After a fairly quiet weekend, enlivened only by rumours of plans of further moves to suspend Parliament and democracy, maybe some movement today.
One path sees Johnson going to meet outgoing EU President, Junker, in which Johnson will reject any offer of a further extension. This would be breaking UK law, btw.
On the other had, news is coming that Number 10 have been examining the "purgatory" option, of a multi-year transition, during which time the UK would accept all EU rules and standards.
Both cannot be true, or both cannot happen. Johnson will have to chose one, and after extracts from Cameron's autobiography were released yesterday, just confirming that backing Leave was just a career move for Johnson, when push came to shove he would do what is best for the country?
I mean, who knows?
If the latter is true then Johnson has gone from leaving on the 31st to an extension of maybe seven years, in just over a month. How much further movement could there be before the 31st October?
The ERG are not stupid. They know what Johnson is really like, and so have said, over and over again that they will not back any WA at all, with no deal the only course they accept.
Keeping both sides of the party happy was always impossible, May's three yeas as PM showed that, but the time is coming when a choice has to be made. As moderates are evicted from the party, and then move to the LibDems, the old Conservative and Unionist Party is dead. I mean, if it is neither conservative or unionist, what is the party for?
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