https://mobile.twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1169016636940201985
https://mobile.twitter.com/edvaizey/status/1169017715878703105
https://mobile.twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/1169027062755205120
Na fuck the lot of them, and their ilk… Bastards the lot of them.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/1169020433682898946
https://mobile.twitter.com/sexualhealthLDN/status/1169021615952338946
Exactly 
Can’t imagine how crazy it was before you guys had fixed-term Parliaments!
Suppose I should just enjoy seeing Tory scum get their comeuppance, but it was only a few days back that the general thought was Johnson wanted an election where he was fighting bravely for Brexit on Oct 31st, and the likely outcome of all this seems to be exactly that.
Corbyn is rightly refusing to back an election until no deal has been ruled out.
That will be achieved by Benn’s bill that will pass this week, won’t it?
That sounds like they would be up for one from Friday to me, but I’ve certainly been wrong before and who knows what will have happened between now and then.
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1169153502037315590
Am sure he’s been wrong quite a lot too, though.
https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1169200729355145216
This sounds better. Not sure what Johnson’s lame duck government would be up to till then, though.
If the anti-government faction has a majority, are they able to form a coalition government to replace Johnson without an election? Or do they all hate each other too much for that?
They’re claiming they could if corbyn wasn’t around but that feels like all the other schemes they’ve tried to use to get rid of him.
Today, hopefully.
It will still have to pass through the large intestine, sorry the House Of Lords, who have tabled 100 amendments to try to run out of time (equivalent to the US filibuster) but with the weekend there still seems to be enough time for the HoL Labour and Lbi Dem majority to approve the bill.
https://mobile.twitter.com/clear_red/status/1169214585309749249
https://mobile.twitter.com/ghazayel/status/1169220764500930566
https://mobile.twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1169248121555169282
https://mobile.twitter.com/DanHowdle/status/1169248871895175168
https://mobile.twitter.com/DDIGITALMEDIA/status/1169248931445956612
The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has said Labour and other opposition parties have yet to decide when they might support Boris Johnson’s call for an election, saying this would only happen when they were certain that no-deal Brexit on 31 October had been blocked.
The parties were taking legal advice, and would decide day-by-day, he told reporters, saying it meant Labour could still back an election on Johnson’s preferred date of 15 October, once a backbench bill seeking to block no deal had become law, but also possibly not till the Brexit date had been delayed.
The key, McDonnell said, was that they could not trust Johnson, calling him, “beyond all the norms of political and constitutional practice in this country”. He said:
We want to get the legislation secure, with royal assent, but we’re also not going to be tricked or conned, so we’re looking at every way in which, having secured the legislation, that he can’t wriggle out of abusing by the law.
At the moment there’s nothing that Johnson has done in recent weeks that gives us the confidence that he’s going to abide by the law.
McDonnell’s stance seems closer to that advocated by Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, than Jeremy Corbyn’s team. Starmer was due to meet other opposition parties on Thursday morning, McDonnell said, saying that the SNP’s stated preference for an earlier election was “not a settled position by any means” among other parties.
He said:
We haven’t got a preference. Our preference is to stop a no-deal Brexit. So any mechanism that’s available to us, we’re exploring.