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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-01-09 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 09-01-2018

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[personal profile] calimac 2018-01-10 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No, the question, phrased in terms of that point, is "Why hasn't this happened since the Corn Laws?" When crisis situations sufficient to cause them have happened before, and I cited the previous Tory v Europe crisis under Major.

So the basic question, as I explained it before, is, and I quote, "I don't need to know why things are as they are so much as why they're different than they were on previous occasions when they've been as they are."
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[personal profile] calimac 2018-01-10 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, even the Corn Laws were a different type of situation. There, almost all the ministers went along with the PM (except for Stanley, and he resigned, as one would ordinarily do in such an impasse). It was the backbenchers who revolted, and did so in such quantity as to suggest that what kept the ministers on board was loyalty to the PM - the exact quality missing today - more than agreeing on the issue.