Shenanigans

The sad thing is that there's no need for a General Election given the Brexit Bill is moving through Parliament as we speak and is likely to be approved, just not as quick as Boris would like. 

Boris is against scrutiny - that much is evident by his refusal to be questioned by the Liaison Committee. l think it likely that, despite him saying a hard Brexit is off the table, he wants a slim majority in order to push through a hard Brexit after a GE. It's what his millionaire and speculator backers desperately want and a GE is the only way left for him to achieve this. It's a desperate, last bid gamble. Why else delay the Bill's passage through Parliament? He blames Parliament for the delay and then goes and delays it himself by 6 weeks - rank hypocrisy! The man is not to be trusted. 

1. With a deal, any worker protection legislation would stay the same during the transition period, although Boris has moved that from the binding part of the agreement to the non-binding, which speaks volumes but, of greater impact on him and his backers, 

2. the EU Anti Tax Avoidance Directive legislation, most of which is already in place (but another few rules come into effect in January), would also continue for the duration of the transition period, but 

3. with a hard Brexit, any ATAD legislation would be binned immediately, much to the delight of his backers. 

The LibDems and all the smaller parties are going to benefit from this enormously and could easily become kingmakers at the expense of disaffected Tory and Labour supporters who are fed up of the two main parties drifting to the extremes of the political continuum. The Tories have no friends outside of the Tory party - even Führage of the Brexit Party Ltd. has turned against Boris. However, Labour could work with virtually any other party, except the Brexit Party Ltd. and its unelected leader, who can't be removed because it has no members, only paying subscribers.

One polling pundit believes there could be as many as 100 non-Tory / non-Labour MPs after this election - a very high percentage and would make Parliament look more like the legislatures of continental countries, possibly hastening proportional representation. 

The irony is that the Tories are relying on climate change to reduce the Labour turnout...