UK General Discussion: 2019. Blackadder goes Brexit.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Of course it exists, Corbyn can create it any time he wants.

I have to say, the idea people like you seem to have that Labour MPs would support some unelected "grandee" en masse - even if Corbyn said they should, itself highly unlikely - is far more improbable than that the leader of the opposition should be made PM for a few weeks to do literally one thing.

Total magical thinking.

Ah yes sorry, we all forgot that the parliamentary Labour party loves Jeremy Corbyn so much they will not accept anyone except him as Prime Minister...

Catch yourself on! You're the one magical thinking!

If this was truly about stopping no-deal (which it clearly isn't), obviously it wouldn't matter one bit if the Prime Minister is Corbyn or anyone else who support the idea of asking for an extension with the EU.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Not in the UK...

In Germany that is the only way we call snap elections.

Leaving Europe now apparently includes bringing German customs and politics to Britain...

Anyway it didn't work out too well for Schröder when he pulled this stunt as the opponent he hoped to beat in that snap election has been the chancellor for 14 years, but I'm sure mastermind BoJo will be more successful.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

It's like they're trying to lose.

https://twitter.com/BenKentish/status/1175844135582015489

At the moment UK rules on eligibility to vote make little sense.

Indeed, I never quite understood why a Pakistani or Mozambique Citizen in the UK should be able to vote, while a Pole or a Frenchman should not. New Zealand allows this, and it works pretty well there.  
That said, It does rather seem to be changing the rules of the game for partisan advantage, though. Labour would clearly be the beneficiaries of this. And it disincentivizes people from Naturalising and becoming British Citizens.

Given the current situation with Brexit such a big thing, it might actually be the LibDems?

Either way, it certainly wouldn't be the Tories which is why it probably appeals to Labour

The Labour priority list:

1) The wrong faction of Labour must be stopped from having power.
2) The Tories must be stopped from having power.
3) Labour government.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Does the question about a caretaker PM even matter any longer? Wasn't the entire point of a caretaker government that it would ask for an extension and then call new elections, which the Benn Act has solved anyway?

The problem is that even if Labour, LibDems, the expelled Tories, SNP, Greens and Plaid all manage to agree on a PM, it seems almost impossible that they would agree on a common Brexit line, so a government would have to have a very clear and easily implemented objective that can keep them together for a short while until a new election.