Britain’s Conservatives Are About to Lose Big

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Parliamentary elections on July 4th look bleak for Britain’s ruling Conservative Party. The Tories will almost certainly lose power for the first time in 14 years. And lose big. Polls show they could see the largest swing between the main parties in modern history. Rishi Sunak could possibly become the first sitting prime minister to lose their own seat in a general election.
So what have Conservatives done wrong? What has Labour done right? And as 2024 repeats 2016 with another pair of pivotal U.K. and U.S. votes, what can Americans look to learn from Britain?
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@AndyParkinson-r2h 3 ай бұрын

Steve Bray deserves a knighthood for constantly calling these crooks out

@bereal6590 3 ай бұрын

Sure does

@airingcupboard 3 ай бұрын

It's hard to a US audience to realise that the UK is pretty poor, has large wealth inequality and inequality in opportunity. The fact that some people are going to food banks to help serve their needs has become more visible. There is a feeling nothing really works any more, from trains to basic water treatment. Privatisations haven't worked out. The NHS has be underinvested in for years and has fallen behind. The country never really recovered from the 2008 credit crisis. With Brexit, growth is poor. Covid saw a massive amount of money end up in the hands of the rich who put it into assets. It's a big mess. If Labour can't handle the scale of the problems, then the way will be left open for ex bond trader 'man of the people' Farage.

@SplashTasty 3 ай бұрын

Who will then fix...what?

@alundavies1016 3 ай бұрын

The UK is really rich, but most of the people are poor.

@StoneInMySandal 3 ай бұрын

Privatisation was never going to work. It’s a short term money grab that ends up costing the taxpayers billions to bail out. As bad as government can be at managing critical services, the private sector is even worse.

@Jim90117 3 ай бұрын

Labour have to make it work or it could be the end for them too, in this modern age there is a growing momentum of people who want to remove the establishment order of the self-serving political class. This is looking to start next week with potentially the end of the Tory party as a majority power forever, don't think it'll end there either. If Labour prove themselves to be just as corrupt as the Tory party don't think 5 years from now we wont see a Labour annihilation too and finally the end of the 2 party system and potentially the end of first past the post. People aren't rejecting conservative values, they're rejecting an elite class of politicians, once they realise Labour also represent that, the game will be over.

@gilbertnaddy-7729 3 ай бұрын

There is far more abject poverty in the USA than in the U.K. .

@stevebell6057 3 ай бұрын

A good, informative listen - with just the facts. Pity that most here in the UK won't hear it.

@McD-j5r 2 ай бұрын

Pity bc conservatives are needed in England. The English people don’t know that?

@user-ln8hp4vt5z 2 ай бұрын

How Pathetic.

@Cwizzler425 2 ай бұрын

LMAO this has been posted for 7 days doesn't even have 200 likes, this goes to show that no one wants these peoples lies anymore, You should save your money and stop posting biased garbage

@anthonymcgowan3398 3 ай бұрын

Ads less than a minute into the video. God I hate KZbin these days.

@aronax4492 2 ай бұрын

hru you fine

@alistairkirk3264 3 ай бұрын

Bravo to Helen Lewis for summarising eight years of British politics from multiple angles in a few short minutes. I would have struggled!

@czhillimedia2391 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely. It’s hard to imagine a better summary. Bravo!

@unkleskratch 3 ай бұрын

I've been following the election jabber over here since it started, and this is a great 'broad strokes' summary of what's going on - from a safe distance, so to speak.

@jim6690 2 ай бұрын

Oh, please. There are no British conservatives. That's the problem with the Tories. The Tory motto is: "Like Labour, only slower".

@cennon 2 ай бұрын

I asked AI to show me a picture of a douchebag in human form and it showed a picture of Rishi Sunak.

@EmiSuperTrans71 3 ай бұрын

Well as a Brit listening to that even I am depressed the likes of Farage are still rated. Plus the import from the US if gender wars is pretty disgusting 🤮

@StoneInMySandal 3 ай бұрын

Farage is just a Tory with no filter on his mouth. If you don’t like him, get rid of the Tories.