Either the EU passes a workable deal or the BREXIT occurs, either way....he wins.
Maximum...?
Seems to me sovereignty is a lot like pregnancy.
Either you are...or you aren't.
He’s able to learn from the master. Watching Trump do the same for three years on a more grand scale. He says Brexit is a done deal regardless and viola the EU comes to the table. That’s called “The Art of the Deal”.
I think that very nicely explains Merkel,Junker The Drunker,Varadkar,and the various Remoaners in Britain.
Another one of my favorite quotes on Brexit comes from Jacob Rees-Mogg who recently observed that "a club that kicks you in the shins as you try to leave probably wasn't worth joining in the first place".
There can be no doubt that a Britain free to enforce its own laws,free to establish its own immigration and residency policies,free to sign its own trade agreements with the US,Canada,Australia,Japan (and others) will do just fine...as do many women who manage to extricate themselves from an abusive marriage.
Boris is winning by losing. Perhaps he belongs to the Church of the SubGenius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
Actually, Boris is calling the bluff of a divided opposition in Parliament:
Labour - two-faced, wants and doesn’t want Brexit. It has lost a huge chunk of the working class to UKIP and now the Brexit Party.
Liberal Democrats - Europhiles. They have always wanted UK in the EU.
Scottish Nationals - They now kind of want Brexit as a pretext for Scottish independence.
All three parties say a no deal Brexit will usher in catastrophe. In fact, the UK is doing quite well in terms of GDP, unemployment and national budget.
The other parties are bluffing because Conservatives + Brexit > Labour + Lib Dems + Scottish Nationals; indicating that the Conservatives would win a new election.
Boris prefers an FTA-type deal, with the UK regaining the ability to negotiate trade deal with other countries. The EU wants a Norway-type relation, where UK is part of the “single market,” with trade agreements with the rest of the world decided by the EU. In such a case, Brexit would only mean the UK no longer make equalization payments into the EU (not an insignificant consideration).
He needs to be clever about it. Too many concessions to the EU, especially ones that mean we can’t formulate trade deals with our shamefully shunned dominions and the US as well as emerging economies around the world and he will have rendered Brexit pointless.
I am glad Boris is fighting for the Sovereignty of the UK. May didnt want Brexit, so she accepted whatever Brussels wanted, in the hope that citizens of the UK would accept that the EU would still control certain aspects of the EU contract.
On a side note, my husbands younger relatives (50 and under) simply dont much remember the UK with total sovereignty. And they enjoy being able to have citizen rights in the other countries of the EU. Im sure they voted Remain. But the older population is fed up with being dictated to by Brussels. I sure hope Boris wins......I didnt enjoy watching Britain being subjugated by Brussels.