Listening to LBC this morning and James O'B made reference to a set of tweets, I have looked them. I will repeat what was said as it is prescient.
PM Johnson seems to have a plan. It gives me no pleasure to say this but it will be difficult to stop.
The plan is not what some might expect. He is more interested in power than in Brexit. His aim is to fight and win a general election and to obtain a mandate for the next five years. The way he approaches Brexit should not be seen as cakeist and naïve. In policy terms it is: but the thing is that his Brexit plan is not intended to succeed. Instead, it is only intended to create the narrative around which a GE can be won.
First he will go to our EU friends appealing to their economic self interest, demanding things he knows he cannot get. He will present himself as a can-do dealer....whose plan has only been thwarted by intransigence in Brussels
Watch for the sharp shift in tone (which will come when the time is judged right). Erstwhile friends in the EU will become public enemy number one. The UK will be strong and confident. In extremis, we go it alone and leave without a deal.
But the plan is not to leave without a deal in October. That, as he knows, would cause huge disruption, and would not augur well for him as PM. The plan is to be ready to leave...but then to be thwarted by pubic enemy number 2, the remainer Parliament.
He will provoke the moderate Tories. He probably knows that they require a lot of provoking. He will not seek to undermine the confidence of the Labour Party or the Lib Dems. But he will starve the Brexit Party of political space.
He wants to be able to fight a General election , as the man who is standing up for the British people, against the twin evils of the EU and the remain establishment. Vote leave (dominic cummings) have, remember done this unexpectedly successfully once before.
To win he needs to neuter the Brexit Party and bank on the fact that the remain opposition will remain disunited.
All this points, as I said a couple of days ago, to an autumn GE. It is consistent with the UKs ability to concretise Brexit - both his new deal and no deal will remain stubbornly undefined until after the GE.
He has a good chance of success. The difficult task of delivering Brexit is deferred to after the GE … and by then who knows what the options may be, He can cross that bridge when he comes to it.
The easiest way to stop his plan is to prevent him from winning the GE. That depends on the opposition working together. Looking at the relationships between Corbyn, Surgeon, Swinson and Lucas, Johnson might well calculate he has nothing to fear.
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The above was a series of tweets from Phil Sypris, a Professor of EU Law at Bristol University made on the 25th July this year.
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My interpretation of the above is what I have been saying all along.... Johnson is a narcissistic liar who is only interested in power and will go to any lengths to consolidate his grip on the job he believes he is entitled too.
Johnson has used the whole Brexit debate and has actively encouraged the chaos around it for self serving interests and because of that he is not a **** he is a triple **** who could not give two fucks for anybody apart from himself.
