let's go to the vote on December 12th

No more Halloween Brexit, the goal is now the elections under Christmas. Boris Johnson breaks the delay – after he managed to snatch a majority in Westminster on Monday only on the first step of his divorce agreement from the EU, but not the go-ahead for an iter sprint to close the game by October 31 as he had promised – and relaunches the paper of the anticipated political vote: announcing for Monday a new motion by the Tory government in Parliament to try to get the dissolution of the House of Commons on 6 November and the convocation of the polls on 12 December. The battle starts uphill, as the motion to pass will require a two-thirds quorum.

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And the first reactions of the opposition parties are instead aimed at confirming obstructionism, at least for now. But the challenge rises in tone and Johnson appears determined to embarrass rivals describing them as notables barricaded in the palace, afraid of facing the "people's" judgment. The announcement came at the end of a meeting of the Cabinet Council. And it was formalized in the courtroom by the Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, Leader of the House, after the Municipalities had approved the contents of the Queen's Speech: that is the government's programmatic lines. BoJo explained that he is ready to give more time, as the opposition asks, to debate "the excellent deal" he reached with Brussels in extremis, but only if the deputies finally say yes to the elections to break the deadlock in any case. Otherwise the threat of the executive is to continue to put on the calendar the motion for the vote "day after day".

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And maybe, who knows, to even present a self-distrust for which a simple majority would suffice. The proposal, after all, will arrive in the classroom after the EU has decided – over the weekend – on the duration of the extension of the exit of the Kingdom from the EU beyond 31 October, clearing the field of the nightmare no deal invoked by its opponents. In an interview with the BBC, Johnson first invited the Labor opposition – whose leader Jeremy Corbyn had repeatedly said he was ready to accept the challenge of the vote once the extension had been obtained and that the risk was' hard Brexit 'no longer on the table – to say yes this time in the elections. So that the Chamber is dissolved on November 6 and the electoral campaign can begin.

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A campaign that in the words of the prime minister, controversy towards the Parliament and its obstacles to Brexit, will be based on the slogan "Get Brexit done", that is the commitment to complete three and a half years from the pro Leave result of the 2016 referendum to London's farewell to the EU and to allow the country to "look ahead". "It would be morally completely unbelievable" if Corbyn and the leaders of the other opposition parties – from the Scottish independence party of Nicola Sturgeon's SNP to the Liberal Democrats of Jo Swinson, both categorically anti-Brexit and in favor of a second referendum – rejected both to approve the agreement, both to go immediately to the elections thus returning the word "to the British people", Johnson thundered again.

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To reinforce the message, he did not fail to publish an open letter to Jeremy Corbyn on his Twitter profile in which he accuses Westmister of having "refused to take a decision" and of keeping the country "hostage", while he fears negative consequences "for business, work and public trust in democracy" if "the paralysis continues until 2020 ». Not without challenging the number one of the Labor party – in difficulty even due to the divisions within his party – to respect the commitments made: «You had repeatedly said – the premier reminds him sharply – that he would have immediately supported the use of elections once the 'EU had accepted Parliament's request for a postponement (of Brexit) to January 31st. I suppose that this remains his position and that you now support the vote so that voters can replace a failed Parliament ».

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