After reading some of the GAF thread on Jeremy Corbyn losing a no confidence vote massively in Labour, for whatever that thread was worth, and then browsing some UK political articles in relation it appears some people are calling for an election to be held in October of this year. These could be UK David Brooks' for all I know. (*MANDARK TRIGGER WARNING* 9th anniversary coming up of
his potentially greatest sentence: "The drama opened, as these dark comedies are wont to do, with a strutting little peacock who went by the unimaginative name of Joe Wilson." With one of many runner-ups: "As Joe Wilson was an absurd man with a plain name, Scooter Libby was a plain man with an absurd name." Bonus: "Scooter Libby emerged as the least absurd character in the entire drama, and yet he was the one who committed a crime. President Bush entered the stage like a character from another world, a world in which things make sense.")
But from what I can tell, there's absolutely no reason for the Tories to agree to this other than as political cover to stall the exit from the EU. Which they could stall anyway if the people are "actually against it" as suspected. They have an absolute majority in Parliament, nobody else is even close, so attrition won't kill them off. Labour is imploding even more apparently based on this hilarious vote, so the "best" result could be a Tory plurality with gains for all the smaller parties. LD and UKIP mostly from the polls, though not by huge amounts.
The Conservatives have to willfully not form a government after the current one resigns
or two-thirds of Parliament has to vote to dissolve itself. If the polling gets worse for Labour they alone could block the latter.
Also regarding Father Mike's original question that I poo-poo'ed with the law (which some GAFers don't seem to be aware is a thing) it seems one of the things that the Labour Party is upset with Corbyn about is that he shit on their "Labour In" Remain campaign. And they have e-mails (from a private server?!?) or whatever showing his staff trying to distance him from it because of left-wing opposition to the EU to preserve his position.
Also, all the Sanders/Corbyn comparisons in that GAF thread, in the comment sections of sites, etc. are great. Trump sounds like the better comparison outside of everything BUT ideology if you're going to do one of those "ALL POLITICS MUST FIT THE US MODEL" things we're so fond of.
