Everyone Wants An Election Now (!)

Well, I watched Marr. Blunt was on. He seemed like a decent bloke. Anyway, today we have news that the SNP and the Liberal Democrats have hatched a plan to have a general election on the 9th of December. Three days earlier than the Boris proposal.

Again, we see this flipping of the narrative. With Jo Swinson (and to an extent Marr himself when he interviewed James Cleverly) accusing the Conservatives of now running from an election. Just crazy to watch.

It's hard to say what will happen now. No doubt this newly proposed GE plan is just an attempt to take control of the agenda and play for ever more time. Perhaps they've calculated that Boris will never agree to their proposals, which will then give them leverage. As per the narrative above;

"..but we offered Boris a chance to have an election and he refused to take it!" *shocked face*

We'll then get a constant blame game where all the parties are accusing each other of blocking an election. Meaning every politician will then have an excuse for why we're not having one.

Perhaps I'm doing them a disservice though. Maybe they see that an election is now inevitable and that they'll have to face the public sooner or later. So are getting on the front foot and making sure things are set in place on their terms.

However, it's hard to imagine they've dropped their preference for a referendum and are now willing to give Boris the election he wants.

Should be an interesting week whatever happens though :)