Johnson, as much as he is a loathsome dissembling toad, has played a poor hand brilliantly since his defeat on prorogation and apparently having had his hands tied by the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act.
He has continued to use 'no-deal' as a threat both to the EU and parliament despite neither of those bodies knowing how or whether he could possibly both abide by the law and take the UK out of the EU on 31 October. He has discontinued his sarcastic clown persona and replaced it with that of an urbane statesman although he does look as if he should be stroking a white cat at times.
Meanwhile the wretched-looking Corbyn is obliged to bluster back at Johnson across the despatch boxes with essentially nothing to say and scarcely lays a glove on him every time confirming his absolute impotence.
The Labour Party is an utter shambles. The Conservatives should wipe the floor with it in a General Election. I am fearful that if Johnson survives to fight and win the election he will go back into demagogue mode and then we might suffer an indefinite period of populism. I wish I was young enough and had somewhere to emigrate to.
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