Sir Nicholas Soames delivers emotional speech in parliament
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- The veteran MP, one of 21 Tory rebels expelled by the party, delivered an emotional speech to parliament: ‘I’m truly very sad that it should end in this way and it is my most fervent hope that 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 interests of the whole country that has inevitably had to be so sadly neglected whilst we have devoted so much time to wrestling with Brexit’
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"My right honourable friend the Prime Minister, the leader of the House and other members of the cabinet whose serial disloyalty has been such an inspiration to so many of us..." Brilliant put down of Johnson and Rees-Mogg, absolutely hilarious!
Genuine one-nation Toryism. Class.
The British people will always have there fantastic humor.
Brilliant
37 years in parlament and the thing he is most known for is who his grandfather was
what a great man
BuchBehandlung shame he didn’t inherit that particular gene. Or the testicular fortitude of Churchill.
@@theshootist3873 He had the courage to truly stick to his moral convictions in the face of criticism from some of his peers. Sounds like Churchill.
Adam Peckham then piss and moan about it. Sounds like a chump to me.
Du als deutscher kennst dich ja auch blendend in der britischen Innenpolitik aus ...
@@dr.desoxyribonukleinsaure9713 Es geht nicht darum dass ich nichts über den Mann weiß sondern dass auch den Jouranalisten nichts anderes über ihn einfällt als sein Enkelsein.
“Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and will be lost in political squabbles. Sir Winston Churchill
It’s already happened.
Prescient, given that Churchill was referring to the Indian govt then...karma??? 😉
Sums up Jeremy Corbyn perfectly!
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"Who serial disloyalty has been such an inspiration to so many of us" ... Sir Nicholas Soames on the Conservative party members (who can guess which ones) .. LOL so funny.
Poignant as well
The present cabinet
“WHOSE serial disloyalty...”
Sounds just like his grandfather once did...eloquent, but also clear-sighted & he's also able to genuinely move an audience - not simply to pontificate and/or sermonize.
@mhffc I totally agree.
He sounds nothing like Winston. I urge you to listen to one of Winston's speeches
@@axe7064 I have listened the entire bulk of Mr. Churchill's collected speeches and I've even annotated/analysed some of 'em. Obviously, they've got a very different ''manner'' of speaking and the sheer magnificence of sir Winston's grandiloquence & oratory prowess is UNRIVALLED, but that's to be expected...- duh. But he DOES remind me of Winston (if only ''ever so slightly'') in terms of the ''brevity'' and LUCIDITY of his message. He's no doubt eloquent imo and UNLIKE, say, other *cough cough* House speakers such as Rees-Mogg he does not, as previously mentioned, PONTIFICATE and is actually GENUINE/has convictions.
@@a.j.alexander4472 And Churchill did realize that a more or less united Europe would constitute itself into a firm hindrance to war in the continent, at the very least. Which, to me at least, is more importan than other considerations that are currently being bandied about by those who wish for the destruction of the EU.
Genuine one-nation Toryism. What the little-Englanders won't remind you is that in a crisis Churchill brought Labour into the cabinet.
What an honourable man. It’s a shame more MPs are not like him. To expel him from the Conservative Party after his service and the service of his family for our country is an absolute disgrace.
I’m embarrassed to be British I thought we were better than that.
Can you recall one single word he said in his 37 years as an M.P.?
@@mediolanumhibernicus3353 Mr. Speaker, the honorable gentleman, lady. Do you read more? Name one time bojo is not lying? That's a hard one.
Can I point out we entered a legal agreement to join the EU when we entered the agreement like with any contract there are always exit clauses that we as a country agreed too.
So regardless of what you are told it is wrong for the country to leave with no deal it will effect the country terribly. It will be our children and Grand Children that will be left to clear up our mess.
We are meant to be an honourable country that is fair and honest. We are meant to have morals so if we exit let’s do it correctly and if it takes more time because we need it I don’t see an issue. We are all adults here and negotiations are difficult and time consuming.
The EU are not pathetic and remember they are our allies so let’s exit correctly and professionally and stop with the name calling and arrogance it’s just embarrassing.
Can't have disagreements in politics
Nononononono!
Everyone must fall in line
That's democracy!
@pammens miss sorry forgot to put /s
I think he should change his name by deed poll to: Winston Churchill's Grandson.
I am impressed with that eloquence and also I respect the sadness that was expressed in it. A second speaker of sense and profound depth. Which is more than can be said for the right nitwit of a Prime Minister. Whose two pence of nonsensical words aren't even worth a 2p coin. And is prepared to ruin democracy in the whole of the British Isles by the act of his panicked words. Sir Nicholas Soames is another solid pragmatist and I much admire his firm and dignified reposte! That's two great speeches - more to follow I believe.
That the Tory Party should expel Nick Soames tells us everything. Great speech - dignity, intelligence and one-nation Toryism.
Gar Sm you again
@Bugle Boy It's bocking a deal without a democratic mandate. Big difference.
@Bugle Boy Looks like Johnson is preparing to accept a backstop covering Northern Ireland. That makes all this unnecessary. It's the May agreement tweaked.
@Bugle Boy There is nothing "anti-democratic" about parliament blocking "no deal" without a referendum or another general election to give such a course the mandate it currently lacks.
@Bugle Boy That the Tory Party should expel Nick Soames tells us everything. Great speech - dignity, intelligence and one-nation Toryism.
Sir, in my view and that of all my German friends, you and your twenty Tory colleagues who defied Mr. Johnson's power grab have saved the honour of Britain's democracy. We are grateful beyond words because this kind of courage is and always has been the greatest gift of the British to the Europeans.
Turn your back and raise your bottom to offer a gift to the Europeans (german leaders actually).
Im just gonna say it, as an American and a Texan, I like British accents.
got a thing for texas accents myself ;D well... many accents... accents are fun and sometimes hot lol ^^
Please don't believe that all Brits sound like this.
That my American friend is an example of what I believe is the Queen's English (when we have a King it will be the King's English). Correct me if I am wrong my British friends.
Greetings from Canada.
You're gonna like Mr Rees-Mogg's then
We dont all sound like that,
A gentleman of the old school and great servant to his nation such an honourable man.
We need more MP’s of his caliber not less. Unfortunately they’re becoming a rarity.
A rarity?
This is encouraging.
Famous for having a famous grandfather. As my mother would say "They neither work nor want."
Great stuff Sir Nicholas, all those yobs and oiks who voted for Brexit deserve to be put back in their place! You can feel proud of yourself.
Yobs and Oiks - ever the intellectuual!! the following quote from the founder of the EU - "Europe's nations should be guided towards the superstate without the people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps
each disguised as having an economic purpose but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to Federation" - Jean Monet
haha...yes...yobs, oiks , geriatrics and more than a few upper class twits still living in the eighteenth century. They shall soon reap the whirlwind....They think the backstop is a humiliating affront to British pride? Just wait until the impact of a no deal Brexit kicks in...we will be on our knees begging for a free trade agreement with Europe but with our pleas falling on deaf ears. As for negotiating a deal with Trump, that will see us totally shafted, assuming it makes it through Congress at all.
Johnson fancies himself as the new Churchill. It took Churchill's grandson to show why that will never be so.
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Boris Johnson is FAR better than Churchill. Churchill was an alcoholic, warmongering scumbag, whom destroyed this country with WW2. And, Chuchill's grandson has only ever lived off Winston's grandeur...he's a total loser when it comes to anything else.
@@connorcook6171 Hitler is the one who started the war by attacking Poland. And if you had paid attention during your history lessons you would know that. Churchill was not even Prime Minister then.
@@connorcook6171 Just feck off for posting total garbage.
👍 Well spoken Sir Nicholas Soames !
What an honourable man supporting the EU who care about asylum seekers. He has also worked as Co-Chair of the cross party group on balanced migration. It would seem his brother is also a humanitarian, his company Serco has just been awarded a £1.9 billion contract to provide accommodation and support for asylum seekers. What a family!
Mr Skinner, Mr Ken Clark,Mr Bercow and Mr Soames will be missed.They are the true Legend
You're foreign to the British isles. Which is why you would make such an ignorant statement. They are the worst type of criminal, because they are in positions of governance
Read a book
"Modest in its ambitions but powerful in its mandate" - He could have been speaking of his excellent and honourable career as much as speech.
Hard to believe that one of the last links between Britain's once great military and political eras and that of the current, someone whose own family straddled a time period long since gone and that of the present should also be the one to hail from a family that once shaped the world's view of what it meant to be from "great" Britain just as much as your sovereign's own image has served to portray a Great Britain for the modern era.
We should all do well to take heed, take note, and do our homework when trying to understand just how the world and Great Britain found itself in this predicament of not valuing the past, nor past influences and would rush to assume that everything old should not be made new again. Many blessings to you, Sir Soames. I do so hope you will find a way in the future to continue to spread your goodness and wisdom to others so that we could learn from the mistakes of the past.
Mmmm like the blanket bombing of Dresden
@@jacobnighthorse7893 ....don't understand your response. Sorry.
Trojanette83 I agree 👍
Trojanette83 That’s all a bit over-effusive. By the way, it’s Sir Nicholas, not (and never) Sir Soames.
@@mediolanumhibernicus3353 As someone who was taught to address someone they don't (personally) know by their last name(s) it, was in that vain that I recognized him by his surname, not his forename. As far as being "effusive" it was a way of giving tribute to the 'storied' past of a family who had profound influence in world history.
No one should be left snicker-less.
Hear hear
Churchillian wit runs in the family
Such a shame that loyalty to his country doesn't.
@@andyq752 -Hear Hear
@@andyq752 define "loyalty to your country".
Bravo
I’m more sad for the people on the receiving end of his generally appalling voting record.
The public are coming for you
Nick Soames never told a lie in his life gets the sack from Barmy Boris who has never told the truth in his life? ...and the rest of the rabble agree with Barmy Boris, who voted against his Prime minister .....Never trust a tory unless they are dead
Even Boris's brother has enough of him
b.south well.Especially any Tory, who is also a member of the unhinged ERG.
A thoroughly decent Tory with years of service to his party deselected by a fly by night snake oil huckster of a PM. Sad days indeed...
Humanised toilet brush bojo
He defied his boss and the will of the people his grandfather would turn in his grave and rightly so
@@km206
Nonsense
Can’t make my mind up about this fella
Shots fired.
Rockets fired in response.
So do we take it you think your investments are safe by your actions...
Thank you, Lord Nicholas Soames for the role you played in 1979 in Rhodesia by enforcing Law and Order in the divided country, oversee fair elections and helped form a government and advanced the state to Independence during Mr Ian Smith ( late) regime.
Chamberlain's grandson surely?
Lol , a legend!!!
Interestingly, NS is the only rebel who said that he genuinely believes that the PM wants a deal (unlike the ERG, he wants the glory of bringing home a deal better than May’s, minus the ECJ jurisdiction) but Soames also thought threatening the EU with a NDB cannot work in practice. He’s clearly disloyal, yes, in the sense that he has no confidence in his PM, although what he told the press on pragmatism makes sense. Boris is in fact trying to do a ‘Trump’ on the EU (the way Trump succeeded with Mexico) to force the EU to blink in order to save Ireland from a fate worse than ours. Will the EU blink? Probably not. Ruth D may have the last laugh yet when as Plan B, BJ might resurrect the WA with some slight amendment & win. No one can guess!
Great analysis
Parliamentarians are answerable to who? We the people. So explain to me his disloyalty. Has a person not his own conscience or are we merely lambs to the slaughter. One may disagree with Sir Nicholas but isn't he a person with a mind of his own. We can always talk about loyalty/disloyalty to suit a certain narrative but be assured many will come to recognize that the stance he took was a honorable one. Karma is just around the corner.
At present, the basic salary as an MP is £79,468. Nice little earner.
Delay brexit for what?, the EU have made it crystal clear they wont deal any further, its a take it or leave it deal, three years we have already wasted and remainer's will see us in the EU for another three years.
I’d love us to stay in the EU indefinitely.
Thats their plan all along
@@Georgexb well go live there
jacob nighthorse Let’s hope. So sad to see Winston Churchill’s grandson thrown out of Churchill’s own party for supporting a cause that Churchill himself supported.
Goldenshark 14 We’re working on it.
Wow...The Guardian bumming Nicholas Soames. What next?
It's astounding. He is one of, if not the most vile MPs in Parliament.
WHAT A PRATT JUST GO AND SIGN ON THE DOLE
Churchill would have thought Maastricht treaty gone off the rails (if he was still alive at the time), but at least Nicholas is not as awkward as Boris
This right honourable member told Nigel Farage on LBC that he had not voted to trigger article 50, he had. During a debate in the Commons prior to the referendum he was sure his Grandfather would have wished to remain in the EU but declared after the result that how could anyone have known how the great man would have voted. It’s as well he is standing down.
Sir Nicholas, your Churchillian blood is definitely showing.
The overly privileged and landed classes...rotten to the last man.
Matthew Brooker human beings are the same so called privileged or so called working class. Get over your complex.
that would include Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Rt Hon Member for the Eighteenth Century, I take it?
Did I hear clapping at the end there, I thought that wasn’t allowed...
Only not allowed when it's clapping to support something the speaker doesn't like
Marvelous man
I'm no Tory but this was utterly disgraceful. I wonder how much money Johnson has trousered from all his books about Churchill? He ought to be ashamed but he's not. The man should just resign and consider seppuka.
England will survive at the cost of her last outposts of her empire, Scotland and the six counties of the Irish province of Ulster.(Stolen lands)will be sacrificed.
donald stewart news flash .... you can keep ulster ..we don’t want it back ... your grand .
What's the price for treason these days ? ➰
He seems a very cheap guy, 30 silver coins as always I guess
See ya Mr Soames
His final act is to keep us tied to something that his Grandfather tried so hard to avoid.
You don't know what you speak of!
Winston Churchill was a founding father of the EU who once called for a 'United States of Europe'.
Thomas Yes and this became called NATO which served the purpose of Churchill’s words. He did not mean a political body.
It's funny how the guardian a few months ago would be writing articles about how he is only known due to churchill and that churchill was a 'Terrible Man' yet as Soames supported this bill everyone is acting like it's a tragedy that he had the whip removed.
Soames said on the channel 4 showing of ' tories at war "Boris' can't just ignore 40 years of ties in 10 minutes??? Or words to that effect... NO NICHOLAS.. Tories had more than 3 years to resolve the departure. You should have all made more of an effort instead of quaffing champaign and caviar and doing sweet FA because you didn't take the people seriously until Farage was on the scene. The finish line is in sight and if Boris thinks he's going to ignore leaving then there needs to be a GE so he can step down gracefilly
Retire. No loss to us.
Yes, the Tory party and its lying, inept buffoon of leader will soon be out of office, so it is no loss.
There are still people with some intellect and integrity. Compare this with the Brexiteers. Every time I read comments by Brexiteers, I am astounded by the low level of arguments and the lunacy of their shallow slogans. It is as if the country is being run by the lowest of the low
The fact that the people voted for brexit should be argument enough.
He got the job only because he is Churchill grandson. Sums up society
He looks like the guy from the £5 note.
(yes this is a joke)
37 years of living on the reputation of a great man whilst taking a great deal of our money for doing so. I do not believe that just because this mans Grandfather was Winston Churchill we should treat him with reverence, what has he done for Britain that a thousand others have not. In my eyes he is disingenuous, he promised the British People one thing and then did something quite different.
William Leadbeater True. In fact, I believe in these last two days he finally has achieved something of value, for which he will be remembered, and for which his reputation will be redeemed.
William Leadbeater to be fair he voted 3 times to leave BJ didn't.
Tory expelled by pArty? Why because he didnt approve of confetti?
How many mp casualties has Brexit caused?
Too many
SnapShot's Reviews Not enough!
BYE THEN !
His granddad will be turning in his grave! How sad... Destroy the EU to free Europe... Once again!!
this is as emotional as a Brit can get, I s'ppose
Compromise?! This guy has spent decades pushing Britain deeper and deeper into the EU. Ignoring the pleas for a referendum, but Now.. he wants compromise 😂
Wrestling with brexit? Denying it, more like.
He should leave the EU with his foe, Boris
Were all leaving the eu
@@jacobnighthorse7893 yes, leaving the EU and joining the European Economic Area. That's the best we can get outside the EU
Also why can't monologuist hardcore Brexiteers even spell!
@@jacobnighthorse7893 he voted 3 times to leave
US Republicans, watch and learn.
The Republicans are winning trump 2020 baby 👌🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mr nobody
So many of my British friends asked me, "How could you Americans elect Trump?" Now you have Boris. See how that happened? Terrifying, isn't it?
Just like the people of Hongkong, take it to the street
Don't let the door hit you on the way out! Lol
1:12 All the remoaners sat together. As for Soames, just because his grandfather was a great man, it doesn`t mean he is.
You voted against your team and against your 17.4 m people's wishes . You deserve to go.
Byeeeee
Soames is a classic example of someone who would have spent his working life with a mop and bucket in a public lavatory if it wasn't for the family connection.
This the man that reportedly said to the Princess of Wales in the months before her death, "Don't meddle in things that you know nothing about because you know accidents can happen." I'd might say he's the "lesser son of greater sires" but I suspect the reality is that he is just the natural continuation of this country's putrid aristocracy.
ONLY got the JOB cause he’s the grandson of winny churchill
oops grandson, no loss to politics after 37 years . where has he been snoring on the backbenches & stuffing his face with free lunches, hes only famous because of his truly amazing grandfather Sir Winston Churchill
someone should listen to this Member, he is the Grandson of the Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill
They would like bunch of rabid hyennas
The laughing hyenas
I wonder how much they spent to buy this coward?
kicking Churchills grandson out of the party.. BoJo has already signed his own death sentence..
I want to make clear Nicholas Soames (Moans) is an embarrassment and his Grandfather Churchill would be turning in his grave! 🇬🇧. This Dinosaur deserves to have the whip removed!! BYE BYE 🦕 🦖🦕🦖
Believe Sir Churchill would have said to his grandson: "Learn Higher Loyalty, dude!"
How many times did Jacob Rees mogg and bojo vote against his own government? It is a funny number , Google that...
No deal is only a disaster because we as a nation are so deep in Europe pockets that just a thought of leaving the EU is a disaster without a deal. We should of never bloody signed up in the first place!!
Leave means leave . What is so diffucult to understand... ??? Reamier dont respekt democraty.. they are communisme pick or nazist pick.. if you dont respekt democraty . You have No moral..
“You cannot reason with a tiger(EU) when your head is in its mouth”. Churchill could hv gotten out of his grave (RIP) and kick u out of the parliament himself!!!
The EU isn't a Tiger and our head isn't in it's mouth.
How do you interpret something so badly? You think you know better about Churchill than his grandson? Absolutely stupid.
Also Winston Churchill broadly supported the idea of creating something like the EU long before it actually happened.
@@alexoh4699 Exactly. The whole EU project was to try to stop wars after 2 particularly brutal ones. After centuries of Europeans killing each other creating a union makes a lot of sense if you can get the political will.
@@shamanahaboolist indeed
What a disgraceful speech of disloyalty to the PM and people of this country which is nothing more than naughty schoolboy tactics against a firm democratic mandate from the people who have employed you. Of course your actions tie the hands of the PMs negotiating position. Your grandfather would be ashamed of you as am I. A traitorous act of defiance handing control of our country to the EU. A shameful fall from grace from a once distinguished and noble family.
Mats, His grandfather would have been proud. He is saving his country from the calamity of a 'no deal" Brexit despite the personal cost to himself. Remember he voted 3 times for Brexit previously. He just wants a deal which is not unreasonable