Jeremy Corbyn has outflanked Boris

It looks like Jeremy Corbyn, famous for sitting on the political fence about everything to do with Brexit, has finally come up with a winning strategy to defeat Boris Johnson at every turn. Boris is now totally trapped in a cul-de-sac. Corbyn has struck a deal with the Scottish Nationalist leader at Westminster under which their two parties will not sign up to a general election until after the EU has agreed to and confirmed yet another delay in the Brexit decision-making process, from October 31 to January 31. Under their cunning plotting, Boris will be screwed. He won't be able to stick to his promised "out by October 31 do or die" and to make matters worse he will be forced by the House of Commons to ask the EU leaders at the next summit in October to extend the deadline, something he vowed he would never never do. But Corbyn has outsmarted him and Generalisimo Dominic Cummings. There is no way out. Or is there? Has Boris got one more card to play? Well we know he has one because he has revealed it already. He's going to try to offer an October 15 election again on Monday and get the Commons to vote on it. Unless the Speaker of the House, the outrageous John Bercow, finds a clause in a parliamentary textbook which he can use to stop it. But surely Boris has something else up his sleeve. Because if he doesn't, and his election offer on Monday fails, what else is left? The political cul-de-sac will be gien another name: a dead end. Certainly Boris has made some mistakes. Sacking the 21 rebel Conservative MPs who voted against the government this week may have seemed a sign of tough leadership at the time but it has slapped him back in the face. Even his Chancellor Sajid Javid thinks it was a bad idea and that the 21 MPs should be reinstated. But that would be seen as weakness if Boris did change his mind and he can't afford to look weak especially now that Corbyn has come off the fence and is coming up with all kinds of devious tactics. The resignation of Boris's brother, Jo, as universities minister and as an MP was a gift for Corbyn and a kick in the nether regions for Boris. Even members of his own family are turning against him. Boris is without doubt in a sorry mess and all of us who love this country are in the same situation.