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Tories lost because they were crap at government.
Always have been.
Their only reason for existing is for increasing the amount of money and wealth the rich have. By those metrics, they’ve certainly done their job.
Politicians don’t control everything.
Isn’t that the basic point of democracy?
yup that’s how, generally, a party gets voted out of office. By not being good enough.
6:11 “Assemble his first cabinet” * shows a man assembling an IKEA cabinet *
Good choice for b-roll footage 😂
Haha, I had to rewind, because my eyes were like “wait what?” haha.
Well there are gonna be many MPs left over that we dont know where they go! Just like IKEA
AI😂
😂😂😂
Everyone: Why should we vote for you?
Labour: We’re not the Tories
Everyone: True tbf
Less votes than Corbyn got. Isn’t FPTP great?
Labour lost votes in plenty of places only winning because people voted reform over conservative. Victory by default they are not who the people want.
Really disappointing how voting became a system of voting against instead of for
@@tomlxyz It’s easier to see which party has failed than to research which party would be the best option.
Reminds me of the last german election .
“ Larry the Cat “ won the seat uncontested 🐈
Unlikely without photo ID
I would vote for larry
@@BromideBride Like the Monarch, the Chief Mouser does not require photo ID, their own face is enough for identification.
Rishi for prison
@@jbshiva865 no ID, no representation – we only have room for one effigy on the currency.
Finally we had an election where a great number of people voted for parties other than the main two, or for complete independents. And this is with a lot of people voting for the main two because of the fear of ‘wasting’ their vote.
Yeah most were weak minded limp lettuces who cannot use their own minds.
Most probably only just chose Labour at last minute because they were scared little bunnies to vote outside their usual prehistoric boxes..
Wimps like these are what ruins our country. At least other European nations like France have the balls for change!
Exactly this. Voting ‘strategically’ is wasting your only way to signal your priorities.
Shows people are waking up. Now starmer will wake the rest, when he becomes a tyrant we all know he is
No after years by the two parties , and slow hidden , deliberate , dictatorships , and political corruption we are too frightened to vote otherwise , they have citizens right in the Palm of their hands
@@niblet112 I’m glad there are others that see this – fail to see the victory here, a controlled party with no restrictions, that’ll be good for the UK.
While I’m personally happy with the result, looking at the vote share vs seat share really does highlight just how messed up FPTP is. Lib Dems are right to be pushing for a change there, though I doubt labour will agree given the circumstances.
Ironically the Lib Dems had one of the most proportional seat to vote comparisons. (71 vs 78? with PR)
Reform got more votes but roughly 5% of LD seats (4), the same number as the half as popular green party.
The UK is now finished. Odd to find happiness in that.
@@anonglakmoonwicha2726 melodrama is unbecoming.
FPTP benefitted labour and lib dem this time, because lots of tory voters jumped ship and voted reform, so the right wing vote was split. In other elections it could work against them if say there’s one tory candidate and one from labour, one from lib dem. Labour lib dem vote will be split, most likely giving the seat to the tories, even though more left wing people voted. It was like that where I live in the last election. The tory won by 1,000 votes, with the left wing vote split between lib dem and labour.
Then you are a fool, this country is done.
As a Kiwi watching this election I find it crazy that Starmer can win a 400+ seat majority with 33.8% of the vote while Corbyn in 2017 only won 232 seats with 40%, and as much as I detest Reform UK they only win 4 seats with 14.3% while Lib Dems win 71 with 12.2%…
Ya’ll need proportional representation!
A kiwi saying “y’all” just isn’t right
If the electoral system
changes, the campaigning changes as well. I don’t think the results would have been too different.
The Lib Dems share of seats was about 11%, so pretty close to their share of the vote, but other than that, I agree, the votes to seats ratios were very distorted by FPTP.
It’s funny, right wingers are now only complaining about FPTP since they didn’t win, but going PR would basically cement the left in power indefinitely as we have way more left leaning parties getting a combined total over 50% pretty much every time.
Honestly yeah, same with UKIP all those years ago.
If these voters were not so dissatisfied with FPTP then I honestly think Reform would get a small bump in seats, but then die down.
Jeremy Corbyn 2019 = 10,295,912 = 203 seats
Keir Starmer 2024 = 9,712,011 = 412 seats
Rishi Sunak 2024 = 6,814,469 = 121 seats
Nigel Farage 2024 = 4,091,549 = 4 seats
Ed Davey 2024 = 3,696,419 = 71 seats
John Swinney 2024 = 708,759 = 9 seats
Yeah the Uks system is fucked.
Only Reform UK is willing to address the issue
The constituencies changed and amount of people actually voting varies
@@belindalucas5468every other minor party is willing to address the issue. Reform isn’t special
Green, reform, TUSC and some labour MPs are deciding to put forward electoral reform for PR
The LibDEms have been campaigning against this for years. There was a vote on changing the voting system some time ago, but I bet none of the Reform voters now complaining voted for it then.
What’s interesting is the combined vote share of the two big parties. In 2017, Tories + Labour weighed more than 80% of the vote ; in 2024 only about 55%. That makes the discrepancy between the vote share and the number of seats much more glaring.
A lot of people simply stayed home and didn’t vote. Even with a Baath Party margin Labor is still going act like Tory Lite even though they have the ability to do some good.
@@danielschick7554 So what? “of the vote” not of the total population
Ironically, both reform and the conservative party would have done better if it weren’t for the flawed FPTP system.
@@han090Literally everyone except Labour would have done better if it wasn’t for FPTP- some less (lib Dems would only gain a few) and some more (Reform would gain hundreds)
@@Anonyomus_commenter you also need to consider many people voted tactically this time instead of just throwing their vote away (many Reform voters did this — voted for them even though they weren’t anywhere near close to winning an area). I’m sure there’s a decent portion of non-tory supporters who voted libs to secure their seat and ensure the tories didn’t get it.
Can’t wait for CGP Grey to make another video about winning 32-34% popular vote means you form the government
Hear hear. FPTP was dumb I 2010 and it’s even dumber now. Everyone needs to see the CGP Grey videos
(Edited for spelling and grammer)
@@In_Purple_Clad And everyone needs to never mention the alternative vote in serious conversation again XD.
@@In_Purple_CladNo they do not
This comment should be interpreted as an attack against that moronic hack CP grey
@@drfuhque care to elaborate and explain why?
Funnier still, the Lettuce lost her seat. In 2 years she went from Foreign secretary to Prime minister to International laughing stock to not even being able to get elected to her seat
As a Scandinavian, I just like to confirm that you are correct that everyone laughs at her, all over.
as an american i have heard a handful of liz truss jokes too, even though our political system is also a joke
I’m googling this Lettuce MP…
Yup, a picture of a lettuce.
Netherlands here. correct we laughed hard at the Lettuce
@@cdw2468话说多党制下其中某一政党长期执政，其执政经验更加丰富，与各政府部门协调沟通效率更高，面对一些社会治理和经济发展实践经验也更足，而在野党因为长期在野，相关经验比不上前者，如此“恶性”循环下去，就算在野党侥幸当选，也多半可能会因为执政期间工作不力被投下，那么从事实上说不是就变成了一党制了吗[思考]现实实践中我看日本有类似现象，同时美国多党但是实践上仍是两党轮流坐，英国也是保守和工党轮流坐。进一步说，如果我是这样一个社会的某个资本财团，那我就可以在核心政党中通过游说等饭方式达成党派间默认的共同利益，从而避免因为政党更迭和民众社会进步的呼声对政党的压力而影响了我的资产
12.2% gets you 71 seats while 14.3% gets you an entire 4 seats. I love democracy
Edit: WE JUST MADE IT TO 5 SEATS 🔥🔥🔥
Yeah it needs to change but how would they with keeping local MPs, I can’t imagine a party being in power but having little mps
Yes because each constituency has different needs and different candidates and you vote for your constituency not the whole country. It makes sense as the MP for your area is the person who fights for your issues. Reform just got 2nd in a bunch of different places because very few majorities actually agree with them.
It’s a political duopoly / monarchy
@@lukebennett. you can have larger areas and voters would vote for a list of MPs of a party, like in all other functional democracies
@@lukebennett.in germany they have local leaders for each district, but they have floating proportional representation representatives that make the chamber look like the popular vote, so best of both worlds
I’ve never seen a man so happy about losing his job than Rishi
The guy is just happy he wont be blamed for the country’s problems for the next 5 years
And he won’t have to age 20 years in three
he made his job. Destroyed everything. Mission accomplished.
Didn’t see Gordon Brown.
@@Root777Beer 5 years
congratulations to Sinn Fein for getting the most seats in Northern Ireland!
they didn’t gain a new seat, but they still came out on top!!
26 + 6 = 1
Notice how all the pro Reform Yank commenters are silent on that one.
The north of Ireland.
The Unionists also have less seats than Irish nationalists and the DUP are falling apart. 😊
I mean, did they get them, actually?
@@DarklordZagarna well they’ll never sit in Westminster if that’s what you’re asking.
Funniest thing Sunak said was that the UK is in a better financial position now than in 2010… like what fucking planet is he on?
World economic forums…
Tbf between 2008-2014 all of Europe was in terrible financial shape
@@nadie8093 “The UK is in a better financial position than it was shortly after the worst financial crash since the Great Depression.”
Well it would be hard to be _worse_ than that.
This planet.
It’s a disagreement about what “better financial position” means.
To normal people, “better financial position” means “low inflation and cost of living. Good opportunities for jobs and affordable housing”.
To Tories, “better financial position” means “the rich get richer”.
Sunak isn’t wrong, he’s just evil.
Sunak: We removed your feet from the fire, it’s better now.
Electorate: You cut them off at the knee, no anesthetic and we are waiting for prosthetics since then.
“Assemble his first cabinet”
*Shows a guy putting a literal cabinet together*
I hope hi did read a mannual.😆
@@malcolmwallis4, technically there aren’t any words in IKEA manuals. 🤣
You forgot the best thing of all!!!! Jacob Rees-Mogg (the gentleman from the 1800 century) lost his seat!
oh hell yeah
Liz truss lost her seat as well.
Not a gentleman
Mogg has a 300 million fortune do you think he is bothered all you lot will be scrimping and trying to make ends meet under a labour government Mogg won’t..So who is laughing at who 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@nowgrownup im glad you are here to defend him
Lizz Truss’ story reminds me of Kim Campbell’s story in Canada. They were both deeply unpopular leaders of floundering parties in their respective countries, and were promptly ousted from their chairs as PM
Her successor in her seat (who defeated her in 1993) is expected to lose her seat to the Conservatives when the next election happens.
The Canadian Liberals are toast next election 💀😂
Chief Mouser Larry probably has a fair shot for tory leadership.
Dedicated civil servant that he is, I understand he’s staying in office under the new government.
Hes not as toxic like braverman and patel
33.8% of votes getting 63% of the seats. First-past-the-post moment.