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Boffy’s Blog is one of blogs I recommend on my blogroll and is run by someone who clearly sleeps with one eye open!
Boffy’s Blog is one of blogs I recommend on my blogroll and is run by someone who clearly sleeps with one eye open!
I feel privileged that he has taken the trouble to correct/update my last
post with no fewer than two comments which I am happy to bring to my readers’
attention in a proper manner – with the relevant hyperlinks thrown in as a bonus…….
You have
missed Johnson’s real nuclear option – to which
I drew attention in
my post of 3 September – and that is to wait until October 17th, having
spent five weeks attacking (those who deny Brexit and) the cowardice of the opposition who refuse to fight
an election…….then simply resign rather
than ask for an extension.
He knows the opposition is comprised of an
unprincipled rabble with no concept of strategy, and wholly consumed by
concern for immediate parliamentary tactics - what Lenin called “parliamentary
cretinism” - and their own party interests. The Liberals have said again they
will not vote to make Corby Prime Minister as head of the rabble alliance.
Labour cannot possibly support anyone other than Corbyn without destroying
itself.
When the
rabble alliance collapses, unable to form an alternative government, this
results automatically in the General Election that Johnson wants, because they
only have 14 days after he resigns to do so.
He goes into
the election looking principled and able to restore order, they go into it
looking like the unprincipled, disorganised, squabbling rabble they actually
are.
Labour's
Brexit position always shaky has disintegrated again on contact with the
battlefield. It now appears to be that a Labour Government would negotiate its
own fantasy Brexit deal, then it would put it, along with remain to a new
referendum, and in that referendum, it would then argue for a Remain vote,
against its own deal that it had just wasted time negotiating.
You really could not make this nonsense up, and that indicates that the rabble
alliance really do not have a clue, which is why, unfortunately, Johnson is
likely to win.
This is indeed highly plausible….My thanks to Boffy for taking the
trouble of drawing it to everyone’s attention. That, so far, no one else has
taken up that idea is indeed a sad reflection on the British commentariat!
Update; Despite appearances,
Johnson is no fool…and has revealed a ruthlessness in the past week which few
had expected. In removing the whip from 21 Conservative MPs (and effectively
removing the chances of their surviving as MPs in any future election), he has
cleared the decks of dissenting voices and warned the remaining Tory MPs to be
in no doubt of the consequences of any disloyalty to his line….
And, in the
latest explosive news, a senior
Minister of his has just resigned with a massive attack on his leadership
for “political vandalism”.
The same story also confirms that Johnson is also this weekend
considering placing a simple motion of “No Confidence” before the House and
whipping Conservative MPs to support it.
Of course, he doesn’t seem to have the
votes for it any more – and the Speaker may well rule it out of order (on the
basis presumably that it repeats last week’s failed motion)
But if that is the way he goes in the next 36 hours, then it would clearly demonstrate that Boffy is right....and that his first act on October 17th will be to resign.
My hunch is that he will not want to show his hand too soon.....and that he will not therefore seek a "No Confidence" vote on Monday
Update; The Constitution Unit blog had this post a couple of weeks ago https://constitution-unit.com/2019/08/23/might-boris-johnson-try-to-call-an-election-sooner-than-people-think/#more-8307
Update; The Constitution Unit blog had this post a couple of weeks ago https://constitution-unit.com/2019/08/23/might-boris-johnson-try-to-call-an-election-sooner-than-people-think/#more-8307
Ron,
ReplyDeleteActually, about a week after I had first been pointing this strategy out on my blog, Andrew Neill did, actually, put it forward as a possibility on the BBC's Politics Live. He asked Jo Swinson, what the Liberals would do, if Johnson did indeed, just resign, saying you would then have to back Jeremy Corbyn wouldn't you?
She replied "No, he can't command a majority in parliament."!
So, you can see why I note that they are just an unprincipled disorganised rabble, who are consumed by their own narrow interests, and in the case of the Liberals dozen or so members, extremely narrow interests.
A number of other commentators have elided to it, but only to then simply pass over it, as though they do not want to even consider such a possibility occurring, which says to me that the potential for it occurring clashes with their own liberal sensibilities, and thoughts that they had stitched Johnson up in parliament, whereas in fact, they had simply played right into his and Cummings hands.
Incidentally, if my feeling, first elaborated in 2012, in relation to Boris Johnson, and the gradual slide of Britain into Bonapartism is correct, everyone in Britain will need to learn to sleep with one eye and one ear open, waiting for the three o'clock knock.
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