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Originally Posted by Damien
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 .
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Boris took on the leadership, with a majority of 1 or 2, and a team full of rebels. He knew what he was taking on. So I would hope anticipated a few things.
One thing he has managed to eliminate, should he get back in power after an election, is the rebel faction.
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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.
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that and Corbyn wimping out on an election.
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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.
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he would have to instruct his MPs not to vote.
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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.
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can’t imagine that.