Re: Setting the Brexit crash-out date at Samhain/Hallowe'en begins to seem quite a crafty move by Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on October 6, 2019, 10:38 am, in reply to "Setting the Brexit crash-out date at Samhain/Hallowe'en begins to seem quite a crafty move by"
Shrewd if they can pull it off, but i read somewhere that his original strategy assumed that labour would be obliged to call an election by now, and they didn't - the boris team are now floundering a bit according to this view (seems a bit of an oversight if they didn't plan for that). If somehow they get a deal, lots of the brexit party voters likely won't back it and split the tory vote - if they're forced into a delay, the hypothetical polls (not worth much) say he'd suffer in the election after all his halloween talk. If he pushes through to a no deal by the 31st (if that's possible), who knows what will happen - if the election is quick after that, it might beneift him, but if there are fuel/medicine shortages or something similar, it might not go so well for him. I don't think it's going as smoothly as planned either way - supporters will obviously want to say cummings is doing 5-d chess, like they do with trump (and corbyn), but i'm not convinced they;re not winging it.
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