The SNP can't swing it anyway, at least not in a motion under the Fixed Term Parliament Act if Labour votes against it.
The opposition is clearly right not to trust Johnson. He and his ministers (e.g. Mogg on Tuesday night) have continued to assert with straight faces that shutting down parliament for 5 weeks, preventing it from completing scheduled work which will now be swept aside, is "normal" and not designed to prevent parliament from passing a bill material to the government's plans for which time is of the essence and which the government opposes.
Like Bromp I'm still wondering what the absence of tellers for the no lobby at the division on Stephen Kinnock's amendment was about. It was not an accident, it now seems clear.
There is probably no limit to the extent of the dirty work that Johnson and the unelected Cummings will sanction if they think they can get away with it.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/09/what-just-happened-stephen-kinnocks-amendment-and-what-does-it-mean
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