They couldn't conceivably become a government, could they? — Wayfarer
He needs to bring everyone with him right to the very last day and hold a metaphorical gun to their heads. To either agree a deal, a deal which few will actually support, or push them of a cliff, which will take everyone else over with them. This also gives him the opportunity with Cummings to conduct some chicanery in the chaos at the point of the acute crisis he will create.
The problem he has is that if he commits one way, or the other, he looses the support who want to go the other way and he would be finished and Corbyn would get in — Punshhh
The only fly in the ointment is the doubt that he can force a no-deal Brexit through - seemingly against the law, as he insists but no-one outside the Cabinet believes. If he has to ask for an extention to article 50 he will presumably refuse. If he resigns, triggering an election, can he be prosecuted for disobeying the law? If I understand correctly, he can resign, but he is still PM and his govt are still in place until the election, so subject to the law. So we end up back in the Supreme Court?! — Tim3003
governments are too corrupt for the democratic experiment to continued ad naseum — Hassiar
l don't disagree with your assement, I would add though, as before, the importance of keeping the Conservative party together in his motives. This is very important because it is the only way of preventing Corbyn getting into No10 and no one should underestimate how bad that would be in the eyes of supporters of the Conservatives. I put it to you that in their eyes this is far worse than Brexit being cancelled, or a soft Brexit. I admit that the Conservatives are doomed in either case, but they are clutching at straws and their focus at this point is in fighting off the Brexit party, who will decimate his support if Brexit is delayed again, cancelled, or a soft deal is agreed, again, letting Corbyn in. The Conservatives would far rather wreck the country and the union wherever the blame lands, than enable Corbyn to get his hands on No10, although they will try to blame someone else if they can.he just needs someone to blame if things go wrong.
a democracy is advertised as a system where the common people control the policies. — Hassiar
brexit is another example, the others may be seen by polling figures, where this is apparently not the case. stop the madness. — Hassiar
They don't have to support the NHS, just say they will and their base believes it. Everyone else is highly sceptical, there is a feeling going around that they can't be trusted on anything. Johnson's splash the cash announcements in his speech yesterday, had a hollow sound to them. He's trying to appeal to the Labour heartlands in the north who voted leave. I doubt if they will fall for it, although they may still support him, or more likely the Brexit party. They are in deprived areas often where there are a lot of immigrants, they will become more deprived after Brexit, they know it and will still vote to leave. Talk about stubborn. Labour will campaign hard in these areas, sincerely promising to help with socialist policies, which they will implement and will work. I wonder if it will have any impact.They will even support the NHS in theory, if they think it is a winning strategy
Maybe the Lib Dems and Labour will have to work together and not stand in eachother's best seats to keep the Tories/Brexit Party out.. — Tim3003
That's not going to happen, even for a few weeks to prevent the no deal that is the Lib-Dem signature policy this week they will not support Labour. They're just tories without tax havens. — unenlightened
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