Here comes the next 'international megastar' in the ring to ravage democracy
Cartoon from Niagara Falls Review
As Boris Johnson steps in, democracy becomes a sitting duck to get mauled by its attackers. You want something to be done your way, you won't take 'no' for an answer, so you shut the parliament and reopen it barely 2 weeks before the deadline. You know that's too short a period for those guys to mull over the issue. That's called a badass game-plan.
And it's not quite the end of the story. Johnson became PM through Tory votes, not a general election. Legally he doesn't have the mandate to suspend the parliament nor to bypass a Brexit deal which risks a series of economic catastrophes plunging Britain into a protracted recession. Yet no worries. Politics is all about power, browbeating and walking heavy. Johnson loves to presume his bully-boy maneuvers will intimidate the bloc and coerce them to make some attractive concessions while Mr. Corbyn's hands are tied with too little backing to win a vote of no confidence.