All of the Prime Ministers of the UK in the form of a song

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  • Опубліковано 15 жов 2024

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  • @GROMIT9
    @GROMIT9 2 роки тому +2048

    We're gonna need an updated version of this song soon following Boris's resignation yesterday!

    • @literally-just-a-leaf
      @literally-just-a-leaf 2 роки тому +47

      Give them a chance to pick a new prime minister!

    • @Mistrons
      @Mistrons 2 роки тому +20

      I think this is fine as it is. just skip him.

    • @watansworld3617
      @watansworld3617 2 роки тому +24

      @Rhys Higgon no no no

    • @aman0id
      @aman0id 2 роки тому +36

      @Rhys Higgon "next the man who stabbed him in the back, the new pm rishi sunak"

    • @edmundprice5276
      @edmundprice5276 2 роки тому +6

      Possibly not, this country aint gonna last very long, specially with what boris has done

  • @emilymarley4505
    @emilymarley4505 2 роки тому +542

    You can almost hear the Horrible Histories team going "Finally, a worthy opponent!"

  • @rad4924
    @rad4924 2 роки тому +146

    Song: "Depends on who you vote in"
    Britain: *has two unelected Prime Ministers in one year*

    • @BritishRepublicsn
      @BritishRepublicsn Рік тому +4

      Tbf Truss was elected, though by a small minority. Rishi Sunak was definitely unelected

    • @idk_whatmynameis
      @idk_whatmynameis Рік тому +3

      @@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.

    • @tobyjohnson1239
      @tobyjohnson1239 Рік тому +1

      @@idk_whatmynameis in uk we vote for a candidate who represents a party, whos leader becomes prime minister

    • @idk_whatmynameis
      @idk_whatmynameis Рік тому +3

      @@tobyjohnson1239 But we did not elect Truss and Sunak through a general election. They were both chosen through a Conservative member vote.

    • @tobyjohnson1239
      @tobyjohnson1239 Рік тому +4

      @@idk_whatmynameis but we did vote for the conservatives

  • @Viewbob_True
    @Viewbob_True 2 роки тому +392

    This is absolutely fantastic work! Honestly Horrible Histories quality

    • @Foxys-Collective-Videography
      @Foxys-Collective-Videography 2 роки тому

      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 :-).

  • @kets4443
    @kets4443 2 роки тому +268

    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)

    • @lordgemini2376
      @lordgemini2376 2 роки тому +3

      Nice :)

    • @Essemm52
      @Essemm52 2 роки тому +5

      Should we tug a forelock? 😉

    • @Jowsh44
      @Jowsh44 2 роки тому +2

      Awesome!

    • @i-dont-understand-you-plea1626
      @i-dont-understand-you-plea1626 2 роки тому +3

      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

  • @tposingjesus5491
    @tposingjesus5491 2 роки тому +341

    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.

    • @godspeed5583
      @godspeed5583 2 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @RemnantShard
      @RemnantShard 2 роки тому +3

      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)

    • @tposingjesus5491
      @tposingjesus5491 2 роки тому +2

      @@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.

    • @freewyvern707
      @freewyvern707 2 роки тому

      @@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

  • @lucatedesco5171
    @lucatedesco5171 2 роки тому +98

    The UA-cam algorithm has a sick sense of humor

  • @bobsmith7066
    @bobsmith7066 2 роки тому +81

    I love how excessively British the names of y’all’s prime minister are.

    • @shian652
      @shian652 2 роки тому +13

      Like who the hell names their son “Bonar”?

    • @TankEngine75
      @TankEngine75 2 роки тому +3

      Most of them have like Streotypical British names

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 2 роки тому

      I dunno; Alexander Boris de Pfeffel sounds like some Russian spy if you ask me

    • @patchworkfellow
      @patchworkfellow 2 роки тому +1

      @@shian652 that was the first half of his surname, I guess they had to discard his first name because it wouldn’t fit 😅

    • @rtozier2011
      @rtozier2011 Рік тому

      @@shian652 His first name was Andrew.

  • @GWOperator
    @GWOperator 3 місяці тому +12

    Funny how this song is only 2 years old and there have been 3 new PMs.

  • @rafawho.837
    @rafawho.837 2 роки тому +143

    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).

    • @georgeiii2998
      @georgeiii2998 2 роки тому +8

      When I was younger I dedicated a week to learning them chronologically.

    • @foodafen7406
      @foodafen7406 2 роки тому +1

      @@georgeiii2998 Damn that is commitment

    • @leephillips4402
      @leephillips4402 2 роки тому

      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.

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 Рік тому +1

      ​@@georgeiii2998 Your Majesty, I must point out that there were significantly fewer Prime Ministers to memorize in your youth than there are now

  • @dhvanitghadawala3282
    @dhvanitghadawala3282 2 роки тому +63

    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 ;)

  • @echarts3710
    @echarts3710 2 роки тому +19

    The song that Rishi Sunak listens every morning

  • @bleachpwnsXD
    @bleachpwnsXD 2 роки тому +285

    '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.

    • @Goodguy507
      @Goodguy507 2 роки тому +12

      But you'd need to secure the majority in parliament because otherwise they aren't giving your government confidence 💔

    • @johnpotts8308
      @johnpotts8308 2 роки тому +2

      @@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.

    • @Goodguy507
      @Goodguy507 2 роки тому

      @@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

    • @johnpotts8308
      @johnpotts8308 2 роки тому +2

      @@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.

    • @ben-9123
      @ben-9123 2 роки тому +1

      If you’re sat here watching this video, probably not.

  • @aniketmanke8194
    @aniketmanke8194 2 роки тому +71

    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

    • @elliebingo
      @elliebingo 2 роки тому +1

      Larry would make a better PM than the incompetant twats of the last fuck even knows how long

    • @rebeccakearney614
      @rebeccakearney614 2 роки тому +2

      Nono not liz

    • @ezekielbertrand809
      @ezekielbertrand809 2 роки тому +1

      @@rebeccakearney614 yes Liz…

    • @randombanana640
      @randombanana640 Рік тому +1

      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

    • @aniketmanke8194
      @aniketmanke8194 Рік тому

      @@randombanana640 i guess you're right

  • @tonythetanuki
    @tonythetanuki 2 роки тому +27

    Using a French song for a British video? I can feel the heat coming now.

  • @kawaiilotus
    @kawaiilotus 2 роки тому +5

    Horrible histories walked so you could run.

    • @atadbitahistory9660
      @atadbitahistory9660 2 роки тому

      I wouldn't say this was of better quality than a horrible histories song, however, I do like it.

    • @GlizzyGoblin757
      @GlizzyGoblin757 2 роки тому

      this is nowhere near HH quality

  • @superfluidity
    @superfluidity 2 роки тому +53

    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.

    • @nathanmclean3086
      @nathanmclean3086 2 роки тому +6

      Exact type of pedantry I come to the comments for.

    • @nathanmclean3086
      @nathanmclean3086 2 роки тому +1

      @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.

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 Рік тому

      @@nathanmclean3086 As one myself, I can tell you there's a special place in hell for pedants

    • @night6724
      @night6724 8 місяців тому

      No that was Disraeli

  • @DevonPixie1991
    @DevonPixie1991 2 роки тому +4

    You didn’t search for this video. I can guarantee you’re British and the UA-cam algorithm found it for you

  • @ghostofgeek
    @ghostofgeek 11 місяців тому +4

    Weird to think we've had two Prime Ministers since this

  • @TheLundSystem
    @TheLundSystem 3 місяці тому +5

    DESPARATELY need a new one

  • @videl1983
    @videl1983 2 роки тому +11

    Someone was clearly an animaniacs fans.... and i love this even more for it :D

  • @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1
    @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 2 роки тому +63

    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'

    • @nrafter530
      @nrafter530 2 роки тому +10

      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.

    • @Anglomachian
      @Anglomachian 2 роки тому

      @@nrafter530 Or Lord Hawksbury before his father died.

  • @insertname2insertsurname216
    @insertname2insertsurname216 2 роки тому +15

    "Unless he earns another term"
    Good one!

  • @ErinGoBragh07
    @ErinGoBragh07 2 роки тому +8

    So glad you rhymed Margaret Thatcher with milk snatcher 😂

  • @tedparkinson2033
    @tedparkinson2033 2 роки тому +27

    Describing the Iron Duke as "infamously combative"... An understatement I like!

    • @quakethedoombringer
      @quakethedoombringer 2 роки тому +1

      Also Thatcher with the making miners frown line

    • @tedparkinson2033
      @tedparkinson2033 2 роки тому

      @@quakethedoombringer ahh, Maggie Thatcher's not all bad. She made the first gender neutral public toilet after all!

    • @ferraresi2258
      @ferraresi2258 2 роки тому

      Fun fact: here in Brazil we also have a man known as Iron Duke: the Duke of Caxias
      He was also military

    • @vanguardbreaker8826
      @vanguardbreaker8826 2 роки тому +1

      @@tedparkinson2033 One good deed is not enough to redeem someone of a lifetime of wickedness.

  • @georgeiii2998
    @georgeiii2998 2 роки тому +131

    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 👍

    • @shehannanayakkara4162
      @shehannanayakkara4162 2 роки тому +2

      They did do Rockingham twice at least

    • @MarcusNesbitt4
      @MarcusNesbitt4 2 роки тому +7

      They didnt do churchill twice though

    • @callumsykes1307
      @callumsykes1307 2 роки тому

      Or Harold Wilson

    • @shehannanayakkara4162
      @shehannanayakkara4162 2 роки тому +1

      Or Newcastle, Pitt the Younger, Portland, Wellington, Melbourne, Peel, Russell, Derby, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Salisbury, Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald

  • @A_itsar
    @A_itsar 2 роки тому +29

    You know what this needs? Their years in office

  • @phosphoros60
    @phosphoros60 2 роки тому +27

    I am so impressed how many names fit the tune so well, especially *inhales Aaaarthur Balfour - Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  • @electown
    @electown 3 місяці тому +10

    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?

    • @bruceyang2494
      @bruceyang2494 2 місяці тому

      No idea, but it could be Angela Rayner or anyone else entirely!

  • @dolcethesmorse1890
    @dolcethesmorse1890 Рік тому +7

    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

  • @Joesgamesntech
    @Joesgamesntech 2 роки тому +4

    I watched this just to see them diss thatcher

  • @moonrust4939
    @moonrust4939 2 роки тому +8

    ASAP Science: Finally! a worthy opponent, our battle shall be legendary!

  • @agamer2024.
    @agamer2024. 2 роки тому +18

    We need a update as lizz truss just was announced new prime Minister

    • @ezekielbertrand809
      @ezekielbertrand809 2 роки тому +6

      Guess I’m not the only one who came to this song after Liz Truss became PM

    • @georgeiii2998
      @georgeiii2998 2 роки тому +2

      Now she's gone.

    • @agamer2024.
      @agamer2024. 2 роки тому +3

      @@georgeiii2998 now well need a new update

    • @GeogMaps
      @GeogMaps 3 місяці тому +3

      @@georgeiii2998At least Rishi is nearly gone now just a few days

    • @denisesiddon7241
      @denisesiddon7241 3 місяці тому +2

      Then Sunak until Starmer has just been elected in

  • @RodneyPlonker2727
    @RodneyPlonker2727 2 місяці тому +3

    Released only 2 years ago and it's already 3 prime ministers out of date

  • @RealLewis
    @RealLewis 2 роки тому +27

    Brilliant! This is definitely a song that won’t leave my head.

  • @ratman1020
    @ratman1020 Рік тому +3

    Winston Churchill:
    The best argument to Democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter.

  • @HariharaMallarSV
    @HariharaMallarSV 3 місяці тому +3

    we need truss, sunak and starmer to the listtt

  • @oliver575productions
    @oliver575productions 2 роки тому +4

    we are gonna need a updated one because rishi sunak

  • @milkshake9824
    @milkshake9824 2 роки тому +12

    Bro you deserve 1 million views because this song is as catchy as hell

  • @tatemitchell1479
    @tatemitchell1479 2 роки тому +7

    Now I have the political equivalent of the British Monarchy song from Horrible Histories

  • @bryancelespara1523
    @bryancelespara1523 Місяць тому +5

    Plus Truss, Sunak, and Starmer

  • @ZemanTheMighty
    @ZemanTheMighty 2 роки тому +6

    I find it really fascinating how Prime Minister Urquhart outlasted thatcher by a single day.

  • @Jim230176
    @Jim230176 2 роки тому +5

    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!’

  • @manjotbali8985
    @manjotbali8985 2 роки тому +16

    This is so cool and must have taken a lot of work.

  • @Tarinator
    @Tarinator 2 місяці тому +2

    We need an updated for 2024 version

  • @atadbitahistory9660
    @atadbitahistory9660 2 роки тому +10

    "Made a lot of miners frown".
    I think "half revolt" would be a better term for how the miners took it-

    • @jamesgravil9162
      @jamesgravil9162 2 роки тому +5

      Nothing more British than understatement.

    • @virtualcynical8515
      @virtualcynical8515 2 роки тому +4

      "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"

    • @atadbitahistory9660
      @atadbitahistory9660 2 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @quakethedoombringer
    @quakethedoombringer Рік тому +2

    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

  • @JJTHEARTI3T
    @JJTHEARTI3T 2 роки тому +17

    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

  • @th3freakie
    @th3freakie 2 роки тому +5

    So cute you thought Boris' successor will be determined by a popular vote.

    • @mk_gamíng0609
      @mk_gamíng0609 2 роки тому +1

      Well it will be but not by the people but the the tory party

  • @tw_1229
    @tw_1229 2 роки тому +4

    this is already outdated by 2 prime ministers lol

  • @sirwelch9991
    @sirwelch9991 2 роки тому +12

    Interesting. Never have I heard of something like this before. Bravo, Bravo!
    Also, it is very danceable.

  • @jeremy1860
    @jeremy1860 2 роки тому +5

    Not sure why this suddenly turned up in my recommendations, but it was a fun watch 😊

  • @deutschekanadische
    @deutschekanadische Місяць тому +2

    I have no idea why I'm watching this, I'm literally Canadian.

  • @nameless2482
    @nameless2482 2 роки тому +8

    Can you please update it with their political parties?

  • @sanneoi6323
    @sanneoi6323 2 роки тому +4

    It feels wrong that they didn't mention more about Churchill

    • @virtualcynical8515
      @virtualcynical8515 2 роки тому +1

      Probably don't want to dig up all the Nasty shit he said.
      Safer that way.

  • @RetroReviewsMovies
    @RetroReviewsMovies 2 роки тому +7

    2:16 Look, you can pinpoint the exact moment that the downward spiral began and when Britain started getting idiot after idiot.

    • @madkhaliqfarhan
      @madkhaliqfarhan 2 роки тому

      2:19 We Malaysians thank this man for freeing us on 31 August 1957...

  • @flabbybum9562
    @flabbybum9562 2 роки тому +7

    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.

    • @davecross4493
      @davecross4493 2 роки тому +2

      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.

    • @flabbybum9562
      @flabbybum9562 2 роки тому

      @@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.

    • @davecross4493
      @davecross4493 2 роки тому +1

      @@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.

    • @flabbybum9562
      @flabbybum9562 2 роки тому

      @@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.

    • @davecross4493
      @davecross4493 2 роки тому

      @@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..

  • @SteveAnglanaAdventures
    @SteveAnglanaAdventures 2 роки тому +5

    Somebody gives a medal to this guy please.

  • @thomasbrett5583
    @thomasbrett5583 2 роки тому +61

    Very good song of all the UK Prime Ministers!

  • @jacques.cousteau
    @jacques.cousteau 2 роки тому +80

    And I say, that England's greatest Prime Minister was Lord Palmerston!

  • @soniabraila6146
    @soniabraila6146 2 роки тому +8

    Honestly, this is the most ingenious thing I've ever seen 🧠

  • @abhiramlokanathan9090
    @abhiramlokanathan9090 2 роки тому +4

    Fry's role as the Iron Duke from Blackadder @1:09
    This channel deserves more likes

  • @themarvelousemafia4457
    @themarvelousemafia4457 2 роки тому +3

    So, it's the british version of the Animaniacs US presidents' song, nice.

  • @horsfred
    @horsfred Рік тому +3

    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

    • @ramblerazz
      @ramblerazz  Рік тому

      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...

    • @horsfred
      @horsfred Рік тому

      @@ramblerazz Very good points! I wish you luck with your quiz show endeavours

  • @anthonyalao7635
    @anthonyalao7635 2 роки тому +4

    A good way to learn about UK's different Prime Ministers

  • @ezekielbertrand809
    @ezekielbertrand809 2 роки тому +3

    We’re gonna need an updated version of this song soon following Liz’s resignation earlier!

  • @polishedrelish
    @polishedrelish 4 місяці тому +2

    "that depends on who you next vote in"
    lol

  • @icarusmcduck9309
    @icarusmcduck9309 2 роки тому +9

    3:31 "Could it be you?"
    Me, an American: 🤔 Maybe so.

    • @madkhaliqfarhan
      @madkhaliqfarhan 2 роки тому +1

      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!

    • @allftw2677
      @allftw2677 2 роки тому +4

      @@madkhaliqfarhan ok...

    • @virtualcynical8515
      @virtualcynical8515 2 роки тому +2

      @@madkhaliqfarhan I welcome our Malaysian Overlords.
      I'd wager they'll do a better job than we will.
      We suck at this.

    • @madkhaliqfarhan
      @madkhaliqfarhan 2 роки тому

      @@virtualcynical8515 This can only mean one thing: Revenge on your ancestors for what they did to us back in the early 1900s!

    • @icarusmcduck9309
      @icarusmcduck9309 2 роки тому

      @@virtualcynical8515 No one's had worse luck with government leaders than us.

  • @nicoledickson6099
    @nicoledickson6099 2 роки тому +3

    IMAO. THIS IS EDUCATIONAL AND HILARIOUS! A MASTERPIECE!

  • @Ponera-Sama
    @Ponera-Sama 2 роки тому +5

    Animaniacs: Finally a worthy opponent, our battles will be legendary!

  • @HamStuff
    @HamStuff 2 роки тому +4

    Gonna need a new one soon. For our next and greatest Prime Minister - Larry the cat!

  • @beckybolton5411
    @beckybolton5411 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks for doing my homework!

  • @annoldham3018
    @annoldham3018 2 роки тому +6

    Excellent research and well put together.

  • @emperorpalpatine2642
    @emperorpalpatine2642 2 роки тому +2

    Finally, the circle is complete. Before I had just the monarch's. Now I have the PM's too.

  • @BritishEmpireV2.0
    @BritishEmpireV2.0 2 роки тому +1

    Can't believe I just found this

  • @TonsOfTrackmasters
    @TonsOfTrackmasters 2 роки тому +3

    ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC

  • @superninja493
    @superninja493 Рік тому +2

    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

  • @ionantonescu9475
    @ionantonescu9475 Рік тому +2

    Excellent video! Would love it if you made more like this

  • @sophielawrence5468
    @sophielawrence5468 2 роки тому +5

    absolute genius

  •  2 роки тому +30

    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! 🇧🇷🇬🇧

  • @CasioMaker
    @CasioMaker 2 роки тому +10

    Pretty much out of Animaniacs, if it were a British made series! Props!

    • @quakethedoombringer
      @quakethedoombringer 2 роки тому

      I wonder why the vibe of the song really rings the bell. This is probably why

  • @Hollows1997
    @Hollows1997 Рік тому +2

    I like how with Blair, everything started nice and bright and just got darker and worse with each thing he did, just like real life.

  • @numbermathematics4137
    @numbermathematics4137 2 роки тому +2

    This aged well.

  • @theeko5317
    @theeko5317 2 роки тому +2

    I can't believe this masterpiece only viewed 20k

    • @herisuryadi6885
      @herisuryadi6885 2 роки тому

      Dont worry it seems like its being pick up by the algorithm

  • @vitothepizzaguy7475
    @vitothepizzaguy7475 2 роки тому +1

    ''Lady Maggie Thatcher, Falkland Isles and milk snatcher''

  • @ThisisBarris
    @ThisisBarris 2 роки тому +2

    Great stuff. Really enjoyed it !

  • @ratman1020
    @ratman1020 Рік тому +3

    It matters not who votes, but who counts the votes. - Josif Stalin

  • @auntpatty7172
    @auntpatty7172 2 роки тому +2

    HE RESIGHNED!

  • @potdog1000
    @potdog1000 Місяць тому +1

    BRILLIANT

  • @fenhen
    @fenhen 2 роки тому +2

    May’s legacy is dancing. 🤣

    • @mk_gamíng0609
      @mk_gamíng0609 2 роки тому

      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.

  • @alfieburns9019
    @alfieburns9019 2 роки тому +3

    and in 50 years time our current prime ministers will become just as forgettable as those in

    • @Jay_Johnson
      @Jay_Johnson 2 роки тому

      >100

    • @cshaffrey3438
      @cshaffrey3438 2 роки тому +2

      Boris will be remembered for Brexit and Blair for Iraq but I can't imagine May Cameron or Brown being remembered at all

    • @Jay_Johnson
      @Jay_Johnson 2 роки тому +1

      ​@@cshaffrey3438 May will be remembered for brexit too. I think this will likely become textbook politics.

    • @CeruleanSword
      @CeruleanSword 2 роки тому +2

      @@cshaffrey3438
      Cameron will be remembered for Brexit too, because his actions are what led to huge tension between the union and may split the union.

    • @georgeiii2998
      @georgeiii2998 2 роки тому +3

      @Alex Exactly. Cameron is Mr. Brexit. Brown is already slipping into obscurity thanks to him.

  • @Prauwlet213
    @Prauwlet213 Рік тому +3

    Only 1 year old and it’s already 2 out of date 😭

    • @Suksass
      @Suksass 10 місяців тому

      Soon will be three. No way Sunak survives next election.

    • @Prauwlet213
      @Prauwlet213 10 місяців тому

      @@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.

    • @Suksass
      @Suksass 10 місяців тому +2

      @@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.

  • @ShadowValleys
    @ShadowValleys 2 роки тому +1

    Perfectly recommended

  • @samthatguy6126
    @samthatguy6126 2 роки тому +1

    I honestly thought we had more

  • @hyun-shik7327
    @hyun-shik7327 Рік тому +1

    Same year as the video was made and we’re already two PMs away from Boris.

  • @TheFosseArmy
    @TheFosseArmy 2 роки тому +5

    Ayyyyy Robert Walpole got a mention! Idk how true it is but I’m told I’m a relative down the line (same last name at least) but it’s amazing how little we hear of him despite being the first prime minister

    • @Haris1
      @Haris1 2 роки тому

      proof?

    • @yeslol9303
      @yeslol9303 2 роки тому

      @@Haris1 it’s a weird thing to lie about so I think he’s telling the truth

    • @Haris1
      @Haris1 2 роки тому

      @@yeslol9303 sure tbh. But I do know some people who have changed their last name to one they admire of an historical figure

    • @yeslol9303
      @yeslol9303 2 роки тому

      @@Haris1 fair enough but I don’t think Walpole is notable enough for someone to do that

    • @Haris1
      @Haris1 2 роки тому

      @@yeslol9303 true

  • @arabunionball
    @arabunionball 2 роки тому +2

    This aged well

  • @maudeboggins9834
    @maudeboggins9834 2 роки тому +3

    Brilliant. Loved it.

  • @sioetjoe388
    @sioetjoe388 8 місяців тому +4

    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

    • @electown
      @electown 3 місяці тому

      79. Rishi Sunak 2022-2024
      80. Keir Starmer 2024-Present

  • @AL-ki6rn
    @AL-ki6rn 2 роки тому +2

    This song is only 8 months old and is now outdated by 2 pms