American Reacts What are the UK’s Weirdest Political Traditions?
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Snuff isn't a lip packer or anything of the sort. I think you are mixing up chewing tabacco with snuff. You pinch a small amount of snuff between finger and thumb and sniff it up your nostril. Snuff is powdered tabacco.
You mentioned beacons in Lord of the Rings. Fire beacons historically were used in England to warn of invasion. Placed on hills from the coast to inland and in turn lit to fire by night smoke by day. To celebrate the late Queens Silver Jubilee beacons were lit in turn all over the UK and commonwealth set off by the first one at Windsor Castle .
The handling of Salmon is fairly recent legislation.
Among the provisions in the Salmon Act, 1986, it makes it illegal to "handle salmon in suspicious circumstances", which is defined in law as when one believes, or could reasonably believe, that salmon has been illegally fished, or that salmon-that has come from an illegal source-has been received, retained, removed, or disposed of.
It comes down to the fact that salmon are classified as “endangered” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The Monarch owning all Swans here in the UK or even just England is untrue. Although it 'may' have been true in the past, today they are responsible for the marking of unmarked Mute Swans only, on a small area of the Thames, on the third week in July. Look up 'Swan Upping".
To further confuse Connor, that area of the River Thames is known as the Isis. 🏴🙂(Not after the t*rr*r"st group, but after the goddess).
If you've not checked it out in detail before , you might like to take a closer look at an opening of parliament /King's speech session, think you'd love seeing it from the start and the whole Black Rod thing and summoning the MPs and them all having to leave the Commons and bunch up at the end of the House of Lords until when the King (or Queen if you look at one of the older ones) starts making the speech. There are a few examples on YT, I think.
I'm a qualified train signaller in the UK. There are two huge books of rules we have to learn governing anything related to train movements or actions.
There is still a rule that if there is a report of a swan on the line then ALL trains on the affected line must be stopped.
But if there's seven sheep or less that's fine, we don;t even need to tell trains to slow down.
More than seven sheep? We don;t need to stop the trains, just tell them to slow down.
I like this one: when a parliamentary session is being closed, one of the clerks confirms all the laws that the monarch has given royal assent to (not that they have a choice in reality). They do this by saying (in Medieval French of course) "the Queen / the King wishes it" or "la Reyne / le Roy le veult"!
Swans used to be eaten like other birds, but were highly prized, so were reserved by the Monarch for their own table, to have at great feasts. Gentle men into the 16th/17th centuries usually wore a sword, but had to leave them aside when entering the House of Commons.
The House of Commons copies the design of the original church building that the Members of Parliament met in. The benches face each other across the aisle just as the choir stalls do in a church. The old buildings of the Palace of Westminster burnt down in 1834, only the ancient Westminster Hall not being destroyed. So the whole place had to be rebuilt, but retained the same arrangements as the lost building. Parliament used to meet wherever the Monarch asked the Lords, & later the Commoners also, to gather, as they often moved around the country. Westminster however was the main base of the Monarchy so became the most often used for the meetings, but the buildings were not made for the purpose, so they had to use whatever rooms there were which they could fit in. The Black Rod thing is after King Charles 1st broke the rules by entering the House of Commons to try to arrest some rebel MP's.
There’s also the tradition that when The Speaker Of The House Of Commons (previously John “Orrrrderrrrrrrr!!!” Bercow that you mentioned) is elected a the beginning of the parliamentary session that begins right after a General Election, whoever ‘wins’ that election and becomes the Speaker, is ceremoniously ’dragged unwillingly’ from their seat on the benches where they’ve previously sat as an MP, down to the Speakers Chair in the middle of the House Of Commons, and they’re supposed to ceremoniously ‘resist’ being dragged there by their fellow MP’s.
This is because traditionally, The Speaker was the person who would communicate decisions that the MP’s had made, to the reigning king or queen, and therefore be the one who had to potentially face the wrath of the monarch if they had to inform them of some decisions or opinions which would be the ‘will of the people’ but unpopular with the ruler, thus making it a job that nobody wanted to do willingly.
(There’s a myth that this is because a bunch of Speakers were swiftly beheaded after they’d passed on some unsatisfactory bills, laws or other communications to the king, but there’s no evidence that any UK monarch has ever executed the Speaker for anything like this - but it’s a good story regardless.)
One of the customs of the House of Commons that was sadly done away with in 1998 was that, in order to raise a point of order during a division, an MP had to have their head covered. Accordingly a couple of opera hats were available in the chamber ready to be passed to any MP to put on so that they could speak.
MPs do not *sit* in the House of Lords during the state opening of Parliament or at any other time: they *stand* and they are not allowed beyond a certain point toeardsthe back known as the bar of the chamber.
Snuff was used to clear sinuses in 1960’s
Salmon thing comes down to poachers fishing where they should not be fishing as a lot of rivers aren’t accessible to the general population to fish on.
It's very odd that there are so many medieval traditions in the Houses of Parliament, when the current palace was only built 140 years ago. People didn't generally wear suits of armour and brandish swords in 1840.
Houses of Parliament built in 1097. By William ll Son of William Conqueror.
@@ENGBriseB That one burned down in 1834.
The current HoP was built between 1840 & 1870.
@@ponceontheheath H O P it's going to cost billions to put it right over decades. We all know about the fire of London 1666. But it was rebult and not all was gone. Like Westminster Hall which is nearly a 1000 years old. And it was one of the largest buildings of its time in Europe. They had penalty of drawings. Plus they made it better place to take your money. : )
If the members of paliament aren’t allowed to take their swords in to the chamber what would be the need for sword lines to keep the members two sword lengths apart.
I do love the Metro-Woke TLDR Brats' obsession with trivial non-points that predictably illustrate "symbolic" matters. The "adversarial" trash re the physical layout of the House of Commons is the funniest this time. The US Senate chamber's layout, however, follows the apparently superior and supposedly more 'consensual' semi-circular model. Maybe Connor or any other American present could tell us if this does magically make it perceptibly less "adversarial" than the UK parliament??🤣🤣
I was arrested for loitering in a loud suit, with akipper on my bonce
Ahead of the General Election which has been set for July 4th, we just had our last Prorogation of this Session on Friday. As is tradition when Black Rod came to tell the commons to attend, the door was slammed in her face.
This represents the House's Independence from the Lords and the King. It goes back to the time in the lead up to the English Civil War when King Charles I broke into the Commons with an Army to attempt to arrest some MPs.
The Royal interest in swans is purely to maintain a supply of white feathers for military and ceremonial uniforms.
😎👉A little history for those wanting to 'restore Palestine'.
1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state.
2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
google: The Kingdom of David - historic map for those wondering how the region looked over 2000 years ago, and how deep the roots of the Jewish people run in these lands)
You don't put snuff in your mouth ! It's a powder that you sniff.
Actually, the monarch does NOT own all the swans in the kingdom, only most of them
The monarch has the right to claim ownership to any mute swan - the all-white, orange-beaked version - in the open waters of Britain, but in practice they exercise this right only in the Thames around Windsor. There are three organisations who can also own swans, thanks to historic grants.
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You can not pass gas in the presence of royalty.
Sleep after this goodnight
Whats your job..?? I am the Black Rod......
i've always wondered why america has only 2 political parties? i mean there must be a lot of americans who have different ideologies to democrats and rebupblicans, right?
All the Swans round ourway know who the King is but dont know where the old Queen went too.
The amount of mps who have been caught out one watching porn one playing candy crush and meny asleep.
The king owns the swans , so why doesn't he clear up the shit they leave then.
The Crown has held the right to claim ownership of all unmarked mute swans swimming in open waters throughout the country from as far back as the twelfth century. This has been a law since medieval times. His ownership is shared with the Worshipful Company of Dyers, granted to them by the Crown in the 1400s
And now presided over by the most noble descendent of the great King Edward III, the Baron Of The East-End, Sir Danny Dyer.
No, the king doesn’t OWN all the swans at all. It’s illegal for anyone but the monarchy to kill/eat swans.
The latest weirdest UK political tradition is for right wing UK voters to start voting for a right wing anti immigration party and help the socialists win every election seat in the past 2yrs.
I would like to say thank you to them 🤣
it also helps that there's nothing left in the bottom of the Tory barrel, after they scraped up the Liz Truss sludge
@@Lubikit but as bad as they are, no one in their right mind would want labour/socialist filth in government again.
That weirdness hasn't just started: what is weird is having a First Past the Post voting system where there are more than two parties standing in elections: essentially every election since WWI. The USA also uses FPTP but they only essentially have two parties so vote-splitting is less of an issue.
@@MrBulky992 couldn't agree more, unfortunately the public had the opportunity to change it, but declined
This guys voice needs a new microphone.
Yes very common