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Originally Posted by Jade
Couldn't negotiate with liberals: they were the offical opposition, playing the rold perfectly by opposing everything put out by the conservatives (in last parliment even those that they had wanted)
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In the last minority government, the Liberals were often absent effectively giving the Conservatives a majority when it came to votes. This was because a lot of the bills they could agree with and offer no opposition.
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Originally Posted by Jade
Besides maybe I'm interpreting this wrong, but I thought this fiscal update was to give an idea of what the conservatives wanted in the budget, so the other parties knew, and could try to make changes before the final budget. Maybe that's just how it should be but politics got in the way.
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The issue is that this update gets put to a confidence vote. So you would have thought the Conservatives would have been mindful of the consequences.