This is a CBSi and the world. I'm John Bachelor. To London, to Joseph Sternberg,

member of the editorial board of the Wall State Journal, he writes political economics.

And right now we're going to turn our attention to the British form of government,

parliamentary, versus the American form of government which has been called presidentialism.

However, there are compares and contrasts and one compare has to do with the choice of PM, either party, either major party in London.

And what we just saw is the choice of one party for a leader without need of asking the members of the party to vote.

A selection process.

Joe, a very good evening to you.

We begin with the UK form of government parliamentary because your most recent column highlights

the fact that the Tories, the Conservatives, have managed to tear through several prime ministers

without asking anybody to vote and they've wound up now

sent to the corner of the Commons with badly small numbers and are licking their wounds.

What did they do wrong and what lessons can we learn? Good evening to you, Joe.

Hey, John. I mean, the basic observation here is that what the Democrats did in the U.S.

Keshiring Joe Biden and bringing in Kamala Harris is pretty much unprecedented in American politics.

It's not unprecedented in Europe.

This phenomenon is especially in European parliamentary or prime ministerial systems, this phenomenon that you can have a group of the elites of the party kind of coming together and pushing out a duly elected leader in

favor of some other leader of the party who then also becomes the prime minister of the country.

And we've seen this time and time again, Angela Merkel and Germany tried to handpick

her successor and do these very opaque sort of leadership processes and it ended up failing miserably.

But I think that probably the most telling example of the problems that you run into here

are, as you mentioned, Britain's

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