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Originally Posted by Chris
Now I wonder what the counter-move is. I’m not ready to believe Cummings was allowed to march the government into this without a strategy with contingencies worked right through to the end.
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Given how things have gone so far I am not so convinced everything is doing to plan nor that the Tories did due diligence on what his plan was. There is apparently rather wide-spread discontentment amount the Parliamentary Tory Party about the withdrawal of the whip for example .
Possible flaws would be that he didn't think the Opposition Parties would be this organised nor that they would want to delay the election. He might have thought they would waste a week of time trying to find a Parliamentary workaround to being prologued rather than focus on Brexit and didn't take into account that prologuing would unite the opposition.
He could call a no-confidence vote in himself but the effect of withdrawing the whip from those Tories means that even with Labour rebels such as Hoey they are far short of even a simply majority.
He could resign. Get the Queen to send for Corbyn. Let him request an extension and then fight the election on a 'coup' style narrative.