If you want to see debates happening in the chamber of the commons(a room of the elected parliament, the other being the house of lords which is the royal privy council, and the commonly known houses of parliament is actually named officially the palace of Westminster), then you need to watch Prime minister's Questions, they have footage dating back to the late 80s so you get to see the first female PM in action. The Queen still has a role as head of state of the UK and the Commonwealth of Nations (there are 57 in total); we have a constitutional Monarchy, and when the Act of Union 1707 was ratified by both England and Scotland, it was Queen Anne who was on the throne when it happened, but 104 years before that there was the Union of the Crown in 1603 where King James 1st of England was also King James 6th of Scotland (both England and Scotland were separate kingdoms at the time), and there's no point having rid of a 956 year old monarchy and it's pretty much part of the tourist package in London, she does have a ceremonial role when reopening parliament, trooping of the colour and the jubilee's, next year will by her 70th year on the throne.
3:52 United kingdom - all countries combined we use it when were at international representaional. Great Britain we use more locally and it stills used internationally but not as comon England - simpy because everyone knows where that is. Oh where you from "uk" wheres that " oh england"
If you want UK general election then you can BBC Parliament they've done reruns of general elections in 1979, 1983, and 1987 (back then they used to be every four years this changed to five years when David Cameron was elected in 2010)
Please react to Windsor or Windsor castle. It’s where the Queen lives(she recently moved there for good) and it’s her favourite castle. It’s also where Megan and Harry’s wedding was and where Prince Phillip’s funeral was. I think you’d really enjoy the history it has as its the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world.
Not that kind of minister. They're not religious leaders, they ADminister the various government departments, such as the minister of defence, the minister for work and pensions. As those departments are called ministry of this or that, i think you get the idea.
Yeah they need to remember that ministers and state secretaries are basically the same thing. If they can keep that in their heads then they will be okay.
You do know than the UK is higher in the democracy index than the US? And while the UK is considered a full democracy the US is considered a flawed democracy? (Democracy Index 2020) So the UK is more democratic than the US and has a better political system
And when people try to tamper with the voting they get thrown in prison in the UK, unlike the US where they get a pat on the back for finding lots of votes in the middle of the night mostly from the dead.
Which is intentual the founding fathers criticised democracies as mob rule a republic is a form of regulated democracy as in its not meant to be close to pure democracy
Yeah it’s quite low sadly in the US. Including when it comes to how people are represented and civil liberties in the way they are handled by the government.
We call the United Kingdom, great Britain and England different names because they are different things. The United Kingdom is Scotland, England, Wales and northern Ireland, great Britain is the island that Scotland England and Wales sits on and England one of the countrys on the island of great Britain
Hun, you don’t need to fly. The 5000 miles thing is our coastline, the entire perimeter. There’s less than 100 miles between most cities, usually an hour or less (especially by train).
@@stevewhite9308 It's a fractal thing. If you include all the coastline down every tiny little stream (and up to each source), every country that has a coastline has a near-infinite length of coastline.
@@stevewhite9308 ---> yup, she should avoid Canada as well, we have the longest coastline of any country in the world, still, if you want to visit Toronto & Vancouver it is best to fly, even then your looking at a 5 or 6-hour flight...
The Duke of Rutland lives in Belvoir Castle (Can see it from miles away on a clear day) which is the nearest one to me, I'm sure there are many more. 😊
They sure do, and they also produce 67 million tonnes of potatoes, 227,000 cars and operate 1½ million flights to and from the UK every year. What rot! The Royal Family generate NOTHING ..except scandal sheet headlines.
We still have a Monarch because when you look around the world at the alternatives, it's not impressive. Look up the countries that have Presidents and the countries that have Monarchs and you can see why very few people who have a Monarch are rushing to get rid of it.
The U.K. has high speed trains. 5,000 miles on the coast line is because of all the bumps and lumps. Going across country the U.K. is only about 600 miles long. Average train speed is 125-140mph for a cross country service. You can get around quickly and easily. You’ll be fine ;)
I mean the queen genuinely does bring in a lot of tourists because countries like canada and australia have her as a monarch and want to come to the uk to see her plus shes such a big part of the UK culture as the Uk is one of the last countries to still have a monarchy. even if the monarchy doesn't actually do anything.
England has had a parliament since the 1300’s it went from being controlled by the monarch. To asserting its authority over the monarchy after the civil war (mid 1600’s). Later it was joined by the parliaments of Scotland in 1707.
The coastline may be 5000 miles (because it's a very curvy line around the edge as opposed to straight lines) BUT - shockingly - our trains do not follow the coastline and run along every beach, they go on direct routes inland. The distance from the top to the bottom of the UK is well under 1000 miles.
Ministers aren't church ministers. They are elected mp's ( members of parliament ) who have been selected by the Prime minister to run the show. They are in charge of departments ( eg health, defence ) or policy matters Home office, foreign secretary. Some Church of England Bishops sit in the Lords, but they don't carry a lot of weight.
No, a train to Edinburgh, Scotland from London is about 5 hours 😂 by plane it’s about 1 hour. Perhaps trains in the US are really slow 🤷🏾♀️ also Wales is really close to London.
Flights London to Scotland may be an hour but you spend ages in the airport before you can board the plane and getting to the airport can also take time and be a pain. In some circumstances the train is better. It's certainly more comfortable.
7:27 are you being sarcastic its hard to tell the coastline around GB is 5000 miles that accounts for all the wiggly bits. London kings cross to Edinburgh is just under 5 hours. You could take a plane but all those security checks would waste any time saved.
The Royal family is a Huge part of our traditions, they also do other things besides just be there, for example queen liz travels to different countries to establish bonds with them
The 5000 mile coastline is just the entire perimeter of the country. The uk is actually tiny, the longest journey you could do is lands end to John O’groats which is 837 miles.
The red cross take their symbol from a reversal of the colours of the Swiss flag. ( which is a white cross on a red square) nothing to do with St George. ( who was a Turkish soldier I think)
It was the king of Scotland that unified both Scotland and England together for the first time which I've realised a lot of people didn't know. Some scots think we invaded and took them over, when actually he became king of England as well when the english queen died. Also getting the train to Scotland or Wales isn't that hard, and you could get from Wales to ireland by a ferry
It takes 2-3 hours from London to Cardiff (the capital of Wales) by train and 4-5 hours from London to Edinburgh so it really isn't that much slower than flying once you factor in going to the airport etc and it can be much cheaper to get the train
you would think its cheaper wouldnt you? but then i looked at going form Norwich to Manchester a few years back it was cheaper to fly than get a train (ended up just driving in the end)
I think you misheard one part, 5000 miles is the distance around the largest bit of coastline, not the length of the UK is, the distance if you were to go from London to Edinburgh is about 400 miles, which is very doable on a trip.
The reason Scotland is part of Great Britain is because James VI who was the Scottish king was the heir to the throne of England, therefore uniting both countries together. When he became King of England. Edit: Thanks for all the likes!!!
Parliament began in 1215. So yeah, it did start before the US system. In fact it began centuries before anyone in the Old World knew the Americas even existed. How could you possibly think otherwise? It took over control of government from the monarch about the same time that the first settlers were arriving in Jamestown.
@@timfitzmaurice537 Yes, I'm not sure whether it is the Althing or Tynwald in the IOM...it depends on how you count "continuous". They're both Norse and both about the same time...over 1000 years old. Thing is the ON term for a parliament/council, so the Icelandic is the all thing; and our word hustings is house things.
@@chrisbentley8567 Saint George has been hailed as a saint for a long time, not just in England. He's know over much of the world for being a bringer of relief from plagues and other curses. He has been traced to a North African-based Roman citizen soldier who specialised in looking after cavalry horses (animal medicine was the work of a 'doctor' in Latin, I understand).
Saint George is the guy who saved the lady after concouring the dragon. The Red Cross has a flag which is as the Swiss flag but with the opposite colours. And about worshipping: better sitting at the pub thinking about the church, than sitting in church thinking about the pub 😊🍻
Sorry if someone else already talked about this - you mentioned the many names of our country - and it's kinda true, but let me try to explain. Great Britain is the name of the Union between England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland isn't part of Great Britain, but when Ireland was added (and that's a whole other story) and partition happened which created the Irish free state and Northern Ireland, we became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, just shortened to UK. But each region or country kind of is similar to your states. People will shoot me down for saying that but I'm just trying to put it in to a way you'll understand. England, NI, Wales and Scotland individually are all countries with their own languages and cultural identity, much like US States, it's just collectively called the UK. Like the 50 states are collectively called the United States. Some people identify as British, others identify more with their home nation, like Scottish or Welsh. It's a bit like someone from Texas identifying more as a Texan than an American. You are all still Americans but you might identify more with your home state than the rest of the Union and that's the same here. Our parliament dates back to 1215, so a looooong time before the US was born. That's why it's often referred to as the mother of all parliaments. Also, we don't have religious leaders in the house of commons (the government and the opposition sit in the commons), just in the house of lords. And the lord's have very limited powers. They are just there to act as that check and balance on the laws proposed by the commons. In the old days the lord's was made up of aristocracy and represented the queen - it still does to a certain extent but their power is very much reduced. Sorry it's so long, hope it's of some use!
you need to react to PMQs (prime minister's questions)- its essentially a televised weekly chance for MPs (members of parliament) to question the Prime Minister directly, though it usually just turns into a big heated argument. There's some hilarious compilations of best moments etc... think youd find it interesting lmao
12:36 We don't vote for the PM we vote for our local constituency representative (MP) who usually will be part of a 'party' unless they are independent. The party with the most MPs will choose someone amongst themselves to be their leader and by tradition the Queen chooses that person as the PM. If the main party doesn't have a working majority of MPs then a coalition government where parties with enough people to form a majority agree to work together. The leader of the largest party in a coalition is the PM. Legally the Queen can choose any MP to be the PM.
Correction- the angles who fought the Scots were not English but Germanic that settled in England- I believe king offa of mercia was an angle - maybe look into Anglo saxon history - see Alfred the Great
the parliament of england was founded in 1215 and yours was founded in 1789 that makes our parliament 574 years older so yes it is a lot older than you’re parliament
Trains can get very expensive in some parts of the uk so in some cases you can get plane tickets to spain, france and other places that are cheeper than train tickets that take you from one half of the country to the other
We don’t keep the royal family mostly for tourism. We have to remind a lot of anti-Royals that because of their constant bashing. It’s also because of the fact that the two governing system of being balanced out between prime minister and a king or queen allows us to make sure that no one can have total power over the country and allows things to be more stable long-term, as well as being the preserver of traditions and more securely Govan the direction of the military and national interests and plans. Also the UK is ranked higher than the US in democratic elections and freedoms by a big margin.
5000 miles is the coastline. from Lands End to John O Groats is only about 1000 miles from one end to the other. Lands End to John O groats. USA is about 4000miles across.
Great Britain is a geographical term. It refers to the island houses England, Wale & Scotland. The UK is the actual name of the nation. The British isles is another geographical term and refers to Great Britain and the island of Ireland. Parliament does debate - Prime Minster's questions every week can be dramatic and is very confrontational. Minsters aren't religious people. They are elected Members of Parliament from the majority elected party.
Our general elections happen every 5 years - unless the PM is able to call one early. Until 2010 this ability to call an early election was at the sole request of the PM, now parliament has to agree to it by a two thirds majority of all the MPs in the house (not just of those who vote). The PM has to then request permission from the Queen to dissolve parliament and hold an election. Whilst the Queen can refuse this request no monarch ever has done. She can also use royal perogative powers and dissolve parliament at any time she wants. After the election the Queen calls the person she wants as PM to the palace and asks them to form a government. In reality she can choose any MP she wants to be PM but it is conventionally the leader of the party which 'can command the confidence of the House of Commons' technically this means they have the votes to pass a Queen's speech and a budget. She can also sack the PM if she so wished it is not called 'Her Majesty's government' for nothing. That is, she can do it, but she wouldn't do it. A government can be thrown out of office if they lose a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons. Should this happen there is (since 2010) 14 days for a new government to form which can win a confidence motion or the Queen steps in, dissolves parliament and calls an election for a new government. A government losi g such a vote, however, is very rare and the last time this happened was in 1979 when the Labour governemnt lost the vote of no confidence by a single vote, they then lost the following general election. In 1979 after losing the vote of confidence the government had to immediately resign and the PM had to request a dissolution of parliament from the Queen.
The reason its either 'Great Britain and Norther Ireland' or the 'United Kingdom' is because Great Britain refers to the island with just England, Wales and Scotland on it so Northern Ireland has to be added to the end
We have had parliaments since the middle ages. But it only became more powerful than the king in the 17th c. When there was a civil war which parliament won. The king sort of acted as prime minister until George 1 became king. He couldn't speak English ( German!) And didn't know anything about our country or constitution. So Robert Walpole stepped up to the plate and is regarded as the first P. M. He was in the job from about 1720 - 1740.
It's not 5000 miles from London to Edinburgh. It's about a 7 hour drive (400 ish miles) in the car or about 4 hours by train. You can't get a train to Northern Ireland, you have to fly (which is about an hour) or get a ferry (which I think is overnight). Cardiff, Wales is about a 3 hour drive from London or about 2 hours by train. Also they don't mean 'ministers' in the sense of religion. Ministers are MPs (members of the House of Commons) or members of the House of Lords that either run, and in this case are called Secretaries of State, i.e. the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Foreign Secretary) or help to run a government department (and these are normally referred to as junior ministers).
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Just to point out Yorkshire is a county with York (in my opinion) been the main city in Yorkshire. Sorry for the inconvenience of this comment. From Lancashire (clearly the best county) No one is allowed to be offended at this comment. Thanks Edit: love your channel by the way
The red cross started in Switzerland and is the colour swap of the swiss flag (white cross on red background). St George was a christian from Lod in Israel, which was under Roman rule at the time. His parents were greek. There is a myth about him slaying a Dragon. I don't know how he got associated with England. Palaces are grand houses for Royals. Castles are fortified houses. Buckingham Palace is a Palace but not a Castle. The Tower of London is a Castle but not a Palace. But Windsor Castle is both.
Have a look at Windsor Castle home of the Monarchy, Buckingham Palace is just there workplaces Windsor is there home for most of the year along with Sandringham House and the Balmoral Estate
The Queen has an enormous amount of power in the UK she just closes not to use it. The armed forces vow to serve the Queen, not Parliament. She can also Vito any decision made by Parliament and can if she choses reject the choice for priminister. She has a lot of power. There's a youtube video somewhere explaining exactly what power she has and its a lot!
14:07 The PM has to answer questions from Parliament every Wednesday at 12 for 30 minutes. Questions are submitted a few days before and the Speaker chooses who gets to ask their question given the time available. The opposition leaders always get to ask a couple of questions followed by the back benchers. In general parliament is all debate then a vote on legislation. All the main Ministers have their own slots for taking questions from parliaments back benches.
@@mentaldavethefirst I would agree Boris has a disturbing tendency for misdirection when there's a question he doesn't want to answer, sometimes I feel he doesn't really know the answer. I'm not sure if they really are outright lies. I'd be surprised if they were especially when he gets fact checked he'd be in trouble. His answers are probably closer to half truths. I know the questions are submitted to the speaker in advance but does the PM actually get to see them in advance? I've heard Tony Blair say he hated PMQs as he never really knew what to expect from the house.
You got it basically right about the UK. Between 1801 and 1921 the UK was the United Kingdom of Great Britain (GB being England (and Wales) plus Scotland) and Ireland. When the vast majority of Ireland left this union it became the GB and Northern Ireland = UK. The Brits even now don't seem to either understand or care that GB is not equal to UK. The UK athletics teams are known as TeamGB, and though this has been pointed out to them many times, they don't seem to care, which makes competing for this as a NI catholic very problematic.
5000 miles around the coastline. That's because of all the tiddly bits. It's less than 1000 top to bottom, and only a couple of hundred side to side. Don't think of a day trip anywhere. Anywhere you go will require at least a couple of days to get anything out of it.
Minister means an completely different thing mate. This genuinely got me worked up. Our monarchy isn’t just apart of our great culture and is very important to our armed forces etc
Our Parliamentary Ministered are not representatives of the Churches, they are Members of Parliament (MP's) voted into power via each Constituency / is Borough / area, each according to their specific Political Party. Polling takes place on a specific Thursday on the Election date & it"s a "First past the post" system, meaning the Candidate receiving the most votes from the people in each area CV gets to enter Parliament. The mist votes decides who will be in Government for each Five Tear Term of Office, the Party which loses the vote, sits in as the Opposition - & each Wednesday, the Leader if the Opposition gets to question the Prime Minister (Leader if the winning party in power) as t ok his or her actions within Government (current or planned actions). Hope that helps you. 😊
The Queen is the head of state and Church of England and in theory has no political power. Her purpose is essentially ceremonial with laws being proposed and debated in the two chambers of the Houses of Parliament. However, she does have an important role in reflecting the moral principles the country aspires to, she embodies the most important characteristics of the UK - continuity and stability (over 700 years as a global force) and finally her role avoids the UK establishment being dominated by billionaire business people whose priority is furthering their own interests at the expense of the population, as is the case in Presidential Republics. If you replace the Queen and Royal family, who are at best a benevolent force for good and at worst an inert anachronism, you will simply open the door for a new, potentially sinister, mercantile oligarchy.
Old English owes much to German. Modern English and in fact English since 1066 ad when England was invaded by William the Conqueror of Normandy owes much more to the French language.
Despite several comments saying so James VI of Scotland did not unite the countries of Scotland and England. He was, at the same time, ruler of both countries that remained separate entities. It was over 80 years after his death that the two counties were joined in the 1707 Act of Union.
@@dlk1dlk1 but that's when all three kingdoms were separate and even if we're going from the year 1215, it still wouldn't be the oldest as Iceland's parliament was established in the year 930. But it would be one of the many oldest parliaments
"I really fancy some bacon" - David Cameron would, of course, be a fan of any type of pork product. Doesn't have to be bacon. Anything from the pig will do.
@13:20 they're not actual ministers like in a church/religious ministers. it's just what we call the members of parliament in the cabinet and the Prime Minister is the one in charge
On the subject of pub names, near here they had a pub called the "Load of Mischief" unfortunately it was pulled down because the M65 was built. It was also a bus destination so there are pictures of buses with the destination "Load of Mischief" which were quite often hired out for kids trips or drunken parties.
Henry VII had welsh royal blood so was king of England and Wales but it wasn't until Henry VIII that governance and laws were joined (union). King James I was already King James VI of Scotland merging the Crowns of England and Scotland. Scotland joined England and Wales in Union for financial reasons after Scotland's colony in panama failed spectacularly.
The Queen has huge soft power world wide and apparently brings in over £2 billion from tourists. You should watch pmq's. This happens every Tuesday where questions are put to the prime minister to answer. Yes debates between the party in power and the opposition parties happen most days in parliament.
Scotland had a vote on independence recently and voted to remain in the UK for now, but some people want another vote. And the UK is only around 600 miles long
The Red Cross flag is the reverse of the Swiss flag with a small cross (which doesn't reach the edge of the flag) on a white background. This is because the Red Cross originated inn Switzerland
It's not that someone was indecisive they are different. The island of Britain is England, Scotland, Wales. So Britain refers to those 3. The United Kingdom refers to those 3 & Northern Ireland. Also it's 5000 miles because it's an island so it is small but there is technically huge milage for coastline because of the surface area
14:43 Parliament has been around for hundreds of years long before America but the position of PM was not created until George I who spent most of his time in Germany and didn't speak English. The PM was created and given executive powers because George I couldn't be bothered to really be King of GB and wield executive power running the country. By the time George III was actually raised in England and wanted to be King parliament had taken the majority of executive power and was not interested in giving it back. The monarch has become less and less important with each generation as a result. Queen Victoria did reinvent the Monarchy and gained back a lot of the public support that her uncle had lost.
Scotland and England sort of united after the death of Elizabeth I. As she had no children the closest heir to the English throne was King James VI of Scotland so he then became King James I of England as well. Monarchs continued to have two reganal numbers (one for England one for Scotland) until the Act of the Union in the early 1700s which officially unified England and Scotland under one throne and parliament hence why the monarch only has one number and it was decided to follow the English numbering for future monarchs. Wales becoming part of the UK is more complex but was prity much an invasion and take over job by the English. 5,000 miles is the coast line (which is round the entire country). London to Edinburgh takes a few hours by train so can not be a day trip.
It takes about 4 and half hours on the train from Kings Cross to Edinburgh, Scotland. Also if you want to see a Castle the Queen lives in visit Windsor next time you come to the UK!
13:18 There are bishops and a rabbi and some other religious leaders in the House of Lords but the ministers referred to here is I believe a lazy way of saying Administrator. MPs that are heads of a Governmental department are referred to as ministers.
You can thank the Queen for not allowing Parliament to take control of the declaration of war without her co-consent in 2003. One of the extremely rare occasions that she actually flexed her political might. She serves more of a function than a lot of people realise.
St George is a Christian Saint and the patron Saint of England but also lots of other countries, regions, cities and things. The most famous legend is about him slaying a dragon. St George's flag does look similar to the Red Cross flag, but the Red Cross flag has a thicker cross. The international Red Cross movement started in Switzerland.
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If you want to see debates happening in the chamber of the commons(a room of the elected parliament, the other being the house of lords which is the royal privy council, and the commonly known houses of parliament is actually named officially the palace of Westminster), then you need to watch Prime minister's Questions, they have footage dating back to the late 80s so you get to see the first female PM in action. The Queen still has a role as head of state of the UK and the Commonwealth of Nations (there are 57 in total); we have a constitutional Monarchy, and when the Act of Union 1707 was ratified by both England and Scotland, it was Queen Anne who was on the throne when it happened, but 104 years before that there was the Union of the Crown in 1603 where King James 1st of England was also King James 6th of Scotland (both England and Scotland were separate kingdoms at the time), and there's no point having rid of a 956 year old monarchy and it's pretty much part of the tourist package in London, she does have a ceremonial role when reopening parliament, trooping of the colour and the jubilee's, next year will by her 70th year on the throne.
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United kingdom - all countries combined we use it when were at international representaional.
Great Britain we use more locally and it stills used internationally but not as comon
England - simpy because everyone knows where that is. Oh where you from "uk" wheres that " oh england"
If you want UK general election then you can BBC Parliament they've done reruns of general elections in 1979, 1983, and 1987 (back then they used to be every four years this changed to five years when David Cameron was elected in 2010)
And The Parliament of the UK was established in 1707, but the parliaments of England, Scotland and Ireland were established in the 13th century.
Please react to Windsor or Windsor castle. It’s where the Queen lives(she recently moved there for good) and it’s her favourite castle. It’s also where Megan and Harry’s wedding was and where Prince Phillip’s funeral was. I think you’d really enjoy the history it has as its the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world.
Not that kind of minister. They're not religious leaders, they ADminister the various government departments, such as the minister of defence, the minister for work and pensions. As those departments are called ministry of this or that, i think you get the idea.
hence the "prime minister"
@@chrismackett9044 I think the poor girl is confused enough
ministry of magic
Yeah they need to remember that ministers and state secretaries are basically the same thing. If they can keep that in their heads then they will be okay.
don't forget the minister of silly walks
You do know than the UK is higher in the democracy index than the US? And while the UK is considered a full democracy the US is considered a flawed democracy? (Democracy Index 2020)
So the UK is more democratic than the US and has a better political system
"FREEDOM!" Then the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
"DEMOCRACY!" Then installs dictatorships in other countries
@@VViIIiam Exactly
And when people try to tamper with the voting they get thrown in prison in the UK, unlike the US where they get a pat on the back for finding lots of votes in the middle of the night mostly from the dead.
@@benamos2878 He he
What I wanna know is why she thought Minister = **RELIGION**
The US is actually rated quite low on the democracy index, According to it, The US is the 25th most democratic country while the UK is the 16th.
Which is intentual the founding fathers criticised democracies as mob rule a republic is a form of regulated democracy as in its not meant to be close to pure democracy
@@shakalaka1477 people aren't allowed to change their minds once educated? Most decent democracies encourage votes on things.
Yeah it’s quite low sadly in the US. Including when it comes to how people are represented and civil liberties in the way they are handled by the government.
We call the United Kingdom, great Britain and England different names because they are different things. The United Kingdom is Scotland, England, Wales and northern Ireland, great Britain is the island that Scotland England and Wales sits on and England one of the countrys on the island of great Britain
You’d think she’d have got it by now 😂
Hun, you don’t need to fly. The 5000 miles thing is our coastline, the entire perimeter. There’s less than 100 miles between most cities, usually an hour or less (especially by train).
And the 5000 miles includes all the coves bays and inlets, of which there are many.
@@stevewhite9308 It's a fractal thing. If you include all the coastline down every tiny little stream (and up to each source), every country that has a coastline has a near-infinite length of coastline.
@@stevewhite9308 ---> yup, she should avoid Canada as well, we have the longest coastline of any country in the world, still, if you want to visit Toronto & Vancouver it is best to fly, even then your looking at a 5 or 6-hour flight...
Castles.... the queen doesn't live in Buckingham palace - she prefers Windsor Castle. It's a real live castle and looks like one.
The Duke of Rutland lives in Belvoir Castle (Can see it from miles away on a clear day) which is the nearest one to me, I'm sure there are many more. 😊
Also, the royal family bring in about £550 million in tourism each year, so there are definitely a lot of people who come for them
And the "Queen rules ok" banner was referring to the band, not the actual Queen
They sure do, and they also produce 67 million tonnes of potatoes, 227,000 cars and operate 1½ million flights to and from the UK every year.
What rot! The Royal Family generate NOTHING ..except scandal sheet headlines.
"Maybe he was canadian" we bloody wish that that was the reason •~•
She thinks 'ministers' are religious folk from the church, oh no no no look at this dude
We still have a Monarch because when you look around the world at the alternatives, it's not impressive. Look up the countries that have Presidents and the countries that have Monarchs and you can see why very few people who have a Monarch are rushing to get rid of it.
6:15 when James VI (a Scottish king) inherited the English throne, he started the process of uniting the two kingdoms into one
The U.K. has high speed trains. 5,000 miles on the coast line is because of all the bumps and lumps. Going across country the U.K. is only about 600 miles long. Average train speed is 125-140mph for a cross country service. You can get around quickly and easily. You’ll be fine ;)
Also, fun fact, you're never more than 50 miles from the coast.
"quickly" stares at 14 hour train journey from cornwall to north wales XD
I'd definetly fly to Scotland. Not Wales though.
Our trains definetly aren't high speed. Japan's trains are high speed.
@@bloodyfitnerd1947 well they do in some places
I mean the queen genuinely does bring in a lot of tourists because countries like canada and australia have her as a monarch and want to come to the uk to see her plus shes such a big part of the UK culture as the Uk is one of the last countries to still have a monarchy. even if the monarchy doesn't actually do anything.
@Terse Comics See my comment I made earlier about the figures regarding how much money the royal family bring in tourism-wise.
It isn't much ...
England has had a parliament since the 1300’s it went from being controlled by the monarch. To asserting its authority over the monarchy after the civil war (mid 1600’s).
Later it was joined by the parliaments of Scotland in 1707.
The coastline may be 5000 miles (because it's a very curvy line around the edge as opposed to straight lines) BUT - shockingly - our trains do not follow the coastline and run along every beach, they go on direct routes inland. The distance from the top to the bottom of the UK is well under 1000 miles.
Ministers aren't church ministers. They are elected mp's ( members of parliament ) who have been selected by the Prime minister to run the show. They are in charge of departments ( eg health, defence ) or policy matters Home office, foreign secretary. Some Church of England Bishops sit in the Lords, but they don't carry a lot of weight.
Don't forget whilst ministers are usually elected MPs they can be from The House of Lords who are not elected.
Ministers are like the Secreteries in the USA. For example Defense Minister = Secretery of Defense
No, a train to Edinburgh, Scotland from London is about 5 hours 😂 by plane it’s about 1 hour. Perhaps trains in the US are really slow 🤷🏾♀️ also Wales is really close to London.
@@yeahme8367 Yh but you can drive to Wales in 2 hours from London
Flights London to Scotland may be an hour but you spend ages in the airport before you can board the plane and getting to the airport can also take time and be a pain. In some circumstances the train is better. It's certainly more comfortable.
Yeah, but you don't have to show up at Euston 2 hours before the train leaves.
The culture wouldn't be the same without the monarchy
7:27 are you being sarcastic its hard to tell the coastline around GB is 5000 miles that accounts for all the wiggly bits. London kings cross to Edinburgh is just under 5 hours. You could take a plane but all those security checks would waste any time saved.
The Royal family is a Huge part of our traditions, they also do other things besides just be there, for example queen liz travels to different countries to establish bonds with them
The 5000 mile coastline is just the entire perimeter of the country. The uk is actually tiny, the longest journey you could do is lands end to John O’groats which is 837 miles.
"I really fancy some bacon"
"Interesting, maybe he was Canadian?" 🤔
Yes we shouldn't encourage people to look up Piggate on google, that's Piggate on google 😉💨🐷😉.
I guess only Canadians eat bacon 😂😂😂😂
The red cross take their symbol from a reversal of the colours of the Swiss flag. ( which is a white cross on a red square) nothing to do with St George. ( who was a Turkish soldier I think)
It was the king of Scotland that unified both Scotland and England together for the first time which I've realised a lot of people didn't know. Some scots think we invaded and took them over, when actually he became king of England as well when the english queen died.
Also getting the train to Scotland or Wales isn't that hard, and you could get from Wales to ireland by a ferry
It takes 2-3 hours from London to Cardiff (the capital of Wales) by train and 4-5 hours from London to Edinburgh so it really isn't that much slower than flying once you factor in going to the airport etc and it can be much cheaper to get the train
you would think its cheaper wouldnt you? but then i looked at going form Norwich to Manchester a few years back it was cheaper to fly than get a train (ended up just driving in the end)
I think you misheard one part, 5000 miles is the distance around the largest bit of coastline, not the length of the UK is, the distance if you were to go from London to Edinburgh is about 400 miles, which is very doable on a trip.
The reason Scotland is part of Great Britain is because James VI who was the Scottish king was the heir to the throne of England, therefore uniting both countries together. When he became King of England.
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Parliament began in 1215. So yeah, it did start before the US system. In fact it began centuries before anyone in the Old World knew the Americas even existed. How could you possibly think otherwise? It took over control of government from the monarch about the same time that the first settlers were arriving in Jamestown.
….and still isn’t the oldest Parliament still going in the world. Iceland Althing wins that from memory
@@timfitzmaurice537 Yes, I'm not sure whether it is the Althing or Tynwald in the IOM...it depends on how you count "continuous". They're both Norse and both about the same time...over 1000 years old. Thing is the ON term for a parliament/council, so the Icelandic is the all thing; and our word hustings is house things.
Saint George is England's Patron Saint. St Andrew for Scotland, St David for Wales, and St Patrick for The Island of Ireland.
Saint Patrick was protestant apparently
@@chrisbentley8567 Saint George has been hailed as a saint for a long time, not just in England.
He's know over much of the world for being a bringer of relief from plagues and other curses.
He has been traced to a North African-based Roman citizen soldier who specialised in looking after cavalry horses (animal medicine was the work of a 'doctor' in Latin, I understand).
Saint George is the guy who saved the lady after concouring the dragon.
The Red Cross has a flag which is as the Swiss flag but with the opposite colours.
And about worshipping: better sitting at the pub thinking about the church, than sitting in church thinking about the pub 😊🍻
Sorry if someone else already talked about this - you mentioned the many names of our country - and it's kinda true, but let me try to explain. Great Britain is the name of the Union between England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland isn't part of Great Britain, but when Ireland was added (and that's a whole other story) and partition happened which created the Irish free state and Northern Ireland, we became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, just shortened to UK. But each region or country kind of is similar to your states. People will shoot me down for saying that but I'm just trying to put it in to a way you'll understand. England, NI, Wales and Scotland individually are all countries with their own languages and cultural identity, much like US States, it's just collectively called the UK. Like the 50 states are collectively called the United States. Some people identify as British, others identify more with their home nation, like Scottish or Welsh. It's a bit like someone from Texas identifying more as a Texan than an American. You are all still Americans but you might identify more with your home state than the rest of the Union and that's the same here.
Our parliament dates back to 1215, so a looooong time before the US was born. That's why it's often referred to as the mother of all parliaments.
Also, we don't have religious leaders in the house of commons (the government and the opposition sit in the commons), just in the house of lords. And the lord's have very limited powers. They are just there to act as that check and balance on the laws proposed by the commons. In the old days the lord's was made up of aristocracy and represented the queen - it still does to a certain extent but their power is very much reduced.
Sorry it's so long, hope it's of some use!
you need to react to PMQs (prime minister's questions)- its essentially a televised weekly chance for MPs (members of parliament) to question the Prime Minister directly, though it usually just turns into a big heated argument. There's some hilarious compilations of best moments etc... think youd find it interesting lmao
12:36 We don't vote for the PM we vote for our local constituency representative (MP) who usually will be part of a 'party' unless they are independent. The party with the most MPs will choose someone amongst themselves to be their leader and by tradition the Queen chooses that person as the PM. If the main party doesn't have a working majority of MPs then a coalition government where parties with enough people to form a majority agree to work together. The leader of the largest party in a coalition is the PM. Legally the Queen can choose any MP to be the PM.
In York, you could visit a different pub every day of the year. Like there's over 365 of them in one small(ish) city.
And there is a castle.
Correction- the angles who fought the Scots were not English but Germanic that settled in England- I believe king offa of mercia was an angle - maybe look into Anglo saxon history - see Alfred the Great
@@jackpearson5285 well the egg became the chicken
The queen has 2 castles, Windsor castle and balmoral castle
And sandringham
@@henryray1537 sandringham house is an estate not a castle
@@graham9352 well I sincerely apologise for my actions
@@henryray1537 😂😂
the parliament of england was founded in 1215 and yours was founded in 1789 that makes our parliament 574 years older so yes it is a lot older than you’re parliament
Trains can get very expensive in some parts of the uk so in some cases you can get plane tickets to spain, france and other places that are cheeper than train tickets that take you from one half of the country to the other
We don’t keep the royal family mostly for tourism. We have to remind a lot of anti-Royals that because of their constant bashing. It’s also because of the fact that the two governing system of being balanced out between prime minister and a king or queen allows us to make sure that no one can have total power over the country and allows things to be more stable long-term, as well as being the preserver of traditions and more securely Govan the direction of the military and national interests and plans.
Also the UK is ranked higher than the US in democratic elections and freedoms by a big margin.
You should do a reaction too, "The British crusade against slavery"
Yes!
Don't bother. It's a hack job by a well known extreme right winger.
@@gigmcsweeney8566 it's a completely correct accounting of true British heroism you'd rather we all forgot, you mean
5000 miles is the coastline. from Lands End to John O Groats is only about 1000 miles from one end to the other. Lands End to John O groats. USA is about 4000miles across.
Great Britain is a geographical term. It refers to the island houses England, Wale & Scotland. The UK is the actual name of the nation. The British isles is another geographical term and refers to Great Britain and the island of Ireland. Parliament does debate - Prime Minster's questions every week can be dramatic and is very confrontational. Minsters aren't religious people. They are elected Members of Parliament from the majority elected party.
"The round cars" lmao 😂
Our general elections happen every 5 years - unless the PM is able to call one early. Until 2010 this ability to call an early election was at the sole request of the PM, now parliament has to agree to it by a two thirds majority of all the MPs in the house (not just of those who vote). The PM has to then request permission from the Queen to dissolve parliament and hold an election. Whilst the Queen can refuse this request no monarch ever has done. She can also use royal perogative powers and dissolve parliament at any time she wants.
After the election the Queen calls the person she wants as PM to the palace and asks them to form a government. In reality she can choose any MP she wants to be PM but it is conventionally the leader of the party which 'can command the confidence of the House of Commons' technically this means they have the votes to pass a Queen's speech and a budget. She can also sack the PM if she so wished it is not called 'Her Majesty's government' for nothing. That is, she can do it, but she wouldn't do it.
A government can be thrown out of office if they lose a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons. Should this happen there is (since 2010) 14 days for a new government to form which can win a confidence motion or the Queen steps in, dissolves parliament and calls an election for a new government. A government losi g such a vote, however, is very rare and the last time this happened was in 1979 when the Labour governemnt lost the vote of no confidence by a single vote, they then lost the following general election. In 1979 after losing the vote of confidence the government had to immediately resign and the PM had to request a dissolution of parliament from the Queen.
The reason its either 'Great Britain and Norther Ireland' or the 'United Kingdom' is because Great Britain refers to the island with just England, Wales and Scotland on it so Northern Ireland has to be added to the end
We have had parliaments since the middle ages. But it only became more powerful than the king in the 17th c. When there was a civil war which parliament won. The king sort of acted as prime minister until George 1 became king. He couldn't speak English ( German!) And didn't know anything about our country or constitution. So Robert Walpole stepped up to the plate and is regarded as the first P. M. He was in the job from about 1720 - 1740.
It's not 5000 miles from London to Edinburgh. It's about a 7 hour drive (400 ish miles) in the car or about 4 hours by train. You can't get a train to Northern Ireland, you have to fly (which is about an hour) or get a ferry (which I think is overnight). Cardiff, Wales is about a 3 hour drive from London or about 2 hours by train.
Also they don't mean 'ministers' in the sense of religion. Ministers are MPs (members of the House of Commons) or members of the House of Lords that either run, and in this case are called Secretaries of State, i.e. the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Foreign Secretary) or help to run a government department (and these are normally referred to as junior ministers).
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Just to point out Yorkshire is a county with York (in my opinion) been the main city in Yorkshire. Sorry for the inconvenience of this comment.
From Lancashire (clearly the best county)
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Interesting he usually doesn’t copyright peoples videos I wonder why he copyrighted your reaction to his video 🤔🤔🤔
The red cross started in Switzerland and is the colour swap of the swiss flag (white cross on red background).
St George was a christian from Lod in Israel, which was under Roman rule at the time. His parents were greek. There is a myth about him slaying a Dragon. I don't know how he got associated with England.
Palaces are grand houses for Royals. Castles are fortified houses. Buckingham Palace is a Palace but not a Castle. The Tower of London is a Castle but not a Palace. But Windsor Castle is both.
It’s only a Union Jack if it’s on a ship otherwise it’s union flag
When Scotland leaves the auk then blue will go from the flag
Have a look at Windsor Castle home of the Monarchy, Buckingham Palace is just there workplaces Windsor is there home for most of the year along with Sandringham House and the Balmoral Estate
Minister in our politics is like your secretaries, we have a minister of defence you have a secretary of defence.
The Queen has an enormous amount of power in the UK she just closes not to use it. The armed forces vow to serve the Queen, not Parliament. She can also Vito any decision made by Parliament and can if she choses reject the choice for priminister. She has a lot of power. There's a youtube video somewhere explaining exactly what power she has and its a lot!
14:07 The PM has to answer questions from Parliament every Wednesday at 12 for 30 minutes. Questions are submitted a few days before and the Speaker chooses who gets to ask their question given the time available. The opposition leaders always get to ask a couple of questions followed by the back benchers. In general parliament is all debate then a vote on legislation. All the main Ministers have their own slots for taking questions from parliaments back benches.
Well, the PM is supposed to answer questions. It has become commonplace for evasive mumbling and lies to replace answers.
@@mentaldavethefirst I would agree Boris has a disturbing tendency for misdirection when there's a question he doesn't want to answer, sometimes I feel he doesn't really know the answer. I'm not sure if they really are outright lies. I'd be surprised if they were especially when he gets fact checked he'd be in trouble. His answers are probably closer to half truths. I know the questions are submitted to the speaker in advance but does the PM actually get to see them in advance? I've heard Tony Blair say he hated PMQs as he never really knew what to expect from the house.
You got it basically right about the UK. Between 1801 and 1921 the UK was the United Kingdom of Great Britain (GB being England (and Wales) plus Scotland) and Ireland. When the vast majority of Ireland left this union it became the GB and Northern Ireland = UK.
The Brits even now don't seem to either understand or care that GB is not equal to UK. The UK athletics teams are known as TeamGB, and though this has been pointed out to them many times, they don't seem to care, which makes competing for this as a NI catholic very problematic.
The total distance from north to south in a straight line is less than 1000 miles. We have motorways (freeways) that run most of that length
That's the coastline which is 5000 miles, get the ferry from cairnryan Scotland to Belfast handy enough
5000 miles around the coastline. That's because of all the tiddly bits. It's less than 1000 top to bottom, and only a couple of hundred side to side. Don't think of a day trip anywhere. Anywhere you go will require at least a couple of days to get anything out of it.
Minister means an completely different thing mate. This genuinely got me worked up. Our monarchy isn’t just apart of our great culture and is very important to our armed forces etc
Love your videos, Wessex hasn’t existed for almost one thousand years.
It still exists
Our Parliamentary Ministered are not representatives of the Churches, they are Members of Parliament (MP's) voted into power via each Constituency / is Borough / area, each according to their specific Political Party. Polling takes place on a specific Thursday on the Election date & it"s a "First past the post" system, meaning the Candidate receiving the most votes from the people in each area CV gets to enter Parliament. The mist votes decides who will be in Government for each Five Tear Term of Office, the Party which loses the vote, sits in as the Opposition - & each Wednesday, the Leader if the Opposition gets to question the Prime Minister (Leader if the winning party in power) as t ok his or her actions within Government (current or planned actions). Hope that helps you. 😊
The Queen is the head of state and Church of England and in theory has no political power. Her purpose is essentially ceremonial with laws being proposed and debated in the two chambers of the Houses of Parliament. However, she does have an important role in reflecting the moral principles the country aspires to, she embodies the most important characteristics of the UK - continuity and stability (over 700 years as a global force) and finally her role avoids the UK establishment being dominated by billionaire business people whose priority is furthering their own interests at the expense of the population, as is the case in Presidential Republics. If you replace the Queen and Royal family, who are at best a benevolent force for good and at worst an inert anachronism, you will simply open the door for a new, potentially sinister, mercantile oligarchy.
Old English owes much to German. Modern English and in fact English since 1066 ad when England was invaded by William the Conqueror of Normandy owes much more to the French language.
Despite several comments saying so James VI of Scotland did not unite the countries of Scotland and England. He was, at the same time, ruler of both countries that remained separate entities. It was over 80 years after his death that the two counties were joined in the 1707 Act of Union.
It would take you about 6-7 hours to drive from southern England to central Scotland. About 400+ miles.
'The Daily Mail' is regarded by some as a right-wing tabloid. The English parliament is probably the oldest in the world.
Wrong... Think the oldest is Iceland... Or perhaps the isle of man...
Unfortunately the British parliament isn't the oldest in the world, Iceland has the oldest parliament
@@CornishLAD95 The British parliament is certainly one of the oldest, being started in 1215.
@@dlk1dlk1 but that's when all three kingdoms were separate and even if we're going from the year 1215, it still wouldn't be the oldest as Iceland's parliament was established in the year 930. But it would be one of the many oldest parliaments
@@CornishLAD95 I said originally the English parliament so that's 1215, so it is one of the oldest parliaments.
"I really fancy some bacon" - David Cameron would, of course, be a fan of any type of pork product. Doesn't have to be bacon. Anything from the pig will do.
do a reaction too, "The British crusade against slavery"
"What if they dont want to be great Britain, what if they want to be Scotland"... well my dear, its funny you should say that
10:15 Queen Elizabeth lives in Windsor castle right now.
I live in Wales and the first one surprised me never realised the flag was a mixture of England, Scotland and Ireland
Lol a train ride from London Euston to Lancashire which is pretty close to Scotland is like around 2 hours
@13:20 they're not actual ministers like in a church/religious ministers. it's just what we call the members of parliament in the cabinet and the Prime Minister is the one in charge
The coastline is 5000 miles all the way round. The whole UK is only around 900 from top to bottom.
No the english is a germanic language but it has latin french italian and norse and stuff too
The ministers in our government aren't religious, they are like minister of education/travel that sort of thing
On the subject of pub names, near here they had a pub called the "Load of Mischief" unfortunately it was pulled down because the M65 was built. It was also a bus destination so there are pictures of buses with the destination "Load of Mischief" which were quite often hired out for kids trips or drunken parties.
Would love you to react to the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
Train to Scotland from London is only 4 hrs but if you going around the coast is 5000 miles
it is only 5000 miles if you followed the coast, but as the crow flys or by the M6 motorway London - Glasgow is 403 miles or 7 hours to drive
Henry VII had welsh royal blood so was king of England and Wales but it wasn't until Henry VIII that governance and laws were joined (union). King James I was already King James VI of Scotland merging the Crowns of England and Scotland. Scotland joined England and Wales in Union for financial reasons after Scotland's colony in panama failed spectacularly.
Ministers in the UK does not refer to any form of religious personnel. Politics is MUCH less related to religion in the UK than it is in the US.
The Queen has huge soft power world wide and apparently brings in over £2 billion from tourists.
You should watch pmq's. This happens every Tuesday where questions are put to the prime minister to answer. Yes debates between the party in power and the opposition parties happen most days in parliament.
Scotland had a vote on independence recently and voted to remain in the UK for now, but some people want another vote. And the UK is only around 600 miles long
When they say Minister they mean Government officials
The Red Cross flag is the reverse of the Swiss flag with a small cross (which doesn't reach the edge of the flag) on a white background. This is because the Red Cross originated inn Switzerland
It's not that someone was indecisive they are different. The island of Britain is England, Scotland, Wales. So Britain refers to those 3. The United Kingdom refers to those 3 & Northern Ireland.
Also it's 5000 miles because it's an island so it is small but there is technically huge milage for coastline because of the surface area
14:43 Parliament has been around for hundreds of years long before America but the position of PM was not created until George I who spent most of his time in Germany and didn't speak English. The PM was created and given executive powers because George I couldn't be bothered to really be King of GB and wield executive power running the country. By the time George III was actually raised in England and wanted to be King parliament had taken the majority of executive power and was not interested in giving it back. The monarch has become less and less important with each generation as a result. Queen Victoria did reinvent the Monarchy and gained back a lot of the public support that her uncle had lost.
Scotland and England sort of united after the death of Elizabeth I. As she had no children the closest heir to the English throne was King James VI of Scotland so he then became King James I of England as well. Monarchs continued to have two reganal numbers (one for England one for Scotland) until the Act of the Union in the early 1700s which officially unified England and Scotland under one throne and parliament hence why the monarch only has one number and it was decided to follow the English numbering for future monarchs.
Wales becoming part of the UK is more complex but was prity much an invasion and take over job by the English.
5,000 miles is the coast line (which is round the entire country). London to Edinburgh takes a few hours by train so can not be a day trip.
yes we have been around a long time we have buildings that are older than your country even some that where around when Leif Erikson discovered you
Ministers are MP's who work for Boris and have specific jobs and form the Cabinet. We do have Religious arch bishops in the house of lords.
It takes about 4 and half hours on the train from Kings Cross to Edinburgh, Scotland. Also if you want to see a Castle the Queen lives in visit Windsor next time you come to the UK!
Queen Elizabeth lives in a castle her actual residence is Windsor castle
13:18 There are bishops and a rabbi and some other religious leaders in the House of Lords but the ministers referred to here is I believe a lazy way of saying Administrator. MPs that are heads of a Governmental department are referred to as ministers.
You can thank the Queen for not allowing Parliament to take control of the declaration of war without her co-consent in 2003. One of the extremely rare occasions that she actually flexed her political might.
She serves more of a function than a lot of people realise.
St George is a Christian Saint and the patron Saint of England but also lots of other countries, regions, cities and things. The most famous legend is about him slaying a dragon.
St George's flag does look similar to the Red Cross flag, but the Red Cross flag has a thicker cross. The international Red Cross movement started in Switzerland.
Big Ben is the name of the bell in the tower not the tower itself
About the churches thing, from what I know a city can't be classified as a city if it doesn't have a cathedral and a university
anywhere can be classed as a city, it doesnt need a cathedral, its a myth
@@lyncohn9505 cool, thanks for telling😊