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Originally Posted by Damien
The Tories could have prevented it by upholding their side of the agreement. What's the point of making your support of something conditional on getting something else in return if you go ahead and doing it anyway when that agreement is broken? It's just an invitation to not be taken seriously for the rest of the Parliament.
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As the headmaster said to the pupil, whilst thrashing him with a cane, "this is hurting me more than it's hurting you ... "
This actually has nothing to do with the Tories at all, unless you're happy to swallow the Liberal Democrat excuses for ratting on their principles in order to score political points.
Certainly, in the context of reduced numbers of MPs, and therefore a lower parliamentary wage bill, it could have happened. It would have happened. The one and only thing that stopped it happening was the withholding of Lib Dem votes.