Britain’s New Fringe Parties Explained

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Published 2024-03-30
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As Britain gears up for a general election this year, we turn the spotlight away from the establishment parties and focus on those on the fringes fighting to steal votes from the major players. So what is it that these small parties actually stand for?

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1 - www.electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/files…
2 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaim_Party
3 - www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/01/george-ga…
4 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_Party_of_Britain
5 - www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/feud-between-a…
6 - www.thenational.scot/news/23963960.alba-announce-p…

00:00 Introduction
01:13 The Reclaim Party
02:56 The Workers Party
05:00 The Alba Party
07:09 Brilli

All Comments (21)
  • @Claymunism
    Something fishy is going on between Salmon and Sturgeon, not sure exactly what it is yet.
  • @timgwallis
    American Republicans get compared to British Conservatives, but Republicans and Reclaim sound way closer to each other
  • @petertaylor4647
    Britain will always be a two party system as long as first past the post isn't changed to another type of voting
  • Reclaim party is such an embarrassment that they were beaten by a YouTuber doing it for shits and giggles 💀
  • @t1metzger
    First past the post makes everyone except LAB CON virtually irrelevant. LAB CON could change this terrible system, but they hate each other LESS than the idea of opening up their duopoly to a new party/parties
  • @ML-ir5vo
    Labour have hardly been socially liberal, particularly on trans rights, to be fair.
  • @nnkk7742
    Crazy that the guy with 20 SA cases just slipped away. Either he's a prolific rapist that escapes justice or someone organized a political attack using the judiciary. Either way someone should be in prison.
  • @doxologist
    I guess they're called "Reclaim" because they're still trying to "reclaim" their deposit
  • @third7715
    Looking like green and reform will get around 25% of the vote and no more than a handful of seats between them. Democrazy.
  • @diemasshawkins
    Niko coming in fifth in the London Mayoral Election will never not be funny
  • I find it interesting to the extent to which transgender issues constitute a unique wedge social topic in British politics. It splits and left and centre in a way it really doesn't in the US, because the issue is often framed more as sex-based vs. gender-based rights than as social conservatives vs. social liberals. It also touches on areas like the NHS and what constitutes hate speech, which are also obviously very different. The contrast between British and American political debate over the same topic, driven by the same cultural shifts, says a lot about other ways British and American politics differ.
  • @joshuawells835
    I've read that another difference between the SNP and Alba is that Alba is not just calling for Scottish Independence, but for a Scottish Republic with a president modeled after the President of Ireland.
  • @NK-vd8xi
    Left wing economic but socially moderate/conservative seems to be a very untapped demographic. If George Galloway wasn't so polarising then that formula could be deadly for labour.
  • @TheUgo100
    please allow the smaller parties to win seats and put an end to this 2 party, corrupt, monopoly system. I'm voting for the Green party, any party willing to tax the rich and nationalise all public services including water, energy, and NHS gets by vote. Labour and Conservatives are both funded by rich private equity firms, as long as they stay in power this country will become highly unequal third world country