I hadn’t realised until just hearing now that once conference season is taken into account we are talking 4-5 days of Parliament sitting which will be missed.
As I said earlier I don’t like the mechanism being used but ultimately this will bring matters to a head once and for all. It could lead to a vote of no confidence and election (or gov of national unity) or bizarrely may well make No Deal less likely.
For all we know (I understand this has been indicated previously) the EU leaders could have told Johnson at the G7 that they don’t believe he would get an amended WA through Parliament in any event, so no point amending.
If Johnson gets through the next few days, and secures any semblance of amendments to the WA from the EU, returns to Parliament they will have a clear decision....the ‘new’ WA or No deal. This might well encourage those politicising the subject to actually make a decision, meaning the ERG (who would likely vote against a WA) may well be outnumbered.
Ps if he’d prorogued parliament covering period over 31 Oct it would have been outrageous