UK Election Results Rigged? Why not all votes are equal | #20

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In this video, British entrepreneur Aaron Henriques discusses his scepticism about the recent UK election results, which saw Keir Starmer's Labour party win by a huge majority over the Conservative party, defeating former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after 14 years of Tory rule.

He questions the fairness of the constituency system, pointing out how votes are not equal across different regions of the UK, resulting to few seats for Nigel Farage and his part Reform UK. Using examples like the Isle of Wight, Na h-Eileanan an Iar (in Scotland) and Islington North, he highlights the discrepancies in representation and argues for a more balanced approach to voting.

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00:00 Introduction and UK 2024 General Election Results 
00:15 Why the UK voting System is Rigged
00:48 Understanding the UK Constituency System
01:54 Discrepancies in UK Vote Representation
03:21 Constituency Size and Fairness
05:55 Call for Change in UK voting system
09:18 Final Thoughts and Sign Off

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Episode Transcript

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There's a big change in the UK today.

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The Tories are out after 14 years of rule.
Labour have won by a humongous majority.
But is it what it seems?
In my view, no, I think it's rigged.
And I'm going to explain to youexactly why I think it's rigged
and why it's unfair for many votersout there that their votes are not

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counting the same as other people's.
Now, before I carry on, I'm AaronHenriques, an entrepreneur from the
United Kingdom, from London specifically.
I was a police officer inLondon for over a decade before
moving into entrepreneurship.
Now, if you like this type of video,if you have any comments or, you know,
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Now, for those of you who don't know,the UK operates the constituency system.
Now, with the constituency system,not all votes are equal in my view.
so basically each area of the UK issort of separated and there's like 600
and something constituencies acrossthe UK and basically how it works

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is that if that area wins a vote,well that area votes for their local
MP, if that local MP wins, they geta seat in the Houses of Parliament.
But as I've said, not allconstituencies are equal.
Now, at the time of recording this,the voting hasn't actually finished.
There's still, I think, 91 seats todeclare across the United Kingdom.

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and 314
seats.
You had Conservatives with 5.
1 million votes and 91 seats.
And there's others but I'm onlygoing to concentrate on three.
And you had the Reform Party which had 3.
1 million votes and just four seats.

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Now already you might be thinking,well that doesn't sound right.
How is it that Labour'sgot 314 seats with 7.
3 million votes, Conservativeshave 91 seats with just 5.
1 million votes, and Reformhave Just four seats with 3.
1 million votes.
Now you got to think,
Labour have 7.

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3 million votes and 378 seats,which is four, four times the
seats of the Tories and 1.
3 times the votes.
So, already there's a discrepancythere as well with, between
Labour and Conservative.
that Labour have got four timesthe seats but they've only got 1.

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3 times the votes.
For me that should be four times the seatsbecause they've got four times the votes.
conservatives have nearly 23 times moreseats than reform, but they only have 1.
6 times more votes.
So that must mean that otherpeople's votes across the UK

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are counting more than others.
So my individual vote is less or morethan someone else from a different area's
individual vote because we're only votingfor the local MP and that local MP gets
the seat in the Houses of Parliament.
But that doesn't really seem fair to me.

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But quickly, how does this happen?
The other day I was literally, Iwas researching, trying to find
out what constituency size isbecause I was thinking, this doesn't
seem right, it doesn't seem fair.
This was after a conversation with acouple of good friends on a, on an evening
having a few drinks, uh, last weekend.
Uh, but basically, I had a lookand so we have a look at some of

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the constituencies across the UK.
I'm just going to look at three of them.
So Isle of Wight, there's 109, 000registered voters on the Isle of Wight,
approximately around that number.
They get one seat if they win.
So if everyone in the Isle of Wightvotes for a person to be their MP, they
get one seat in Houses of Parliament.

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Where I live at themoment in Islington North.
It has approximately 66, 000 seats.
This is where Jeremy Corbynused to sort of reign over.
He was running this timebut as an independent.
I'm not sure if he's got in or not.
I'm gonna have a look at thatbecause that would be interesting.
Were they, were the peoplevoting for Jeremy or were they
voting for the Labour Party?

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Let's see.
But anyway, where I, where I'mstaying in Islington North right now.
This is where I grew up.
Um, it has 66, 000 voters roughly.
and you get one seat.
So already you can see that nearly,nearly half the population gets still
that one seat in the House of Parliament.
They still get that one representationin the House of Parliament

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despite being nearly half.
Now some place in Scotland which I'mnot even going to try to pronounce
because Yeah, I'm going to fuck itup, basically, so, um, but anyway,
they get 21, 000, they've got 21,000 voters, and they get one seat.
Now, not all voters will vote, of course,but they've got around 21, 000 potential

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voters and they get one seat as well.
So you've got somewhere with 109, 000people, you know, British citizens, who
may vote, and if all of them voted Theyonly get one person representing them.
Whereas you get someone with 21, 000voters, they also get one representation.
Now, to me, that doesn't seem right.

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Because actually, going by that, theperson with, you know, the place with
109, 000 voters should have five seats,versus that one that has 21, 000.
Now, that's why I'm saying Idon't think votes are equal.
Now at the time of recordingthis, it's still very early.
It's still before 7am in the UK.

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There's still 91 seats tobe declared across the UK.
But I really think this is somethingthat the UK really need to look at
and people really need to understand.
I think people don't understand itbecause I had someone who's very
intelligent yesterday speakingthe phone about this exact thing.
And The way she was talking is that shedidn't actually realize that her vote

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wasn't equal to mine or whoever else's.
Her thought was that the majority,like the party that gets in, actually
have the physical majority of votes.
As in, you know, they've got morevotes than anyone else across the UK.
Not more constituencies, more actualhuman beings that are voted for them.

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Now, that doesn't changeanything for this result.
You know, Labour have won in seatsand they've also won in the number
of votes, but it looks like it, youknow, there could be potential where
you could have a position wheresomeone has actually got more seats
and so they become the dominant party.
But by having, not having the majorityof votes, you know, there might be

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another party with way more actualvotes, but they have less seats.
That doesn't sound right to me.
It seems like some sort of weird.
Hokey pokey fraud.
In my view, Parliament is thereto represent all of the people
and I think we need to have alook at this constituency system.
I think they should, obviously youwant representation from places in

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the North and everywhere else acrossthe UK, down in Parliament in London.
But it shouldn't be right that
someone's vote in Scotland is worth fivetimes more than someone's vote in the UK.
The Isle of Wight, which is right at thesouth of England for those who don't know.
Um, it's a little island.

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It shouldn't be the case thatthat is that that, but that is the
case in the UK system right now.
One person's vote shouldn'tmatter more than the next person's
vote, but it does right now.
So anyway, well done everyonewho did get out there and vote.
Um, you know, it's goingto be a big change.
I think whatever happens, theUK screw whoever got in today.

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Uh, the UK screwed.
So, whatever.
Personally, I'm in favor more of theAmerican style system, but let me know
what you think down in the comments.
Do you agree with thecurrent system in the UK?
Do you think it's right that somepeople's votes should be worth five
times more than the next person.
what do you think is the waythat it should go in terms of how
this should change in the future?

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I don't think the parties, themain parties, are incentivised
to change because this worksvery much in their favour.
Someone like the Reform Party, who Ididn't vote for by the way, you know,
I'm talking for them because I'm talkingabout fairness of our voting system
and the fairness of the voting systemshouldn't just be about, you know,
is the party that I voted for got in.

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That's all I care about.
That shouldn't be it.
It should be a representation ofthe people of the UK and what they
want and what their wishes are andcurrently I don't think it is that.
I don't think that the UK has therepresentation in Parliament today.
Yes, there's 91 seats left to go, butthey don't have the representation
in Parliament that they should have.

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Um, particularly those who have voted forparties like reform, smaller parties that
have had a significant number of votes.
very much.
from the UK voting population.
Um, I, I just find it wrong.
I'm going to head off because I'vegot an important meeting to attend to.
Well, it's not even a meeting.
I'm going to be somewhere all day.

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I can't talk about this thing that I do,um, sort of for the state, but whatever.
There's ways you canresearch it if you need to.
Um, It's a nice rainy day in London.
There's a couple more videos that you'regoing to see that were recorded from
Dubai that haven't been released yet.
So you're going to think what'sthis guy flipping between
London and Dubai constantly?
No, it's just cause there's acouple of recorded that I haven't

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actually got around to editing yet.
Um, so yeah, let me know in thecomments, please like and share it
if you did like it, if you don'tlike it, fair enough, whatever.
Why are you still watching?
Um, yeah, yeah.
Until next time.
Bye.