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Consider Jo Swinson and Jeremy Corbyn's differing approach to trying to stop no deal:
JS: I want a unifying figure (not me!) to lead a GNU. Can't be JC because he's not unifying enough.
JC: Back me, or get no deal Brexit. I will not accept a GNU. I must be PM.
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You may hate JS with every fibre of your being and worship the ground JC walks on. Doesn't change the truth of what I posted, only your ability to see it.
(Note: a minority government is not a GNU.)
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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The problem is the VONC chicken and egg:

1. Corbyn has to call it.

2. Corbyn won't call it unless he's sure it will succeed ("when the time is right").

3. But Corbyn insists he must be PM. Not enough MPs will back that idea for VONC to succeed.

4. So it will never get called.
5. But that means the attempt to form a GNU will also not happen.

6. So we get a no deal Brexit. Hello darkness, my old friend...

If Corbyn changes the situation in step 3 by taking a pragmatic approach, all the rest could be different too. And we could have a happy outcome.
Under the current system the LOTO has to be the one to call a VONC. Nobody is disputing LOTO's Corbyn. He is super key to VONC!

But he won't call VONC if he can't win it & he can't win it if precondition is he'll be made PM. So he won't call it at all unless he changes his tune.
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"Labour will allow councils to seize abandoned shops to give them a new lease of life as cooperatives or community centres" Typical! Another policy based on theft. Those shops are owned by someone, who may already be desperate because they can't fill them. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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Lawyer who actually knows how this stuff works. We should listen, then some should pipe down.
And a little dessert...
If Jeremy Corbyn presses his claim as next PM and fails, he's a busted flush.

It's the "told you so" moment to end all told you so moments. There will have been a staggering number of warnings that it was going to play out that way.

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