And now I wonder...

Has Boris moved too early?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49493632

This may just possibly give the opposition the motivation to get behind Ken Clarke or Harriet Harman as leader and stop the whole thing from being a total disaster.

Tempo is everything in politics. This is a surprising move given he has now telegraphed his intent and limited the time in which any opposition has to happen; this has to concentrate the opposition to a Hard Brexit. I guess Boris and Dominic are pretty assured of the general complacency and pig-headedness in the Labour Party coming to the assistance of the Hard Brexiter group. In this I think their analysis to be correct. But I live in hope that I’m wrong.

I didn’t know that some in the British Establishment hated the Good Friday Agreement that much; because it appears that the ERG and Tory party have repudiated it completely; either that or they were just too fucking stupid to realise what they were tinkering with, having always overlooked every fucking Irish question that has ever been raised.

Well, I’m getting an Irish passport. Brexit has done this. I will always acknowledge HM as my personal liege, but her government is something I find intolerable atm.
 

OK

The prorogation of Parliament means that the only option now left with time to be effective is actually a no-confidence vote. And that's not going to happen if Jezza is going to lead the united opposition to a hard Brexit; it will only happen if someone like Ken Clarke or Harriet Harman can lead a cross-party government of national unity. Jezza ain't the man to do that.

But, at a guess, Seamus will never allow him to see that fact.

Now it becomes obvious how Dominic has played his hand, and he is relying, perfectly properly IMHO, that Seamus will constrain Jezza, and any cross-party co-operation in opposition to Boris's version of Brexit will necessarily fail.

But maybe, just maybe, Dominic will be wrong. Jezza was always a Bennite Brexiter. I guess he didn't consider that when cut adrift from the EU that we would merely end up a twitching carcase for the vulture capitalists to pick-over. I'm sure Seamus can prevent anyone with such an opinion actually speaking to Jezza.

Gods, we are so stuffed. So very stuffed.