Tommy Tainant
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- Jan 20, 2016
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It sort of makes sense and is a definite possibility. Except that the slim brexit majority has gone and he would need to invoke fear of Corbyn to get elected. I also think that he has fucked up big time every day since he took over and he now has huge credibility questions.Johnsons third defeat of the week. He is fucked and so is his shitty party.
Let's not get ahead of history now. For to me it seems, all three defeats were widely expected, including the one BoJo himself brought about, proposing an early election, which poses the question, what's the game plan? BoJo is always playing silly games, most of which back-fire, and badly, so what is his?
Here's what's going on, as far as I can read him: We know, there's going to be an election, and pretty soon. The Tories are in a hair-raising danger of being eaten up by the Brexit party. So, he tries to make the Brexit party pointless by making it appear as if the Tories were the better, somewhat less odious version of it, but just as committed to Brexit. All, or so I think, he then needs to do is to have a string of votes in the Commons (and public opposition statements) that allows him to put the blame for "no Brexit deal yet" and "no Brexit yet" on the loyal opposition. They thwarted and sabotaged his very promising negotiations, and prevented Brexit from happening. He knows he can't get a substantially better deal from the EU, and so he invites the Commons to assume responsibility for the fact no deal is reached. Hence he is going for a better parliament, one with a Tory majority sailing on delivering Brexit, while the other parties won't.
Can it work with Britons, fed up with the endless Brexit brouhaha?
But we did vote for brexit so I would never put money on British intelligence. Still some twists and turns to come.