How UKIP Made Brexit Without Any Power - Brexit Explained

Brexit has been dominating the UK's political discussion for the last few years. At the centre of that has been Nigel Farage and UKIP, both pushing for the UK to leave the European Union (EU). The interesting thing is that neither UKIP nor Farage has ever had much official political influence, with the party only ever having 2 MPs at the same time. So how were they able to make Brexit a national talking point and convince the UK to leave?

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[mosef]

Ukip phonetically translates to 'you chicken' in Dutch. So I have never been able to take them seriously

[SuperDeadknife]

There are more seats at my kitchen table than ukip has ever had.

[declanmcardle]

The logo looks like it belongs above a pound shop.

[StaxRail]

0:42 notice how 'The' Ban video has the most views...people care about certain things

[roadrunner]

What I don’t understand is, why does Farage get so much time on tv?

[davidpanton]

'Don't use Twitter much...' Some of us don't use it at all and get on just fine.

[mj]

I'm sorry, but I don't have a Twitter account, and I won't make one.

[DeSinc]

I don't think the logo looks bad.. I think it does a good job, it's easy to recognise, easy to reproduce, it's not some weird.. lion outline.. sure the lion is more memorable but I don't quite think it suits a political party logo. I thought this same thing the first time I saw it. it looks like a young gamer symbol. it kinda made me worry about the party's professionalism seeing a youtuber in the party and combined with that gamer logo. it's just convoluted. the simpler logo will garner more support from the older population. people above the age of 50 I'd guess.

[alexpotts]

If you really hate bad logo design, I fully expect you to tear into Change UK's logo next time they come up on this channel. That thing is indefensibly awful.

[angicitarocks]

I wish you guys would have pointed out something that really skewed the balance for UKIP and Niegel farage: Despite having only 1 MP and a handful of MEPs the airtime that UKIP and Farage have enjoyed on TV and radio in the last 5 years is way over the top. It doesn't matter if you only have one MP if you have the leader of your party at every political program each week like he's one of the big guys. Media matters because it shifts the way we perceive things. It wasnt normal that a guy with "so little power" occupied so many media spaces and dominated the conversation. All the media should at least try to think about that before affording AGAIN a seat in the european elections debate to this guy.

[Suojeluninja]

The chief advisor on Brexit in UK is clearly Larry the Cat.
Who else would have thought about meowing until the door is open and then sitting in front of it staring out?

[edonslow]

Never occured to me that the Conservatives didn't expect to win a majority in 2015, which would have allowed them to dodge the referendum using their coalition partners as an excuse.

[thomashart]

Can you do a video ranking the parties' logos?

[tzzyyx]

Pro tip: always skip first 30 seconds of every TLDR video.

[aac]

No no no! You are missing out all the real history! Brexit was going to happen from the moment Maastricht was forced through parliament after being voted down.
It was just a question of time.
There has never been a majority in the UK for an EU superstate to compete with the US and there never will be.
At some point remaining in the EU was going to be untenable no matter how much pain leaving was going to be.

[aperson]

No UKIP fan here, but they’ve won by-elections.

[volkris]

This is the kind of video that I like from you guys because other than the logo thing (an amusing, light-hearted joke in my opinion) you're covering a political topic well avoiding personal opinions.

Keep it up! Great video.

[christopherg]

2:54 I had Netflix open in another tab. Star Trek TOS. Had paused watching a while ago.
And the *moment* you said the year, it started playing with the pre-intro music. I actually thought it was part of your video. lol

[tombombadillo]

The UK voted against single transferable voting instead of fptp?

What the f***? What the actual f***?

[octowuss]

Disagree - UKIP merely brought the issue into the public eye. Brexit happened because the Tory party was divided on the issue. A large portion of the party was threatening to revolt against Cameron if he didn't agree to a referendum. Cameron assumed he would win and silence the rebels in his party, so he agreed. However, we got career climbers like Boris Johnson and Gove that declared for leave, assuming that a narrow loss would increase their support with the public. Their support actually tipped undecided voters in favour of leave. I'm sure that if Johnson had stayed remain, Bexit would have not happened. Brexit is really the result of a Tory party power struggle.