsty grandparents, he wouldn't be threatening them with military service or unspecified punishment. What can they possibly offer younger people, other than more cuts to their services to fund the rich and elderly

[@fayesouthall6604]

Quite right

[@no_name4796]

Italian here! We have a party which literally promised to make the military service mandatory once again, just to appeal to the elderly (fuck salvini, btw)

[@mewsli]

Not all grandparents are bloodthirsty. Well only when the PM (hollow laugh) makes a grade A class one arsehole of himself eg national Service for our kids and not rich kids whose parents can buy their kids out of this non mandatory mandatory shite. :)

[@mildlydispleased3221]

The National Service pledge is to gain the approval of the Gammons.

[@mewsli]

@@mildlydispleased3221 100%

[@Ryan-mm1oj]

i keep seeing them saying "tHe pLAn iS wORkInG" bestie WHAT PLAN

[@dhar6015]

The PLAN is to keep telling us that the shit we are smelling is in all in our heads 😂😂😂😂

[@JSmith19858]

The plan to funnel money in to their own pockets and the pockets of their friends. It's working perfectly

[@qhu3878]

​@@JSmith19858 That implies theyre able to put 2 things together, planning and money. Given their history of horrifically underfunding projects and then crying about their own pet project going over budget I think that may be too much.

[@mrman991]

the plan to give tax payer money to their mates

[@jackoh991]

The plan is to get rewanada to not work, place the ECHR and use that as a way to leave it and remove our human rights

[@I.Fumblebee.I]

Hello fellow youths, look at us, we are so cool we stuck out our gyat for the rizzler. Please vote for us.

[@muhyadeen17]

This made me belly laugh 💀

[@MichelleNyxRaymond]

Cringes

[@Jmcinally94]

Pokémon GO to the polls

[@alinaqirizvi1441]

I still have zero idea what that means despite hearing it like 20 times and being a youth

[@alehlete830]

​@@Jmcinally94classic

[@lfcmike12]

Remember that South Park episode "vote or die"? The choice between a Douche and a turd sandwich? Yeah, I wish our choice was that good.

[@evan]

It's a classic

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

@@evan I member, do you member Chewbacca.

[@NankitaBR]

​@@user-sd3ik9rt6d Oooh, I member! Member Spock?

[@Xeroph-5]

​@@NankitaBR Oooh, I member!

[@miner_farm]

@@Xeroph-5Ooohhh I member too You guys member tegridy farms

[@joepiekl]

Search and rescue? Christ, if I'm drowning the last person I want trying to save me is a teenagers who's being forced to be there on their weekend.

[@DickDyeria]

Lol you'll be on the shore coughing out water as they're making a TikTok about having rescued "another one"

[@L-iv6lx]

The thing thats really confused me is SAR is an on-call service, similar to the fire brigade or HM Coastguard where by you get paged from your workplace or from your home or wherever you are, go to the SAR base, and respond from there with overall coordination from police. So, are you just gonna spend a weekend sat in base, possibly with no callouts (Search and Rescue can take 0 999 calls for multiple days, especially during winter when people aren't hiking.) Tories have said they want to do this to get young people "socialising", but that sounds extremely pointless.

[@raylouis7013]

Here in Australia I know 16-19 year olds who volunteer for the SES(State Emergency Services) and the RFS (Rural Fire Service). They are all wonderful people. But if they were FORCED to do it?... no dangerous profession wants kids who have no choice to be there. The military would be the same.

[@hannahk1306]

​@@L-iv6lx They wouldn't even be able to do that, because SAR needs *months* of training, so they wouldn't be allowed out on call outs. In most of these sectors, they'd probably just end up doing busy work because they won't have the training, experience or clearance to do anything meaningful and therefore be less likely to actually pursue those things in the future.

[@gregoryclark8217]

The teenagers doing search and rescue will be looking for the teenagers from the previous weekend

[@tomrogue13]

I remember a comment from a tldr video about a week ago that pointed out Labour isnt necessarily polling better than the last few elections, just the tories are doing that bad

[@alinaqirizvi1441]

Vote Workers' Party UK!!!

[@InservioLetum]

To be fair.... the tories have been on the back foot ever since the hotel bombing that almost clipped Thatcher.

[@madgamer44x]

The Tories have lost the trust of their base. This is going to be about the Tories losing all their votes to political apathy rather than anyone being convinced by Kier

[@hyperpii18]

​@@alinaqirizvi1441 they have good antiwar and economic policies but fell off everything else

[@TheUnluckyGama]

Yeah, cos they've dissolutioned their core voter base. They're just relying on the Tories being so bad people won't vote for them and the win by default

[@goodyxeroxx]

$100 AUD says posh kids can opt out because they have been planning their Important and Valuable careers in textile sculpture and laundering taxpayer grants since grade 2.

[@pinkdiamond1847]

And their parents can afford to send them away and it seems like the only real consequence so far is going to be not being able to access benefits, which is something that only the poor kids need.

[@hannahk1306]

At one point they were genuinely suggesting that the punishment would be to fine their parents (bear in mind that these are legal adults). So it would literally be the rich kids getting mummy and daddy to pay to get them out of it!

[@Pope_Rural_I5184]

​@@hannahk1306 a fine is only a crime for the lower class fr

[@MartijnPennings]

Yup, that's basically what I immediately thought. It will get poor kids into the army or health care jobs while the rich kids do whatever they want.

[@trampertravels]

How do you know when a politician is lying? Their lips move.

[@dhar6015]

😂😂😂

[@sjargo11]

Ventriloquist for President 2024!!!!

[@mrman991]

this is just propaganda to disenfranchise the voter base and hand a win to the more right wing parties

[@alinaqirizvi1441]

@@sjargo11 *PM

[@LOLE_Editz]

Give this guy an Oscar or BAFTA.

[@colingregory7464]

Labour's best tactic is probably to stay silent and let the Conservative's do the work for them !!

[@colingregory7464]

The Right side of the Conservative Party and UKIP telling the voters things that were almost exclusively not going to happen but would get votes is a huge part of why Brexit happened ?

[@colingregory7464]

Rishi with David Mitchell's voice was pretty hilarious playing Football

[@colingregory7464]

How would you pay for the New Council Houses Green Party ?

[@fayesouthall6604]

Every day is a cock up for the tories it’s like he’s cosplaying Brewsters Millions.

[@colingregory7464]

Brewsters Millions is a great film but a very obscure reference in time when very few Old Films/Movies get shown regularly and people under a certain age will only ever watch the Apochryphally bad remake (The Day The Earth Stood Still, I quite like both versions but one of them is very not good !)

[@DeadDancers]

That ‘people who don’t contribute don’t get to benefit’ was seriously dark. It’s not about getting benefits - it’s about having current benefits stripped from you. “Volunteer” for the army, or don’t get any social security seems to be the obvious message. Anyone who can’t live off their family until finding work (perhaps also ‘for long enough’ - god forbid you only get seasonal or gig work and need help in between jobs) is probably also going to be expected to put their lives on the line to ‘earn’ the right to below-poverty social benefits.

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

yep, that's what I heard too. it's really dark

[@MartijnPennings]

Also, I'm immediately imagining how rich kids can somehow get away with not doing it or having an easier "volunteering job" than poor ones.

[@user-jj8id7kg8p]

Maybe it they want gen z to vote for them, maybe don't send them to the military or community service. Just a thought

[@MsPeabody1231]

😂😂😂

[@shaesmith2831]

That’s exactly the problem, you had a thought. You’re already miles ahead of the tories

[@hannahk1306]

That's the genius of it: anyone that would have to do it, is too young to vote anyway!

[@beabzz_]

not to mention rishi's argument to being in uni and needing to work and study on the weekends is really bad, like the cost of living is bad enough, nevermind for students?? they don't have the time to give up a weekend a month to volunteer because they rely on making money to survive, unlike rishi who had a trust fund

[@hypatian9093]

Yep. You want students to help their communities, then give them better support.

[@beabzz_]

@@hypatian9093 this!!!!

[@Miss_Lexisaurus]

yeah, he totally did not understand that question. "It's only 1 weekend a month," that's the point - it's 1 weekend a month someone can't work their job, that's 2 days pay they've lost every month for a year.

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

they keep saying "one weekend a month" as if that's a tiny amount and not 1/4 of your free time

[@israellai]

​@@Miss_Lexisaurus Of course he didn't understand. Has he ever had to actually work for a day in his life?

[@ducksdog9996]

My first thought is always check the comments when I see political stuff on platforms they are always pure gold!

[@Sara-uq6km]

In the last national election in Denmark there was a rise in the party called “liberal alliance” which is the most liberal (as in in economically liberal, less state, less taxes, all that) and that rise is partially credited to the young head of the partys presence on tiktok which gained them a lot of new young voters. It was surprising because young people tend to vote progressively but it goes to show that this tactic can work if executed well.

[@BoredSquirell]

The winning move for many younger people is "less government, less taxes" but never ever touch anything socially conservative. When you're young it's hard to see everything that could go wrong in life and why you need a solid government regulated safety net. Speaking from experience.

[@hypatian9093]

I think on TikTok or generally social media meant to address younger people it would generally be better for politicians to make personal accounts and promote themselves and thus their party. That's not for everyone, but those politicians "can TikTok" could really make an impact.

[@tessiepinkman]

@@hypatian9093 Yeah, just look at _(some)_ American politicians, especially AOC _(Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)._ She's got an incredibly large audience and a large following, which is all very much thanks to her; _1)_ being young and actually caring about the same issues as "regular" people, and young people, care about, and; _2)_ her openness on the internet. She's incredibly open about her own life and *why* she believes the things she believes, and she describes *how* her ideas would help the country. That's how politics should be done on the internet. I'm Swedish, live in Norway, and I can't say that neither of "my" countries has anyone doing internet-politics as well as she does.

[@StrikeBolteafc]

@@tessiepinkmanis that person a dem or republican

[@Alex-cw3rz]

National service is normally needed when the country is in a crisis or has a hightened threat, it is not a good look to be going into an election after being in government for 14 years and you are admiting the entire country is falling apart and you need national service for it to function

[@matthewryan4844]

Switzerland and singapore both have national service with no apparent crises so the link is not always there. It is an odd choice of policy given they need more younger voters.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@matthewryan4844 Switzerland and Singapore also have tiny populations and are also tiny places compared to the UK. People always bring up the Nordic states too, who's population is around 1/3 of ENGLAND, when you combine them all. Never mind the rest of the UK. As many people live in Greater London as the entire population of Sweden, who have the largest population of the Nordic states. Also the Army has said they don't want this. They don't want people who don't really want to be there, when they can barely look after the embarrassingly small number they already have thanks to massive budget cuts by the Tories over the last 14 years. We can't even afford to keep the few Challenger 2 tanks we sent to Ukraine in fully working order, never mind our entire fleet (which has been diminished thanks to austerity).

[@Alex-cw3rz]

​@@matthewryan4844 look when and why they introduced them

[@rossstewart9475]

@@matthewryan4844 Didn't Switzerland enact it's national service in the 1930s though, when Europe was looking just a little bit hairy? Singapore on the other hand enacted it's national service in 1967, two years after it's independence from the remnant of the British Empire; I don't think it's remotely a stretch to call the early years of a fledgling multicultural nation a crisis state.

[@Whydoisuddenlyneedahandlewtf]

@@matthewryan4844Singapore is also an unofficial dictatorship with extreme laws to maintain order. Seems to be effective though

[@workinprogresssince1974]

Wait. Did Reform argue that an extra £1500 per year in the bank would help save for a home???? 🤔

[@pattheplanter]

In only 100 years you could buy a home, as long as the price of homes doesn't go up.

[@joemorgan9860]

I mean, to be fair, it would help, i mean, using a cup to empty the titanic helps. More importantly, who and where is this £1500 coming from, like, have they said because if im honest, i ignore them.

[@sandraisyearning]

"Oh you see that stuff on TikTok?" "No, nobody on youtube told me about it yet." I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

[@RosePostedThis]

The song, btw, will come up if you search for "I'm looking for a man in finance, 6'5", blue eyes." An influencer spoke it that way asking people to make it into a song. It's quite funny, seeing as Sunak is way more a man in finance than a PM.

[@master1442p]

And is also shorter than Napoleon on a good day

[@RosePostedThis]

​@@master1442pWell, Starmer isn't hugely tall, and Napoleon wasn't as short as commonly stated... But I get what you mean.

[@legalpenguin2194]

The great thing about all these tiktok accounts is that politicians are beginning to think young people are going to vote in large numbers. I really, really hope they do. I'm in my 50s and most people I know my age vote, but my parents and their friends in their 80s would go through fire to vote every single time, and my kids (in their 20s) find most of their friends don't. Please, please vote - I don't care who you vote for (well I do, but it's not my place to tell you), but until young people vote in the numbers old people vote in, party politics will continue to focus on the pension triple lock and making young people pay for their education.

[@hannahk1306]

Also, don't forget that postal and proxy votes are options too (great if you're on holiday during the election). I'm not sure about proxy voting, but for postal votes you don't need ID either - you just give them your signature when you apply (can be done online) and then they match that against the signature on your postal vote.

[@kaleeyed]

I learned from the Abroad in Japan podcast that the Japanese call Sunak 'Snacku San' and this will now forever be his name in our house!

[@evan]

Can’t find one source to back that up tho

[@raystewart3648]

Gen Z have it bloody hard, compared to all past generations, because they do not have a purpose in life, like the other generations had. I Left school in 1992 and worked. Walk down any high street anywhere in the UK and there are closed shops, malls, there is rubbish everywhere, there is no work in factories as robots are taking over, the Universal Credit sys is all but screwed up, they have massive amounts of debt from University and to top it all off, Gen Z can not ever hope to own a business (that is not on KZbin) and or ever hope fore retirement as the retirement age keeps going up.

[@englishflowers1233]

vote reform then

[@hugh1997]

@englishflowers1233 Ah yes, very trustworthy that Farage. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@clsisman]

My respect for gen z was already high and it just went up. They’re too media literate for these jokers. Young people, PLEASE VOTE!!! You know who to vote for better than the rest of us but the turnout is what will make a difference.

[@JoLU2DGames]

It is, as my nephew called it, "cringe". The harm the Tories have done to this country they may well be on for not even being the official opposition. They deserve worse, especially with the harm they have done to the disabled, trans people, women, children and their own ancient voter base. Also, the "volunteering" is for blue-light groups - the police, the fire service, the NHS. Dangerous jobs with zero pay or compensation for injury/death at work. I don't believe these questions came from actual TikTok users - Rishi hates confrontation and un-staged questions, that's why he had Tory councillors pretend to be factory workers. TWICE.

[@rinnniiiii]

Let's just say, if I had the choice between the Conservatives, Labour and a 5 month old baby, I'd vote for the baby to run the country every day

[@Siennarchist]

🇬🇧 BRING BACK THE LETTUCE !!! 🇬🇧

[@pinkdiamond1847]

The only Tory I would ever vote for is Larry the cat. I'm just saying if Larry, the cat became a prime minister in 2019, we probably would have got a good brexit deal and none of this would have been happening oh and he would have handled covid better as well.

[@jacobreed8753]

Vote for green then

[@Tay12345]

@@jacobreed8753 no, vote Reform 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@ericveneto1593]

Before the video started, I got a Biden ad.

[@tomrogue13]

Same lol

[@caranook]

Wait there’s Biden ads? I’ve never gotten an ad for a politician in my life! What was the ad about?

[@tomrogue13]

@@caranook donate to my campaign please

[@DickDyeria]

Biden = Bi-Den, a bisexual Den, you're welcome.

[@pinkdiamond1847]

I'm guessing you're American. I feel really sorry for you. I can't imagine having to choose between a senile old man and a convicted felon to lead the country. I know we have it pretty bad here but at least we have several awful people to choose from (even though labour is almost definitely going to win due to the fact that everyone is desperate to get rid of the conservatives)

[@violetskies14]

I don't like Labour or really any of our political parties but as a disabled person who has seen all the funding and services for people like me be eroded over the past 14 years I am screaming for literally anyone else to be in charge and Labour has the best chance of beating them. My paediatric occupational therapist, the nicest woman ever, quit back in 2017 because she felt like she couldn't help people anymore, there was no more funding, and that was 7 years ago, it's only gotten worse since. I was on the housing list for over 5 years, living in a tiny room full of damp in a house where I could only access my room and the bathroom and I only got the bungalow I am now in because I got pneumonia due to the mould covering every surface, nearly died and have permanent lung damage, one of the only parts of me that had previously worked now wrecked, so my mum sued the council and they wanted to shut us up. Mum got £1000 for their failure to do proper repairs and I got a place to live and neither of us had any fight left in us afterwards. And now they're trying to replace pip with vouchers when I don't need NHS vouchers I need money for extra fuel costs for the massive van that can transport my wheelchair, the giant electricity bill for all my mobility aids and heating costs because I can't regulate my own body temperature, the specialised food and drink due to dysphagia and water nausea, and all the specific clothes, bedding, shoes blankets for the wheelchair. Pip already doesn't cover all that, not even half of it. So my whole family is voting labour, not because we like them, just because we hope it won't be quite as bad under them. It shouldn't be like this, we need voting reform and to get rid of the first past the post voting system.

[@clsisman]

I’m so sorry for what you’ve been through.

[@JonasHamill]

PIP was already a shitty replacement for disability living allowance, something I lost when they made the switch. Fuck the tories

[@Anonyomus_commenter]

Lib Dems are absolutely the party to go for on care and disablity rights

[@charleston1789]

That is so rough, I hate navigating the benefits system, it deliberately tries to crush us because the current government just doesn’t want us to exist. I hope things get better for you, I truly do

[@scotty430]

Im also disabled (not immobile, but getting there... Muscular dystrophy). and let me just let you know im happy youre not stuck in the good ol US of A. I moved from California to a European country and my healthcare is literally 100x better, and im not even a citizen yet. Plus im in one of the poorer European countries... But i feel your pain 🫀. Ive been there.. unfortunately UK and US politics are a little too similar for comfort...

[@verstrickt.und.ausgerechnet]

Millennial from Germany here: yes, unfortunately, politics on tiktok DO work. In Germany, tik tok has mainly been explored by the far right party "AFD" who gained some traction across the last 15 years or so, but for most of that time weren't really popular amongst the youngest voters. As soon as they decided to go hard on IG reels and on Tik Tok, they have now within a couple years, turned that around and in yesterdays election, they actually WON in the 16-25 demographic. Meanwhile, the green party (who had been extremely strong amongst young voters in the last few years, and won in the young demographics 5 years ago at 34 percent) only got 11 percent of those 16-25yrs votes. Which is completely baffling to me. I just want to move. really really far away. Any recommendations?

[@scotty430]

Come over here to Portugal. Got tons of German mates here, and they'll tell you they never looked back. And i Definitely!! Don't either (im from The States 😆)

[@DickDyeria]

You can come to Mexico where the Cartel handpicked the first female Jewish president after slaughtering countless opponents? 🤷

[@emelyhoefer]

Only other comments i found about this. And it is truly horrifying. Believe me you're not the only on who wants out....

[@gnomevoyeur]

I'm Australian and my limited knowledge of the intricacies of British electoral law and practice come from a Tom Scott video. Unlike the USA where politicians are on the hustings 365 days a year, the UK seems to have laws restricting political advertising to the official 6 week campaign. I suspect all the parties had been working on these for a while and all dropped in once the election was called to ensure they were in line with law and practice.

[@Anonyomus_commenter]

They have been trying to drum up support for a while (see PMQs which I believe you also have?), but yeah labour have basically confirmed they have had a plan ready for months.

[@hannahk1306]

They knew that there had to be an election sometime this year (the last election was 12th December 2019 and they have to have another within 5 years), they just didn't know exactly when it would be. They weren't expecting it to be this early in the year (although our normal voting time is usually May), so the plans weren't fully fledged when the election was called. However, they've been forming plans and having digs at each other for a while. We also had local elections back in May (mostly for Police Crime Commissioners), so they were legally allowed to do some campaigning then.

[@soniquesmith6397]

As a South African who just went through her own country’s elections. This is insane to me 😂 Our parties have instagrams and the party that Runs Cape Town has a TikTok (that they rarely use), but I could not have seen this coming from a mile away 😂

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Imagine needing search and rescue and the people available are some 18 year olds with minimal training who doesn't even want to be there. Not saying they wouldn't try there hardest but I think you need professionals. Even in things he casually drops like delivery of medication.

[@wolfen210959]

That delivery of medication thing will never happen, you need a secure vehicle and special insurance, so that's a non starter.

[@Anonyomus_commenter]

@@wolfen210959None of it will ever happen, the tories know full well they will lose

[@PorcoWest]

Being to old for tiktok I must say thank you for putting yourself through this and showing us what joys we are missing on the platform. And holy hell rishi is minted and yet cannot afford to hire anyone to produce even passable propaganda for them shocking shows how little they actually care as the only thing to come from losing for these ghouls is a cushy advisor and corpo jobs and a massive pay rise.

[@evan]

Rishi's were better than Reform's at least! And yeah the worst part is because I don't really use tiktok (except to watch these for this video) my recommended for you page is now just political party tiktoks haha

[@fayesouthall6604]

@@evana young Tory intern …probably said let’s do this. Kids will vote for us. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@workinprogresssince1974]

There is nothing more embarrassing than when MPs try to be hip with the kids on social media. It demonstrates that they have no idea how the real world works or how to function in it. And these people run the country. Equally, them doing this isn't getting anything done. It's just more waffle. :(

[@jackoh991]

The fact Rishi thinks you can afford one weekend a month when living hand to mouth. I use to work 14 hours a day 7 days a week at university. Where would I get an extra weekend from!!

[@R1IY2N]

He should be forced to live like the average person

[@R1IY2N]

Maybe then he’ll see how hard it is to

[@horggroh]

i may not be a libdem voter, but i think libdems are by far doing the best job at campaigning this election. Ed Davey feels more like a normal guy than any of the other party leaders (not that that’s very hard though). I wonder if other parties will adopt the libdem “have fun” campaigning approach later this election or next? Would make election season a lot more enjoyable

[@MeganGrace130513]

If they have a chance of winning in my area I may be tempted to vote for them purely on their campaign alone! Ed davey looks like he's been having the time of his life, and I'd rather him in charge than me-internalised-racism or me-I-used-to-be-a-tory. The last election (by-election) I voted indepent, before that green for a few years and before that Labour.

[@YujiUedaFan]

Libdems always try to get young people voting for them, so it makes a lot of sense they'd hire people who know what they're doing on Tiktok.

[@Tay12345]

I think Nigel Farage has done a lot better than them

[@hilliard665]

As an Australian that sounded pretty clear, we won't put them in jail, they just won't let them qualify for any benefits, possibly including access to NHS?

[@DickDyeria]

Very dark

[@L-iv6lx]

to be fair i don't think anyone has access to the NHS in this country given the waitlists

[@hannahk1306]

They don't actually know - their original suggestion was fining the parents (of legal adults), but that understandably got so much backlash that they're just pretending that they never said it.

[@andreasi8741]

Today in Cyprus: a KZbin became MEP by gaining 19% in EU parliament elections by weaponising TikTok

[@jonathanwessner3456]

the whole "we have a plan" is American politicians too. They'd rather tell you how bad the other side is than tell you the plan to stop them

[@sangfroidian5451]

Thank you for showing me this, given I will never access Tiktok and thanks to you Evan, I won't have to!! 😆

[@evan]

It’s awful. I don’t recommend it haha

[@kumori_77]

rishi sunak is so down with the kids and hip and trendy using tiktok

[@TalesOfWar]

Just like he's down with the working class. He has many such friends.

[@injuringchip3161]

​@@TalesOfWarYeah! He has friends in every class! Upper class, working cl- well, not working class

[@clsisman]

Evergreen clip

[@RoyallyHansky]

Sunak’s tiktok about the Blythe announcement (from a while back) is I think one of my favourite videos EVER. He really showed he didn’t understand any flavour of transition.

[@Anonyomus_commenter]

He hates anything that has “trans” in it so checks out

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

I'm a vulnerable person who might benefit from getting prescriptions delivered to me. I *do not* want to have to rely on the whims on an unpaid 18 year old who doesn't want to be there

[@katashworth41]

“We have a plan” translates to “I’ve already enrolled my kids in school in California”.

[@myfriendcow]

Honestly, from a PR standpoint, the ones running the labour party's and liberal democrats' tiktok accounts are really good at their job. The first tiktok that you reacted to from the labour party (and severely cringed at) was actually really well made from an advertising point of view. It's a trend at them moment and they caught it while it was still very relevant. I feel like the conservatives nor the reform party don't have enough gen Z's within their parties or working for them to be successful on tiktok. We see this here on sweden too. The social democratic party's youth organisation has been doing really well on tiktok due to this reason. Another party, the sweden democrats, has also been quite successful on social media due to them having a lot of youth in their media team. A favourite of mine is when the swedish leftist party put up a clip from a debate between the party leaders and their own leader called the Christian democratic party leader a "sausage swinger". The context to that comment is that the Christian democratic party's leader went into the parliament with a traditional swedish falu sausage once having it represent something regarding the inflation.

[@scotty430]

"sausage swinger" 😂

[@BrazenBull91]

I found out that if you tell people who are canvassing that you are spoiling your card, they get quite upset 😂

[@giygasattack]

I am in actual physical pain

[@NTLBagpuss]

I believe the 12 months in the military will be paid, but the compulsory "volunteer" work won't be. So I guess there is that.

[@pinkdiamond1847]

Also, it's not volunteering if you're forced or coerced into doing it. It's just slavery.

[@nickwalters5380]

Dead man walking. It's pathetic.

[@fayesouthall6604]

Truly pathetic

[@L-iv6lx]

which one?

[@jacklovejoy5290]

I swear the Lib Dem strategy seems to be "well, Labour going to win so we may as well have fun"

[@hannahk1306]

To be fair, in some areas (like mine) the Lib Dems have a much higher chance than Labour of winning the seat. They're unlikely to win outright, but they could still get a decent number of seats and be the top pick if a coalition is required or even be the opposition party, depending how badly the Conservatives do.

[@nobbyfirefly57]

“What if my circumstances prevent me from studying and doing the army?” Rishi: “that’s a skill issue”

[@evan]

Hahaha

[@belinda.curtis]

Whenever election season rolls around I'm just reminded about how awful the first past the post system is. I'm someone who usually votes Lib Dem or Green but it's almost always a wasted vote, and given how badly I want the tories out, I feel like I have to vote tactically for Labour rather than actually vote for the party I am most politically aligned with. We desperately need proportional representation in this country.

[@MsPeabody1231]

I vote tactically for the Lib Dems to keep the Tories out!

[@clsisman]

It depends where you live! If you’re in a constituency where the tories have a chance of getting in then yes, you need to vote labour. But in many constituencies it is tactical to vote Lib Dem or green. I live in a VERY safe labour seat, so I vote green so that my mp feels under pressure to continue to win my vote. Know what the polls are in your area!

[@belinda.curtis]

@@clsisman My constituency is a rather special one in that the MP that wins in our area will be the party that wins overall. Every single election without fail this has happened. So it'll almost certainly be Labour that wins this year which is why I feel like there's no point in my vote. If proportional representation were a thing then people would be able to vote exactly how they wanted rather than this strange concept of tactical voting.

[@scotty430]

At least you're not in the US, where it's literally a money game. The richest and most connected already won. Thank gawd i moved to europe. My genuine hopes and prayers go out to Bernie Sanders....

[@clsisman]

@@belinda.curtis There is definitely a point to you voting!!! But yes, prop rep would be better.

[@RCassinello]

"We're going to use forced child labour to run essential services so we can cut taxes for rich people"

[@leskfan1277]

Americans 8 months from now: TikTok? How come I can't view Tiktoks any more?

[@krank23]

"If you don't do military service, you won't get any of the benefits. Like voting. Service guarantees citizenship!"

[@fourseven9121]

Hey Evan! Think you made a slight mistake at 0:19. You posted a screenshot of the Irish Labour Party not the British one...

[@evan]

Ah good eye! That’s not the first time I accidentally looked at their TikTok for this video haha.

[@fourseven9121]

@@evan no worries, we all make mistakes haha

[@hypatian9093]

That was the test to see if viewers pay attention ;)

[@W8D_]

17:31 is Evan losing all his Welsh viewers (bring back Places Evan has been cancelled from)

[@lucie4185]

Think he may be cancelled in Scotland and Northern Ireland too 😕

[@franklingoodwin]

Somehow Rishi Sunak is even more robotic on TikTok. I kinda wish he was on Cameo so we could troll him and get him to say "happy birthday, Hugh Janus" like Farage 😂 Big Chungus sends his regards.

[@kaleeyed]

Evan, you missed the best question on the Rishi video, "if I work at 18 will that contribute to freddo prices going down"

[@Rhianalanthula]

My 18 and 17 year olds are on the electoral register (I put them on at 16 and sorted voter id). Eldest voted in locals and can't wait to vote against tories next month. 15 year old will get added in the summer.

[@ashisbandobsessed8846]

this is so funny to see as someone from new zealand cuz our political parties also appeared on tiktok during our last election and our prime minister is trying so hard to become relevant on there, instead a lot of us are just making fun of him

[@stephenlee5929]

Does Count Binface tiktok? I know he's more of a Ceefax Alien but. I found his You-tube stuff to be OK. Love his promise on Croissant price cap. He's standing in Richmond, Yorkshire against Rishi.

[@themonettree]

Also former labour leader Ed Miliband is also on tiktok, so that's our political state here in the uk at the moment

[@Arksimon2k]

Lib Dems got a laugh out of me as well. I would vote for them but they're at the bottom of polling in my new constituency. I'm happy enough if they kick out Tories in other seats though, that's what matters.

[@04williamsl]

I can remember doing a media studies course in secondary school (don't worry, I didn't waste my student loans money going onto a degree in that subject!) which talked about how Obama utilised Facebook when going for the presidency. Events/rallies were organised, posts put out etc all from his social media accounts. He was one of the first to actually weaponise social media... and it seemed to work quite well for him.

[@elmacho2789]

Bro is throwing away the two Parliament seats he was gonna get

[@DeadDancers]

Why does he keep saying voluntary? Doesn’t he understand what that word means???

[@BertoLaDK]

We have had a single party mostly active on tiktok for a couple of years in Denmark, some of the other parties have started to show a little presence but that one party is actually doing tiktoks and have done so for years now.

[@beabzz_]

i don't really like the national service, as someone who will be nearly 18 in the uk, because despite being given the "opportunity" to volunteer in our local community, it won't encourage anyone to work in those areas and will cause more problems than it will solve because being forced to do something historically means we don't do it, and why would we want to do something good if we're being forced to? if they really cared about the youth helping their local community they would have encouraged it more beforehand and not just thrown it out of the blue (the head of military had no idea a couple days before it was announced) to make it seem like hes all for a "team effort" again like in covid. also it will cost them several billion pounds for this scheme , whilst they have been cutting funding to the actual army...

[@Fyr35555]

I would say its fairly obvious at this point that the national service scheme is more targeted towards voters on the far-right that might consider voting Reform over Conservative.

[@beabzz_]

@@Fyr35555 i get that but rishi is trying to convince young people of it in the tiktoks and there are very little far right gen z voters that that i know

[@Abdullah97484]

Oh when that election was announced and I got my first Rishi ad on KZbin I was so cringed out. Like is there no place to escape him.

[@Kellestial]

My towns charity shops just only recently started closing (like half the town centre was charity shops) and I’m worried these forced volunteering laws will reverse that

[@mytube001]

6:53, what an amazing combination of contrast-eliminating colors and lighting. The background, the sweater and the bad lighting - it's all a skin-colored soup.

[@dazm3754]

The 'Real' people whom Rishi replied to are likely to be stooges to ask the set questions. When doing the football piece in Wales he wished them well in the up coming Euros, even when they had been knocked out in the qualification. You missed a called back not doing the Ukulele Outro as My heart Will Go On as a callback

[@bigdaddigaming]

Did I mishear it but at 25:30 did the green party TikTok say they’d introduce a new nature act to protect and restore dogging, or am I hearing things🤣

[@jonathanmatthews8928]

22:58 What a nice surprise! That libdem lady is someone I used to sing musicals with, back when I lived in London - Sarah Olney. A thoroughly decent person who I'd happily vote for if I lived in the right part of the country!

[@dianef4227]

Thank you again for entertaining me, and for saving me from having to go on tik tok for another year. I am 52 and don’t need to learn another social media platform.

[@evan]

youve made a good decision

[@wozzywick]

It’s the first time I’ve heard “genny lec” and I hate it!

[@punditgi]

Great to see you again! 🎉😊

[@CTCTraining1]

Go on Evan, see if you can give the Greens a have with their media … bet they wouldn’t mind you also filming some ‘behind the scenes’ footage for your own use 😀👍

[@BreakBeatPaul]

"90% of people would say labour isnt left enough" 23:25 The YouGov 'Labour Party alignment' poll last updated May 2024 says that 1% of uk think Labour is 'Fairly rightwing' 5% thing 'slightly right of centre' 10% think 'centre' 11% think 'Very left wing' 22% think 'Fairly left wing' and 26% think 'slightly left of centre' the rest 'dont know'. Everyone one is guilty of it but remember opinions can often be very different outside your bubble and always do your own research!

[@petervaughan6854]

B&H is presumably Brighton & Hove, I believe the only seat they’ve had an MP elected in to date…perhaps they have a second somewhere out by Bristol?

[@shaesmith2831]

They’re hoping to gain their second MP this election in Bristol central. Obviously that also assumes they still hold Brighton

[@EzraSprouts]

Guessing B&H refers to Brighton & Hove, considering the area has had a really active and influential Green Party at both council and MP level. So residents can actually review their performance

[@TheFlyingGerbil]

Previous manifestos I’ve most closely aligned with green but it is a complete waste of time voting for them in a first past the post system. Last election my constituency went from red to blue so I don’t know if I should vote Labour even though they have really disappointed me they’d still obviously be better than the conservatives

[@iannorton2253]

I'm in the same situation. Derby North went to Conservative last time. I don't like the current Labour Party, but the Greens only got 2.2% of the vote in 2019. I want to vote Green, but only Labour stands a chance of beating the Tories.

[@THTB_lol]

please

[@violetskies14]

I don't like Labour or really any politicians but as a disabled person who has seen all the funding and services for people like me be eroded over the past 14 years I am screaming for literally anyone else to be in charge. My paediatric occupational therapist quit back in 2017 because she felt like she couldn't help people anymore, there was no more funding, and that was 7 years ago, it's only gotten worse since. I was on the housing list for over 5 years, living in a tiny room full of damp in a house where I could only access my room and the bathroom and I only got the bungalow I am now in because I got pneumonia due to the mould covering every surface, nearly died and have permanent lung damage, one of the only parts of me that had previously worked now wrecked, so my mum sued the council and they wanted to shut us up. Mum got £1000 for their failure to do proper repairs and I got a place to live and neither of us had any fight left in us afterwards. And now they're trying to replace pip with vouchers when I don't need NHS vouchers I need money for extra fuel costs for the massive van that can transport my wheelchair, the giant electricity bill for all my mobility aids and heating costs because I can't regulate my own body temperature, the specialised food and drink due to dysphagia and water nausea, and all the specific clothes, bedding, shoes blankets for the wheelchair. Pip already doesn't cover all that, not even half of it. So my whole family is voting labour, not because we like them, just because we hope it won't be quite as bad under them.

[@evan]

@@iannorton2253ooo I’m visiting derby soon

[@Green528]

I'm still voting Green (I believe the more votes they receive the more campaign money they get and TV exposure for future elections let's face it even with Caroline Lucas as an MP they were treated pretty poorly looking at you Question Time ) Those operating Starmer are way too right wing for me and I can't live with my conscious if i voted for them . I have skin in the game as a disabled person but they seem they just want to continue on with a lot of Tory policy especially after going back on al the progressive stuff Rachael Reeves is a true right winger. I will be pushing PR with my more than likely Labour MP ( there is no way they aren't going to win with a majority) Labour could have given us so much hope and now they are just depressing.

[@DjDolHaus86]

Nothing says the last 14 years have been a success like bringing back national service to deal with the future

[@mrman991]

tories answering questions "live" my suspician is they just had a list of likely questions that they then posted under different accounts and then answered, all in one go

[@LucasSchimmel]

"I have a plan" Rishi van der Linde.

[@evan]

I get that reference

[@KidarWolf]

Presumably it means sacrificing the elderly and the youth in a smash and grab against the common working man.

[@qhu3878]

It makes even more sense rishi wanting to run to tahiti, it is in *French* polynesia and thus benefits from the EU.

[@melpomeno7355]

the voiceover cos Evan can’t speak welsh is sending me 😂

[@lydiasharman7198]

I'm voting either Lib Dem or Green but waiting for the Vote for Policies survey to help me decide

[@StealthheartDraws]

I don’t know how things work in the UK, but in Germany and the US, there are plenty of gen Z that wanted to go into the army

[@pinkdiamond1847]

That's because the people in the United States get brainwashed from birth into loving their country and the German state actually takes care of its people. The UK does neither of these things. Of course, when I was growing up they attempted by only teaching us the good parts of British history however, the fact that we have access to the internet kind of defeats the point of that. Perhaps if they had us pledging allegiance to the union flag everyday of our childhood or maybe if the government actually took care of the people like they used to then perhaps things would be different.

[@hannahk1306]

I don't think it's that popular here and anyone that might be interested would do so anyway. The armed forces have also said that they don't want this scheme (and I'm pretty sure the industries being targeted by the "voluntary" part, don't want it either).

[@jwb52z9]

In the US, that's because of right-wing brainwashing.

[@nathansavage8692]

They say the military route for national service would give trade skills in technical fields like engineering or cyber security but there simply isnt the time. Im in a computing degree and after the first year everyone barely knew what they were doing and wouldnt have been useful to an employer in a technical capacity.

[@joepiekl]

'In cyber' is something I've only ever heard in that other Tory ad about a ballerina retraining to work in cyber. I still have no idea what it actually means. Also, eurgh, he did the Tony Blair thumb point.

[@davidthompson9368]

Gen Z are more active in whats going on whether they understand it is another question.

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

So as far as i can see, all i can summarize is: Conservative: *VOTE US PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE* Labour: _Sneers at conservative_ UKIP: 💀 Reform: Uh guys we only have budget for a news studio Plaid Cymru: _Speaks welsh_ Liberal Democrat: Labour but more memes Green: Literally that clueless meme

[@edsilvester]

Sunak's Cat: How you can have no-plan and also same have no-plan that will cost you £2k

[@jgbreezer]

15:35 woman (presumed) comes on to talk about her brother (+gf) not being able to afford a house, and then about the other brother. Soo.... Just talking about how bad men have it then eh? What about herself? But of course they want a woman presenting it so it seems they at least care a tiiiny bit about women (when they can look pretty/be charming to an audience of probably mostly-men).

[@alexatkin]

I was more laughing at the fact they think £1,500 extra a year is not going to immediately be sucked up by the electricity bill alone. Nobody stands a chance of saving up after the massive inflation hike.

[@philroberts7238]

There are more women voters than men and they are more likely to vote than men.

[@philroberts7238]

....not that I'd want to justify any sort of ad for Reform!

[@pinkdiamond1847]

Maybe it's as simple as she could afford a house and the men in her family couldn't? It doesn't always boil down to misogyny although I would absolutely believe that a lot of the people who support reform are probably in some way misogynistic (because a lot of them are racist and homophobic and transphobic so why not be misogynistic as well), I don't think that was the case here.

[@pinkdiamond1847]

​@@alexatkin Either we're really out of touch of them or they plan on getting rid of a lot of people to free up space Which would probably lower the cost of housing.

[@happyface1724]

Ffs but he couldnt do it on the bbc cos no one watches it and people arent paying the fee yer done dude vote reform uk!

[@marsdeat]

"Cyber" is specifically something that the government say. There was that whole advertising campaign that was like "Retrain in cyber!" a couple years back... This is the same country that (until last year) had a "Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport"... I LOVE how "Digital" is there as though it's a noun like the other three.

[@dancecommando]

Your political arc is going well! Reform are like the Prager U of Tik Tok

[@WhichDoctor1]

I like the answer to the question about people who need to works weekends to survive was “don’t worry, you’ll just have unpaid work at the weekends instead”

[@85Onne]

Our ex prime minister just got "Influencer of the year" award 😳😀 so the struggle is real for the politicians

[@ziggarillo]

I did my community service delivering newspapers to the elderly, and some other people.