Macron hatches new deadline with EU Council presidency
www.independent.co.uk
Well, that's a bit of a change up, and a kick in the balls.
Up until now it has essentially been the UK coming hat in hand looking for a hand-out and leaving all the heavy lifting on crafting the break-up policies to the other EU nations. Now the EU politicians are straight out saying that they are not going to do any more of the lifting and come up with a solution, the UK has to do that for themselves and then the other EU nations will decide if it even worth discussing. Oh, and be quick about it.
Sidesteps this problem to some extent as well.
Parliament isn't in session, so it is entirely on the "operating" UK government to craft the proposal without any sort of parliamentary assent. If they cannot do it in a week and a half (ish), or makes an offer that parliament finds unconscionable,
or make a piss-poor plan that gets rejected outright it falls 100% on the BoJo Party.
Which basically means that the blame for the entire inevitable crash-out falling on BoJo is what will happen, since there is no chance that his government will not only be able to slap together a plan in time, or make anything that will please the EU and parliament who wants to leave only on their own favorable terms.
Instead of BoJo being able to blame the EU for rejecting another useless extension where there is no foreseeable possibility of coming to accord and his pointing fingers saying "Oh, I tried, but they just wouldn't listen.", he has to fix the problem once and for all. Proroguing parliament means that any future attempts to point the finger fail since he knowingly crippled the operation of governance at a crucial juncture, and having the deadline fall before the new session of parliament clears every other MP of responsibility while BoJo goes down in history books as the guy who single-handedly (not really, but this is history books we are talking about, not reality) brought about every economic problem onto the UK since he made sure that no one else could be blamed.