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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.
I stopped reading because this is nonsense. Corbyn knows a hard Brexit would be very bad for Britain and the British people. He doesn't want that to happen.
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.