How British election races are very different from American ones [Video]

1) Campaigns

2) Election spending and ads

3) ‘We don’t do God’

4) Age is just a number

U.K. voters have been hearing a lot in the press about how U.S. election debates have focused on incumbent President Joe Biden‘s age. Indeed, British politicians look like whippersnappers when compared with the 81-year-old president and 78-year-old Republican candidate Trump.

5) ‘Culture wars’

Another point of difference in British elections, and politics in general, is that “morality issues” are not prominent points of debate, dissent or divergence. Unlike the U.S., where the abortion debate, gun control and gay marriage are sources of contention, those debates are not hot topics in the U.K. where abortion is legal, gun ownership is rare and heavily restricted (critics would argue the U.K. has a knife crime problem instead), and gay marriage is (aside from among some members of the clergy) uncontested.

6) ‘Absurd’ diversions