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As Expected, A General Election Has Been Blocked.
https:/ /www.bb c.co.uk /news/u k-polit ics-496 30094
What are those that voted against it or abstained, most worried about?
Losing the election or the Conservatives winning, which would show that the electorate are happy with a no deal.
What are those that voted against it or abstained, most worried about?
Losing the election or the Conservatives winning, which would show that the electorate are happy with a no deal.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We're constantly told that No Deal would be a failure of statecraft. An election on 15th October merely guarantees that failure. Allowing Boris Johnson control of the date, too, is the chief issue here. Agreeing to an early election gives him control over when to set it, and since there's very little reason to trust anything Johnson says, why take his suggestion that he'd hold it on October 15th seriously?
All of this stuff about opposition parties "running scared" is just an attempt to seize the narrative, but it's based on very little. The SNP won't be scared -- they are almost certain to crush the Tories in Scotland. The Lib Dems won't be scared, either -- even if they don't translate support into seats, they're on the up right now. And, after the events of 2017, when Corbyn was expected by more or less everybody to be utterly marmalised but somehow ended up gaining 40% of the electorate and removing May's majority, do you really think he'd be scared of the campaign either?
All of this stuff about opposition parties "running scared" is just an attempt to seize the narrative, but it's based on very little. The SNP won't be scared -- they are almost certain to crush the Tories in Scotland. The Lib Dems won't be scared, either -- even if they don't translate support into seats, they're on the up right now. And, after the events of 2017, when Corbyn was expected by more or less everybody to be utterly marmalised but somehow ended up gaining 40% of the electorate and removing May's majority, do you really think he'd be scared of the campaign either?
Fair enough. Refusing letting the tech manage border issues, preferring a hard border post and associated reaction from certain extreme groups among others, does seem a failure to adjust, as a statesman/women would know to do, purely in order to stick to initial unnecessary demands. Well worth hinting at.
This is politics, not theoretical physics. :/
Barely a week ago Johnson et al were insistent that they didn't want a General Election. It's pretty obvious, and should have been from the start, that this wasn't even remotely true, and that Johnson's entire strategy was to force such an election. It isn't terror that keeps Corbyn from supporting that call right now -- it's the fact that he suddenly has the whip hand, and may as well make the best use of it to put Johnson in the worst position possible before allowing him his election. Delaying an election is cynical, for sure -- but born of terror? Not remotely.
Barely a week ago Johnson et al were insistent that they didn't want a General Election. It's pretty obvious, and should have been from the start, that this wasn't even remotely true, and that Johnson's entire strategy was to force such an election. It isn't terror that keeps Corbyn from supporting that call right now -- it's the fact that he suddenly has the whip hand, and may as well make the best use of it to put Johnson in the worst position possible before allowing him his election. Delaying an election is cynical, for sure -- but born of terror? Not remotely.
Whiphand, you must be joking.
https:/ /www.ma rkpack. org.uk/ 155623/ voting- intenti on-opin ion-pol l-score card/
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In those circumstances, yes. But we've been here before, haven't we? When Johnson has to sign the letter he has refused to sign -- I'm sure he would sign the letter rather than let Corbyn become PM, however temporarily, and I simply don't believe that he can singlehandedly deliver a deal that will command support in Parliament -- then the Tory's fortunes will plummet in the same way that they did in March-May.
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