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Originally Posted by whomario
I'm not sure there's a mechanism for it and with a guaranteed landslide for the current opposition there doesn't seem to be any chance for it to be agreed upon.
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There is, just you need a majority to vote for it. There's two options to get there:
A) The upcoming Conservative Party leadership contest: It's plausible, if unlikely, that rebels who supported candidates that didn't win call for a General Election (basically, at that point, the Conservative Party will have no one who can command a majority of the House of Commons, and therefore be forced to ask the ruling Monarch for permission to schedule a new general election, to get things moving again)
B) Several Tories have mooted the equivalence of "Look, we're only going to damage our standing and not be able to do anything for the next two years ANYWAY, let's try to gracefully move into Opposition and get started on rebuilding the party so we can return to power quicker."
One of the arguments with B) is with the polls as bad as they are now, they may not even be the official Opposition, as they could potentially be the party with the third or even fourth most seats in Parliament. Of course, waiting could only make it worse, but there are enough folks who are praying that the metaphorical horse will learn to sing that they're willing to try anything as long as there's a chance of it stabilizing the party's power over the next two years of the scheduled terms..