Welcome back Alanovich.
You've made the point I've had in mind since various 'let them have it' posts advocating Hard Brexit appeared over the weekend. I'd not thought of the screaming toddler analogy but idea of letting Mogg and co have their way and jump off a cliff to avoid the uncertainty of standing near edge seems wrong while other options remain.
It may be at some point in future that it's the jump or nothing but we're not there yet.
Johnson has backed himself into a corner. He's been denied an election on his own terms; exactly the sort of mischief the Fixed Term Parliament Act was meant to stop. He's thrown his majority under a bus and alienated a whole swaithe of 'One Nation Tories' by sacking Ken Clarke et al. Unless he can pull a deal from the hat in next four weeks, and I can't see a re-warm of May's deal making the cut, then the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 requires him to request and extension of Article 50 deadline.
He's already playing fast/loose with convention like his role model Trump but surely he's not going to dice with jail by refusing to do what the above act requires? Has Dominic Cummings put something else up his sleeve he can pull out while parliament is prorogued?
In absence of those what can he do?
The Guardian's Andrew Rawnsley has written on the subject:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/08/like-macbeth-johnson-too-steeped-in-blood-to-turn-back-what-next
Conclusion is that he could resign as PM and effectively invite Corbyn to form a government. Corbyn will do that or support formation of an emergency government under Clarke or A N Other. BoJo can then fight an election from opposition and based on Corbyn being the man who 'surrendered to the EU'.
Sounds ridiculous but as Rawnsley says, when you eliminate the impossible what's left is what happens....
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