A very clever strategy?

I have been mulling for a few says why the EU is being so stupid as to wait for the MPs to do something before deciding whether to allow the UK to have an extension.

I don't think it is the EU, it is President Macron as has been widely reported.

Is it possible though that he is working in unison with Boris Johnson? He refuses to grant an extension unless something happens in Westminster and every day Boris Johnson puts down a motion asking for a General Election. It sound like a chicken and egg situation, and interminable delay - but there is a deadline of 31st October in only 6 days time.

All the MPs that have been bleating about 'taking no deal off the table' will be precisely the same MPs who are keeping no deal on that table. As the clock keeps ticking they are going to start to terrify themselves. Are they really going to wait until the day before Brexit day in the hope that Macron allows an extension besides what he has already said (admittedly via spokesmen)? I can imagine they really don't want to get the blame for no deal! Would that persuade them to allow an election in order to secure the extension?

Maybe I'm being hopeful that there is a coordinated strategy rather than just a three sided stand-off. We shall see shortly.

Squiffy.