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Hosie is a smart politician who's been around the block a few times, so I doubt he's proposing going after the Sun King and risking missing.
They need to ensure that whatever they do doesn't mean the Benn Act can be circumvented by chicanery around the date of a future election. For the best (not ideally, because there's no ideal in this current situation), they could seek a means to allow a caretaker government of whatever makeup and leadership to take over in the interim before an election at the time of its choosing, but given Jo Swinson's intransigence, ambition and lack of any sense of team playing, it's hard to see what its complexion might be.
Many of us in Scotland received a mass-mailed Lib Dem "newspaper" this week, with Swinson claiming credit for the overturning of the prorogation when in reality she was very marginal and a Jo-come-lately, Joanna Cherry Photoshopped out of a picture of the main proponents in the case, and alleging that the SNP are covertly conniving to bring about a no-deal Brexit as a way of pursuing their aim of "breaking up the union". Either whoever put that together's been asleep for the last three years, or they assume the electorate up here are stupid and have no access to media of any sort. It doesn't exactly encourage an atmosphere of trust.
There's no love lost between Sturgeon and the SNP and Corbyn and Labour at a political level, but she's said she'd support his becoming interim prime minister if that proved to be the best or only option. That's a pretty big step for her.
We obviously don't know what attempts are being made behind the scenes to cobble together a plan to get around this. There are plenty of clever, very experienced politicians on the anti-no deal side. If they can finally figure out how to work together - and Cox and Johnson and Cummings's conduct in parliament and outside it this last week may have focused minds a little - then we may have some hope.
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