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Season 1

  • S01E01 Is There A Good Reason For Not Voting?

    • April 26, 2015
    • YouTube

    13 million people have declared themselves "unlikely to vote" in the upcoming 2015 General Election. What's their problem? And can their decision be justified?

  • S01E02 Whom Should I Vote For?

    • April 27, 2015
    • YouTube

    Still undecided? How do you choose who to vote for in a General Election?

  • S01E03 What Is Tactical Voting?

    • April 27, 2015
    • YouTube

    David Cameron will often tell you that if you vote UKIP, you'll get Labour. Whaaaaaaaaaaa??

  • S01E04 Who's in charge of Britain?

    • April 28, 2015
    • YouTube

    The media make it feel like we choose the Prime Minister. But we don't. So how do elections actually work? What are political parties? Are they necessary? And what role does the Queen play in all this?

  • S01E05 Why Don't Politicians Answer Questions?

    • April 2, 2015
    • YouTube

    Politicians are always accused of avoiding answering questions. If it makes them so unpopular, why do they all do it?

  • S01E06 Who Is The Speaker Of The House Of Commons?

    • May 16, 2017
    • YouTube

    The Speaker of the House of Commons is John Bercow, the Conservative MP for Buckingham. So who represents Buckingham in Parliament? No one. What can the residents of Buckingham do about it? Nothing. Really? Yes. What? I know, right!

  • S01E07 Why do they make that noise in PMQs?

    • June 7, 2017
    • YouTube

    Have you ever watched Prime Minister's Questions? Every Wednesday at 12:00 on BBC2, all the nation's MPs gather together to go "rrrrreeeeeeeerrrrr". Why? Is this a good thing? Let's watch a video all about it. P.S. This video might have gone out of date by the time you're watching it, cos there'll've been an election shortly after. Wow. There's a tense I don't often get to use. There'll've.

  • S01E08 How Do You Become A Lord?

    • July 31, 2017
    • YouTube

    What is the House of Lords? How has it changed over the past few and a half centuries? Can anybody join? Can I join? Why not? What do the Lords in the House of Lords do?