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Originally Posted by Damien
The whips might be responsible for misreading the mood within the party and the opposition and some senior strategist might have misread how the public/media would react but the significance of what they were proposing cannot have been missed by the senior members of the Government. It's just bad advice may have meant they felt they could get away with it without too much cost.
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The u-turn has been too quick and too comprehensive for senior cabinet members to have been fully up to speed and supportive of this. Don’t get me wrong, if their eyes were off the ball they shoulder their share of the blame, but I don’t think this can have been initiated, planned and signed off at the top. It has been put together lower down the food chain and signed off by ministers who have had their minds on other things.