Tories need to be stopped from carrying out their promises by being sacked, but cannot admit it.
LibDems now have more need for an early election than for stopping Brexit but cannot admit it.
Brexit party needs Bojo to stay as PM and sell out Brexit, but cannot admit it.
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There is a huge churn of both the Labour and Tory parties gaining and losing either Remain or Leave voters to both the Brexit party and LibDems, depending on which way they lurch and which way the others lurch.
In this complicated dance of totally unprincipled opportunists in four parties, the UK political system is falling to bits. It was designed for two parties each delivering their supporters to accept compromise to win elections from their opponents.
Bojo desperately needs a "Final Say" referendum to be "forced" on him. May had to resign after admitting a second Brexit referendum was inevitable so Bojo is putting up a quite convincing show that he would rather jump off the cliff-edge of "No Deal" unless restrained. Furthermore he has threatened to pre-empt using a general election to stop him. If defeated in a Vote of No Confidence (VoNC) he would supposedly refuse to resign and instead schedule any general election for AFTER a "No Deal" Brexit had already happened by default on October 31.
Thus the most practical way to restrain Bojo is to replace him as PM with a temporary minority government holding a "Final Say" referendum before a general election. That is what he wants. But he is having to practically demand it as his opponents are such limp jellyfish.
The UK press is getting hysterical about a "Constitutional Crisis", joined by some constitutional lawyers:
Can Boris Johnson ignore parliament and force a no deal Brexit?
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It is unclear whether the majority against Brexit in the House will continue to "exhaust every other alternative" before finally doing the Constitutional thing.
But in the end the House has to simply replace the government with one it has confidence in. The problem is that hardly anybody in the UK has confidence in any of the parties, including their MPs.
Is it too late to stop a no deal Brexit?
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