tomorrow. i spent my time into parliaments and i know which one i prefer. we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us. those famously were winston churchill those words speaking why decant in the house of lords as he moved a motion to rebuild the house of commons then in ruins following one of the major bombings in london. decrying the semi circular parliaments, and on the european mainland he was at pains to ensure the house of commons was rebuilt to exactly the same model of opposing benches that came to epitomise the west minister model later and elsewhere. where politics takes place and take shape west minister is green benches with her majesties government and opposition facing each other are a symbol of a political culture that is