Berni
07-14-2015, 01:52 PM
Clearly all it was ever intended to do was smoke the SNP out into the open and it's worked a treat.
Now the resolve of any Tory backbencher who was wavering on EVEL has been stiffened and that it will now pass easily, as English constituents place their Conservative MPs under pressure to resist exactly this sort of naive move from the SNP.
The Government never for one moment intended to waste any political capital on something as unpopular as foxhunting, but they know it's a subject dear to the hearts of many of their rural constituents and that there will be fury in the heartlands that the SNP has appeared to block it - fury that will be made abundantly clear to MPs when it comes to an EVEL vote.
All in all, a job well done - with the help of the SNP, of course, who are so blindly anti-tory and anti-English that they couldn't see they were being played like a fiddle.
Well played, Dave (or more likely George, who I suspect is the real brains behind this) :bow:
Now the resolve of any Tory backbencher who was wavering on EVEL has been stiffened and that it will now pass easily, as English constituents place their Conservative MPs under pressure to resist exactly this sort of naive move from the SNP.
The Government never for one moment intended to waste any political capital on something as unpopular as foxhunting, but they know it's a subject dear to the hearts of many of their rural constituents and that there will be fury in the heartlands that the SNP has appeared to block it - fury that will be made abundantly clear to MPs when it comes to an EVEL vote.
All in all, a job well done - with the help of the SNP, of course, who are so blindly anti-tory and anti-English that they couldn't see they were being played like a fiddle.
Well played, Dave (or more likely George, who I suspect is the real brains behind this) :bow: