‘If you have another vote, will they have died for nothing?’
Britain’s politics is in a healthy place.
Theresa May’s own MPs recently held a vote of no confidence in her leadership. Only a third of them called for the Prime Minister to resign.
Elsewhere, Dennis Skinner called an SNP MP a “piece of shit” and Labour’s Lloyd Russell-Moyle nicked parliament’s ceremonial mace.
Chaos ensues as the giant golden mace at Britain’s extremely normal parliament gets lifted up briefly pic.twitter.com/dMs63iLVcO
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So, perhaps we should not be surprised to see this healthy discourse making its way from the hallowed halls of Westminster to the hallowed Question Time audience.
During this broadcast, we were treated to the following audience member question: “Servicemen and servicewomen have died for freedom and our system. If you have another vote, will they have died for nothing?”
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David Dimbleby responds: “How do you mean?”
As in, do you mean that British soldiers died for us to leave the European Union? Or, do you mean that British soldiers died so that others may enjoy democracy, its fruits and components (like referendums)?
You can sort of see why Dimbleby has called time on his 25-year long career as Question Time chair. At the end of the episode, he was given a standing ovation by the audience and panellists.
Goodbye, David.
