Johnson's government has just lost their majority

Corbyn has to play it very carefully, but so long as Boris appears shady about the election or October 31, Corbyn can justify hanging on.

He doesn't have to. He only needs to be watching Forest that evening.

There are 299 combined Tories and DUP. There are 302 (247+35+15+4+1) Lab, Lib, SNP, PC and Green.

Some of the 43 independents + Change will vote but the split of voting independents could well be in Corbyn's favour.

if Corbyn refuses an election, it will be a disaster for labour. Instead of making Borris seem like a failure, it will rally the brexit-support aorund him. As long as Boris is being forced by parliment to delay brexit, and not doing it on his own accord, it will strengthen boris' brexit base, and strengthen their anger towards parliment. On the flip side corbyn looks weak and scared of an election, and Labour get branded as the 'delay' party.

Can't Boris sign some legal document to say he will not change the election date?

Nothing that he can't overturn with a majority. Parliament is sovereign, or so the British constitution allegedly infers, at least it was that way until Rees-Mogg and Cummings and their little tool Johnson took over and turned it into a mere bagatelle.

You clearly haven’t learnt the lesson from very recent history.

This is the sort of bullishness the Conservatives displayed in 2017, so they confidently called an election and lost their majority. Brexit would be done and dusted by now if it wasn’t for that failed gamble.

The key question would be, would the likes of Ken Clarke support such a government. That has to be doubtful.

I suspect you're right that was the plan. But actually it seems this fixed term thing might be 'working' here.

Bojo cant just call an election, he can be dragged through the mud for a good while.

I'm sorry. Once you have lost control, you have lost control.

Corbyn isn't going to give Boris a general election until after he has gone to Brussels to get his extension and failed to leave on 31 October. Corbyn needs Boris to be seen as a Brexit failure.

Even then, I think Corbyn may well make another pitch to be put in office with Liberal and SNP support. He might get that support if he offers a referendum before an election.

You clearly haven’t learnt the lesson from very recent history.

This is the sort of bullishness the Conservatives displayed in 2017, so they confidently called an election and lost their majority. Brexit would be done and dusted by now if it wasn’t for that failed gamble.

He can put down a bill for an election and call no confidence both needing 50% plus one - as I said all the stops plays into his hands

Sure. But I think ‘compromise’ and ‘moderation’ have been terms completely abused so that they have just become shorthand for corrupt or without principles. Here’s a word that people are looking for much more than compromise- Authenticity.

Boris needs corbyn to do that!

Even if the delay passes or a referendum (which there is no majority for) a new majority government simply passes a new bill once elected to reverse that.

Agreed. And BJ is about as far from that as possible. I still vividly remember his enthusiastic speech looking forward to Turkey joining the EU and who can forget his night of tortured deliverations as he wrestled with which side to join. Remain or leave. If ever there was a politician who has no values, it is Boris. He simply goes where the wind blows strongest. He is the epitamy of a career politician.

By contrast Corbyn has well defined values. It is just a shame those values appear to so few. Hence my reassertion that a true leader of our country is someone who's agenda aligns with most people.

I also feel that Brits are not very attached to any particular idiology (very much in play in parliament at the moment) but are more concerned with outcomes.