Wednesday 4 September 2019

Does Boris really think his plan is working?

Is Boris laughing or crying behind the front door of Number 10 Downing Street? By rights he should be blubbering. He has lost two crucial votes in the House of Commons, parliament has effectively taken over the government's business in the Commons, a no-deal Brexit option has been legislated against, the Octber 31 deadline for leaving the EU is now looking distinctly shakey and the prime minister has deselected 21 of his own MPs for rebelling against the government. They include some singular grandees who have represented the patrician Conservative establishment for decades. So nothing but tears and frustration and anger behind that Number 10 door? Apparently not. Apparently this was all scripted by the master tacticians - ie Generalissimo Dominic Cummings, the man in the long sleeveless quilted jacket - and everything is fine. Well I don't believe that, I don't think they did enough "what-if" preparations. Like: "What if the 21 Tory rebels all stuck to their guns despite the warnings of beng deselected?" And "what if Jeremy Corbyn decides not to support a general election despite telling the world for the last three years that all he wanted was a general election?" Because the 21 rebel MPs DID stick to their guns and Corbyn is now wavering like a balloon in a strong wind about a snap election. So how do these two small matters interfere with your grand plan, Boris and Generalissimo Cummings? I have no doubt they will try to get round it but the fact is Number 10 is at this moment not in control of its destiny. Boris is not in charge of anything as far as I can see. As for the negotiations in EU re Brexit,they are going nowhere. The EU feels Boris has lost the plot - in more ways than one - and is probably now holding out for a change in government, one that will offer the British voters the chance to stay in the EU after all. But will this be a Corbyn government? Does Corbyn really want the UK to remain in the EU? He has always hated the EU. He's a Socialist with a huge S and just wants a Marxist-style government controlled by the trades unions and to hell with everyone else. Corbyn wants power, so his support for another EU referendum and the promise of a Labour campaign to stay in the EU might just get him into Downing Street. But Boris and Cummings will definitely have thought of that "what if", and I seriously doubt they will let that happen if they can possibly avoid it. So I think behind the closed door of Number 10, Boris and Generalissimo Cummings are thinking up a new plot. But it could still all end in tears, with Boris crying and Jeremy Corbyn laughing his head off.

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