years service to this house of which i have been proud and honored beyond words to be a member. i am surely very sad that it should end in this way, and it is my most fervent hope this house will rediscover the spirit of compromise, humility and understanding that will enable us finally to push ahead with the vital work in the interest of the whole country that has inevitably sadly neglected while we have debated so much time to wrestling with brexit. i urge the house to support this bill. here, here. if you do not understand how kicking winston churchill s grandson out of parliament gets great britain any closer to a solution to its current crisis, you are not alone. really nobody knows how this ends, even people who really should know. joining us now is jillian tett. chair of the editorial board for the u.s. edition of the financial times. it s an honor to have you here. glad to be here.
i mean, the key thing to understand is that the u.k. has hithoner to had two dominant parties, labor, like democrat, that is now fragmented and you have a messi merge. we could be on the merge of an elite politics going forward. that is a pretty scary thought given all the concern about the lack of constitution and the uncertainty and, p.s., the economic damage as well. is there a strain on the parliamentary system itself rather than the strain on the individual parties? obviously what some of what boris johnson has done to arouse anger from members of his own party by proposing pro rogueing parliament, closing down parliament on his own terms, is the parliamentary system itself wobbly? it has been under pressure ever since they had the referendum for brexit. historically they had a decision where they are taken by parliament, not by referendums. the referendum was so close, it was inevitably going to create a
of the party, long-serving conservative party elders. to punish the lawmakers who voted against him, boris johnson banished them all from the conservative party. they will not be allowed to run on the conservative party ticket in the next election, which is more or lessee equivale equival kicking them out of parliament. one who he is booting out of the conser conservative party is this man. if it tickles something in the back of your mind, he looks a little familiar, he looks like winston churchill, that is because he is winston churchill s grandson. his name is nicolas. he has served for almost 30 years. today in parliament he got choked up giving what amounted to his farewell address while urging his colleagues to continue to oppose what boris johnson is trying to do. mr. speaker, i m not standing in the next election and i am vast approaching the end of 37
break the u.k. out of the european union. boris johnson has only been prime minister for 30 seconds. he s already lost multiple high-stakes votes in parliament, and won none of them. today it was all the speaker of parliament could do to keep some basic order throughout another rowdy day in the house of commons. order. if we have to go on longer because people sitting on the treasury bench are yelling to try to disrupt, it will go on longer. some people used to believe in good behavior. i believe in good behavior on both sides of the house. it better happen or it will take a whole lot longer, very simple, very clear. order. it s order, order. it s very difficult to hear the responses from the prime minister. members must calm themselves. there is a long way to go. there sure is.
thank you. i know that americans are both sort of riveted by this spectacle, but also alienated by its seemingly arcane nature and difficult to discern plot lines. i think there are a lot of parallels between what american voters reacted to trump s twitter account whether that first happened. they were shocked and horrified, they laughed. it was almost entertaining and it became a source of conversation around the water cooler. in many ways what s happening right now in parliament is just the same. people are shocked and horrified. but there is actually a very serious point here, which is many of the political structures we got used to and the political practices in the last few decades are breaking down, and we don t know what s going to replace them. when boris johnson kicks all of those members of the conservative party essentially out of the party and out of parliament, presumably he expects not just to have reduced his majority down to a minority and made his party smaller,