{"id":116132,"date":"2019-10-25T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/25\/corbyn-can-win-a-december-poll-despite-the-fears-of-some-in-his-own-party-owen-jones\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:48:36","slug":"corbyn-can-win-a-december-poll-despite-the-fears-of-some-in-his-own-party-owen-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=116132","title":{"rendered":"Corbyn can win a December poll despite the fears of some in his own party | Owen Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour should tell Boris Johnson he can have an election when his woeful deal is suspendedLabour must agree to a December election \u2013 and in exchange it should get the government to abandon its Brexit deal. Anything else will be a huge political error. Boris Johnson\u2019s current offer \u2013 more time to debate his woeful deal in an attempt to triumphantly ram it through parliament before an election \u2013 is clearly unacceptable.It is, in part, an attempt to deflect from his failed commitment to \u201cdie in a ditch\u201d if Britain did not leave the EU by the end of the month. More significantly, it reflects an attempt to bridge his own internal split: between the old Vote Leave crew \u2013 headed by Dominic Cummings \u2013 who are gunning for a general election, and ministers and MPs, who fear it may not pan out too well, with the Tories vulnerable in Scotland, the south-west and English commuter constituencies. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/oct\/25\/jeremy-corbyn-boris-johnson-brexit-december-election\" target=\"_blank\">Corbyn can win a December poll despite the fears of some in his own party | Owen Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour should tell Boris Johnson he can have an election when his woeful deal is suspendedLabour must agree to a December election \u2013 and in exchange it should get the government to abandon its Brexit deal. Anything else will be a huge political error. Boris Johnson\u2019s current offer \u2013 more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}