Baking the Brexit cake

Talks have continued this week over the make up of a possible Government of National Unity, with Harriet Harman (I think) and Ken Clarke both been aprroached and are open to the idea.

For that to happen, a majority of the House would have to unify behind a candidate and vote clearly that the House has confidence in that person, rather than Johnson.

Interestingly, the Prime Minister does not have to be an MP. Or a Lord.

Can be anyone.

Convention dictates that the Leader of the Opposition has the first chance of forming an alternative Government in the event of a Vote of no confidence.

If he fails, there is the remainder of the 14 days period for an alternative to be found, if not an election is triggered.

It seems clear that Johnson and the Cabinet are preparing for an election at some point this year, he would like it to be before 31st October, so he has 5 years before the next one, and the impact of Brexit is not yet known.

The anti-Brexit forces are deeply divided. Probably too divided to agree on anything more than holding a vote of no confidence. They will have had had the summer recess to come up with a plan, but all we have heard is that this party won't work with that leader, and so on and on.

A Government spokesman, not sure who said, when asked about a GNU, "this isn't so much half baked, rather having not seen an oven". But this is someone speaking for Johnson as PM.

And all the while Brexit gets nearer.

Let us not forget that this week, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a televised speech, on Faceache, actually accused former Ministers and current Conservative MPs of "collaborating" with the EU to thwart Brexit. This is yet more wartime analogies, but the use of that word is not fit for the high office that Johnson now holds.

This is straight out of the Trump playbook, and to think Johnson likes to think of himself as a latter day Churchill.