Brexit

[Biggerboat1]

Ka-pi96 said:

Biggerboat1 said:

I think they left it so late so that a) there wouldn't be a lot of time for parliament to scrutinise and find fault in the current deal, which by all accounts isn't any better than the one that Teresa May had negotiated & b) the pressure of the impending deadline and threat of a no-deal Brexit would cause some MP's to panic and back BoJo...

It really is all just attempts to out-manoeuvre the opposition and frustrate parliament - the best example being the proroguing, a super-cynical bid to tie parliament's hands!!

Trying to pressure people into agreeing a deal due to a ticking clock is a dumb tactic at the best of times, but when it comes to something as important as this? ugh...

Although it's not just now. Theresa May took an awful long time before she started trying to get a deal too. She triggered article 50 to leave and then was just like "eh, we can deal with the details of it later".

Yes indeed - it wasn't a new tactic. After Johnson's open and frequent criticism of May's deal & strategy he's gone and secured a deal which many regard as worse and then doubled down on her tactics of pressure and suppression... He's a pure career politician if there ever was one... We've got ourselves in quite the mess!