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Attempts to distract attention do not come dirtier than humiliated Boris Johnson’s election ruse.

This is an incompetent Prime Minister who by his own words should be “dying in a ditch” after admitting his vow to leave the EU on Halloween is a Tory horror show.

His demands are a smokescreen to cover his latest failure. He’s so impotent he can’t get an election.

Corbyn ordering his troops to abstain again means Johnson will fail a third time to get his needed two-thirds majority in Parliament.

Yes, Corbyn looks like a chicken, but better that than being a turkey risking a vote for Christmas.

I question whether the Tory Grinch really desires an immediate election campaign.

The ComRes poll showing Labour ahead on 27% if the EU leaving deadline is extended beyond October 31, putting Corbyn’s party marginally in front of the Tories on 26%, will send a chill through No10.

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Nigel Farage’s Brextremist Party on 20% could bite big chunks out of a working class vote Johnson had hoped to devour.

Privileged Old Etonian entitled posh boy Johnson wanted to have his cake and eat it, demanding Labour give him an easy timetable to deliver Brexit and that election.

Corbyn was right to hold fire. The clocks go back on Sunday so Labour’s massive army of foot soldiers would be neutralised as it is dark by 5pm. It would have been the first December clash since 1923.

The bold strategy is to fight Johnson’s bad Brexit and prepare for decision day next March.