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I'm going to correct a mistake thatI made in the last video that I
posted about the UK general election.
I like to be as accurate as I can beand very detailed, but something was
brought to my attention that clearly veryfew of you knew about because only two
people out of lots of people commentingactually mentioned this particular change.
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Now, this particular change,I never knew about it.
So I'm assuming that lots of otherpeople also didn't know about it.
And so I will get on towhat that change is shortly.
But, my main argument does remainexactly the same in relation to the
results, which have now been finalised,so I'll get into those a bit later.
If you don't know who Iam, I'm Aaron Henriques.
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I'm a multi business owner.
I used to be a police officerin London for ten years before
moving to entrepreneurship and getup to all sorts of other things
with investing and whatever.
So, let me get back to this video.
Firstly, I'm going to correct a fewpeople because I've had some like
crazy accusations thrown at me andI don't know where they got it from
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because it's not things that wereactually said in the video, people
have just assumed certain things.
a lot of people seem to have thoughtthat I voted for Reform UK and a lot of
other people have called me a Ramona.
Well, not a lot, actually, just afew people have called me a Ramona,
basically saying I was moaning about theleave vote from the 2011 referendums.
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And there's been a lot of people, andI don't know why, but there's been a
number of people saying that in 2011,we were given the opportunity to change
the type of voting system that wecurrently have in the United Kingdom.
Now, to those people, I justsay, every single thing you've
just said is completely wrong.
Firstly, on the 2011 referendum, thatwas to leave or remain in the EU.
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That has nothing to do withwhat our voting system is.
We didn't get to voteon our voting system.
To my knowledge, that hasnever happened in my lifetime.
Now, from the research that I've done,and it may be incorrect, possibly by,
you know, a number of years, maybeeven a couple of decades, but whatever,
this current voting system in theUK came about in the early 1800s,
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around 1830's is when it came about.
People were still goingaround in horse and carts.
Even the steam train wasn't like widelyadopted across the country by then.
So, you know, it is areally old, archaic system.
Now, on the point of who I voted for,listen, I didn't vote for Reform UK.
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They were my second choice, to behonest, but I didn't vote for them.
I voted for who I've always votedfor, which are the conservatives.
Now, some people think I'm theantichrist because of it, you
know, like I'm the devil, youknow, reincarnated because I voted
conservatives, whatever, I don't care.
I didn't vote for Reform UK.
The fact I'm sticking up for themin the previous video doesn't
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mean I had to have voted for them.
And this is something that peopleneed to start getting a grip of
themselves and realising that actually,sometimes things are not right.
And just because it is, you know,in the opposition's favour that
something isn't right, it doesn'tmean it shouldn't be spoken about.
And on the referendum, I'm not a Ramona.
I voted leave.
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I was a very firm leave then.
And if we had the referendum again today,despite all the people telling me that
I'm stupid and whatever for having theview, I would still vote leave again.
So anyway, let's get back onto themistake that I made in the previous video.
What I wasn't aware of is thatthere was a review done on the
constituency boundaries in 2023.
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Now from what I can work out, allconstituencies today, so from the voting
system that we had in 2024, but notpreviously All of the constituencies
should be around within plus orminus 5 percent of about 73, 000.
So the number that I've seen is thatunder the Parliamentary Constituencies
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Act 2020, it requires that most seats havebetween 69, 724 voters and 77, 062 voters.
And that's registered voters, it's notnecessarily the people that actually vote.
It looks like there are a number ofislands which have been given special
privilege just because of the specialnature of the fact that they're
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so enclosed and they are an islandnation where they may have far fewer
registered voters, but it is a rareexception and shouldn't actually have
a massive impact on the end results.
And I wasn't aware of that change.
So for those of you who listened to thelast video and took that as gospel, I
apologize because it wasn't correct.
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I wasn't actually awareof this change in 2023.
Now I'm aware of it.
If you're still watchingthis, now you're aware of it.
So does it make a massivechange to the examples I gave?
In the previous video, the answer is no.
The Isle of Wight instead of havingone MP actually now has two MPs.
They've got an Isle ofWight East and West.
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The small Island that Imentioned hasn't changed.
And Islington alsohasn't changed very much.
Islington North, it's stillits own constituency with about
the same number of voters.
actually the examples I gave are not thatdifferent, but it is an important point
for people to realize that the governmentdid try to level out the boundary issues
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in terms of one place having way morevoters than the next for just one seat.
now let me just be really, really clearbefore I move on to this next part
that I did not vote for Reform UK.
Okay.
I didn't vote for them.
However, the votes that came throughis still not reflective on a national
level of what the public have voted for.
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Yes, under our archaicsystem, it is as it is.
And I'm not disputing this resultthat Labour should have got in.
I'm not disputing that at all.
at all.
It's not about Labour, it'snot about Conservatives, it's
not about the Lib Dems, okay?
Labour got in the majority of actual votesand also the number of constituencies.
So on both parts, Labourwould have got in anyway.
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Now, only 60 percent of the UK votingpopulation actually voted this year.
a humongous number ofthe country didn't vote.
Now there can be all sorts ofreasons behind that, but the MPs
can't represent people who haven'tvoted or expressed their wishes.
So I'm only talking about thosepeople who have actually voted.
And the biggest discrepancy thatstood out to me was the discrepancy
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between the Liberal DemocratsResult and Reform UK results..
Now, the Lib Demsreceived 3,519,199 votes.
This is now all seats counted.
That was 12.
2 percent of the total voteand they received 72 seats.
Okay?
Fine.
Reform UK UK received 4,117,221 votes.
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That's 14.
3 percent and they received fiveseats in the House of Commons.
So they've got five MPsrepresenting those 4,117,221 people.
the issue that I take with that, andfor those of you that maybe weren't
listening to the numbers so well,Reform UK received 598,022 more votes
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than the Liberal Democrats, but theyhave 67 fewer MPs representing the
public who voted for them in theHouse of Commons for this Parliament.
So that's 67 fewer votes effectivelythat Reform UK get to have on
issues of national interestwhich happen in our government.
Now, I did not vote for ReformUK, as I've said multiple times,
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I'm sure someone's still goingto accuse me of it, but whatever.
I do care that the wishes of thevoting public have not been heard.
These elections were national elections.
When you look at a referendum,it's done on a number of votes.
It's not done on a number of,constituencies or anything like that.
It's done on the wishes of the people.
Now I do not understand why you wouldn'thave a very similar system in terms of
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when you're dealing with national issuesat our central government level, The
people who are making the decisions andvoting on things that affect everyone on
a national level should be representativein my opinion, And it is only in my
opinion it should be representative andeveryone's vote should actually be equal.
But under this system the votes are notclearly not equal clearly people have
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tried to argue the fact they are justbecause whatever their parties got in
and so they're happy with the resultsThat is, for me, that, that isn't, that's
not rational, it's definitely not fairon them, and I didn't vote for them,
okay, but I am thinking that everyoneshould have their voices heard equally
when it comes to a national election.
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if this was done based on the weightingof actual votes, Reform UK would have
91 seats in the House of Parliament.
They would have 91 MPs.
representing them in theHouses of Parliament today, but
instead they only have five.
If they had 91, they would pose a real,you know, a real challenge to the sitting
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government and the sitting governmentwould have to listen to the wishes of
those smaller parties like Reform UK.
And then Lib Dems would bea minority, a smaller party
than even Reform UK would be.
they would have to listen to thosewishes of those other parties.
Um, Instead, what we currentlyhave under this system is we have a
government which has a supermajority.
They never, ever have to listen towhat the other parties are saying.
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Even if all the other parties combinedcompletely disagree with, something
that the current government, whichis Labour, tries to pass through.
As long as, Keir Starmer or whoeverends up being in charge later down
the line, you know, because we've gota thing of churn of Prime Ministers
in this country for some reason, Butwhoever ends up being in charge, as
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long as they can convince, their labour.
to, to be on side.
Um, they can, they can push anythingthrough where, regardless of who
challenges it or what they have to say,they can push anything through because
I've got the super majority or whatever.
Now I'm not disputing.
Like I said, labor did win.
Both on the number of votesand also the constituencies,
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which is actually done under.
So either way, Labour would be in power.
Sir Keir Starmer would be thePrime Minister and it is deserved.
The Tories fucked upfor the last 14 years.
I've been a Tory voter and I can say that.
Okay.
I'm not that passionate aboutthe Tories particularly.
And I feel like people should stopbeing so, overly passionate about
their party and just defending theirparty, regardless of how incompetent
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they may be, just defending them.
You need to hold your MPs to account.
They are there to represent you andthe rest of the people across the
country and across your constituency.
Now, my main point just remainsthat that discrepancy, It isn't
right, it isn't fair, and it issomething that needs to be changed.
it cannot be that some, oneperson's vote is worth several
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times more than the other.
How on earth can you have a partythat has received nearly 600,000
more votes than the other one,but receives 67 fewer seats?
I'm, I'm sorry if you're, if you'reof any form of level headed, rational
person, it doesn't make sense.
It just doesn't make any sense.
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And that is what my mainargument was in that last video.
It doesn't make sense.
It isn't right.
And it does need to change.
And I had someone say that, theMPs voted on this quite recently.
I don't know actually if they did.
I couldn't be bothered to evenresearch it if they did vote or not.
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And do you know why?
Because I don't give a shit.
Do you really think you don't even have,you don't have to have, half a brain cell
to think about this and know that if yougave Labour and Conservatives and Lib
Dems the vote to be able to say, would youlike to change this current system where
you do very well every time, or would youlike to make it based more equally on the
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actual weighting from the number of votes?
Why on earth would, a party likeLabour, who have 400 and something
seats, say actually, do you know what?
I don't want that annoying party calledReform UK under Nigel Farage to have,
just five seats because that's not fair.
I know what I'm going to do.
I'm going to let them have 91.
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and like hold up all the plans thatwe, we plan on doing and cause a real
problem in the House of Parliament.
Do you really think that they'regoing to turn around and be like,
yes, let's make that change?
Of course they're not going to.
Something like that is only ever goingto come in with a referendum, a national
referendum, where the people areactually voting and it is counted then,
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on actual numbers of people voting.
the MPs are never going to vote for that.
The three main parties, none ofthem are going to vote for that.
The Lib Dems would be would have farfewer seats than they currently do today.
If they voted for such a system,this is a dumb comment to make.
I think the terminology usedin government anyway is not You
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know, it just doesn't make sense.
It is ridiculous.
The fact they even call themselves theopposition is wrong in my view because
none of them should be the opposition.
None of them should beopposing each other.
They should all have one aim andthat is to make the United Kingdom
the best it can be and flourish.
Their duty is to you, to us, thepublic in the UK and nothing else.
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So this inter fighting that happens, it'sno longer just going on in the Houses of
Parliament where these idiots just shoutat each other, but it is also going on
now massively, massively among people whohave, you know, someone who votes Labour
hates someone who votes Conservative.
I'm not saying everyone, but thereare a very high number of people who
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literally, they'll hear you vote Toryand they'll think you're a piece of shit.
You know, like you're an absolutepiece of shit that deserves to die.
Genuinely, that's, that'slike how some people behave.
And they behave like, well, you'vegot a different view to me, so
therefore you are completely dumb.
You're stupid as fuck.
You don't deserve to breathe.
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You don't deserve to vote.
Fucking go and die.
That's what people come across like.
And it needs to change because we'rearguing between ourselves when really
There's 650 people in the Houses ofParliament who are the only ones who
should be getting shit from the publicabout things being the way that they are.
I don't really know what else to sayabout that, but that's just my opinion.
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Other people have other opinions on it.
hopefully, I've correctedmyself correctly this time.
If I haven't, pleaseleave another comment.
I'm probably not going to do anothervideo about this again, or certainly
not anytime soon because it's notsomething I normally talk about.
I'm more interested in businessand investing and business
strategies or whatever.
Like I'm not that interested intalking about politics because I
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think people are too divided andwe need to start coming together.
Anyway, I'm Aaron Henriques.
Bye.