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All the clips you see from the UK Parliament are from Prime Ministers Questions which is 30 minutes once a week. The rest of the time it is a lot more orderly.
Yeah most of the time it’s like the us clips.
More orderly but also more boring
You mean OORRDEERRRLY? 😅
Just what I was going to. say. PMQs in always fun, with a full house. Mostly, it's half a dozen members in an almost empty chamber, with one of them droning on for hours about steel tariffs.
If you wish to expand your knowledge on political ideology,please study pluralism, which opens the debate to multiparty government. You cannot define people as either left or right,we are multi facetted.
The Beast of Bolsover is a legend. My favourite was when he said “half the Tories are crooks” the Speaker asked him to retract his statement so he said “ ok, half the Tories are not crooks” 🤣🤣🤣
Also, the one when he called out to a boring speech "Stop playing with your balls"
Denis Skinner`s autobiography is very interesting .He had a scholarship to go to university as a youngster but true to his political beliefs turned it down and went down the mine, in his family`s tradition .Then many years later took up further education .
I'm from Clay Cross. I know his family, and worked with some of them.
Connor, look for Dennis Skinner at the Queen's opening of Parliament. He traditionally literally heckles the Queen. Honestly. A sad loss to Parliament. I know his family well.
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The US. Congress doesn’t have an equivalent of ‘question time’ . Imagine if your president had to submit to questioning before Congress on a weekly basis. I imagine that would become a lot more confrontational.
He would also be incapable.
George.W.Bush got a shock in the Canadian Parliament,modelled on the Westminster model ,he was visibly shaken at confrontation politics.
Trump would mess himself..
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And Biden would burst into tears.
@@jonathanhodgson2142 They would have had to supply Trump with a set of plates and an "empty" wall.
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And supply Biden with ....... well nothing really, he would just be completely incoherent.
Then ask for a warm glass of milk and go to bed.
Congratulations, Connor. Your pronunciation of "Order!" is so good you could actually pass as a Brit from southern England! 🏴🇬🇧
The guy you refer to in the background at 2:00 laughing, is Neil Parish a conservative MP who has just resigned because he was caught watching porn on his phone in the house of commons. 🤣🤣🤣
I swear the tories just can't stop watching porn in parliament. I know Labour and lib dems probably do as well, but the tories seem to be the major offenders.
Betty Boothroyd was the first Woman Speaker of The House of Commons and one of the best! She became Speaker not long after television was allowed to broadcast live from the Houses of Parliament!
At 2:00 the guy in the back waving his arms in a silly manner, is because they're not allowed to clap, and he almost forgot. You're allowed to jeer, hiss or harrumph... just not clap.
Isn't the other guy in the back row, the one that resigned for watching porn last week?
@@daddywhogames6601 Good spot, the one over the woman's RH shoulder is the infamous Neil Parrish, I expect the LibDems to get that seat in due course.
Your "order" accent is surprisingly impressive 😂👍
Yeah he is called James Cameron, and he also directed Avatar :)
P.S. "David Cameron".
have to see the time the Australian PM was giving a policy speech in a new development area and the owner came outside and yelled out "Get off my lawn!"
And he did. It's important to remind politicians that they are not that much more important than anyone else. They're just a politician
@@Nick-mt4wk I was at the funeral of the former shire president of heytesbury in South West Victoria (Australia) and he was frustrated that he couldn't get the buerocrats to fund road repairs so he contacted the State Premier directly. So Premier Henry Bolte drove down himself to have a look.
His car broke down and the most senior elected official in the state of Victoria arrived at the council meeting after hitching a ride with a passing truck driver.
The shire president gave the Premier a glass of scotch...and a couple more. Then he drove him up and down flat out over the shire's roughest roads. And Bolte returned to Melbourne and forced through the funding.
That's how politicians should be done.
This was his son telling this story at the funeral
11:54 onwards - Corbyn says he was at a meeting of heads of government and socialist leaders, then he says ".... and they said to me ..." and the Tories (Conservatives) finished off his sentence by shouting " .... who are you ?" which was the cue for everybody to fall about laughing.
I think a video of the best of Jacob rees-mogg would match your assumptions of British politics and make for a fun little watch aswell
Once a week, the PM has to have a meeting with The Queen and explain themselves to her. That would be like the President having to visit Uncle Sam and explain themselves to him (except the Monarch is a real person and the Queen is incredibly well informed.)
I suspect Boris runs roughshod through the monarch's opinions and advice during those sessions. I think he thinks he is answerable to no one.
There is one major difference, the US doesn't have a parliament. In a parliament, the leader, or Prime Minister in our case, has to stand up & answer direct questions from the official opposition & explain himself/herself. The US president doesn't have to do that. So generally, I think a parliamentary system is better because it makes the leader more accountable & forces them to justify their actions.
Well that's the idea, but it never actually happens. PMQs is a shitshow pantomine.
@@booshank2327 Certainly at the moment with a bloody idiot in charge.
The US have a parliament called Congress. Though, they don't have a parliamentary system. But, yeah, since the executive power is not accountable to the legislative power, it doesn't allow shitshows like the questions to government (that exists in every parliamentary system, not only the Westminster one : France, Belgium, Italy, Spain...)
The US does have a Parliament, it’s called Congress. The difference, is the US head of government is also the head of state. Congress doesn’t have the powers to force the president to submit to questioning. The constitution does not make reference to the custom
Boris turned it into that. Before him, the PM at least had to correct the record if they were caught in a lie.
the UK parliament is near 1,000 years old, we have learned to not take politics to seriously, In truth most of the process of government is done out side the chamber.
It is only within the last couple of decades that the British public failed to take politics seriously and the idea we shouldn't take it seriously is deliberately designed to make the public complacent. Most of the work is indeed done outside of the chamber and that itself is a very serious problem as it has allowed the civil service to gain far too much control. Although this isn't new, the civil service have always been the real power.
@@laughingachilles I am old enuf to say for sure not one took politics seriously 40 years ago. it is nothing new.
@@DarrenMalin In your circle.
Denis Skinner was very witty. I still laugh when I remember him referring to Colin Moynihan as the Miniature for Sport. 🤣🤣🤣 Mr Moynihan was quite short.
I watched your entire video! It was great!
UK parliament is just like Malaysian parliament HAHAHAH, now i know we took it literally from the UK xD
Going against the party line - here we have Whips, officials for each party that ‘whip’ the party members into following the party line to vote for what the leaders of the party have decided. So, when MPs don’t act appropriately or the way the party wants they can, ‘Lose the party whip’.
We have all sorts of people as MPs. You don’t have to be born here to be an MP. We’ve even had a German born MP.
Only Boris would bring reporters a cup of tea 😆
Connar, the key difference between British politicians, and USA politicians. Is British politicians, have to answer question and are directly accountable to the public. The President of the USA is NOT questions directly once a week, every week, for 1 hour every Wednesday afternoon, on any and every aspect of USA government policy. He can stand at a podium, make a statement (true or false; wrong or right), and walk away, with nobody challenging or questioning him, about the government policies or his personal behave or actions of ministers.
The British Prime Minister is ‘directly’ accountable for EVERYTHING the government does, and is directly and publically challenged or questioned, even ridiculed publically, about the government policies or his personal behaviour or actions of ministers and officials.
The result is, that the USA’s system of government, is filled with ‘unchallenged’ corruption, and the persistence of ‘corrupt practices’. All covered up, by a veil of fake ‘politeness’ and ‘insincerity’.
The rowdy “in your face” nature of the British system, imposes a far ‘higher standard’ of ‘accountability’, ‘honesty’, and ‘personal integrity’, on it politicians; in comparison to the ‘low’ or ‘no’ standards of ‘accountability’, ‘honesty’, and ‘personal integrity’, enjoyed by USA politicians.
Can you imagine what would happen is the President of the USA, and it’s government ministers, had to go before the Congress of the USA, for 1 hour every Wednesday afternoon, and answer questions and be directly and publically challenged or questioned, even ridiculed publically, about the government policies or his personal behaviour or actions of officials?
Directly challenged on government waste? Directly challenges of taxing the rich and super rich? Directly challenged on corporate welfare? Directly challenged on corporate donors? Directly challenged and held ‘accountable’ for everything, the government does, and has failed to do?
Instead of being able to just make a statements or speech, and just walk away - ‘unchallenged’ and ‘unquestioned’?
The ‘confrontational’ nature of UK politics, as compared to the ‘aloof’ nature of USA political culture. Forces politicians to ‘up the game’, and work to a ‘higher standard’, than is required of politicians in the USA.
This is an ongoing and defining ‘strength’ of the UK system of politics.
Another aspect of this is the media. The media in the UK ‘ruthlessly’ question and challenge UK politicians and hold them ‘accountable’. In the USA, no such ‘accountability’ compared to that of the British media, of British politicians exists.
Which is another reason why USA politics is so corrupt, with media often playing the role of ‘accessory’ to sleazy corruption in USA politics. Rather than any kind of ‘oppositionists’ to it.
The USA system opens the door for the worst kinds of ‘scum bag’ politicians, to get into office, and stay in office, for a very long time. That is it’s major failing.
So many words, so little English...
@@stevemoppett2759 Odd. What language do you think it's written in...?
You should watch David Cameron's last PMQs after handing in his resignation as PM. It's hilarious, even Larry the Chief Mouser gets a shout out!
What you’re seeing here is very specifically PMQs for the most part, in theory it is the government and Prime Minister being held to account once a week for 30 minutes - it’s a bit of theatre, although a worthwhile one. The work done in the Commons is not like this for the most part
Can we just appreciate how this man on his other tabs has ‘animals that can kill themselves’ and ‘pig slop’
You are not allowed to swear. Politicians are assumed to be gentlemen so you can't call them liar, or fraud etc. If the speaker stands everyone else is supposed to sit and be quiet. If you have called an MP a name then the speaker can order you to withdraw the statement. If you don't withdraw it then he can say your name and you have to leave Parliament for the day.
Like the snp mp did, Ian something (can't remember his surname)
Good onya mate. You straightened out my confused thoughts regarding politics. Oh, by the way, you are very fast becoming my favourite blogger, blogger, flogger, whatever. Go getem mate.
Completely off the subject but does anyone else notice, that when watching this reaction, on bottom right corner in the background picture, there's a soldier that looks as if he's got bare legs, denim short shorts, and doing the "I'm a single lady"-dance 😂
The UK house of parliament isn't always like that, sometimes you get fascinating and eloquent points being made, (Search any speech by Rees Mogg). Our parliament is almost a thousand years old so has developed a banter type culture using wit and comedy along with intellect.
Rees Mogg is funny to watch. Don't believe a word he says though.
Rees Mogg?! Well, that's certainly an opinion you are welcome to.....
@@Mrbpj01 To be fair, I'd say the same about just about anyone in that house. It was meant as, If Connor does look him up, he is dishonest to say the least. I think he in particular is still in hiding. Haven't seen him much since they hid him away during the last election after making out the people who stayed in Grenfell were stupid for following the orders given to them. Though I have seen him in memes a lot lately, looking at a book of Victorian women's ankles mainly, as I'm sure you have!
Isn’t he the Right Hon Member for Mudfog Workhouse? Mogg isn’t a real person, he’s a caricature of a Charles Dickens character 🤣
Rees-Mogg lol. His confected upper-class persona has you hook, line and sinker.
Apart from the daily meetings in the House of Commons and the House of Lords ,many MPs will sit on sub-committees and thrash out aspects of polital business .
The BBC has a separate channel which is given over to this kind of politics ,as well as the weekly Prime Minister`s Question Time .
I think you'd really enjoy some of the clips of Jacob Rees-Mogg a complete cliche of the English landed gentry but in some cases comedy gold...
I don't know about today, but back then House/Senate politics were very interesting. I remember my dad watching CSPAN and we got a chuckle from partisan banter...also if there is one thing from Europe we need, is a multi-party system...being independent rarely matters in scope of national elections, but it's a way to protest the established parties, without skipping voting entirely, that is.
A bit of passion in Government is a good thing. But I can assure you that if Ted Cruise stood in Parliament and recited "Green Eggs and Ham" just to waste time he would have been thrown out of the house and ordered to read it at a kindergarten class, four times a day for two weeks!
The way the Commons is arranged is adversarial, with the Government facing the Opposition only just over two sword lengths away. The Speaker, who is supposed to be impartial, sits in the middle. Bercow, although a character and funny in many ways, was accused of not being impartial over many things. He has since defected from Conservative to Labour. The video comparison is unfair in some ways because it compares US debates with PM questions, which is a once-a-week event and usually very lively. Most Commons business is much more sedate and would quickly send you to sleep 😀
You should watch opening of parliament see how the queen is involved in that
The last US clip about the house and mouse was filibustering. Dude just took the chair and read a book to make it impossible to vote on a law. It's not very democratic but pretty funny.
The House of Commons is actually quite orderly most of the time. There is a lot of interplay and speakers in debates allow interruption and a dialogue to open up. In the House of Representatives and US Senate this never happens. Speakers in debates are allocated speaking time which they may reserve for later use. So although it provides fair allocation of time, what you end up with is prepared speeches with no interplay as you might get if you were discussing with friend around the dining table at home or at work for example.
There’s specialist committees for various topics. You’re watching prime minister’s question time, which lasts for 30 minutes every Wednesday. That’s the show time stuff aimed at the Tv although that shouting has happened way before there was any TV at all. Nobody could keep that up for weeks and nothing would get done.
The real boring, detailed work stuff happens in other debates and in the committees. I went to the gallery when I first came to London and could only get admitted for a debate about drains. The queues for entrance by the public for anything exciting can be huge. Some are standards committees to review the admin. Some are specialist committees and those can be on anything - defence, etc. Backbench MPs can be chairmen of committees and so increase their influence although not in the cabinet (the big jobs).
Speaker of the House was correct. This one was John Bercow, who started as a Conservative MP, but became very controversial. The new Speaker is Sir Linsay Hoyle, a Labour MP who has to be impartial.
and seems to be so ......... unlike Bercow.
I should probably mention that James Cameron is actually called David.
As for Jeremy Corbyn, he is a highly divisive figure. Some consider him an out-and-out ‘man of the people’, and he was very successful in the 2017 General Election, when the Conservative Party failed to achieve a majority of seats in Parliament. However, he stepped down as party leader after a landslide defeat in the 2019 election. The defeat was likely due to a mixture of his indecisive stance on Brexit and the fact that he was part of the ‘old Labour’ left, which hasn’t seen much popularity since the 1970s. It has since been found that Labour under Corbyn's leadership was institutionally anti-Semitic, and Corbyn was expelled from the parliamentary Labour Party. He has continued to sit as an MP but as an independent.
The Speaker of the House of Commons is a position to which you have to be chosen by at least 12 members of Parliament (MP) and 3 of them have to be from 3 different parties. Then you have to be approved by the Monarch. The cadency (length) is At Her Majesty Pleasure. Wages is good (around £160000/year - that's includes normal MP salary).
15:00 haha yeah we have basketball (BBL and other leagues) as well as ice hockey (EIHL, NIHL and SNL) obviously they don’t get nearly the same recognition as their cousins from across the pond and nor do they get the same attendance as them too, but for some of the top teams in the EIHL hockey league (top league) they can get from 5-7k.
I don’t follow the basketball, but I do follow the hockey (religiously - I ain’t a fan of football/soccer) but team GB play in the same IIHF WC group as team USA and Canada and we have played with them for 3/4 years now!
I love British tea and that's it.
Never in the field of History meaning Sir Winston Churchill with the upper-class ✔.
Good Reaction. The Corbyn joke was that he was asked "WHO ARE YOU? "Why do women, on average, live longer?? I am 67 in London and by then you will know.
Not too many Women doing DANGEROUS jobs and incredibly arduous and physically demanding jobs like Building work, Roofers, Miners, Firefighters(vast majority Men, Armed Services(mostly Men ) Ironworkers, Welders, Farmers, Oil Rig Workers, Dockers, and over the decades these jobs take their toll both physically and mentally over the decades.
Heavy lifting in life is performed by Males who,on average, live shorter and more brutal lives.
most sessions in parliament are civilised and orderly ist just PM Qs and important debates that are like this
Discussion happens in committees and such - PM Questions and the like are a combat exercise
He's David Cameron, not James Cameron. James Cameron is the director of the Titanic (1997) movie.
James Cameron took a break from Avatar 2 to speak to the House. David, Connor 😂
I wish I had been more interested in it growing up. 35 years old, stuck in a bed or on a couch recovering from near fatal accident.. Hospital TV is not great but I ended up watching loads of history programmes ad politics shows. I wish I paid more attention to it in school. Instead, I dropped History in favour of Geography and took general studies instead of Politics. Really bad choices by 14 year old me... But then at 17 I had to take at least 4 different subjects. I took Physics, Maths (mechanics and statistics), Chemistry, which I dropped after 3 months, and retook my English Literature.
What's funny is the school and the follow on 6th form (collage) is one of the best in the country and I got in there as a technicality. At 11 years old in the final year of primary school we all take a test called the 11+. Out of my school only 3 people achieved a high enough score to go to this great school. Those 3 students were all girls and they were told to take a boy. 6 Names of the top boys went into a hat, mine came out. They then deemed that unfair and all names should be put in and 5 chosen. My name came out again. We then did an IQ test. I came 2nd. The top guy wanted to go to school with his twin sister so left me going to the top school. It's funny. I did the worst out of any student has ever done. Constantly in trouble never wanted to study. at 15 and the leaving tests I came no where near the threshold for being allowed to stay till 18. But they let me stay because, and I quote "you are a character who every one loves and if I don't let you in then it will be more than your tears and your heart broken"...
I obviously didn't do great. I did really well in Physics, the only thing I was interested in.... But mainly school was a laugh for me. And as this is one of the best schools in the country my stupidly low grades ment they had to take me off the statistics. Trying to find any record of me being at the school is really difficult. Every school picture of our class that's taken every year has gone missing. The class I was in from 15 to 17, DAH12 is not listed. All there is to show I was there is a full school picture of us all and some school blog showing a poem me and a girl wrote for the school magazine when we were 12.
And, I think that's fooking fantastic... I was always told I'd never stand out. But oh how wrong they all were I stood out so much they tried to hide it. Hahaha
all the rowdy bits are at PMQ's when the Prime Minister turns up once a week...lol
It is a party system but without “teams” agreement would never be reached and nothing would get done. Any argument should be within the teams and once a policy is set the team as a whole needs to support it even if not fully in agreement. If a member cannot support the policy then that member should find another party or be an Independent.
It's a fair point and also a gaping flaw in the way our systems work. Maybe I'm way off here, but I think Connor's talking about the political scene in general, i.e. voters as much as politicians. Tribal polarisation in one arena feeds into and exacerbates the same in the other, I suppose, until it ends up completely defining party ideology and preventing internal political moderation.
Looking to social media, a lot of UK voters *are* starting to stray from representing their own interests on a fluid, issue-by-issue basis to cheering on one party or the other, regardless of policy - kind of like sports team supporters. Twitter in particular (with its 280 character, sock-puppet-friendly, gotcha format), is playing a huge part in turning politics into a predictable and entrenched game of sunk emotional costs. Maybe that isn't too healthy for democracy in the long run.
Oh boy do I miss Betty Boothroyd as Speaker in the Commons……nobody messed with her!
He’s David Cameron by the way, I think James Cameron is a film director.
The role is Speaker of the House of Commons or Mr or Madam Speaker (the title is much like the one in your own House of Representatives) but ours don`t use a gavel. The position of Speaker is filled by a Member of Parliament - who remains the MP for their constituency uncontested so long as they are Speaker - and the role does come with a rather nice suite of rooms inside the Palace of Westminster that overlook the Thames and Westminster Bridge, and a yearly salary of just under 80K per annum. I am not sure about meals but I am sure it is equivalent to the standard enjoyed by ordinary MPs - which is very good and although they usually have to pay for these meals the prices are subsidised.
Ordinary debates within the Commons are usually polite and reasoned but every Wednesday afternoon, while Parliament is in session the Prime Minister comes to answer questions (PMQs) put to him/her by the Leader of the Loyal Opposition and that is usually when the place becomes a Punch & Judy Show or Christmas Pantomime (Boos and Hisses and 'He`s behind you' ; well not really but you get the point) where Party Loyalty and Political division is vividly on show; the Speaker`s role in these performances is to keep the questions and replies (not necessarily answers) audible for the record.
Recently, the emphasis has been on Parliamentary Language used during PMQs because Boris (the clue is in the name) Johnson has been lying his head off most of the time because he can`t or won`t reply with the truth but Members in the Chamber of the House of Commons are forbidden from calling him out as a liar or accuse him of lying; if they do accuse the PM of being untruthful directly they are asked by the Speaker to rephrase the question or withdraw the accusation.
Ian Blackford - leader in the House of the Scottish National Party Westminster MPs - was recently expelled from the House for calling Johnson a liar and was asked to leave by the Speaker because it is his job to keep debate from breaking out in to a brawl; you will notice that there is a red-line painted on the floor before each front bench on either side of the Chamber and MPs must never cross that by tradition because beyond that is the point where the length of swords meet - when gentlemen used to carry such things in to the Chamber ordinarily.
And the mouthy gobshite aping the role of PM was David Cameron (here PM stands for Pig Molester because of his reputed initiation in to the Piers Gaveston Society); Jeremy Corbyn was, and is, considered all but ineffectual politically, especially now since the cult of personality that surrounded him for a time is now largely defunct, he has now retired from mainstream politics. I am not a fan of either Cameron or Corbyn because they allowed Brexit to happen and created the circumstances for the Russian asset that is Boris (the clue is in the name) Johnson to erode the quality of our democracy for his sociopathic jollies and vainglorious jingoism.
Oh and the bit about women living longer than men is because of their theorised anthropological role in our evolution: it was grandmothers (apart from nursing mothers) who looked after and taught the older children to forage for and to prepare food their group - tribes of humans who had these effective individuals we more successful, and numerous, thus concentrated that advantage in to their decedents.
James Cameron is a film director. 'Dodgy' David Cameron was a Conservative Prime Minister.
Betty Boothroyd - a legendary speaker. Shown in the video’s last few moments. She was a Labour Party MP but was entirely neutral, as appropriate for the Speaker, and supportive of the House of Commons rules and regs. Originally, she was a dancer: a Tiller girl, one of those in the sparkly costumes and big feathery headdresses who kicked their legs up in unison. She was terrific. So, unlike Mr Bercow who wanted self-publicity all the time.
You should watch Betty Boothroyd, she was the best speaker in the House of Commons
George Thomas was good as well.
Rarely is any work done at Prime minister's questions. It's all done in boring sessions at other times.
The Mother of Parliaments in one form or another dates back over 1200 years. Terms like "Speaker" were adopted by the founding fathers when they were designing their own, post-Revolution version of it.
You're welcome.
I’m pretty sure the MP on the left behind the MP with her arm in a brace was the guy who just resigned from the HoC for watching adult videos on his phone in the Commons chamber
they do have a pub in the house of commons so a few pints maybe before debate lol
Apparently that pub has now been shut, as it was only recently considered a bit uncouth for MPs to be absolutely plastered whilst on the job 😂
John Bercow was my locai MP (for Buckingham), and he was always seen as a bit of a joke ,a bit of a chancer, a slightly dodgy geezer.
The Speaker of the House gets to live in an apartment in the Palace of Westminster. It comes with the job. There are strange rules in the House of Commons, e.g. you cannot call another member a liar. The Commons chamber can get pretty rowdy at times, particularly during Prime Minister's Questions (which is a bit of a pantomine). However, much of the real work of parliament is done away from the chamber in select committees. These are far more ordered affairs.
Shocking lack of respect and decorum from Trimp in front of the Guard. He has no clue.
En español también decimos "estar en las Antípodas" como estar en la otra punta o en el otro extremo.
the UK took the idea of televising politics from the USA. I believe the first was Maggie thatcher was our first Prime minister to UK parliament be televised. anyway if you look at the floor of Parliament there are 2 x red lines that are not to be crossed this stopped MPs attacking each other with swords
PMQs is very much a publicity thing. Alot more rowdy and embellished passion for the broadcast's sake.
That Bercow geezer was refused a peerage and has been sited as a bully.
A very unpleasant character but I loved watching him on the last election night programme, he was soooooo tadged off with the result.
Made my evening.
Basically you've got a Scot trying to talk to an Ozzy in that first clip.
Yeah, nearly all the clips here from the UK are from PMQs - or Prime Minister's Questions. In theory this is 30-45 minutes every Wednesday at 12o'clock where the chamber is full and the Opposition leader has 6 questions to put to the PM, before back benchers from every party get a turn to ask him something, often those selected are from the PMs own party with pre-prepared questions that amount to nothing but self-congratulatory propaganda. It's essentially political theatre these days, absolutely nothing of worth happens during this session, the PM never answers a straight question and is never pulled up on it by the Speaker. Outside of this mad 30-45mins, most of the time it's a very placid, civil place where debate actually happens often in good faith. You can watch BBC Parliament live to see for yourself if you have access.
On Wednesdays the Pm must turn up for questions and it,s always a riot. There are very serious times too.
It was once simply assumed that men didn't live as long as women because they did more hard, physical labour. An assumption which was disproved by modern society where, if that were the case, men who work at desks & offices would also live longer.
There was a study done on eunuchs because it was found that many of them lived to be 100 regardless of work/lifestyle choices. Thus it was discovered that it was their lack of the male hormone testosterone which was part of the reason.
By contrast, the female hormone oestrogen acts as a natural anti-oxident, so it destroys free radicals, breaks down cholesterol, and helps prevent cardiovascular diseases. Recent studies have also found it also is valuable in limiting liver damage.
The other thing that helps women live longer is that they have two sets of X chromosomes while men have an X and a Y chromosomes . So they have 'back up' chromosomes if one set no longer functions as it should.
I kinda look at women's longevity as making up for all those days/months/years we spend curled up on a couch with a hot-water bottle during menstruation! Or flapping about like huge whales before facing the hideously painful act of childbirth.
Loved when the ex prime minister of Great Britain made Terminator and Titanic
Never change. You are awesome
2:03 Yeah, definitely keep your eye on that guy in the background. Pretty sure that’s Neil Parish. Google him…
Greetings Connor,
The politicians in britain are held in contempt by most ordinary brits. They are seen as self serving, untrustworthy, and guilty of nauseating levels of hypocrisy and political correctness.
Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader of the Labour Party was literally unelectable,which resulted in his leaving the main political stage with his tail between his legs, as someone once said, 'just another here today, gone tomorrow politician'.
How do you pronounce "Boehner"? (I'm asking for a friend...)
12:20 Anyone not in goverment has no power over how it's run but if a law wants to be passed through the house has to vote on it.
Ah, yes. James Cameron. Former UK Prime Minister and director of such films and Terminator and Avatar.
The Parliamentary record - Hansard - has all contributions from MPs noted and good points are made, and seen. by all who care to look, even when the House of Commons is almost empty. Jeering and gesturing is about insulting and putting off the opposition and nothing to do with scoring high in any given debate.
It's David Cameron. James Cameron is a movie maker.
Glad you love Politics, so do I. Often watch proceedings in House of Commons. There are rules and regulations on proceedings, these were written down by the Clerk to the Commons, Erskine May but they go back into history. The red lines on the floor of the Commons is the red line the members shouldn't cross and more than a sword distance. Have been round the Palace of Westminster, interesting building. A replacement as original burnt down. Always mired by scandal, try to pass it off as a modern phenomenon, been there since its creation. Jeremy Corbyn was saying about is political friends saying to him.... heckler shouts out Who are you, to finish his sentence. Jeremy Corbyn is in political wilderness, not liked by the Electorate, gave Boris Johnson his good majority. They do have some good put downs in Parliament.
Both the main UK political parties (Conservative / Labour) have left wing and right wing branches. Corbyn was to the extreme left of Labour to the extent of being almost communist. Cameron had to resign in 2016 because he campaigned to remain in the EU and the vote went the 'wrong' way. May took his place and quickly held an election in 2017 to bolster her authority. This went badly wrong and she almost lost to Labour, leaving her with a weak minority government which relied on a small Northern Ireland party to get legislation through the House. She was unable to forge a Brexit deal with the EU, so was ousted as leader by Boris Johnson. He held an immediate election in 2019 and won a huge majority of seats for the Conservatives. This result meant Corbyn had to resign as Labour leader and his place was taken by Sir Keir Starmer, who is right-wing Labour and slightly lack lustre. Since then, we've had an unsatisfactory Brexit deal, Covid, raging inflation and increased fuel prices as well as the Russian / Ukrainian War. Johnson does not need to hold an election until 2023-4, but is now behind Labour in the polls.
There’s an argument for saying that this is what happens when you do or don’t separate the head of state from the political leader of the country.
4:15 Unfortinatly no we just yell and shout and get no where.
Conor, have you seen the Yes Prime Minister clip of Hacker being terribly pleased with himself after Prime Minister’s Question Time. 😂😂. Sir Humphrey tells him he lied. ( resignable offence)
11:50 American politics is scary.
Yes in committees the debate is more measured
You would be given more than that for saying " order". We have very old lords, who are allowed just to turn up...fall asleep, wake up, go to lunch spending hundreds of our hard earned tax money on bottles of posh wine. They call it "expenses". They then go back in to parliament and fall asleep again, wake up and go home...and get paid...with our tax money! Hard to believe isn't it!
The sports team analogy is very apt for modern American politics (and not just American politics, though I think it's most pronounced with American politics) - red vs blue; it's all about supporting the team, no matter what the team does. People aren't looking at what each side is saying and doing, or judging positions on their merit, they're simply going with, "I'm tead red/blue and they want to do X, therefore X is good and anything not X is bad" - that kind of mentality leaves no room for compromise, which is fundamental to a functional political system. Hyper-polarisation - the idea that, unless you are completely in agreement with me, you're completely against me, is a particularly dangerous trait these days.
The british way is generally only so brash 1hour a week. During PMQ - Prime Ministers questions
To do the Speaker's job, you'd have to have a complete knowledge of how parliament works!
James Cameron haha he didn't create movies, he's David!
Love your interest in politics!
The comparison isn’t quite accurate here. It compared normal statements made in congress (which also happens in U.K. Parliament and can be equally bland) to prime ministers questions (PMQ) which is always lively. There is no comparison as your President never has to answer to questions in congress, whereas the prime minister does every Wednesday in parliament.
Jeremy Corbyn is probably best compared to Bernie Sanders. Last bastions of socialism basically. But Corbyn is no longer Labour leader after he lost the last election to Boris.
Bernie Sanders is just about left of centre, it’s only in the US system that he’s seen as such a socialist, his self-description as one is a little odd when he’s just about a Social Democrat
David Cameron! James Cameron is the film director! :-)
Most of the real work at Westminster is done in the committees
The speaker has rooms in Westminster.
John Bercow, who was the Speaker of the House, has been replaced - thank goodness. He tried diverting the democratic process leading up to Brexit (he wanted to remain). Prime Minister's question time happens once a week for 30 minutes where people do tend to go a little over the top.
Jacob Rees-Mogg (Leader of the House at one point) th-cam.com/video/Wc9b08J2KrA/w-d-xo.html
The Upper House in Westminster. the House of Lords, is far more decorous. I once watched a debate on education in the House of Lords which was very well informed because a large number of academics are noble lords or ladies in their retirement.
The guy in the background of the woman with her arm in a sling has just had to quit as an MP as he was watching porn on his phone in the House of Commons!
I also find the 2 party system very toxic. Very early on you adapt the mentality of us vs them and then continue seeing things in black or white. On one hand it's more interesting to watch but I still prefer the system we have in the EU countries where there's a plethora of political parties and you choose which one you vote for based on their political program. Some parties come, some go and some integrate. I find it much more healthy and diverse, and yes politics may be important but for many people it does definitely not become their whole identity or way of life.
Well, the UK is hardly 2 party! Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green, Scottish Nationalists, Alba, Plaid Cymru, Democratic Unionists, Ulster Unionists, Sinn Fein, Alliance Party, Social and Democratic Labour Party, plus a whole range of Independents. And in the recent past UKIP, the Brexit Party etc.
@@clairenoon4070 Right, exactly my point.
@@eliskakordulova I thought you were making a distinction between the UK and, in your words, what 'we have in the EU countries'. My mistake.