Will elections this week bring down the Prime Minister?

Gary Stevenson· Host0:00

Okay, welcome back to Gary's Economics. Today, we are doing the video that I was strongly advised not to make, and we are gonna tell you who you need to vote for in this week's local elections if you wanna stop the collapse in living standards. All right. So the basic context for our foreign friends or, uh, British people who are not particularly interested in local elections, uh, which is quite a lot, because local elections tend to get ignored. We have local elections coming up this week coming on the 7th, which is the Thursday this coming week. Um, and you need to vote in these elections because they are particularly big ones. Uh, they're really important. Really, uh, this is the closest you are gonna get to a vote for who is gonna be your next prime minister if you're here in the UK. So local elections do tend to get ignored. They don't change the, the prime minister, although this one quite possibly might, but this one is really, really important. First of all, we've got a few big elections going up. It's gonna decide the new government in Scotland and in Wales. The second big reason why this is important is because if you watched my video a few weeks ago, I spoke about how the established political parties in the UK, like in the rest of the Western world, are basically collapsing. And we have a situation now where historically, for hundreds of years, the UK has been a two-party political system, and in the next election, we will have genuinely six or maybe even seven parties that have a big say