Brexit: As Boris Johnson amasses strength, strange things start to fall into place

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has shown some phenomenal political nerve in first shutting down parliament, and then insisting on party discipline on penalty of expulsion from the wets and wobblies in his Tory Party who'd rather drag the Brexit farce out to keep Britain caged within the EU just a little longer. He's got his eyes on the prize, knowing that it's his job to ensure that Britain can leave the European Union as British voters demanded. Like President Trump, he means to keep his promises.

What's vivid now is that a whole lot of things he probably didn't expect -- and had nothing to do with -- are starting to fall into place for him from the outside.

One we know about is that Johnson's Tories have started to soar in the polls. I wrote about that a few days ago here.

But there's more, way more.

How's this for 'betcha didn't see this coming?'

The lefty Archbishop of Canterbury, who's the highest prelate in the Church of England (the head of the church is actually the queen), who of course opposed Brexit, has now had a weird change of heart. Here's the report from the U.K. Sun:

The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged Remainers to “stop whingeing” and accept the result of the Brexit referendum.
Most Rev Justin Welby said those who voted to stay in the EU must now “take seriously the fact that the majority voted Leave”, stating: “We may not like it, but that is democracy.”

Wow. Just wow. Can you imagine one of our Catholic archbishops saying something comparable about the voters' will on the border wall and their right to having a nation ruled by law? That's pretty much what this lefty archbishop's change of heart amounts to.

Also, Switzerland has had it up to here with the European Union same as Britain did, and now it's making itself an ally of Britain.

Here's another one, from the U.K. Express:

Bern is hoping to ramp up research with London as its relationship with Brussels starts to disintegrate after their failed talks to strike up a permanent economic deal. Swiss leaders don’t believe “dogmatic” eurocrats are willing budge on their final three demands, making a deal being reached this year highly unlikely. The deadlocked talks have left relationships with Brussels, who blocked EU-based investors from trading on Swiss exchanges, strained over the summer.
Failure to strike a permanent treaty could also see Swiss researchers blocked from the single market.
Economy minister Guy Parmelin said this could lead the country’s top scientists to turn to new markets, including Britain after Brexit.
He said: “I think the EU would weaken itself, it no longer cooperated with Switzerland on research.
“We are then forced to seek alternatives, perhaps along with Britain, if the EU remains dogmatic.”

It depends how you loose it. If you have a parliamentary system, you need to either know what you are doing or be inspired or you are in real trouble.

It looks to me to be a case of one of the first two.

He has said that anyone voting against him will be turfed from the party lists—that is brilliant.

Imagine Trump getting to purge all RINOs from running as Pubs (they are free to run as independents to help split the anti-Trump vote) and then drop in candidates hand picked by himself.

The move looks even better than Harper’s best while in minority—and Harper did very well in playing that hand.

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