*David Dimbleby through speaker*
"And we are now able, officially so to
speak, to say that there is going to be,
when everything is in, there is going to
be a hung parliament."
Well. Fuck me.
Unless you've been living in an actual cave
recently you may realise that the results
of the general election were a little
bit surprising. I have to say, nationally
it wasn't remotely what we expected. I
think I said something like: the best we
can hope for is a small majority for the
Conservatives, and now they haven't even
got that it's crazy! But for me
personally my home constituency is just...
mind-blowing. I might as well tell you what
it is; my home constituency is Canterbury.
Now I said in a video that it was highly
unlikely that we would be able to break
the Tory rule. We'd had Julian Brazier as
a Conservative MP for 30 years so I knew
that it was a very conservative area.
What I didn't realise was actually
Canterbury has been conservative for 160
years. It's literally the Guinness world
record for a constituency that's been held by the same party for the longest
amount of time. In one of the biggest
shocks of the night Canterbury went
labour, and just a little weather warning -
look out for some flying pigs.
Literally it's incredible that Rosie Duffield
for labour won in Canterbury. I'm so
proud of her, I'm so proud of my area. The
results of this election have really
shown the potential power for the left.
Despite all of the slamming of
Jeremy Corbyn by saying he's unelectable,
Labour has done better than anyone
could have expected.
What with my constituency going labour
in literally one of the craziest moments,
and also places like Kensington! going
labour! I really feel for the first time
that I can say, without worrying about
being, like, youthfully naive: anything is
possible. My home went labour,
anything could happen now politically.
Like, there ain't no boundaries mate
There's such a celebratory feeling
amongst the left at the moment and I
think that's completely justified. But that's not to say that everything is
over. In case you haven't heard, the
Conservatives want to get their majority
in government by doing a coalition with
the DUP. Pretty much the only argument in
favour of this coalition is it will give us
a majority government and therefore give
us a slightly stronger hand
in the brexit negotiations. But... just... it...
that's it. That's literally it. That is the
only advantage and it's not even that much of
an advantage because they'd still have such a
tiny majority.There are way too many
dangers, and the fact that the
Conservatives are considering teaming up
with the DUP goes to show, I think, the
true nature of a lot of their party.
Of course there are liberal
Conservatives, I'm not denying that, but I
think the fact that they are considering this says a lot about how much the
conservatives are willing to give up
just to get into power.
The DUP is a terrible party; just, just go
and look it up. They're against abortion.
Abortion is still illegal in Northern
Ireland, which is crazy. The party is also
against gay marriage, or anything really,
they're just really anti-gay. They deny
climate change. Several of their members
are creationists and want creationism to
be taught in schools as facts. There was a
sign I saw at a protest that was perfect;
it just said "if you want to know who the
DUP are, imagine Donald Trump as a group
of people... but worse."
And of course there's the argument that Conservatives won't
forgo their values and their morals in
order to please the DUP and get a
coalition with them, but, I mean, I'm just
going to put it out there... do you trust
the conservatives? But it's not just
about, like, whether conservatives would
change the rules here in England or
elsewhere - it's about the fact that they
would be supporting and funding a party
that supports these values. Like, I do
care about people in Northern Ireland as
well fyi. You know, if they do the supply
and demand thing the DUP can demand
funding and get more power, and we don't
want a party like that with more power.
It's also really worth noting that it
could seriously fuck up the agreements
in Northern Ireland. I mean to give you
an example, Sinn Féin said: the DUP, by
considering this coalition, have "betrayed
the interest of the people," I believe they mean
the Irish people, and the new arrangement
would "end in tears."
This sounds like a real strong and
stable government doesn't it? yeah great.
Like I said, there is the argument that it
would give us a stronger hand in Brexit
negotiations but I'm just going to read
out a quote from Alistair Burt because
he said it far more eloquently than I ever could.
"The new composition of the
commons knocks on the head the idea
that the negotiations should be solely
in the hands of the Conservative Party."
To address Brexit with a more
compromised based thing,  and you know,
I saw one person saying "do you want
everything to be scrutinized because we
have a weak government"
I'm like, well yeah
actually I do want things to be scrutinized,
I don't want one party to have a complete
mandate over this. And so as Alistair Burt says,
if senior parliamentarians and business and agricultural figures worked together
and came to compromises, to quote, "this
would demonstrate to the EU that what
had seemed a weakened position with a loss of a majority had been transformed
into a stronger position, in which a
sense of national endeavour was shown in
the degree of agreement for its position.
Doing this would enable the government
to move forward with its timetable with
a sense of backing from public and Parliament."
And that last sentence is
really important as well because there's
been strong, strong movement against this
DUP coalition. No, people don't want the
support of a sexist, homophobic, racist
party. And that's why I wanted to make
this video. Yes we have the results, yes
we're waiting on what's going to happen
with a hung parliament, but don't think
that democracy ends at the polling booth.
There have been multiple protests already
and I actually attended one of them.
"Corbyn in! Tories out!"
"Say hey! (hey) say ho! (ho) Theresa May has got to go!"
The DUP are a party who are against abortion
*Chants of "scum scum"*
They're against gay marriage, they're against women,
*Chants of "scum scum"*
They're against black people"
"Scum scum scum!"
"Are we gonna let Theresa May get away with it?"
[Crowd] Nooo!!
"Not my government!"
If you can go to protests I would
recommend it because they can be really
fun.
At this particular one there was a
real atmosphere of celebration; it was
celebrating what Labour had done and
what Corbyn had done: look what he did,
wasn't it fabulous?
*Whistles and cheering*
Crowd: [To tune of Seven Nations Army] Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!
It's also really nice
to be surrounded by like-minded people
and it's really inspiring when you get
to hear major political activists speak.
"Because I'm Eritrean the refugee crisis
is a serious matter to my people because we have the
largest immigration rates. Jeremy Corbyn stood up for the refugees and the
migrants and called out the
right-wing media for what they were doing,
which was scape-goating these migrants and
blaming them for the economic crisis
when really and truly they are just
victims of war and human rights abuses."
"For 20 years, you've put racist filth in The Sun."
"Dear Theresa, what the hell you think you saying?
You cut the NHS and now you're cutting
education. Playing with our futures
like you have the right to sway, you breeding
inequality, your policies are devastating"
Basically what I'm saying is
politics didn't end on the 8th of June.
In fact there will be another protest
organised by Owen Jones on the 17th of
June. If you have the time or the ability
then I would recommend going and, you
know, using your voice to stand up and
say: "this is what happened in the
election - we had 52% of the
country voting for left-wing and
socialist parties, don't you dare make
our government more right wing." The thing
about these results is yes they're a
mess and everything's so uncertain and
the exact opposite of strong and stable
and it's really kind of scary at the
moment, but if nothing else these results
show that there is hope. Despite the
criticism of youth apathy,
despite the criticism of Corbyn, we did
it man! I mean we didn't completely
did it because we didn't win the
election but it does show that getting
out there and getting involved in politics
and using your vote and using your voice,
is absolutely worthwhile, and that's
just amazing. I didn't expect to wake up
on the 9th of June and be dancing around
my flat because my home constituency
went Labour. I think we've got a momentum going now
But with all that said, this does mark the end of my little
political streak on my channel. If anything particular comes up that I want to talk about
or in fact if there's anything that you
see in the news that you'd like me to talk about, whatever it might be,
I am happy to make more political videos, what I'm saying is that this
kind of marks the end of my politics only, and I will be returning to my little
music, poetry, thoughts, whatever the hell my channel is I don't what it is.
I also want to say thank you, actually, I don't really know who to,
but I actually know for a fact that I changed several people's minds which is an absolute
honour. I'm proud of my country, right now. I'm grateful? I don't know
I just have a lot of emotions about politics at the moment, but generally
they're good! for once! they're really really good. 
I will see you soon with something a little
more light hearted. Goodbye.
