opposition that would essentially prevent britain from crashing out at october 31st and would force the prime minister to ask for an extension. he then sacked them, summarily. and in so doing so, to be a tory nowadays, you have to be in favor of crashing out. the tory party has become the brexit party. i think he underestimated the reaction within the rest of his party of disquiet at this extraordinary behavior. and then the other surprise has been the discipline shown by jeremy corbyn, the yes, awful leader of the opposition, not immediately agreeing to an election and saying that there would not be an election until this legislation was on the books. and essentially wanting to leave boris johnson dangling to force him to be the prime minister who asked for an extension. you have this completely weird thing in british politics. there are loads of weird things in british politics. but right now you have a prime minister who has always said he didn't want an election desperately to try to have it. and a leader of the opposition that has been desperate to have an election now trying to prevent one happening. this is the topsy-turvy world that we now live in.