Thread by @Staedtler

Weird. Anyway, moving on from Boomer antics, there is no one going to beat Boris Johnson.

None of the Tories are going to vote no confidence, he's got the DUP on side, so he should win a confidence vote by 4.
He's established in government, he's got the keys to the house, the executive functions and whatnot.
Now he has to live up to it.

He goes back to Europe, I want to renegotiate, and Europe says what?
They've got no Commission at the moment, so there's no one to negotiate with. And you said there's no Commission till November.

I remember. End of October, extension expires, and the new Commission doesn't want to deal with this any more.
So what actual choices are there that the new prime minister will have to do one of?

Ruling out May's deal or a new deal, the new prime minister is going to have to do one of two things. Leave with nothing or not at all.

And neither of those things is what they will have just been elected for.

This is where I got stuck.

Failure at the single defining policy that you've just been elected for would usually mean resignation.

So Boris Johnson - again, pretending it's him - has been elected straight into a resignation crisis.
You forced Theresa May out of her job to follow a policy of your own that has immediately failed.
Is he going to resign, though? Of course he's not.

And that's where I get stuck because this is a complete malfunction of the system.
Your prime policy fails, you have to resign, especially if you've just destroyed the last prime minister's government over it.

But if Johnson resigns, it's a general election.

You can't keep changing prime minister like pass the parcel without standing a general election.
And that's where I get a general election.

Johnson gets elected. His policy fails. A new policy must have a new mandate which means a general election and a manifesto. Or he has to resign, and the next new Tory leader has an election.

That's why I can't see but it's going to be a general election. And if the Tories know that, the likelihood is that everyone else drops out, Johnson becomes leader this week, and we get straight into a general election before his policy has had time to fail.

Hell of a risk, mind you. The same thing Theresa May did. Hold an election with no plans and hope for a big enough majority to get away with murder.

An immediate general election with a manifesto to hold another referendum whether to leave or abandon Brexit entirely.