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To: Hieronymus

Party discipline is much stronger in the UK Parliament than it is in our Congress. The parties have a lot more tools to keep their members in line, and defections are rare, particularly in no confidence votes like this one. There hasn’t been a successful no-confidence vote since 1979, and the major parties voted entirely along party lines.


21 posted on 01/16/2019 10:39:40 AM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: The Pack Knight; goldstategop

I’ve been in Canada a couple of decades so I am more aware than your average Yank.

Still things are razor thin so it wouldn’t take much.


24 posted on 01/16/2019 10:46:22 AM PST by Hieronymus ((It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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