UK elections: What problems will the next Government have to face? | DW News
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- Voters are going to the polls in the UK's general election. The opposition Labour Party is the overwhelming favourite to win - and end 14 years of Conservative rule. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made a surprise call for early elections - a decision that is projected to backfire. Recent polls show voters are deeply dissatisfied with his government. And Keir Starmer's centre-left Labour Party is on course for a landslide victory. The cost of living and the state of the health care system are among the key issues for Britons. Still, Sunak is hoping that he can sway undecided voters.
0:00 Voters are going to the polls in the UK's general election
2:34 DW London Correspondent Birgit Maass
6:00 Nicholas Allen, Professor of Poplitics, Royal Holloway University of London
#ukelection
Subscribe: ruclips.net/user/deutsche...
For more news go to: www.dw.com/en/
Follow DW on social media:
►Facebook: / deutschewellenews
►Twitter: / dwnews
►Instagram: / dwnews
►Twitch: / dwnews_hangout
Für Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: / dwdeutsch
The Tories gave Britons what is perhaps the worst 13 years in the country's modern history.
*14*, unless you think the first Cameron year was a vide.
Nah, Labour did that by crashing the economy in 2008.
Only the poor ones. You need to attend the right school to be a Tory.
@@evidence4all-re6gf most tory voters are thick working class and racist pensioners. there isnt close to enough rich people to get them into power.
14years of no shadow cabinet.
UK elections: What problems will the next Government have to face? Finding enough prison space for the outgoing government!!!
No they're puppets to global governance
No. It'll just be another clown for a dead empire, turned socialist.
No, the greatest problem Labour will be focusing on is how can they treble the number of Diversity Manages, force all businesses to offer a third toilet for all the other genders as well as streamline immigrants into the population. You know, same old Nation hating policies as they seek to betray Brexit and assimilate us back into the Borg.
keep a special one for Boris and Sunac with his Dog too.
Rich guys always fail at running governments.
Even in Saudi Arabia, where opposition is life-threatening, the outcome isn't that good.
so a multi millionaire knight of the realm is just what everyone needs lol
@@thomasswift3563 I think his work as a human rights lawyer is more pertinent.
@@alanwatterson2850 you're having a laugh lol
Very few people are voting for Labour. Most people are voting against the Tories who've absolutely messed things up on every level, consistently for 14 years.
That’s always the case. People never vote the opposition in they vote the Government out. Labor will be no diffident that the Tories.
Labour winning election with landslide is like a football team winning a game with 10-0 score. But it's all own goals from the other team, nothing to do with their skill or ability.
Very true. Unless a party is in government they can't score any goals, as they have no power to get things right or get things wrong.
Elections in the UK are governed by the 'first past the post electoral system'. Which gives the Labour party approx. 40% voter support but approx. 70% of MPs in parliament. I am happy to live in a country with proportional representation where 40% = 40% and not 70%.
It’s designed to avoid conflict in parliament around constantly having to adjust policies to every party that has a voice in it. It isn’t as significant for more local elections however, I can see proportional representation being fairer but also a bit trickier to both implement and maintain in our circumstance.
It would be nice to see the house of Lords replaced with a proportional representative house.
The UK has had continuous stable government for over hundreds of years thanks in part to FPTP. It has a stablizing factor because it produces a clear majority and the said majority is almost always moderate (median voter theorem). Whenever the opposition wins, the opposition has a high possibility that it doesn't differ too much from the previous ruling party and thus producing a stable, continuous government all the while still following the direction of the general population's opinion shifts.
@@sirgo0se97 Adjusting policies to every party who has a voice in it, is another way of saying taking into account broader society, not just doing what the ruling party wants. We don't need a monarchy thanks. Technically even parties outside of a leading coalition should be listened to, and even further the public as a whole (in aggregate) should be listened to as well.
@@fanniinnanetguy653 Yes, it can become so 'stable' that society grinds to a halt. Which has happened to the UK.
So nothing will change. Same leaders, different party.
Yep
Swearing an oath to an unelected king..such democracy
Indeed. People just vote for the opposite side of the same coin and expect a diffirent outcome. As always they will be disappointed.
Unfortunately Starmer did not have the courage to admit tax increases even though it’s obviously necessary to pay for services that ppl want and even though he expected an easy election win. An historic missed opportunity.
Unfortunately, the electorate are very reactionary and often ill informed and coming out saying I'm going to raise taxes isn't exactly a vote winner.
They would not have needed to rise taxes if they did not waste £10's of billions on useless projects/ways to enrich their mates. They also could have taxed the wealthy appropriately and close tax evasion loopholes to bring in additional revenue without burdening the average working class person...but did they do any of that?
No they did not... instead they choose austerity(against the advice of experts), wasted our tax money and let our public services/infrastructure crumble via deinvestment and privatisation.
And oh, a hard brexit! The most damaging policy by far when it came to the ability for us to import/export and grow our economy!
Do what Biden plans. Go after the tax avoiding rich to pay their way.
Tax increase or distribute tax we already pay?
An opportunity for what exactly? What would he gain from “admitting” higher taxes are needed?
It's not a question of what problems will the next government face? It's a question of what additional problems will the next government add to the plate? This election is more about voting out the Tories as opposed to voting in a clueless Labour.
Labour are very far from clueless.
Sorry the tories are no longer center right, they are just on the right now.
That's not the case, why else would the actual right wingers abandon them for reform
@@lewis123417 Farage and the Reform party are FAR-Right
@lewis123417 Reform are far right. Tories are not right wing enough for those turning to Reform
its not center right party, it used to be now its more like a further right party
The right have gone to reform. It's just wishy washy Rishi/Starma with no back bone and no new workable ideas.
0:19 why is there just a bottle of milk randomly sat outside the polling station 😂
Doesn't matter who wins they will mess it up like the former. They say the same thing just with different words.
Interesting perspective. Mind to elaborate?
@@thoraero Nothing complicated "I can save Britain" or "i will save Britain". Both resulting in same outcome; They make it worse.
Well we haven't had a change for 14 years so it probably will feel like it. Not every MP is corrupt or incompetent. Things can still change
A basic level of competence would do. I don't know if they claimed they will save the UK. I haven't seen the radical measures that would be required.
Labour MPs are not trusted, and especially not Kier Starmer. People are only voting for Labour to get the Conservatives out of office, as they have been disastrous. This election is extraordinarily negative. The hope is that Independent candidates and smaller parties will do well, to give Parliament a decent mix.
Center right Center left .... 2 sides of the same backside
Rishi Sun-out-of-the-office
libdem for main opposition
The guy can defo swim
Even though I am labour I like ed Davey, he is a carer himself so I admire that
I hope so.
Every empire comes to an END.
Empire 😂😂😂😂😂 that ended in the late 1800’s
How is it related with the elections
@@ryandanngetich2524 Enjoying the slow but evident demise.
Sure that's true like it's just about to unfold in Kenya.
@@festusmafura9608 I don't care about Kenya. They made their beds.
Vote for reform to highlight the broken system, how corrupt they system is, how we want change. No vote is a wasted vote if it what you want, if it makes your point, if it stops what you don't want or pushes your choice.
Dude wants to leave, retire, live off his fortune, and move to California.
"Whistle while you work, Starmer is a berk, he's half barmy so's his party, whistle while you work".
Brexit, brexit, brexit, brexit and more brexit, codt of living, highest tax burden since the late 1940’s
Interestingly Brexit has barely been discussed by Starmar or Sunak
The Labour party is not centre left, it is centre right now. Good journalism would show that the people in the uk know that!
Everyone looks further right if your extreme left
Its not new politicians we need, its a new electorate. Vote Labour, money spent. Vote tory for cuts to pay for money spent. Vote Labour because the tories cut everything. Who was it who suggested doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, was the height of stupidity.
what problems? literally EVERYTHING is broken. and our debt has tripled. it will take years to try and sort out
What debt? You can't owe yourself
@xAce99x It would be to private bodies the government has contracted as well as independent sectors such as The Bank of England
@@xAce99x More than quarter of the UK's government debt is foreign-owned.
Come on DW, can you produce a more exciting tone when talking about the Labour party?
I can’t wait for 20% VAT for private school to happen. Hope Labour will use that money to fund state schools.
We have 21% in the Netherlands and 38% income tax people are suffering as much as in the UK 😂
They won't see a penny of it, it'll go towards servicing the massive debt the country is in.
Yes but what about all the struggling rich people? I heard some are down to just one home now.
Hmm so people who send their kids to private schools pay for their schooling, pay VAT on top, and also pay for state schools through other taxes. So they pay 3 times while others pay once. It's actually a nasty tax. I'd prefer that people who want to use a private school or hospital can opt out of paying for state school or hospital.
@@nickisacebeans good. Reducing debt needs to take a back seat for a year or two, it has been used as an excuse to reduce public services for too long. Austerity has cost our economy and society far too much.
Voted reform will take my chances with labour as long as the conservatives will gone OUT OUT OUT!
From my perspective as an outsider not from the UK, Boris’s “COVID party” scandal, the economic downturn under Truss’s short term, and the inability for the tories to stick with a PM they can all back doesn’t bode well for their election prospects.
First problems for Labour:
Tying their shoelaces correctly.
Avoiding excessive dribbling.
I cant wait for the early projections to come in.
Nigel Garage lol
Reformers in garage 😂😂
Correct pronunciation is Nigel Fartage
Name callers being given the right to vote, how bizarre.
Name callers being given the right to vote,. Bizarre.
@@metalicminer6231 it is called opinion….
Only someone with a very broken ego would want to be the leader of this mess.
Calling the conservatives centre right is... questionable
Reform!
Things would be worse later, he missed his chance two years ago.
He won’t last 2 months
Someone get this channel an audio engineer with a sibilance audio filter
Center right? Really?
Out with the old boss in with the new. All middle managers to global governance.
I bet a tool will be changed,but a tool will it be.😂
Many challenges ahead,cause the mess of 14 years of nastiness that includes Bad omen Rishi Sunak's tenure
Asking as it ain’t Reform or Tories we should be more or less ok.
Yes and everyone thought Macron was odds on. Look what happened there.
France needs a Sixth Republic with proportional representation, just like the UK needs PR. A winner-take-all system leaves sore losers, who're drawn to extremism.
Who cares?! It honestly can't be worse than what the Tories have done. I voted Labour just like everyone else at 8 am this morning. And I feel like a new man!
I think Sunak knew exactly what he was doing by calling an early election. I imagine he was just completely sick of having to keep pandering to the far right and having to appease potential Reform voters.
And he's paid for that by having his vote split
they should not move their god in Dubai either.
God is not a wanderer after all.
@@silviehaqiqi-activist9499 ?
The UK electorate are tired of the gaslighting. Being told everything is better and better while we see the country fall apart in front of us. So many of us know that Brexit was an abject failure and much to do with our malaise, but no one has the cojones to talk about it. Many people are fed up and have just been waiting to give the Tories a good kicking. FPTP is a brutal system but hasn't really seen tactical voting on this scale yet, I think. For many people it's not a vote for Labour, it's a vote against the conservatives. A landslide on those terms demonstrates just how universally fed up absolutely everybody is with the entire state of the country after a decade and half of Tory rule.
Tories have proved that crime actually pays very well !!!!!
He won't even have to worry about those so-called problems for too long. The career at the very bottom of the global job-security index is that of British Prime Minister.
3:12
Sunak's POLLING STATION looks like a disused Public Toilet!
Where are the Public lined up to welcome & cheer on the PM? I think they know the games up!
Shouldn't that be ex PM Sir Rishi Sunak!
The media and the 'establishment' have done a reasonable job in making public support for reform seem taboo. There are some brave people who declare their support despite the fear of being branded racist but many wont be public with their support.
But in the private silence of the voting booth.......
Reform?
Downmarket Tories
Upmarket BNP
Nothing new on offer here …
I think he wanted to call it early because he doesn’t wanna be in Office. He knew this was the only way to leave Office and get out cleanly. There’s either more conspiracies about to come to surfice or some catastrophic failures about to happen and he doesn’t wanna be at the healm
He is quoted as not wanting to be a war prime minister. Starmer will take us to war and if Trump wins in the US he won't come and bail us out like last time.
Does that means a new lease of life for those under deportation bound while Sunak was the Prime Minister? Deportation to be cancelled under the new government?
I have booked air fair for my reletive abd friends from Africa Pakistan India Iran Gaza PalaSTAN Labour is going to give British passports and All lolly benefits and hospitals treat nents to all in hospital abroad...
Based on exit polls? lets see what happens?
Exit poles are on the way out.
we will fight for our Indian vision of Britain
Starmer, centre left! Are you sure?
More right-wing than the Tories, closer to Reform than any.
1:03
ALL TALK!!! SHAME you couldn't even stay and FIGHT till the end at D-Day Remembrance in Normandy.
I HOPE & PRAY You and your Party end up with less than 75 seats!!!
He may win but no way a landslide 😅😂
8:35 this guy's chatting rubbish... people are only voting Labour due to the last 5 years of tory rubbish. This guy sounds like a royal reporter!
I wish Canada calls for elections like the UK. 👀🤣😅🤣😂🤷🏾♂️
they did and Trudeau lost but still kept hes job
@@JDKobrahe did not lose
@@JDKobrahe didn't lose. Guess you're one of those folks. Sad.
Lol, after seeing this debacle, no way any govt will call an election early unless they're guaranteed victory
@@kaze987 ah but he did thats why he had to make deal with all the other parties to be able to pass anything what so ever learn before you talk maybe
Centre right?
If only …
This reporting lost all credibility when they called the conservatives ‘centre right’ they’re centre left at best.
What makes them center left?
@@soundscape26 taxes at the highest rate since the war, price caps on the energy industry, more money than ever spent on healthcare. I’m not saying these are good or bad btw but they’re all left wing policies. I can’t think of anything meaningful theyve done to reduce the size of government
Let see if this Labour can do something, thats the question
You're gonna need another island.
The EU's extensive prior investment in negotiations is a significant factor in their approach to any potential changes proposed by a new Labour government.
They would be cautious about embarking on another round of complex negotiations without substantial justification or clear benefit to themselves
As Starmer is a weak feeble man , taking to the knee, they will shaft him and us
Does it matter?. None of these major parties are good for much.
Running out of Palestinian flags for Labour run districts.
I don’t care so long as a new party emerges to take over next time
This is a vote for England
I will never vote for labor
Boo hoo
Ok Boomer
😂😂😂😂😂@@xZeroGunnerx
do us all a favor and just dont vote at all.
Tell somebody who cares, like an ex-PM. 😂
Sunak is off to spend all that lovely tax money he and his wife avoided paying 😊
calling tories center right and labour center left shows how absolutely skewed to the right "centrism" is
Most of the country consider that the center. The corbynites of labour are to labour what nigel frage is to the conservatives
Huge responsibility being prime minister lets hope
The next one will meet the
Challenge especially
Renationalising the railways
Bring back british rail!
Open.old lines again!
The uniparty won!!! Yeahhhh more of the same! People never learn...
Calling the Tories centre-right is wild.
When I see rishi, I always get remembered what late Sean Lock said. That posh people always look like they are mid sneeze.
Vote for the Labor Party, UK. Needs an BIG POLITIC CHANGE
Yet another performance by the theatre of the absurd!
We gave france all that money to stop dingy divers .we should demand it back . You owe us
You will get it back tommorow, don't worry. 😅 In the meantime your border force should start doing their job. EU gave you all those HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS throughout the decades yet you couldn't stay in the EU, could you.
I voted Reform UK and hope you did too. If not get out and vote please. Vote Reform UK and join the people’s revolution. Peace and love from my family to yours. Vote Reform UK.
What planet is he on .
He forgot to mention emigration issue !
Naivety has no bounds. Do you honestly think the poor will get better with the change? Anyway, the UK is being devoured by islam.
Devoured by Islam? lmao
@@soundscape26 laugh oh laugh little baby, watch your cartoons, play your games, oblivious to mischief and misdemeanours of the world. One day the alarm ⏰ will ring and you'll wake up in the new shariah law world.
There is only one United Kingdom.☝
left centre.. London will become United Kingdom of Arabia in a year
Reform 🇬🇧 for a better future
Never had such a poor choice, in terms of who to vote for in my entire life.
There are options besides the big 2
Why need to worry, whoever wins, the British will still and is still under the US Israel leadership 😂😂
Good. Phew.
UK created both those places. 😂😂😂😂
The presenter looks like if Gary Lineker escaped Josef Fritzls basement
Scotland
Stop the boats , but don't deny asylum to people who are already in UK with lots of dreams, Allow Skilled immigrants to migrate smoothly , also more opportunities for graduates and control those low ranked universities who exploit foreigners to attract to less valued degrees, thanks
Sunak was more racist than the worst of them
Calling Labour a central left is funny when they have become right just like conservative
That's not true
😱
Great ......... when labour get in i'm set for for being more poor when he raises the taxes. Looking forward to the new PM already. YAAAAY 😑
The UK is suffering the same problem as Canada, Cost of living, worsening healthcare and education systems being overburdened by mass unchecked immigration that is bleeding taxpayers and the social systems dry !
Both countries need to focus on their own population and their social systems and build them back up to be able to sustain the populations and provide better services because it is just getting worse and worse as unsustainable numbers of new mouths to feed and house flood into the country year after year
Canada has a been absorbing over 1 million new people a year for a decade now under Trudeau and it has bled our economy and our social systems dry and they are failing as it is unsustainable
Is Labour a Social Democratic party?
Cutting down in illegal immigration, deporting them, high crimes, grooming gangs will be major challenges any government will have to face.
Are these grooming gangs in the room with us right now?