Johnson suspends parliament!!!!!!!!!

@MartinII I'm sure that he'll get a deal that's so much better than no deal😂.

@MartinII I'd be interested to see if that happens. I might argue that by weakening parliament's say on this, the EU only have to offer us a little better than a no-deal position, and we'll be pretty much forced (by Mr. Johnson's actions) into taking it.

@jomsim If there is a deal it will be substantially the May deal, but with changes to the backstop which Johnson can argue are sufficient to make it acceptable. If that happens, the interesting question to me is whether the MPs who are currently campaigning against no deal, but most of whom are also remainers, will be willing to vote for a deal in order to prevent no deal, or whether they will try to prevent Brexit in any form.

@MartinII That would make a lot of sense, although the EU seems to be completely averse to any renegotiation of any kind.

You're right, though, it would be an extremely interesting dilemma of voting for something you don't want in order to prevent a worse version of the thing you don't want.

@jomsim I think the EU is belatedly coming round to the view that they may have to renegotiate in order to avoid a no deal exit, which of course they don’t want.

@MartinII Possibly, which is why I dont thinkits a done deal now. But Johnson just needs to stay at the wheel for this to happen by itself. Unless the EU makes a better offer, (in which has he looks like a winner. He will simply allow the matter to resolve itself, and rid the public of the controversy, in which case he looks like a winner. Churchill to the rescue. And like Churchill, I dont expect he will last long after that.

@whowasthatmaskedman Churchill finally ceased to be Prime Minister 10 years after the war - admittedly with a long interval in between!