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Why would Corbyn go to the Queen with a coalition government when he wants a GE?
It was in response to the calls for May calling an election, and delaying the polling day, to prevent parliament from having more of a say, and forcing hard Brexit by running down the clock.
I can't quite follow your second paragraph, so apologies if I missed something.
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I can't quite follow your second paragraph, so apologies if I missed something.
Put another way, if Corbyn waits then he gets both the things that he wants - an election, where he could get a majority without relying on others, and a Brexit that is 100% blameable on the Tories.
If he tries to form a coalition government then he's a) beholden to the other parties to get stuff done and b) those other parties all disagree with his stance on Brexit, and the price to form the coalition may well be a second referendum, or A50 retraction.
Therefore, if May calls an election and he waits, he potentially gets absolutely everything he wants, if he tries to form a coalition he does get into power, but as a member of a coalition, encumbered with terms and conditions which he doesn't want.
I can't see any reason, on balance, that he'd do anything other than wait for the election.
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Why would Corbyn go to the Queen with a coalition government when he wants a GE?
He may as well wait, then have an actual majority (if he thinks he can win), than create a coalition with three parties who hold views which are either totally opposed, or mostly opposed, to his own WRT Brexit? Plus, Brexit would happen in the background whilst he waited for the GE, and the chaos of no-deal would possibly push a bunch of people his way - for e.g. people who would not then be voting leave or remain, as that ship would have sailed, but Labour vs Tory.