Comments on: Wither SSM http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/wither-ssm/ One Damn Thing Leads to Another Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: buckets http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/wither-ssm/#comment-789 buckets Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:48:24 +0000 http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/wither-ssm/#comment-789 "If I were a Liberal strategist I might well be looking for ways to ensure that anti-SSM legislation did, in fact, pass in the Commons. Put that particular cat among the carefully lined up CPC pidgeons and see Tory feathers fly." It's difficult to see how that could be done successfully. But just to play along, how about something like this. The Liberals find some rationale to boycott the vote--'the last vote was fair and sufficient, no need to participate in this rridiculous chirade'. This would mean that the vote would be quite close (my guess is that without the Liberals there are 100ish votes for rescinding and 90ish against.) But, coming back to reality, that would be too cynical for even the Liberals to get away with. “If I were a Liberal strategist I might well be looking for ways to ensure that anti-SSM legislation did, in fact, pass in the Commons. Put that particular cat among the carefully lined up CPC pidgeons and see Tory feathers fly.”

It’s difficult to see how that could be done successfully. But just to play along, how about something like this. The Liberals find some rationale to boycott the vote–’the last vote was fair and sufficient, no need to participate in this rridiculous chirade’. This would mean that the vote would be quite close (my guess is that without the Liberals there are 100ish votes for rescinding and 90ish against.)

But, coming back to reality, that would be too cynical for even the Liberals to get away with.

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