Straightbat
Vital Reserves Team
You have been offered Labour support for a programme motion for your Brexit bill - now man up and take it instead of hiding behind an election smokescreen.
Scenario 1: Bill falls (with or without amendments). Surely an election must then follow.
Scenario 2: Bill, with or without amendments, passes with a confirmatory referendum attached. It is illogical to have an election to resolve Brexit. If the purpose of going to the people is to resolve a single issue, then a referendum is the appropriate means. An election could just take us back to where we started and confuses party allegiances and their broad policy directions with an issue that divides the country across party lines.
Scenario 3: Bill passes. Call an early election in the new year which will be fought partly along the lines of what sort of deal we want at the end of the transition period. These details fall much more naturally along party lines.
If Boris continues to prevaricate, we need a no-confidence motion followed by a government of national unity just to get the withdrawal Bill through Parliament until one of the three outcomes above is achieved.
The only problem with the above is Corbyn insisting on no deal coming off the table before he will co-operate but if Boris moves first by programming the bill and the extension is agreed that will not be reasonable, and he would have the chance of opposing a trapdoor exit at the end of the transition period in an election.
Scenario 1: Bill falls (with or without amendments). Surely an election must then follow.
Scenario 2: Bill, with or without amendments, passes with a confirmatory referendum attached. It is illogical to have an election to resolve Brexit. If the purpose of going to the people is to resolve a single issue, then a referendum is the appropriate means. An election could just take us back to where we started and confuses party allegiances and their broad policy directions with an issue that divides the country across party lines.
Scenario 3: Bill passes. Call an early election in the new year which will be fought partly along the lines of what sort of deal we want at the end of the transition period. These details fall much more naturally along party lines.
If Boris continues to prevaricate, we need a no-confidence motion followed by a government of national unity just to get the withdrawal Bill through Parliament until one of the three outcomes above is achieved.
The only problem with the above is Corbyn insisting on no deal coming off the table before he will co-operate but if Boris moves first by programming the bill and the extension is agreed that will not be reasonable, and he would have the chance of opposing a trapdoor exit at the end of the transition period in an election.
