All of the Prime Ministers of the UK in the form of a song
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2022
- Literally just all of the Prime Ministers of the UK as of January 2022 but in the form of a song. Lyrics included!
Historical facts may have been twisted and simplified for reasons of rhyming. Also got William Cavendish-Bentinck's name wrong (somehow managed to squeeze an extra syllable in!) As someone who studied English and creative writing instead of history and politics, I know where my priorities lie.
Lyrics by myself. Music faffing by Alex Wilson-Razzell. Sung (badly) by the both of us.
Lyrics:
The office at 10 downing street
For centuries has been the seat
Of people rich and sinister
Great Britain’s Prime Ministers
(The) Man who first began the role
Was our own Robert Walpole
Worked the job for twenty years
then Spencer Compton took the lead
Henry Pelham
Had to fight the Jacobites
Thomas Pelham-
Holles was next but not too bright
Two years later
France and Britain do declare (the)
Seven Years’ War
Then Cavendish in the chair
John Stuart was the first Tory
Grenville upset colonies
Watson-Wentworth’s one year bender
Soon followed by Pitt the elder
August FitzRoy would commit
Just two short years before he quit
Boston Harbour filled with tea
Under Lord North’s authority
Watson-Wentworth
Back in 1782
Helped the poor but
Three months in he died of flu
William Petty
Tried for peace but caused a stink
Soon replaced by
Will Cavendish-Bentinck
It’s Pitt the younger on the scene
Henry Addington was keen
Grenville passed the Slave Trade Act
Then Spencer Perc’val after that
His leadership did not go well
Assassinated 1812
Next was Robert Jenkinson
George Canning then Robinson
Arthur Well’sley
Infamously combative
Earl Charles Grey then
William Lamb’s term was short-lived
Sir Robert Peel
Britain’s first Conservative
Lord
John Russell had Dickens
Dedicate a book to
Him and Edward Smith--
Stanley had three sp’rate terms
George
Hamilton-Gordon was
Lord Byron’s own cousin
Henry Temple first Lib’ral leader
Benjamin Disraeli next
Queen Victoria was impressed
William Ewart Gladstone’s fine
Elected in four separate times
It’s Robert Gascoyne-Cecil’s turn
A frail man who loved to learn
Archie Primrose had a horse
That won the Derby racing course
Arthur Balfour
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
H H Asquith
Brings us into world war one
David Lloyd George
Final liberal in the post
Bonar Law next
Resigned when he lost his voice
Stanley Baldwin up to plate
Told Edward Eight to abdicate
R MacDonald, socialist
First labour leader on our list
The next PM at Downing Street
Wanted peace and went to meet
Adolph Hitler who said ‘nein’
So Neville Chamberlain resigned
Winston Churchill
Led to World War Two success
Clement Atlee
Helped to launch the NHS
Anthony E-
-den has a disastrous run
Then Macmillan
Fixed his messes one-by-one
Sir
Alec Douglas-Home’s dull
Labour resumes control
Harold Wilson took
a stink bomb to the eye then
Ted
Heath had worker problems
Tried and failed to solve them
Then Callaghan’s term of Discontent
Iron Lady, Maggie Thatcher
Falkland Isles and milk snatcher
Made a lot of miners frown
By closing all their coal pits down
John Major’s amendment act
Introduced the council tax
Tony Blair
On the racks
Aggravations in Iraq
9/11
7/7
Blair faces Rebellion
When
Blair resigned, Gordon Brown
Tried to turn the war round
Pulled out British troops
And signed the climate change act
Dave
Cameron had Brexit
So he made his exit
For Theresa May the dancing queen
In
10 Downing Street now the
Man with all the power
Boris Johnson is
Hiding from a pandemic
But
No one lasts forever
Somewhere his successor
Will take his place-a
whoever…(current nutter, in the gutter)
wherever… (unless he earns, another term)
Who be comes the next prime mins’ter
In the Palace of Westminster
That depends on who you next vote in
Could it be you?
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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!
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
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
Funny how this song is only 2 years old and there have been 3 new PMs.
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
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 :-).
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
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 ;)
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 song that Rishi Sunak listens every morning
The RUclips algorithm has a sick sense of humor
Always has
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?
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.
'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.
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
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.
Using a French song for a British video? I can feel the heat coming now.
I am so impressed how many names fit the tune so well, especially *inhales Aaaarthur Balfour - Henry Campbell-Bannerman
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
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.
You know what this needs? Their years in office
Not really
"Unless he earns another term"
Good one!
Someone was clearly an animaniacs fans.... and i love this even more for it :D
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
Brilliant! This is definitely a song that won’t leave my head.
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
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
Weird to think we've had two Prime Ministers since this
ASAP Science: Finally! a worthy opponent, our battle shall be legendary!
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.
I watched this just to see them diss thatcher
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
So glad you rhymed Margaret Thatcher with milk snatcher 😂
Now I have the political equivalent of the British Monarchy song from Horrible Histories
Bro you deserve 1 million views because this song is as catchy as hell
"that depends on who you next vote in"
lol
You didn’t search for this video. I can guarantee you’re British and the RUclips algorithm found it for you
we are gonna need a updated one because rishi sunak
Interesting. Never have I heard of something like this before. Bravo, Bravo!
Also, it is very danceable.
this is already outdated by 2 prime ministers lol
This is so cool and must have taken a lot of work.
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...
DESPARATELY need a new one
I find it really fascinating how Prime Minister Urquhart outlasted thatcher by a single day.
"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.
Not sure why this suddenly turned up in my recommendations, but it was a fun watch 😊
It feels wrong that they didn't mention more about Churchill
Probably don't want to dig up all the Nasty shit he said.
Safer that way.
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..
Excellent research and well put together.
Very good song of all the UK Prime Ministers!
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
IMAO. THIS IS EDUCATIONAL AND HILARIOUS! A MASTERPIECE!
Everyone keeps talking about them updating the song but if anything they will probably wait for a few years before doing a "remaster" because of the volatility of the current situation
Animaniacs: Finally a worthy opponent, our battles will be legendary!
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!’
Excellent video! Would love it if you made more like this
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
we need truss, sunak and starmer to the listtt
Somebody gives a medal to this guy please.
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
This is fantastic!
Gonna need a new one soon. For our next and greatest Prime Minister - Larry the cat!
Fry's role as the Iron Duke from Blackadder @1:09
This channel deserves more likes
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! 🇧🇷🇬🇧
Honestly, this is the most ingenious thing I've ever seen 🧠
Great stuff. Really enjoyed it !
Brilliant. Loved it.
Winston Churchill:
The best argument is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter.
And I say, that England's greatest Prime Minister was Lord Palmerston!
Pitt the Elder!
Clement Attlee
Lloyd-George
Attlee
Maggie Thatcher
Can you please update it with their political parties?
Well this was just brilliant!
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC
Masterpiece👏🤣well done🤗💖
Finally, the circle is complete. Before I had just the monarch's. Now I have the PM's too.
Loved this guys 😀
Time to add Liz Truss
Edit: and Rishi Sunak, that didn’t take long
We’re gonna need an updated version of this song soon following Liz’s resignation earlier!
absolute genius
''Lady Maggie Thatcher, Falkland Isles and milk snatcher''
5 months too early, and yet... you caaaalled iiit! 😊
Excellent video, brilliant!!!!
This is brilliant!
wow it was very good very cool must have worked congratulations for the video
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
I've been waiting for this moment a long time my little RUclips friend
A famous man once said:
It matters not who votes, but who counts the votes. - Josif Stalin
Great job👌
Thanks for doing my homework!
XD this was really fun to watch
So, it's the british version of the Animaniacs US presidents' song, nice.
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.
That was brilliant
I can't stop listening to this
Only 1 year old and it’s already 2 out of date 😭
Soon will be three. No way Sunak survives next election.
@@Suksass unless he changes the law to. do some shady shit that stops him from losing. I reckon he's going to do, or at least try to do immense damage to this country on his way out.
@@Prauwlet213 He can do fuck all to change it.
Though you are right in a way. He will hurt the country on a way out, primarily for profit like that deal with India the benefits people close to him.
And Tories want to ruin this country so Labour would be blamed.
Sunak should be thrown into Tower of London.
Well done!🥳😃
I can't believe this masterpiece only viewed 20k
Dont worry it seems like its being pick up by the algorithm
We’re gonna need liz truss added to this song
Perfectly recommended