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Originally Posted by Pierre
It's evident no new arrangements have been offered regarding the N.I. Border. Boris is wanting the EU to capitulate.
You say Boris is a chicken, but he is certainly playing chicken.
He obviously thinks he has some way to circumnavigate the Benn Bill, no doubt that is what he went to the EU with, and no new deal.
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Boris and his ministers have made themselves absolute hostages to fortune if they are sitting on anything less than an absolute dead-cert (or as near as that as is possible in legal situations). Their pronouncements about us definitely leaving on 31 October have, uncharacteristically in political-speak, left them essentially no wriggle room at all. Yes, Theresa May insisted she was taking us out on the agreed date right up til it was very evident that was not possible, absent a willingness to leave without a deal, but aside from being a very different personality to Boris, May has quite simply used that trick up. If Boris doesn’t lead us out on 31 October, becoming the second Tory PM to make precisely the same coq-up in a matter of months, the Tories will be utterly crucified at the polls, and he knows it.
Only time will tell exactly what they have up their sleeves.