He is making exactly the same plays as May.
Use the threat of 'No Deal' to push through a deal, hold a general election to try create a parliament that will support the deal.
Obviously triggering article 50 and holding a general election didn't help TM, she just got hit with extensions, she got hit with leavers being too fussy which let remainers quash any deal put to vote.
We'll see if things play out differently for BJ.
I honestly believe JC could have had last election if he campaigned honestly based on two facts: 1) he is a lifetime eurosceptic so leavers could trust him to leave and 2) as a Labour leader he could be trusted to represent the people; protecting rights they had gained from Europe which would likely be stripped under a Conservative party Brexit, which would go some way to allaying remainer Brexit fears.
The fact he didn't campaign for this People's Brexit (instead of the disaster capitalists one we've been facing down) proves to me he has no intention of being PM and simply prefers the role of leader of the opposition.
|