Thread by @Staedtler

They're not going to set election day for November 1st. Shall I explain why? It'll be my little treat.

The way I understand it, the idea would be to have polling day just the other side of Brexit day, but before the effects of Brexit manifest themselves.
It's bollocks.

The reason it's not going to happen is that you have to dissolve parliament five weeks before polling day.
Ah.
And once you dissolve parliament you're pretty well fucked if any crisis comes along.

Once you dissolve parliament, your lifeline is gone. There is no way you can stop Brexit after that.
And everybody knows that. The markets know that, Europe knows that, and industry knows that.
At the moment parliament is dissolved, that's the moment Brexit is made real.

The markets and industry and everyone everywhere are not going to sit on their thumbs for five weeks while you pootle through a general election.

The minute parliament is dissolved, that's when you're going to get the "Brexit shock". Because everyone will know it's real then.

Now the Tories have got an almighty crisis, not "after Brexit" as they wanted, but five weeks before polling day.
And no way of dealing with it.

You see how it works now? Setting an election date for the very day after Brexit, and then dissolving parliament, is the surest way of losing that election.
Which is why that's yet another daft idea that's not going to happen.