Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
The crazy thing is that Johnson's cabal are banking on Corbyn falling into this trap and it shows every sign that he is stupid enough to fall for it.

I wouldn't underestimate how effective the war strategists behind Johnson are. A combination of out Brexiting the Brexit party on the EU and out promising the Labour Party on spending on the very institutions that the people making the promises starved for almost a decade has a good chance of succeeding. They think the opposition is more fractured than they are.

Still, it is a pretty high risk strategy. They could lose Davidson's foothold in Scotland, see weaker NI support, have deselected Tory MPs with a strong personal brand fighting against their replacements and see massive tactical voting, particularly in Tory seats with a strong remain constituency.

It would not surprise that Johnson will be equally as clueless managing any victory as he was after the referendum.
What are labours options here? Sit on their hands and play chicken with Boris or take the bait and just hope they can get the kind of bounce they got during the last election campaign. If they can make Johnson break his promise of leaving on 31/10 then they have gone a long way to nullifying him (Labour would be better off spending their campaign budget trying to convince leavers to vote brexit party).