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🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the elections in the UK. |
0:06.1 | You'll go through the results. |
0:08.8 | I've got one question that I need to ask you, which is driving me crazy. |
0:13.6 | And I imagine it's driving a lot of people crazy that do not understand the elections in the UK. |
0:17.8 | How does reform go from being the second, definitely the third, |
0:25.8 | most popular party if you go by the polls? And even if you go by the votes, I believe even if you |
0:31.4 | go by the actual votes that they got, how do they go from being such a popular party, |
0:37.1 | from having such a surge |
0:38.5 | in support, to getting only, having the results show only, I think, 13 seats, if I'm not |
0:45.9 | mistaken, while the liberal Democrats had something like 65 or 71 seats? I mean, I don't |
0:52.8 | understand how a party like Reform UK apparently is so popular, |
0:59.2 | but the result is, seems, at least to me it seems low, 13 seats. |
1:06.0 | Yeah, I think it's actually, I think it's less than that. I think it's more like four. And can I just say that is a massive achievement and a colossal breakthrough. |
1:16.5 | And the most important thing to say is that Nigel Farage is now in the House of Commons. |
1:20.7 | And that is the single biggest event and most important thing in some respects to happen in this election. |
1:26.3 | Now, the thing to understand about a British general |
1:30.6 | election is that it is an election that takes place on a first-past-the-post system in 600 constituencies. |
1:40.9 | So it's not one general election right across the country. It is 600 elections that take |
1:47.9 | place simultaneously. And in each seat, if you win 49% of the vote and the other side once wins 51, |
2:05.0 | they win all the seats and you win none. That is the way the electoral system works. Now, the way that works out in practice is that it gives an incumbent |
2:15.2 | MP enormous advantages because he's got, he or she's got their |
2:22.6 | organisation already in place. They have name recognition. They have the connections with all |
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