extension date at this point what is westminster's plan for pushing this through. well prime minister boris johnson has been compared by his critics to a toddler with a giant hissy fit because he actually is saying he wants to strong arm the opposition into gaining him an election this is his plan old away 3 and now that actually actually exit from the e.u. is sort of up in the air as to when this is going to happen he says the stalemate can only be broken when there is a new general election and he wants to get the opposition to play a role and to help him with that because he does need opposition m.p.'s to actually agree to a general election so where does that leave greg sits we really don't know at the end of this week there's been so much back and forth and now it's up to the e.u. to agree on an extension we know that there are a lot of m.p.'s in parliament who would like to see