We seem to have hit a hiatus pretty much on all sides.
Opposition.
The opposition are prepared (because they can't refuse) to proceed with the WAB, but won't agree to not make it an amendment Christmas tree.
With regards to an election, they seem to keep saying they want one but invent ever more complex arguments and conditions for one.
Apparently 140 Labour MP's have said they won't vote for one even if Corbyn three line whips them. The SNP want an election before the Salmond court case hit the news in January.
They still don't seem to be able to get the numbers to push through a SR.
In short they are stuck.
Government
The government would like the WAB through, but not if it amended to something they can't even recognise for fear of what that might signal to the electorate as a Brexit sell out.
Boris would like a GE but the cabinet are apparently split over the GE or WAB route and as the days tick by, the complication of Christmas, dark days, cold days and possible snow loom on the radar.
That's bad enough, but January and February are probably worse.
The EU
Division here is no better. The Merkel camp want to appear "neutral" to either side and therefore give parliament what it asked for. However the Macron camp want a short delay to keep the pressure on, and apparently another three countries back his position.
There's little news yet what, if any, conditions they will attach to the extension. Will it be for a democratic event? Will it be clear its the last extension? Will they again make it plain that the deal on the table is the only deal, that the May deal is dead and they won't renegotiate another deal no matter who the PM is?
So Where Does It Lead To?
Unless the Labour Party call a VONC, the government won't propose a bill to get round the FTPA because Ken Clarke or others will wreck that as well.
However, if Labour do not call for a GE, the window rapidly closes and Labour may well be held to account for that clear weakness, particularly after having called repeatedly for a GE.
My belief now, if that the EU is going to have to be the logjam breaker, if they keep playing the Merkel line to 31/01/2020 will likely result in the failure to have a GE because it now too tight for Christmas and after Christmas is too tight for the end of January.
That means that its either the WAB which will be butchered and then pulled by the government, which then can't be brought back
Then we end up at 31/01/20 and we are absolutely no further forward.
So if the EU wants this done, its in its hands, do a one month flex extension for the WAB and tell the UK, this really is it, no more delays.
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