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> a clean way to do it would to be a call for elections Absolutely, but the weakness of the opposition Labour party and the near-annihilation of the Liberal D
by m0nty 10y ago
> a clean way to do it would to be a call for elections
Absolutely, but the weakness of the opposition Labour party and the near-annihilation of the Liberal Democrats at the last election mean (as things stand) it's mostly a foregone conclusion that the Conservatives will win. So to their way of looking at things, they will have two mandates to leave.
It's an extraordinary situation, though. I said to my son on the morning the result was announced, this will affect all of us for the rest of our lives. I still don't think I was being hyperbolic. Seasoned politicians and commentators are saying it's our biggest political crisis since WW2 or Suez, and that's even coming from people who seem to support Brexit.
- gsnedders 10y agoThe Labour situation probably also makes it unlikely for it to be plausible to call for elections, as to call an early election in the simplest way requires a 2/3rds majority of the House in favour (i.e., 431 votes, 101 seats more than the Tories hold). The alternative, which the Tories in principle could do alone, is pass a motion of no confidence in the Government, wait two weeks, and then the House falls to an election (this assumes that all Tories would vote as a block, thereby making it impossible for a motion of confidence to be passed in those two week).