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muriel_volestrangler

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7. Miliband (and Clegg) are supporting Cameron on this

Reply to truebrit71 (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 10, 2014, 11:43 AM

Jul 2014

The front benches have done a deal in secret, and now expect their parties to fall in line. Cameron is unlikely to suffer much from this. I suppose if Farage came out against it, he might peel a few Tories away to UKIP, but UKIP voters, being a right wing authoritarian bunch, are probably in favour of this.

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