Hi there everyone!
So today I'm joined with my friend Lucy.
Hiya.
Now the general election is coming up which if you're not in the UK you're probably like
I don't know what that is.
Or if you're me!
You don't really know what that is because I don't know anything about British politics.
That's why I brought my friend Lucy here.
I work at a non-profit (Bite The Ballot) that encourages the youths to vote so I know a
lot about the general election on the 7th of May (cheeky plug I didn't even notice till
right now)
Evan.
Knows nothing.
(rude) So today we're gonna educate him and test
his knowledge.
*to the tune of S Club 7's Bring it All Back* Don't Stop!
Gotta go vote!
We'll start by making Evan draw a spectrum of the political parties.
Okay.
I've got this white board here.
#DrawMyLife Left to right spectrum.
Same as in America.
Same as in every single...
Nah mate.
Left and right.
Here we have my beautiful spectrum of left and right.
I learned this in kindergarten so definitely not politics yet.
Right.
Right there.
*laughs* I don't even know if you know what the party
names are.
I know a couple.
I've sat long and LABOURed a long time to come up so you could aGREEN with you.
I've applied my knowledge LIBERALly not CONSERVATIVEly.
Have I named them all yet?
You've done really well.
Right, can you put the labour party on there.
Labour sounds like poor people because the working party is labourious so I'm going to
put them right here...
Labour.
Not bad.
Now do you wanna put the conservatives on there.
It's the opposite because conservatives are very "right" in America.
Conservatives.
We're doing pretty well so far!
Okay.
Okay, where do you think UKIP are? *laughs*
Cool.
Now where do you think the liberal democrats are?
I'm gonna put them right around here.
Quite good, yeah.
Really?
Yeah!
I'm quite impressed.
Now Greens.
Right in the middle.
Not really.
Dang it.
Right.
Aww.
Next challenge is to tell me what you think about each party.
What have you heard from the Internet?
So mostly all the knowledge I know about different political parties in the UK are from Twitter
trends such as everyone hates David Cameron.
Everyone hates Nigel Farage.
Everyone really...
cause he's the UKIPper.
Yeah.
And as an American who's an immigrant, he hates me and wants me out of his country so
I don't like UKIP at all.
We're gonna start with the conservatives.
Conservatives.
I've heard so little about them.
They have very old values such as racism and... the queen.
*laughs*
Okay.
Conservatives are the people in power at the moment.
David Cameron's their guy.
He can't cameRUN the country very well.
One could say!
They like the queen; you're right about that.
Okay.
But they're not that racist.
They're not that racist.
No.
They're like quite middle.
They're conservative.
Yeah!
Exactly!
They're economically conservative.
They're like... different colours...
ehhh
Socially quite liberal like they've endorsed gay marriage.
Oh good!
But that's like every party does that other than UKIP in Britain.
*sigh* UKIP.
Tell me what you know about UKIP.
UKIP are racist and homophobic and they try to get the most voters in very uneducated
areas of England.
UKIP doesn't like immigrants.
They're basically republicans in America.
Right?
I would agree.
Yeah the best comparison for them is probably republicans in America.
I don't know if they use scare tactics but...
Yeah.
They use a lot of like terrorists or Romanians... you guys seem really scared of Romanians.
Green party what've you heard?
Green party I would hope would care about the environment and they're gonna work on
sustainable energy.
Students, I think, are important to the green party and maybe they make the tuition go down?
But I don't know anything about the green party besides that.
You're pretty accurate; they really care about the green that surrounds us.
That's a good name for them then.
Green party is kinda socialist.
Oh that's, yeah!
Ambitious.
Labour?
Well I do know that everyone wants to have sex with Ed Miliband.
So...
Are you part of the milifandom?
Milifandom.
I don't know why that that's happened, but everyone wants to bang Ed Miliband.
Have you seen him?
Yeah, I saw the NikinSammy video.
Labour is like getting rid of immigrants.
Wait.
Labour wants to get rid of... oh!
They wanna crack down on the immigrants.
Oh nope!
Labour's just lost a vote.
Good bye!
I think that as long as immigrants are providing a very big value to the country you should
let them in obviously.
Don't just let in anyone, but I try so hard to stay here, man!
Final one, the lib dems.
Do you know anything about them?
Oh!
Nick Clegg!
What do you actually think about Nick Clegg?
Have you heard anything about him?
I just imagine he's a fat white guy.
One of them hates NHS.
The conservatives at the moment are privatising the NHS.
David Cameron.
What a dick.
I appreciate NHS; I come from America where I have to spend $80 to VISIT the doctor.
So the fact that I can just go if I'm sick for free is amazing.
I don't wanna lose that!
I'll pay taxes for that!
Britain's ruined you!
What happened to your economic conservatism?
So a lot of young people really don't like Nick Clegg; why do you think that is?
Cause he's old and unrelatable.
Doesn't post enough memes.
Why would you hate Nick Clegg?
Oh schools!
He's the one that's ruining our school system and wants us to spend more money on tuition
right?
He wants to have everyone spend more money on tuition.
You got it!
Yeah!
He raised our university fees from £3000 to £9000.
He promised that he would keep university tuition fees to £3000, campaigned on it,
went around universities...
all of the young people voted for him, and it was one of the big things he compromised
on when he got in a government position.
So he lied.
Nick Clegg... doesn't have a cLEGg to stand on.
I do feel like education should be cheaper since I come from America where it's really
expensive and I wish I wasn't burdened with a huge amount of debt so I would want to vote
for a party that would help support students.
You're doing really well; I assumed it would be like... a joke?
Yeah.
What do you know about the SNP?
Socialist Nationalist Party?
No.
Good guess.
Who wants nationalism?
People that want war, so southerners.
They want a war with France.
*in bad French accent* We will take back Alsace-Lorraine*
Scotland.
Scotland!
Oh the Scottish National Party.
They wanna remove themselves from the great UK.
Why would they wanna do that?
I feel like British taxes mostly support England and it doesn't really help out the country
that nobody knows about called Wales or Scotland.
Who is promising to lower tuition fees to £6000 a year?
I'm assuming labour.
Very good!
Yeah!
Miliband!
Who wants to propose that we can smoke in pubs again?
Old people?
Conservatives?
No.
UKIP?
Yeah.
Okay.
It's UKIP yeah.
The far right.
Of course it's far right.
Why would you wanna smoke in a pub?
I don't wanna breathe in that!
It was like a big thing.
It was like...
You used to be able to smoke on planes; I can't imagine that.
Aww that'd be horrific.
Who's the one that made the price of Freddo's go up?
I've heard about this.
That is... the economy.
*laughs* I've worked at a clothing retailer like 2
years ago and it was £6.25 an hour I got paid.
That's shocking for London.
Yeah.
I got paid that...
It was an American company though.
America.
The only retailer that has the living wage, it's called, is Lush.
Oh okay I understand; it's a lush lifestyle.
You know it wouldn't be primark.
I was hoping you'd say primark so I could be like well I would wanna get paid that much
to work in a place like that.
Who should I vote for?
Leave it in the comments down below!
Yeah, who should I vote for based on my things?
I actually still don't know.
I think I've learned a lot.
And it turns out I'm not as ignorant as I thought I was so that's nice to know.
He's pretty good.
If you're voting on May 7th, but you still don't know quite who you're gonna vote for,
if you go to verto.vote you can do a 10 minute little like survey thing.
It's like tinder for politics.
And work out who best aligns with your views.
And this isn't even #Spon (it really isn't) No!
I'm just telling you because everyone should vote for who they want to vote for.
Don't feel pressured by your parents or your friends...
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Thank you so much for watching though.
I will see you guys next Sunday.
Good bye!
*cue catchy whistling outro* *swoosh*
Ray Roberts.
Ray Roberts everyone.
*laughs*
Ding!
And then hopefully I can have some cool intro screen where it's like with a British song
in the background whatever that is.
S Club 7? *laughs* Don't stop!
Gonna go vote!
Nooo.
Miliband isn't into the drugs.
He doesn't think the country's ED'd in that direction.
He wants drugs miliBANNED.
Wahey!
I just keep coming up with really bad ones.