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Tinpot tyrant Boris Johnson's deplorable Very British Coup proves Brexit was always a Right-wing plot and never about Parliamentary sovereignty.

An unelected Prime Minister without a mandate or Tory majority suspending the House of Commons is a power grab that would shame a banana republic.

Sinister No 10 co-conspirators whispering darkly he could lose a no confidence vote by MPs in the next fortnight and Johnson would barricade himself in Downing Street illustrates how deeply this crisis, as Commons Speaker John Bercow declared, is a constitutional outrage.

Untrustworthy and a congenital liar as the leader of his own Selfservative Party, Johnson's reckless ploy to secure his position is the egomania of an unprincipled charlatan.

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Threatening to wreck the economy with a foolish no deal Brexit to appease Nigel Farage and Tory ideological obsessives or triggering a showdown to set himself up dishonestly as the People versus Parliament in a General Election, jaundiced Johnson's footnote in history is assured as a two-faced Janus.

He couldn't even keep a straight face or remember what polices he's supposed to be championing during a grinning, stumbling TV interview trying to justify what would be the longest prorogation of Parliament for 40 years.

Sensible, decent MPs need to get their act together when the Commons returns on 3 September.

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This is a battle between true democrats and the liar who lied and lied again to squeak a referendum result three Prime Ministers ago in another Parliament he promised would deliver a mythical £350m a week for the NHS and produce easy trade deals - not exit without a deal.

Labour Left-winger Clive Lewis vowing police would have to drag MPs out of the chamber and calling on people to take to the streets is Johnson not getting it all his own way.

The counter-coup is underway.