Winseer:
People have access to “information” now the like of which was never seen, even as recently as the Referendum in 2016.
There HAS been a change between 2016 and 2017 though.
People have become more polarized, more set in their ways. It is VERY hard now to convert a voter supporting one argument, into swinging the other way, for example should there be a change of leadership in the same political party.
Corbyn - in the 2017 election got a LOT more support than was expected of him, (to me) because he mopped up a lot of the 2015 UKIP vote, thinking at the time that Corbyn would benefit greatly from the Brexit Dividend, which would enable a future Corbyn government to fully fund it’s lavish spending committments without raising taxes, nor borrowing excessive amounts of new cash via bond floats.
Now that Corbyn has come off the fence on the REMAIN side though? - See how his support has evapourated!! No matter what polls you look at, Corbyn’s now NOT in a position to win a general election, any time soon, unlike earlier this year, when May was still PM.
How on EARTH are Parliament now going to “Stop Boris’ No Deal Brexit” - when any election called - they cannot now WIN?
If they try to remove Boris, and then block an election by NOT suspeding the 2011 Fixed Terms Parliaments Act - then Boris doesn’t HAVE to stand down, because he’s not able to call a general election!
Ultimately, HM the Queen will decide, and it seems that with Today’s news - the Queen fully supports Boris Johnson, as we suspected she supported Brexit all along, but couldn’t show her hand until now.
I suspect Boris will go for a November 7th General Election, if he can - and carry on regardless - if he CANNOT.
A vote of no confidence - would only kick Boris out of his job IF IF IF he reaches November 1st, “Brexit still not done” - for ANY reason. We Brexiteers currently loaning our support to Boris - don’t have the faith to back him like we held our noses and backed May - “Brexit as yet undone”. It’s Do or Die alright! “Kick the Can, and we kick the Bucket” for the Conservatives, too!
First you say that people are set in their ways and even more polarised.Then you seem to be betting the farm on the Leave Labour vote switching to Tory,the Tories remain majority switching to Leave,BoJo being a Leaver not a closet Remainer,the UKIP vote switching to Tory,the Brexit Party mugs switching to Tory.
As opposed to the Tory Remain vote either standing firm because they know that BoJo is a remainer doing an even better job of fooling the Leavers than May.
Or switching tactically to LibDem if not possibly even a combination of both but in which the choice of LibDem is the absolute guaranteed favourite for Remainers.
The Labour remain Blairite vote voting LibDem rather than trusting Starmer to chuck Corbyn under the bus.
The core UKIP vote ( me ) being totally ■■■■■■ off with Farage and UKIP’s politburo for trashing and chucking Batten under the bus.To the point of no longer giving a zb about Brexit or the country’s chances or future because at the end of the day if HM and the forces are happy to give the country away why should I care.
Also even more ■■■■■■ off with the Cons for trashing their own heartlands locally.The perception of the protection of which was always worth a tactical vote for them.
Combine all that with vote rigging in favour of the best perceived Remain candidate on an epic scale,combined with the SNP and Green ( Melons ) Remain vote,I give you the next GE.
In answer to which your best card is unconditional trust in BoJo to not only get us out of the EU which he is on record as supporting.But not then selling us out to China even if he is the real deal and Tory Remainers really do switch to Leave and those of us who’ve effectively been made stateless refugees,by the trashing of our homes as we know them in the home counties,are prepared to vote for the Tory tossers wot dun it. 