7 Illegal Things To Do In A British Election

Purdah also applies to civil servants, who basically can't do anything public for weeks. All the government departments' Twitter and Facebook accounts will be going very quiet...

Thanks to Chris Reynolds for camerawork!

[alansmithee]

"The BBC actually gets an equal amount of complaints from all sides... And then they reckon they've done their job about right."
This is simultaneously hilarious and genius.

[DavidJuckes]

I love that you can be fined for spending too much money

[EkHatena]

I trust him. After all, this guy did run for parliament. As a pirate.

[natalbridge]

Next video “how I broke every law in a British election”

[yt.personal.identification]

"...an honest assessment"

England: Damn, they got me with that catch all point.
America: That is a poorly defined point, that can be manipulated as a loop hole.

[CuleChick]

I feel like America needs most, if not all, of these laws.

[berttroubleyn]

"Even after two weeks, a new government is maybe not yet installed".
As a Belgian, I find this phrase hilarious. Our elected people have made it a recent habit of taking almost a year and a half to form a new government. World record stuff!

[anonanon]

Election has just been called today, this video is about to show up on everyone's recommended again.

[GoldenKingStudio]

I flew a kite in a public place, I flew a kite in a puuuublic place! Wait, wrong video; pardon me.

[joshuagrahm]

"TV news must be- well, actually fair and balanced. By law." holy sh*t- do that in america and almost instantly every major station would be taken out immediately.

[jamesknightvo]

We've had 3 general elections since this video was made less than 5 years ago.

[mr.rupees]

Are politicians allowed shake a door mat after 8 pm

[troyadams]

The US is badly in need of most of these laws.

[adambrown]

We used to have something similar to #4 in the US called the Fairness Doctrine. Basically it forced television stations to make equal time for rebuttal by opposing groups. For example if the NRA was allowed 30 minutes to talk about gun rights, the station would have to allow a gun control advocacy group 30 minutes as well if they asked for it. They got rid of the Fairness doctrine in the 80s under Reagan and since then news bias has been skyrocketing.

[MissesWitch]

this video is 8 years old, but having clicked from his latest video to this one, I couldn't tell this wasn't a new video.

Tom Scott hasn't aged 1 day!

[quillmaurer]

As an American, this sounds so amazing! You Brits do it right!

[IceMetalPunk]

Not seeing the political ads on TV would be a nice change here in the States. They're all just ad hominems and "I'm your choice by default because even though I can't back up anything I'm saying, I'll sure as hell tell you everything I think is wrong with everyone else". Ugh.

Also, did "granny farming" actually happen often enough to be made a law? It sounds like the most conniving, evil, bastardly thing to do--oh, right, politics, never mind.

[pearkore]

No political ads on tv sounds like bliss. We need that one in Australia.

[namenamename]

2:02 "Generally, the BBC gets an equal amount of complaints from all sides, and then they reckon they've done their job about right" I love this so much

[tuxedo_productions]

"But... But... Freedom of speech!"
-Every major corporation/special interest group in the US, ever, always.