Ritchie and political analysis
Posted by Christie Malry on October 25, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Ritchie has an interesting take on last night's House of Commons vote on whether to hold an EU referendum:
One can question the sense of making the vote a three line whip. But "Cameron's" side in yesterday's debate won by 483 to 111. So if this truly were a question of Cameron's trust, it would appear that he overwhelmingly enjoys MPs' trust.
I think what he was getting at was that of the MPs who are not Ministers or PPSs, just over half rebelled - i.e. half the non-payroll vote kicked off. Not that I've checked the numbers myself but I remember a non-Murphbee commentator somewhere else has done the sums.
For once Ritchie's maths might not be of the 2+2=7 variety, which is still noteworthy.