AFTER BREXIT, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO BRITISH POLITICS IS SO SIMILAR
TO GAME OF THRONES.
FIRST WE HAD DAVID CAMERON.
HE WANTED TO
REMAIN, BUT THEY LOST THAT VOTE AND NOW THE UK IS LEAVING THE
EU.
SO HE DECIDES HE IS GOING TO STEP DOWN.
SO WHO IS NEXT?
BORIS
JOHNSON LED THE EXITING CREW, AND HE WANTED TO LEAD AND HE LED
THAT.
SO IT LIKELY TO BE BORIS JOHNSON.
TODAY HE DOES A PRESS CONFERENCE WHERE HE IS GOING TO ANNOUNCE
HIS INTENTIONS AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS.
AND INSTEAD OF BEING EVICTED ñ WE SHOULD SEIZE THIS CHANCE AND
MAKE THIS OUR MOMENT TO STAND TOWARD THE WORLD.
THAT IS THE
AGENDA FOR THE NEXT PRIME
MINISTER OF THIS COUNTRY.
BUT I MUST TELL YOU, MY FRIENDS, YOU
WHO HAVE WAITED FAITHFULLY FOR
THE PUNCHLINE OF THE SPEECH, THAT HAVING CONSULTED COLLEAGUES
AND IN VIEW OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES
IN PARLIAMENT I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT PERSON CANNOT BE ME.
MY
ROLE WILL BE TO GIVE EVERY POSSIBLE SUPPORTS TO THE NEXT
CONSERVATIVE ADMINISTRATION, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROPERLY
FULFILL THE MANDATE OF THE PEOPLE THAT WAS DELIVERED AT THE
REFERENDUM, AND TO CHAMPION THE
AGENDA BY BELIEVING.
WOW, NO ONE SAW THAT COMING.
THAT IS A LOT OF DRAMA.
THERE WAS AUDIBLE GASPS IN THAT ROOM WHEN HE SAID IT WAS NOT
GOING TO BE ME.
THAT HE HADN'T
TOLD A LOT OF HIS ALLIES.
SO IT TURNS OUT PART OF WHAT HAPPENED
WAS THIS GUY, MICHAEL GOVE.
HE WAS THE MAIN ALLY OF BORIS
JOHNSON, AND HE LINED UP A LOT OF VOTES BEHIND THEM IN ORDER TO
WIN ON THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE.
IT TURNS OUT THE HEAD OF THE
KINGDOM DECIDED I WOULD RATHER BE KING.
SO HE TURNED HIS BACK
ON HIM, AND GOVE, WITHOUT NOTIFYING BORIS JOHNSON ñ BORIS
JOHNSON HAD SCREWED OVER DAVID
CAMERON AND ONLY TEXTED HIM 10 MINUTES BEFORE THAT HE IS NOT
GOING TO SUPPORT HIM ON THE
REMAINING CAMPAIGN, HE'S GOING TO THE LEAVE CAMPAIGN.
EVERYONE
SAW THAT AS A NAKED POWER GRAB.
NOW HIS OWN ALLY, GOVE, DOES IT TO
HIM.
HE WRITES IN AND DOES NOT GIVE HIM ANY NOTICE.
PEOPLE ARE
REALLY UPSET AT WHAT MICHAEL
GOVE DID.
I AM NOT SURE THAT WAS REALLY THE ISSUE.
WE WILL GET TO
SOME MORE POSSIBILITIES AND A SECOND.
HERE IT APPEARS THAT
SOMEONE SENT THEIR REGARDS.
LET'S FIND OUT WHO.
I TOLD YOU
IT WOULD BE SIMILAR TO GAME OF
THRONES.
SOMEONE PUT A BOMB UNDER US, THAT
IS WHAT HAPPENED
TO THE HIGH SPARROW, I MEAN BORIS
JOHNSON.
THAT LAST PART IS
THE RELEVANT PART.
YOU CAN SAY IT
IS
INCOMPETENCE.
ONE OF THE
THEORIES IS THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW
HOW TO VOTE COUNT VERY WELL.
I
DON'T THINK IT IS INCOMPETENCE.
HE WAS COMPETENT ENOUGH TO HAVE
LEAVE WIN AND ACCOMPLISH THAT MISSION, ALONG WITH THE HELP OF
OTHERS.
THE LAST PART IS THE CURIOUS PART.
WHY NOT STAY AND
FIGHT?
THERE IS A FIGHT GOING ON IN THE LABOR PARTY, AND ANOTHER
PERSON VYING FOR THE IRON THRONE SAID I WILL STAY AND FIGHT FOR
AS LONG AS IT TAKES.
BORIS JOHNSON AT THE FIRST SET OF
TROUBLE HE SAID, "SEE YOU LATER."
HE DID HAVE A SHAKESPEARIAN
QUOTE IN THE BEGINNING TIME TALKING ABOUT TIES.
IT WAS A
REFERENCE TO SHAKESPEARE'S
JULIUS CAESAR WERE BRUTUS BACKSTABBED CAESAR.
THAT IS A
REFERENCE TO MICHAEL GOVE, BUT THAT IS NOT THE WHOLE STORY
HERE.
HE COULD HAVE FOUGHT HIM.
HERE'S ANOTHER THEORY.
THAT WILL COST HIM SOME VOTES, AND THAT IS
HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED, BUT THE WHOLE JOKE THING, HE JOKES
AROUND A LOT SO YOU NEED SOMEONE MORE SERIOUS.
SO ENTER INTO THE
PICTURE THERESA MAY.
SHE IS SOMEONE WHO WAS AVENUE FAVORITE.
SHE HAS THROWN HER CROWN INTO
THE RING.
SO MAYBE IT WILL BE THERESA MAY THAT COMES ñ MAYBE
NOT.
THERE IS ONE OTHER POSSIBILITY, THAT THERE ARE
THINGS GOING ON BEHIND THE
SCENES WE DIDN'T SEE.
GOVE'S WIFE SENT A LEAKED EMAIL
YESTERDAY WARNING THAT THE NEWSPAPER MOGUL RUPERT MURDOCH
DISTINCTIVELY DISLIKES BORIS.
[VIDEO BUFFERING] POWER IS A
SHADOW ON A WALL, AND IT IS WHAT PEOPLE PERCEIVE IT TO BE.
IT
MIGHT LATE INTO POLITICAL LEADERS, OR MEDIA LEADERS, OR
PERHAPS PEOPLE WITH MONEY.
THERE IS ONE THAT HE ALWAYS PAYS HIS
DEBTS, AND THAT IS RUPERT MURDOCH.
IF MURDOCH WITH HIS
GIANT MEDIA EMPIRE SAYS IT ISN'T
GOING TO BE BORIS, THERE IS SOME CHANCE IT ISN'T GOING TO BE
BORIS.
BUT HOW DO THEY GET HIM TO BOW HIS HEAD AND BOW OUT
ANYWAY?
THIS THROWAWAY LINE IN THE HUFFINGTON POST MADE ME GO ñ
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I JUST HAD A DISCUSSION IN LAST NIGHT'S
OLD-SCHOOL EPISODE WITH JIMMY DORE WHERE I SAID THEY DON'T DO
POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS WHERE THEY WILL
LITERALLY KILL YOU.
NOW WE DO POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS USUALLY
THROUGH SEX.
THEY DO IT THROUGH FINANCIAL SCANDALS.
THEY DIG AND
THEY DIG UNTIL THEY FIND
SOMETHING ON YOU.
AND THEN THEY SAY, BORIS THERE ARE TWO WAYS
YOU CAN GO WITH THIS.
ONE IS YOU
FIGHT ALL OF US, AND YOU ARE LIKELY TO LOSE ANYWAY.
THE OTHER
IS, AND IF YOU DO WE WILL ALSO
HAVE THIS ñ OH RIGHT I OWN A MEDIA ENTERPRISE.
LOOK AT THIS
INTERESTING TABLOID REVELATION I HAVE IN MY POSSESSION.
MAYBE IT
DIDN'T GO DOWN THAT WAY?
BUT BOWING OUT THAT QUICKLY AND
UNEXPECTEDLY WHEN HE WAS THE ODDS ON FAVORITE TO WIN, THERE
IS SOMETHING ELSE TO THAT STORY.
THE OTHER PART THEY DON'T TELL
YOU ABOUT ñ THERE ARE STICKS AND THERE IS ALSO CARROTS.
THE
CARROT THAT THEY OFFER YOU IS BORIS, IF YOU ARE A GOOD TEAM
PLAYER THE MONIED INTEREST HAVE MADE A DECISION, IS IT REALLY
THERESA MAY THEY ARE GOING FOR?
SHE SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE THE
ESTABLISHMENT IS COMFORTABLE
WITH.
BUT WHOEVER IT MIGHT BE, THEY DECIDED IT'S NOT GOING TO
BE BORIS JOHNSON.
YES, THERE ARE GAMES PLAYED BEHIND THE SCENES.
IF YOU CAME LOOKING FOR THAT NAIVETY, YOU'VE COME TO THE
WRONG PLACE.
THE GAME IS AFOOT.