I only just saw this a few days ago and watched it earlier today and I enjoy this song tremendously I do say :-). I agree with your points Michael this is definitely an equivalent of Horrible Histories quality it really is :-). One funny song I do say and certainly one interesting song I do confess :-). Manier happy wishes Michael my wonderful new friend and take care of yourself :-). From your new friend Foxy in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK :-D :-D :-).
Rockingham owned the largest country house in Britain but still helped the poor :) Proud of my ancestor (had no children but am descended from his sister who married the 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam)
Rockingham house (3 mins from where I live) is nothing but memory’s of terror times, I very single generation of the king family terrorised the locals and demanded conversion to Protestantism, during the great fammine they were the largest contributor to homelessness in the barony of Boyle mainly by stripping homes of their roofs or bashing in the walls of many to render them useless after a teen ant didn’t pay his taxes to his almighty lord of rockingham house, thousands died of hunger and exposure in Boyle due to the poor management of the Kings of rockingham house on their estate of the barony of Boyle The last to reside in rockingham house for some reason stripped the house of all its valuables 2 weeks before a great fire which destroyed the house and nothing of value was lost, nobody was injured almost as if it was orchestrated by a group of jittery Englishmen wanting to leave Ireland fearing they’d be next for IRA attacks on big houses due to their history of raping and pillaging the Irish country side and the damage they inflicted on us over hundreds of years Rockingham house was a house built on a ancient castle of the O’Connor clann, they house was built to oppress us and the signify dominance until it all came tumbling down
Just to clarify for anyone who didn’t realise (as it wasn’t obvious) The Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, and slavery was made illegal in most of the British Empire in 1833 I believe.
Yes but in Countries like mine after slavery was made illegal we went through apprenticeship where we were basically the masters that didn’t take the payout to outlaw slavery. Worked as slaves without the title until 1838.
Weirdly the law abolished the acts of sale of slaves in the UK but not owning the slaves in the first place, which was only made a crime in 201(0-2 can't remember)
@@RemnantShard it was 2010, basically a forgotten law as through it wasn’t illegal until then it wasn’t done at all in the UK, and there were many human rights acts that wouldn’t permit it even though it wasn’t technically made legal.
@@RemnantShard it was a purposely decision by the Abolition movement. Benezet, a French American Quaker, specifically targeted the Slave Trade and future abolitionists like Sharpe, Clarkson, and Wilberforce all took after it. The reason they all did this was because Abolition of the Slave Trade was significantly easier and, if passed, would sign a death warrant for slavery anyway
Wow that was great! I always complained that I didn't know any prime ministers (apart from Chamberlain, Winston, Thatcher and the new ones) while historical american presidents are all over the TV (e.g.: The presidents song).
The only reason US presidents get so much media attention is because they're all so universally hated.... oh, right. Why don't British Prime Ministers get talked about more.
This song just makes me remember of one phrase, "And Now ASAP science presents, elements of the periodic table" Superb video, and ik where u got the inspiration from ;)
'Could it be you?' Well, the Prime Minister being the parliamentary leader of the party/coalition with the most seats in the House of Commons is just a convention, not a statutory rule. In theory, the Prime Minister is in fact just whoever the monarch chooses. So yes, it could be you, if Her Majesty chooses you.
@@Goodguy507 You could just be elevated to the House of Lords, though the last Lord to lead a government was over a century ago (Lord Salisbury) unless you include Lord Home (1963) who resigned his peerage so he could be elected to the Commons.
@@johnpotts8308 but even if the prime minister is a member of the house of lords, they'd still need the confidence of the commons right? I'm not entirely familiar of UK politics but that's what I think the system is, so really a member of the lords or not you still face the problem of needing the parliament's support, or otherwise you can't form a government, or pass legislation or pass a budget
@@Goodguy507 Yes - realistically it would be impossible for a Lord to be PM today, but like many things in the UK's Constitution (like theoretically the Queen could dismiss a PM she didn't like) what's legally spelled out and what's actually accepted are two different things.
Lizzzzzzz- Truss made lot of drama Had a snap election Came in Sir Keir Starmer PMs Time to time may vary One guy remains constant He's a cat named Larry
I know you've addressed this, but I would've liked to see the non-consecutive terms. But I get it would've been fiddly and clunky to do. I loved the video nonetheless and I can't criticise when I haven't made one (although some years back I did write one in tune with the William Tell Overture.) Great video 👍
1. Robert Walpole (1721~1742) 2. Spencer Compton (1742~1743) 3. Henry Pelham (1743~1754) 4. Thomas Pelham-Holles (1754~1756) 5. William Cavendish (1756~1757) 6. Thomas Pelham-Holles (1757~1762) 7. John Stuart (1762~1763) 8. George Grenville (1763~1765) 9. Charles Waston-Wentworth (1765~1766) 10. William Pitt (the elder) (1766~1768) 11. Augustus Fitzroy (1768~1770) 12. Frederick North (1770~1782) 13. Charles Waston-Wentworth (1782) 14. William Petty (1782~1783) 15. William Cavendish-Bentininck (1783) 16. William Pitt (the younger) (1783~1801) 17. Henry Addington (1801~1804) 18. William Pitt (the younger) (1804~1806) 19. William Greenville (1806~1807) 20. William Cavendish-Bentininck (1807~1809) 21. Spencer Perceval (1809~1812) 22. Robert Jenkinson (1812~1827) 23. George Canning (1827) 24. Frederick J. Robinson (1827~1828) 25. Arthur Wellsley (1828~1830) 26. Charles Grey (1830~1834) 27. William Lamb (1834) 28. Arthur Wellsley (1834) 29. Sir Robert Peel (1834~1835) 30. William Lamb (1835~1841) 31. Sir Robert Peel (1841~1846) 32. Lord John Russell (1846~1852) 33. Edward Smith-Stanley (1852) 34. George Hamilton-Gordon (1852~1855) 35. Henry John Temple (1855~1858) 36. Edward Smith-Stanley (1858~1859) 37. Henry John Temple (1859~1865) 38. Lord John Russell (1865~1866) 39. Edward Smith-Stanley (1866~1868) 40. Benjamin Disraeli (1868) 41. William Ewart-Gladstone (1868~1874) 42. Benjamin Disraeli (1874~1880) 43. William Ewart-Gladstone (1880~1885) 44. Robert Gascyone-Cecil (1885~1886) 45. William Ewart-Gladstone (1886) 46. Robert Gascyone-Cecil (1886~1892) 47. William Ewart-Gladstone (1892~1894) 48. Archibald Primrose (1894~1895) 49. Robert Gascyone-Cecil (1895~1902) 50. Arthur Balfour (1902~1905) 51. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905~1908) 52. H. H. Asquith (1908~1916) 53. David Lloyd George (1916~1922) 54. Andrew Bonar Law (1922~1923) 55. Stanley Baldwin (1923~1924) 56. Ramsey MacDonald (1924) 57. Stanley Baldwin (1924~1929) 58. Ramsey MacDonald (1929~1935) 59. Stanley Baldwin (1935~1937) 60. Neville Chamberlain (1937~1940) 61. Sir Winston Churchill (1940~1945) 62. Clement Attlee (1945~1951) 63. Sir Winston Churchill (1951~1955) 64. Sir Anthony Eden (1955~1957) 65. Harold Macmillan (1957~1963) 66. Sir Alec Douglas-home (1963~1964) 67. Harold Wilson (1964~1970) 68. Sir Edward Heath (1970~1974) 69. Harold Wilson (1974~1976) 70. James Callaghan (1976~1979) 71. Margaret Thatcher (1979~1990) 72. Sir John Major (1990~1997) 73. Sir Tony Blair (1997~2007) 74. Gordon Brown (2007~2010) 75. David Cameron (2010~2016) 76. Theresa May (2016~2019) 77. Boris Johnson (2019~2022) 78. Liz Truss (2022) 79. Rishi Sunak (2022~2024) 80. Keir Starmer (2024~ ) Who will be the 81st prime minister?
Arguably Pit the Younger was the first "prime minister of the UK", since the term "United Kingdom" wasn't used until the 1800 Acts of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
@Barney Laurence Nominally both before and after the acts of union the Lord Lieutenant was the chief of government of the Kingdom of Ireland/Ireland within the UK, tho in practice it was the Lord Deputy and then later the Chief Secretary of Ireland really were the de facto heads of government/chief executive. The relationship between these two positions is (to my understanding) effectively the same as the relationship between Prime Ministers of Commonwealth Nations (those that aren't republics) and their Governor General. Obviously (as with anything about the constitution of the UK, GB, Kingdom of England, whatever) it's a lot more complicated than that, as the Irish Parliament was never sovereign (until independence ofc) and the Chief Secretary of Ireland, although an MP in the Irish Parliament, was responsible to Westminster and not Dublin, so was more of a colonial governor than a PM, but would be the closest equivalent to the PM, other than, well, the PM of GB/UK.
Fun video - But early Prime Ministers were known by their titles more than their names - For instance Robert Banks-Jenkinson was simply known as 'Lord Liverpool'
lol I watched this three times and thought "They never mentioned the Duke of Wellington." Then I realised they used his real name, which I never even knew.
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Right now we need a new version with Liz Truss Edit Liz Truss had resigned at 45 days on the job who’s next Edit 2 : we need a new version with Rishi Sunak aswell Edit 3 : Sunak lost the election now we need an update with Keir Starmer
You look for things to watch, you watch stuff and think ‘nah’! Stuff finds you, you watch and think ‘my life is now much better knowing works of art like this exist!’
If Mahathir was somehow chosen to become the next PM of the UK, we Malaysians will rejoice because this means "sweet revenge" for what the UK did to us before we gained independence from them on 31 August 1957!
SUCH AN AWESOME SONG! Though speaking as a bit of a 19th-century history buff, it's MUCH more normal to refer to these Prime Ministers by their noble titles, rather than their names. For example, historians will often talk about "the Earl of Liverpool" (or, more often, "Lord Liverpool"); they practically never talk about "Robert Jenkinson". I didn't even know the real names of half these PMs, and I'm pretty well-versed on this period of history
Thanks! Yeah, I know they're more often referred to as Earl of So-and-so but that would have made it so much more difficult to write into a song! And on Pointless they ask for Prime Minister's surnames as opposed to titles and I only really wrote this so I'd sound smarter when watching quiz shows with the parents...
"I saved the Economy from a Potential Collapse that would have destroyed the UK" "What did it cost?" "Everyone hating my guts from now until the End of Time"
@@virtualcynical8515 "I also allowed the Poll Tax to be introduced to Scotland first, despite the ballot box stating that the general opinion of those occupying said country being that nobody actually wanted it" "I shouted Rejoice at the death of a ton of Argetinian boys, and had basically every Tim dick and Harry to disgrace this globe search for my son when he couldn't be found" "I literally tore the community away from Galsgow in just 11 years, having everybody connected didn't benefit me, so it had to go out of the window". "I allowed Bailiffs to steal from the homes of people all over Britain and ransack homes, legally". "I refused to support or help prevent the mass death of homosexuals by refusing to put any money towards combating aids" But at what cost ? People tried to sing 'ding ding the witch is dead' for weeks after my death. They all protested. She became more hated than Myra Hindley, and arguably Jimmy Savil. I do think some of the things she done defintely merited some hatred.
All Prime Ministers Robert Walpole Spencer Compton Henry Pelham William Pulteney Henry Pelham Thomas Pelham-Holles William Cavendish James Waldegrave William Cavendish Thomas Pelham-Holles John Stuart George Grenville Charles Watson-Wentworth William Pitt Sr. Augustus Henry Fitzroy Frederick North Charles Watson-Wentworth William Petty Fitzmaurice William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck William Pitt Jr. Henry Addington William Pitt Jr. William Wyndham Grenville William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck Spencer Perceval Robert Banks Jenkinson George Canning Frederick John Robinson Arthur Wellesley Charles Grey Henry William Lamb Arthur Wellesley Robert Peel Henry William Lamb Robert Peel John Russell Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley George John James Hamilton-Gordon Henry John Temple Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley Henry John Temple John Russell Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley Benjamin Disraeli William Ewart Gladstone Benjamin Disraeli William Ewart Gladstone Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil William Ewart Gladstone Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil William Ewart Gladstone Archibald Philip Primrose Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil Arthur James Balfour Henry Campbell-Bannerman Herbert Henry Asquith David Lloyd George Andrew Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin James Ramsey MacDonald Stanley Baldwin James Ramsey MacDonald Stanley Baldwin Arthur Neville Chamberlain Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill Clement Richard Attlee Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill Robert Anthony Eden Maurice Harold MacMillan Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home James Harold Wilson Edward Richard George Heath James Harold Wilson Leonard James Callaghan Margaret Hilda Thatcher John Major Anthony Charles Lynton Blair James Gordon Brown David William Donald Cameron Theresa Mary May Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Mary Elizabeth Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Rodney Starmer
Ayyyyy Robert Walpole got a mention! Idk how true it is but I’m told I’m a relative down the line (same last name at least) but it’s amazing how little we hear of him despite being the first prime minister
Prime ministers remake 1. Robert Walpole 1721-1742 2. Spencer Compton 1742-1743 3. Henry Pelham 1743-1754 4. Thomas Pelham-Holles 1754-1756 5. William Cavendish 1756-1757 6. Thomas Pelham-Holles 1757-1762 7. John Stuart 1762-1763 8. George Grenville 1763-1765 9. Charles Watson-Wentworth 1765-1766 10. William Pitt the Elder 1766-1768 11. Augustus FitzRoy 1768-1770 12. Frederick North 1770-1782 13. Charles Watson-Wentworth 1782-1782 14. William Petty 1782-1783 15. William Cavendish-Bentinck 1783-1783 16. William Pitt the Younger 1783-1801 17. Henry Addington 1801-1804 18. William Pitt The Younger 1804-1806 19. William Grenville 1806-1807 20. William Cavendish-Bentinck 1807-1809 21. Spencer Perceval 1809-1812 22. Robert Jenkinson 1812-1827 23. George Canning 1827-1827 24. Frederick Robinson 1827-1828 25. Arthur Wellesley 1828-1830 26. Charles Grey 1830-1834 27. William Lamb 1834-1834 28. Arthur Wellesley 1834-1834 29. Robert Peel 1834-1835 30. William Lamb 1835-1841 31. Robert Peel 1841-1846 32. John Russell 1846-1852 33. Edward Smith-Stanley 1852-1852 34. George Hamilton-Gordon 1852-1855 35. Henry John Temple 1855-1858 36. Edward Smith-Stanley 1858-1859 37. Henry John Temple 1859-1865 38. John Russell 1865-1866 39. Edward Smith-Stanley 1866-1868 40. Benjamin Disraeli 1868-1868 41. William Gladstone 1868-1874 42. Benjamin Disraeli 1874-1880 43. William Gladstone 1880-1885 44. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1885-1886 45. William Gladstone 1886-1886 46. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1886-1892 47. William Gladstone 1892-1894 48. Archibald Primrose 1894-1895 49. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1895-1902 50. Arthur Balfour 1902-1905 51. Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905-1908 52. H. H. Asquith 1908-1916 53. David Lloyd George 1916-1922 54. Bonar Law 1922-1923 55. Stanley Baldwin 1923-1924 56. Ramsay MacDonald 1924-1924 57. Stanley Baldwin 1924-1929 58. Ramsay MacDonald 1929-1935 59. Stanley Baldwin 1935-1937 60. Neville Chamberlain 1937-1940 61. Winston Churchill 1940-1945 62. Clement Attlee 1945-1951 63. Winston Churchill 1951-1955 64. Anthony Eden 1955-1957 65. Harold Macmillan 1957-1963 66. Alec Douglas-Home 1963-1964 67. Harold Wilson 1964-1970 68. Edward Heath 1970-1974 69. Harold Wilson 1974-1976 70. James Callaghan 1976-1979 71. Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990 72. John Major 1990-1997 73. Tony Blair 1997-2007 74. Gordon Brown 2007-2010 75. David Cameron 2010-2016 76. Theresa May 2016-2019 77. Boris Johnson 2019-2022 78. Liz Truss 2022-2022 79. Rishi Sunak 2022-Present
This must be the 50th time I have watched this I love it I can nearly sing the whole thing and on this subject I have watched all the horrible histories episodes and this is above their standards
Just want to share something from my school In Drama we were watching something about the Manchester Pride Parade and Thatcher was brought up. My drama teacher said to the entire class "feel free to boo as loudly as possible when you hear Margaret Thatcher's name said in this" I love my Drama teacher Edit: Also this should be the National Anthem
Bit generous to Gordon Brown. He couldn't win an election, and his short term in office was a series of one policy debacle after another. The guy, though clearly clever in other ways, had this bizarre capacity politically, to keep repeating the same mistakes. He never seemed to learn.
Brown was actually an excellent leader. He would have been better in the radio age as he was terrible at PR - but was great at the practicalities. He understood a lot of Britain's problems and was working to fix them, but not very charismatic and was torn apart by the right wing media which had decided that, without Blair, it was time for a change. The global financial crash didn't do him any favour either (even though he actually managed to save the world banks). However, if you remember, he still managed a hung parliament, even with that.
@@davecross4493 Far from saving the banks, Brown was responsible for lowering various safeguards and contingencies thar contributed to their near downfall. He sold off our gold reserves, just before their value went through the roof. He personally presided over the biggest project debacle in peacetime British modern history, in value terms, when his computerisation of the NHS was found not to work. He made a dogs dinner of tax credits, leaving many vulnerable people being pursued by Hmrc. His election tactics and execution were inept. I could go on and on. Yes, he was dire at PR. But it was just one in a series of things he was dire at. He was an awful leader.
@@flabbybum9562 To take these point by point: 1. Bank deregulation... It was a similar story across the world - remember it started in wall street. I'm pretty sure most EU countries deregulated banks and I know the US, Australia and Japan did. There is no reason to think the tories would not have done anything different. In fact I guarantee they would have because they believe in the free market and more money for rich people. Also the crash was basically to do with sub prime mortgages in America - and affected all countries. In the 1990s, the banks all came to government and said: “Look, we don't want to be regulated, we want to be free of regulation. All the complaints he was getting from people was, “Look you're regulating them too much”. And actually the truth was that globally and nationally they should have been regulating them more. But this problem was not just confined to Britain. As I say, the tories would not have done anything different. Brown was chancellor at the time, not prime minister, but he did apologise in 2010. He stopped us all going bankrupt through temporary nationalisation and advising world leaders during the crisis. 2. Gold... While Gordon Brown could have sold at a better price (he is not a soothsayer), for the vast majority of governments across established economies, there is no real point to holding gold. The purpose of foreign exchange reserves is not for the state to manage wealth on behalf of the country. People should do this for themselves. UK reserves should only really be used to underpin monetary policy, and to halt any possible crisis such as a significant run on the pound, not as any kind of sovereign wealth fund. The trouble is that gold is not well suited as a state asset, as its value is very likely to drop as soon as it is deployed as a government intervention mechanism. The market is of course very different to that of two decades years ago, and any government selling today will not have anywhere near the same impact. But this doesn’t change the cold hard truth that gold is a market best fit for sophisticated speculators, not the state. 3 NHS... Whatever your views on the 'computerisation' mishap, the NHS was a million times better under Blair and Brown and got much more attention and funding. It was very bad under Thatcher and Major and it is close to collapse now under the current tories, so I reject your point that they did a bad job overall. The tories 'pretend' to fund it because they know the NHS is a vote winner, but they insist everything is outsourced so actually none of the money is IN the NHS. 4. Tax... He has actually been honoured for his contribution to tax by the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) in 2022. The award is a mark of excellence bestowed on the grounds of particular distinction in the field of taxation. CIOT President Peter Rayney said: “Gordon Brown is one of the great reforming Chancellors who has shaped the tax and related benefits system like few before or since. In 10 years as Chancellor he made significant changes which strengthened the competitiveness of the UK as a location for holding companies and many business friendly tax measures. He introduced business asset taper relief, the forerunner of Entrepreneurs' Relief - which we now call Business Asset Disposal Relief. He introduced working tax credits, the first ISAs and a simplified regime for pension tax relief. He launched the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) regime which was a game changer to tackling marketed tax avoidance. And he negotiated changes to the EU Savings Directive to focus it around transparency and exchange of information, rather than withholding taxes. This approach has been the blueprint for subsequent international agreements to combat tax evasion." 5. Elections... I agree with your election point though because he thought people were bright enough to see the good he did instead of listening to what they read. More fool him. I did mention something to that effect in my initial comment.
@@davecross4493Sorry I don't have the time to go into the detail you have. Let's look at just a few examples. Of course Brown didn't cause the international banking crash, but it is widely agreed he seriously exacerbated an already bad situation, and handled it ineptly. I agree that the gold standard played a decreasing to negligible role in currency. But that's not my point - he sold a hugely valuable asset at a massive discount, days before it soared in value. He presided over the biggest project debacle in modern British history with his computerised system for the NHS, costing the tax-payer billions upon billions. His tax credit reforms dragged hundreds of thousands of disabled people from a welfare benefit regime, to a system administered by HMRC, who then proceeded to bully them into repaying money they didn't owe, whilst applying a different regime of rules. He stripped rights and protections from people in social housing. I could go on, and on. A common thread, is Brown's unswerving faith in big bureaucracy to deliver, even when it had repeatedly failed. He just wouldn't learn. He lost the election from a position of strength he had inherited, because his campaign was appalling. He was not a good PM, and he only looked good for a while as Chancellor, because he hadn't faced any serious challenges. Once he did, his shortcomings became apparent.
@@flabbybum9562 you literally just repeated yourself. I just debunked all these. The only one you didnt is social housing which the started building more when he was . Then the crash happened. It was Thatcher who sold most of them off..
Honestly I feel sorry for her Cameron should of never quit He did the Brexit vote to secure his next term But when it didn't go his way he rage quit the country he should of stayed and seen his term through to the end.
We're gonna need an updated version of this song soon following Boris's resignation yesterday!
Give them a chance to pick a new prime minister!
I think this is fine as it is. just skip him.
@Rhys Higgon no no no
@Rhys Higgon "next the man who stabbed him in the back, the new pm rishi sunak"
Possibly not, this country aint gonna last very long, specially with what boris has done
You can almost hear the Horrible Histories team going "Finally, a worthy opponent!"
ASAP Science and Animaniacs as well
Periodic table.
Old JibJab as well.
Our battle will be legendary!
Omg yes!
This is absolutely fantastic work! Honestly Horrible Histories quality
I only just saw this a few days ago and watched it earlier today and I enjoy this song tremendously I do say :-). I agree with your points Michael this is definitely an equivalent of Horrible Histories quality it really is :-). One funny song I do say and certainly one interesting song I do confess :-). Manier happy wishes Michael my wonderful new friend and take care of yourself :-).
From your new friend Foxy in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK :-D :-D :-).
Song: "Depends on who you vote in"
Britain: *has two unelected Prime Ministers in one year*
Tbf Truss was elected, though by a small minority. Rishi Sunak was definitely unelected
@@BritishRepublicsn They mean by the people. Truss and Sunak were elected by the Tories, not by the people in the UK through a general election.
@@idk_whatmynameis in uk we vote for a candidate who represents a party, whos leader becomes prime minister
@@tobyjohnson1239 But we did not elect Truss and Sunak through a general election. They were both chosen through a Conservative member vote.
@@idk_whatmynameis but we did vote for the conservatives
Rockingham owned the largest country house in Britain but still helped the poor :) Proud of my ancestor (had no children but am descended from his sister who married the 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam)
Nice :)
Should we tug a forelock? 😉
Awesome!
Rockingham house (3 mins from where I live) is nothing but memory’s of terror times, I very single generation of the king family terrorised the locals and demanded conversion to Protestantism, during the great fammine they were the largest contributor to homelessness in the barony of Boyle mainly by stripping homes of their roofs or bashing in the walls of many to render them useless after a teen ant didn’t pay his taxes to his almighty lord of rockingham house, thousands died of hunger and exposure in Boyle due to the poor management of the Kings of rockingham house on their estate of the barony of Boyle
The last to reside in rockingham house for some reason stripped the house of all its valuables 2 weeks before a great fire which destroyed the house and nothing of value was lost, nobody was injured almost as if it was orchestrated by a group of jittery Englishmen wanting to leave Ireland fearing they’d be next for IRA attacks on big houses due to their history of raping and pillaging the Irish country side and the damage they inflicted on us over hundreds of years
Rockingham house was a house built on a ancient castle of the O’Connor clann, they house was built to oppress us and the signify dominance until it all came tumbling down
Just to clarify for anyone who didn’t realise (as it wasn’t obvious) The Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, and slavery was made illegal in most of the British Empire in 1833 I believe.
Yes but in Countries like mine after slavery was made illegal we went through apprenticeship where we were basically the masters that didn’t take the payout to outlaw slavery. Worked as slaves without the title until 1838.
Weirdly the law abolished the acts of sale of slaves in the UK but not owning the slaves in the first place, which was only made a crime in 201(0-2 can't remember)
@@RemnantShard it was 2010, basically a forgotten law as through it wasn’t illegal until then it wasn’t done at all in the UK, and there were many human rights acts that wouldn’t permit it even though it wasn’t technically made legal.
@@RemnantShard it was a purposely decision by the Abolition movement. Benezet, a French American Quaker, specifically targeted the Slave Trade and future abolitionists like Sharpe, Clarkson, and Wilberforce all took after it. The reason they all did this was because Abolition of the Slave Trade was significantly easier and, if passed, would sign a death warrant for slavery anyway
Wow that was great! I always complained that I didn't know any prime ministers (apart from Chamberlain, Winston, Thatcher and the new ones) while historical american presidents are all over the TV (e.g.: The presidents song).
When I was younger I dedicated a week to learning them chronologically.
@@georgeiii2998 Damn that is commitment
The only reason US presidents get so much media attention is because they're all so universally hated.... oh, right. Why don't British Prime Ministers get talked about more.
@@georgeiii2998 Your Majesty, I must point out that there were significantly fewer Prime Ministers to memorize in your youth than there are now
The TH-cam algorithm has a sick sense of humor
Always has
This song just makes me remember of one phrase, "And Now ASAP science presents, elements of the periodic table"
Superb video, and ik where u got the inspiration from ;)
Funny how this song is only 2 years old and there have been 3 new PMs.
'Could it be you?'
Well, the Prime Minister being the parliamentary leader of the party/coalition with the most seats in the House of Commons is just a convention, not a statutory rule.
In theory, the Prime Minister is in fact just whoever the monarch chooses. So yes, it could be you, if Her Majesty chooses you.
But you'd need to secure the majority in parliament because otherwise they aren't giving your government confidence 💔
@@Goodguy507 You could just be elevated to the House of Lords, though the last Lord to lead a government was over a century ago (Lord Salisbury) unless you include Lord Home (1963) who resigned his peerage so he could be elected to the Commons.
@@johnpotts8308 but even if the prime minister is a member of the house of lords, they'd still need the confidence of the commons right? I'm not entirely familiar of UK politics but that's what I think the system is, so really a member of the lords or not you still face the problem of needing the parliament's support, or otherwise you can't form a government, or pass legislation or pass a budget
@@Goodguy507 Yes - realistically it would be impossible for a Lord to be PM today, but like many things in the UK's Constitution (like theoretically the Queen could dismiss a PM she didn't like) what's legally spelled out and what's actually accepted are two different things.
If you’re sat here watching this video, probably not.
Lizzzzzzz-
Truss made lot of drama
Had a snap election
Came in Sir Keir Starmer
PMs
Time to time may vary
One guy remains constant
He's a cat named Larry
Larry would make a better PM than the incompetant twats of the last fuck even knows how long
Nono not liz
@@rebeccakearney614 yes Liz…
what made you think there would be a snap election? lol, the conservatives will never dissolve parliament now. They just replaced liz with rishi sunak
@@randombanana640 i guess you're right
I love how excessively British the names of y’all’s prime minister are.
Like who the hell names their son “Bonar”?
Most of them have like Streotypical British names
I dunno; Alexander Boris de Pfeffel sounds like some Russian spy if you ask me
@@shian652 that was the first half of his surname, I guess they had to discard his first name because it wouldn’t fit 😅
@@shian652 His first name was Andrew.
I know you've addressed this, but I would've liked to see the non-consecutive terms. But I get it would've been fiddly and clunky to do. I loved the video nonetheless and I can't criticise when I haven't made one (although some years back I did write one in tune with the William Tell Overture.) Great video 👍
They did do Rockingham twice at least
They didnt do churchill twice though
Or Harold Wilson
Or Newcastle, Pitt the Younger, Portland, Wellington, Melbourne, Peel, Russell, Derby, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Salisbury, Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald
The song that Rishi Sunak listens every morning
1. Robert Walpole (1721~1742)
2. Spencer Compton (1742~1743)
3. Henry Pelham (1743~1754)
4. Thomas Pelham-Holles (1754~1756)
5. William Cavendish (1756~1757)
6. Thomas Pelham-Holles (1757~1762)
7. John Stuart (1762~1763)
8. George Grenville (1763~1765)
9. Charles Waston-Wentworth (1765~1766)
10. William Pitt (the elder) (1766~1768)
11. Augustus Fitzroy (1768~1770)
12. Frederick North (1770~1782)
13. Charles Waston-Wentworth (1782)
14. William Petty (1782~1783)
15. William Cavendish-Bentininck (1783)
16. William Pitt (the younger) (1783~1801)
17. Henry Addington (1801~1804)
18. William Pitt (the younger) (1804~1806)
19. William Greenville (1806~1807)
20. William Cavendish-Bentininck (1807~1809)
21. Spencer Perceval (1809~1812)
22. Robert Jenkinson (1812~1827)
23. George Canning (1827)
24. Frederick J. Robinson (1827~1828)
25. Arthur Wellsley (1828~1830)
26. Charles Grey (1830~1834)
27. William Lamb (1834)
28. Arthur Wellsley (1834)
29. Sir Robert Peel (1834~1835)
30. William Lamb (1835~1841)
31. Sir Robert Peel (1841~1846)
32. Lord John Russell (1846~1852)
33. Edward Smith-Stanley (1852)
34. George Hamilton-Gordon (1852~1855)
35. Henry John Temple (1855~1858)
36. Edward Smith-Stanley (1858~1859)
37. Henry John Temple (1859~1865)
38. Lord John Russell (1865~1866)
39. Edward Smith-Stanley (1866~1868)
40. Benjamin Disraeli (1868)
41. William Ewart-Gladstone (1868~1874)
42. Benjamin Disraeli (1874~1880)
43. William Ewart-Gladstone (1880~1885)
44. Robert Gascyone-Cecil (1885~1886)
45. William Ewart-Gladstone (1886)
46. Robert Gascyone-Cecil (1886~1892)
47. William Ewart-Gladstone (1892~1894)
48. Archibald Primrose (1894~1895)
49. Robert Gascyone-Cecil (1895~1902)
50. Arthur Balfour (1902~1905)
51. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905~1908)
52. H. H. Asquith (1908~1916)
53. David Lloyd George (1916~1922)
54. Andrew Bonar Law (1922~1923)
55. Stanley Baldwin (1923~1924)
56. Ramsey MacDonald (1924)
57. Stanley Baldwin (1924~1929)
58. Ramsey MacDonald (1929~1935)
59. Stanley Baldwin (1935~1937)
60. Neville Chamberlain (1937~1940)
61. Sir Winston Churchill (1940~1945)
62. Clement Attlee (1945~1951)
63. Sir Winston Churchill (1951~1955)
64. Sir Anthony Eden (1955~1957)
65. Harold Macmillan (1957~1963)
66. Sir Alec Douglas-home (1963~1964)
67. Harold Wilson (1964~1970)
68. Sir Edward Heath (1970~1974)
69. Harold Wilson (1974~1976)
70. James Callaghan (1976~1979)
71. Margaret Thatcher (1979~1990)
72. Sir John Major (1990~1997)
73. Sir Tony Blair (1997~2007)
74. Gordon Brown (2007~2010)
75. David Cameron (2010~2016)
76. Theresa May (2016~2019)
77. Boris Johnson (2019~2022)
78. Liz Truss (2022)
79. Rishi Sunak (2022~2024)
80. Keir Starmer (2024~ )
Who will be the 81st prime minister?
No idea, but it could be Angela Rayner or anyone else entirely!
Arguably Pit the Younger was the first "prime minister of the UK", since the term "United Kingdom" wasn't used until the 1800 Acts of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
Exact type of pedantry I come to the comments for.
@Barney Laurence Nominally both before and after the acts of union the Lord Lieutenant was the chief of government of the Kingdom of Ireland/Ireland within the UK, tho in practice it was the Lord Deputy and then later the Chief Secretary of Ireland really were the de facto heads of government/chief executive. The relationship between these two positions is (to my understanding) effectively the same as the relationship between Prime Ministers of Commonwealth Nations (those that aren't republics) and their Governor General.
Obviously (as with anything about the constitution of the UK, GB, Kingdom of England, whatever) it's a lot more complicated than that, as the Irish Parliament was never sovereign (until independence ofc) and the Chief Secretary of Ireland, although an MP in the Irish Parliament, was responsible to Westminster and not Dublin, so was more of a colonial governor than a PM, but would be the closest equivalent to the PM, other than, well, the PM of GB/UK.
@@nathanmclean3086 As one myself, I can tell you there's a special place in hell for pedants
No that was Disraeli
DESPARATELY need a new one
This song is inspiring me to do the same with Prime Ministers from my own country, Australia.
This is such a good song, you guys did amazing
Describing the Iron Duke as "infamously combative"... An understatement I like!
Also Thatcher with the making miners frown line
@@quakethedoombringer ahh, Maggie Thatcher's not all bad. She made the first gender neutral public toilet after all!
Fun fact: here in Brazil we also have a man known as Iron Duke: the Duke of Caxias
He was also military
@@tedparkinson2033 One good deed is not enough to redeem someone of a lifetime of wickedness.
Someone was clearly an animaniacs fans.... and i love this even more for it :D
Plus Truss, Sunak, and Starmer
Fun video - But early Prime Ministers were known by their titles more than their names - For instance Robert Banks-Jenkinson was simply known as 'Lord Liverpool'
lol I watched this three times and thought "They never mentioned the Duke of Wellington." Then I realised they used his real name, which I never even knew.
@@nrafter530 Or Lord Hawksbury before his father died.
Brilliant! This is definitely a song that won’t leave my head.
We need a update as lizz truss just was announced new prime Minister
Guess I’m not the only one who came to this song after Liz Truss became PM
Now she's gone.
@@georgeiii2998 now well need a new update
@@georgeiii2998At least Rishi is nearly gone now just a few days
Then Sunak until Starmer has just been elected in
I am so impressed how many names fit the tune so well, especially *inhales Aaaarthur Balfour - Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Using a French song for a British video? I can feel the heat coming now.
"Unless he earns another term"
Good one!
Horrible histories walked so you could run.
I wouldn't say this was of better quality than a horrible histories song, however, I do like it.
this is nowhere near HH quality
Now I have the political equivalent of the British Monarchy song from Horrible Histories
Interesting. Never have I heard of something like this before. Bravo, Bravo!
Also, it is very danceable.
Bro you deserve 1 million views because this song is as catchy as hell
ASAP Science: Finally! a worthy opponent, our battle shall be legendary!
I'm from Brazil And I Just Loved The Excellent Video Your Creativity To Make The Music And You Chose The Right Track Look It Combined Perfectly Congratulations! 🇧🇷🇬🇧
You know what this needs? Their years in office
Not really
This is so cool and must have taken a lot of work.
Weird to think we've had two Prime Ministers since this
Now 3!
Not sure why this suddenly turned up in my recommendations, but it was a fun watch 😊
I watched this just to see them diss thatcher
So glad you rhymed Margaret Thatcher with milk snatcher 😂
Fry's role as the Iron Duke from Blackadder @1:09
This channel deserves more likes
I have no idea why I'm watching this, I'm literally Canadian.
Very good song of all the UK Prime Ministers!
Right now we need a new version with Liz Truss
Edit Liz Truss had resigned at 45 days on the job who’s next
Edit 2 : we need a new version with Rishi Sunak aswell
Edit 3 : Sunak lost the election now we need an update with Keir Starmer
Sunak
we need truss, sunak and starmer to the listtt
IMAO. THIS IS EDUCATIONAL AND HILARIOUS! A MASTERPIECE!
And I say, that England's greatest Prime Minister was Lord Palmerston!
Pitt the Elder!
Clement Attlee
Lloyd-George
Attlee
Maggie Thatcher
You look for things to watch, you watch stuff and think ‘nah’! Stuff finds you, you watch and think ‘my life is now much better knowing works of art like this exist!’
2:16 Look, you can pinpoint the exact moment that the downward spiral began and when Britain started getting idiot after idiot.
2:19 We Malaysians thank this man for freeing us on 31 August 1957...
we are gonna need a updated one because rishi sunak
3:31 "Could it be you?"
Me, an American: 🤔 Maybe so.
If Mahathir was somehow chosen to become the next PM of the UK, we Malaysians will rejoice because this means "sweet revenge" for what the UK did to us before we gained independence from them on 31 August 1957!
@@madkhaliqfarhan ok...
@@madkhaliqfarhan I welcome our Malaysian Overlords.
I'd wager they'll do a better job than we will.
We suck at this.
@@virtualcynical8515 This can only mean one thing: Revenge on your ancestors for what they did to us back in the early 1900s!
@@virtualcynical8515 No one's had worse luck with government leaders than us.
Excellent research and well put together.
Excellent video! Would love it if you made more like this
SUCH AN AWESOME SONG! Though speaking as a bit of a 19th-century history buff, it's MUCH more normal to refer to these Prime Ministers by their noble titles, rather than their names. For example, historians will often talk about "the Earl of Liverpool" (or, more often, "Lord Liverpool"); they practically never talk about "Robert Jenkinson". I didn't even know the real names of half these PMs, and I'm pretty well-versed on this period of history
Thanks! Yeah, I know they're more often referred to as Earl of So-and-so but that would have made it so much more difficult to write into a song! And on Pointless they ask for Prime Minister's surnames as opposed to titles and I only really wrote this so I'd sound smarter when watching quiz shows with the parents...
@@ramblerazz Very good points! I wish you luck with your quiz show endeavours
A good way to learn about UK's different Prime Ministers
I find it really fascinating how Prime Minister Urquhart outlasted thatcher by a single day.
Gonna need a new one soon. For our next and greatest Prime Minister - Larry the cat!
"Made a lot of miners frown".
I think "half revolt" would be a better term for how the miners took it-
Nothing more British than understatement.
"I saved the Economy from a Potential Collapse that would have destroyed the UK"
"What did it cost?"
"Everyone hating my guts from now until the End of Time"
@@virtualcynical8515 "I also allowed the Poll Tax to be introduced to Scotland first, despite the ballot box stating that the general opinion of those occupying said country being that nobody actually wanted it"
"I shouted Rejoice at the death of a ton of Argetinian boys, and had basically every Tim dick and Harry to disgrace this globe search for my son when he couldn't be found"
"I literally tore the community away from Galsgow in just 11 years, having everybody connected didn't benefit me, so it had to go out of the window".
"I allowed Bailiffs to steal from the homes of people all over Britain and ransack homes, legally".
"I refused to support or help prevent the mass death of homosexuals by refusing to put any money towards combating aids"
But at what cost ?
People tried to sing 'ding ding the witch is dead' for weeks after my death.
They all protested.
She became more hated than Myra Hindley, and arguably Jimmy Savil.
I do think some of the things she done defintely merited some hatred.
Pretty much out of Animaniacs, if it were a British made series! Props!
I wonder why the vibe of the song really rings the bell. This is probably why
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC
Animaniacs: Finally a worthy opponent, our battles will be legendary!
Honestly, this is the most ingenious thing I've ever seen 🧠
We need an updated for 2024 version
Great stuff. Really enjoyed it !
Finally, the circle is complete. Before I had just the monarch's. Now I have the PM's too.
I’ve learnt the lyrics, and now I know the names of all the Prime Ministers, plus the two that came into office after this song came out
So, it's the british version of the Animaniacs US presidents' song, nice.
Do an update for Elizabeth truss and rushi sunak 0:10
Don’t know keir starmer
All Prime Ministers
Robert Walpole
Spencer Compton
Henry Pelham
William Pulteney
Henry Pelham
Thomas Pelham-Holles
William Cavendish
James Waldegrave
William Cavendish
Thomas Pelham-Holles
John Stuart
George Grenville
Charles Watson-Wentworth
William Pitt Sr.
Augustus Henry Fitzroy
Frederick North
Charles Watson-Wentworth
William Petty Fitzmaurice
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck
William Pitt Jr.
Henry Addington
William Pitt Jr.
William Wyndham Grenville
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck
Spencer Perceval
Robert Banks Jenkinson
George Canning
Frederick John Robinson
Arthur Wellesley
Charles Grey
Henry William Lamb
Arthur Wellesley
Robert Peel
Henry William Lamb
Robert Peel
John Russell
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley
George John James Hamilton-Gordon
Henry John Temple
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley
Henry John Temple
John Russell
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley
Benjamin Disraeli
William Ewart Gladstone
Benjamin Disraeli
William Ewart Gladstone
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
William Ewart Gladstone
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
William Ewart Gladstone
Archibald Philip Primrose
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
Arthur James Balfour
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Herbert Henry Asquith
David Lloyd George
Andrew Bonar Law
Stanley Baldwin
James Ramsey MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
James Ramsey MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
Clement Richard Attlee
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
Robert Anthony Eden
Maurice Harold MacMillan
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home
James Harold Wilson
Edward Richard George Heath
James Harold Wilson
Leonard James Callaghan
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
John Major
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
James Gordon Brown
David William Donald Cameron
Theresa Mary May
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
Mary Elizabeth Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Rodney Starmer
starmers middle name is RODNEY??
@@deadsnake5402 yes
I can't believe this masterpiece only viewed 20k
Dont worry it seems like its being pick up by the algorithm
5 months too early, and yet... you caaaalled iiit! 😊
Ayyyyy Robert Walpole got a mention! Idk how true it is but I’m told I’m a relative down the line (same last name at least) but it’s amazing how little we hear of him despite being the first prime minister
proof?
@@Haris1 it’s a weird thing to lie about so I think he’s telling the truth
@@yeslol9303 sure tbh. But I do know some people who have changed their last name to one they admire of an historical figure
@@Haris1 fair enough but I don’t think Walpole is notable enough for someone to do that
@@yeslol9303 true
I've been waiting for this moment a long time my little TH-cam friend
Winston Churchill:
The best argument to Democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter.
Brilliant. Loved it.
We’re gonna need an updated version of this song soon following Liz’s resignation earlier!
hugely underrated channel not even 200 subs everyone give them support
This aged poorly lol
I was sub 195 😎
This is fantastic!
Somebody gives a medal to this guy please.
Released only 2 years ago and it's already 3 prime ministers out of date
As someone named Winston I love this song!
Prime ministers remake
1. Robert Walpole 1721-1742
2. Spencer Compton 1742-1743
3. Henry Pelham 1743-1754
4. Thomas Pelham-Holles 1754-1756
5. William Cavendish 1756-1757
6. Thomas Pelham-Holles 1757-1762
7. John Stuart 1762-1763
8. George Grenville 1763-1765
9. Charles Watson-Wentworth 1765-1766
10. William Pitt the Elder 1766-1768
11. Augustus FitzRoy 1768-1770
12. Frederick North 1770-1782
13. Charles Watson-Wentworth 1782-1782
14. William Petty 1782-1783
15. William Cavendish-Bentinck 1783-1783
16. William Pitt the Younger 1783-1801
17. Henry Addington 1801-1804
18. William Pitt The Younger 1804-1806
19. William Grenville 1806-1807
20. William Cavendish-Bentinck 1807-1809
21. Spencer Perceval 1809-1812
22. Robert Jenkinson 1812-1827
23. George Canning 1827-1827
24. Frederick Robinson 1827-1828
25. Arthur Wellesley 1828-1830
26. Charles Grey 1830-1834
27. William Lamb 1834-1834
28. Arthur Wellesley 1834-1834
29. Robert Peel 1834-1835
30. William Lamb 1835-1841
31. Robert Peel 1841-1846
32. John Russell 1846-1852
33. Edward Smith-Stanley 1852-1852
34. George Hamilton-Gordon 1852-1855
35. Henry John Temple 1855-1858
36. Edward Smith-Stanley 1858-1859
37. Henry John Temple 1859-1865
38. John Russell 1865-1866
39. Edward Smith-Stanley 1866-1868
40. Benjamin Disraeli 1868-1868
41. William Gladstone 1868-1874
42. Benjamin Disraeli 1874-1880
43. William Gladstone 1880-1885
44. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1885-1886
45. William Gladstone 1886-1886
46. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1886-1892
47. William Gladstone 1892-1894
48. Archibald Primrose 1894-1895
49. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1895-1902
50. Arthur Balfour 1902-1905
51. Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905-1908
52. H. H. Asquith 1908-1916
53. David Lloyd George 1916-1922
54. Bonar Law 1922-1923
55. Stanley Baldwin 1923-1924
56. Ramsay MacDonald 1924-1924
57. Stanley Baldwin 1924-1929
58. Ramsay MacDonald 1929-1935
59. Stanley Baldwin 1935-1937
60. Neville Chamberlain 1937-1940
61. Winston Churchill 1940-1945
62. Clement Attlee 1945-1951
63. Winston Churchill 1951-1955
64. Anthony Eden 1955-1957
65. Harold Macmillan 1957-1963
66. Alec Douglas-Home 1963-1964
67. Harold Wilson 1964-1970
68. Edward Heath 1970-1974
69. Harold Wilson 1974-1976
70. James Callaghan 1976-1979
71. Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990
72. John Major 1990-1997
73. Tony Blair 1997-2007
74. Gordon Brown 2007-2010
75. David Cameron 2010-2016
76. Theresa May 2016-2019
77. Boris Johnson 2019-2022
78. Liz Truss 2022-2022
79. Rishi Sunak 2022-Present
79. Rishi Sunak 2022-2024
80. Keir Starmer 2024-Present
''Lady Maggie Thatcher, Falkland Isles and milk snatcher''
You didn’t search for this video. I can guarantee you’re British and the TH-cam algorithm found it for you
Thanks for doing my homework!
absolute genius
Masterpiece👏🤣well done🤗💖
"that depends on who you next vote in"
lol
This must be the 50th time I have watched this I love it I can nearly sing the whole thing and on this subject I have watched all the horrible histories episodes and this is above their standards
Well this was just brilliant!
Just want to share something from my school
In Drama we were watching something about the Manchester Pride Parade and Thatcher was brought up. My drama teacher said to the entire class "feel free to boo as loudly as possible when you hear Margaret Thatcher's name said in this"
I love my Drama teacher
Edit: Also this should be the National Anthem
I can see this play in schools over there . very educational video.
Bit generous to Gordon Brown. He couldn't win an election, and his short term in office was a series of one policy debacle after another. The guy, though clearly clever in other ways, had this bizarre capacity politically, to keep repeating the same mistakes. He never seemed to learn.
Brown was actually an excellent leader. He would have been better in the radio age as he was terrible at PR - but was great at the practicalities. He understood a lot of Britain's problems and was working to fix them, but not very charismatic and was torn apart by the right wing media which had decided that, without Blair, it was time for a change. The global financial crash didn't do him any favour either (even though he actually managed to save the world banks). However, if you remember, he still managed a hung parliament, even with that.
@@davecross4493 Far from saving the banks, Brown was responsible for lowering various safeguards and contingencies thar contributed to their near downfall. He sold off our gold reserves, just before their value went through the roof. He personally presided over the biggest project debacle in peacetime British modern history, in value terms, when his computerisation of the NHS was found not to work. He made a dogs dinner of tax credits, leaving many vulnerable people being pursued by Hmrc. His election tactics and execution were inept. I could go on and on. Yes, he was dire at PR. But it was just one in a series of things he was dire at. He was an awful leader.
@@flabbybum9562 To take these point by point:
1. Bank deregulation...
It was a similar story across the world - remember it started in wall street. I'm pretty sure most EU countries deregulated banks and I know the US, Australia and Japan did. There is no reason to think the tories would not have done anything different. In fact I guarantee they would have because they believe in the free market and more money for rich people. Also the crash was basically to do with sub prime mortgages in America - and affected all countries.
In the 1990s, the banks all came to government and said: “Look, we don't want to be regulated, we want to be free of regulation. All the complaints he was getting from people was, “Look you're regulating them too much”. And actually the truth was that globally and nationally they should have been regulating them more. But this problem was not just confined to Britain. As I say, the tories would not have done anything different. Brown was chancellor at the time, not prime minister, but he did apologise in 2010. He stopped us all going bankrupt through temporary nationalisation and advising world leaders during the crisis.
2. Gold...
While Gordon Brown could have sold at a better price (he is not a soothsayer), for the vast majority of governments across established economies, there is no real point to holding gold.
The purpose of foreign exchange reserves is not for the state to manage wealth on behalf of the country. People should do this for themselves.
UK reserves should only really be used to underpin monetary policy, and to halt any possible crisis such as a significant run on the pound, not as any kind of sovereign wealth fund. The trouble is that gold is not well suited as a state asset, as its value is very likely to drop as soon as it is deployed as a government intervention mechanism.
The market is of course very different to that of two decades years ago, and any government selling today will not have anywhere near the same impact. But this doesn’t change the cold hard truth that gold is a market best fit for sophisticated speculators, not the state.
3 NHS...
Whatever your views on the 'computerisation' mishap, the NHS was a million times better under Blair and Brown and got much more attention and funding. It was very bad under Thatcher and Major and it is close to collapse now under the current tories, so I reject your point that they did a bad job overall. The tories 'pretend' to fund it because they know the NHS is a vote winner, but they insist everything is outsourced so actually none of the money is IN the NHS.
4. Tax...
He has actually been honoured for his contribution to tax by the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) in 2022. The award is a mark of excellence bestowed on the grounds of particular distinction in the field of taxation.
CIOT President Peter Rayney said: “Gordon Brown is one of the great reforming Chancellors who has shaped the tax and related benefits system like few before or since. In 10 years as Chancellor he made significant changes which strengthened the competitiveness of the UK as a location for holding companies and many business friendly tax measures. He introduced business asset taper relief, the forerunner of Entrepreneurs' Relief - which we now call Business Asset Disposal Relief. He introduced working tax credits, the first ISAs and a simplified regime for pension tax relief. He launched the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) regime which was a game changer to tackling marketed tax avoidance. And he negotiated changes to the EU Savings Directive to focus it around transparency and exchange of information, rather than withholding taxes. This approach has been the blueprint for subsequent international agreements to combat tax evasion."
5. Elections...
I agree with your election point though because he thought people were bright enough to see the good he did instead of listening to what they read. More fool him. I did mention something to that effect in my initial comment.
@@davecross4493Sorry I don't have the time to go into the detail you have. Let's look at just a few examples. Of course Brown didn't cause the international banking crash, but it is widely agreed he seriously exacerbated an already bad situation, and handled it ineptly. I agree that the gold standard played a decreasing to negligible role in currency. But that's not my point - he sold a hugely valuable asset at a massive discount, days before it soared in value.
He presided over the biggest project debacle in modern British history with his computerised system for the NHS, costing the tax-payer billions upon billions.
His tax credit reforms dragged hundreds of thousands of disabled people from a welfare benefit regime, to a system administered by HMRC, who then proceeded to bully them into repaying money they didn't owe, whilst applying a different regime of rules.
He stripped rights and protections from people in social housing. I could go on, and on. A common thread, is Brown's unswerving faith in big bureaucracy to deliver, even when it had repeatedly failed. He just wouldn't learn.
He lost the election from a position of strength he had inherited, because his campaign was appalling. He was not a good PM, and he only looked good for a while as Chancellor, because he hadn't faced any serious challenges. Once he did, his shortcomings became apparent.
@@flabbybum9562 you literally just repeated yourself. I just debunked all these. The only one you didnt is social housing which the started building more when he was . Then the crash happened. It was Thatcher who sold most of them off..
gotta write sections for liz truss and keir starmer now lol
this is already outdated by 2 prime ministers lol
So cute you thought Boris' successor will be determined by a popular vote.
Well it will be but not by the people but the the tory party
BRILLIANT
Perfectly recommended
May’s legacy is dancing. 🤣
Honestly I feel sorry for her
Cameron should of never quit
He did the Brexit vote to secure his next term
But when it didn't go his way he rage quit the country he should of stayed and seen his term through to the end.
Loved this guys 😀