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Originally Posted by Jacks
If somehow they lost a confidence vote I can't see any other party being give a chance to form government. There would surely be an election call, the house would be way to dysfunctional. They won't lose a vote anyway unless Redford outright refused to leave if the party asked.
They were saying on the radio this morning that there will be 2 meetings this weekend. The party executive will be meeting to decide what they want to do with the situation, apparently they are not impressed with Hancock deriding Webber. Apparently a group of 20 - 30 MLA's are also going to meet without Redford being present, you can guess that they want to discuss whether to keep supporting Redford.
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I think in the parliamentary system though Smith (leader of the opposition) could go to Ethel (Lt. Gov) and ask for a chance to gain the confidence of the house. Clearly they could go to the newly independent MLAs and offer up some cabinet positions and things like that to get them to walk over and sit with them.
I'll just put it out there before anyone crosses, that regardless of party stripe I think it should be outlawed and the people forced to contest another election. I'm OK with people going to be independent, and I'm a little better with people leaving one party to join something newly formed...its not great, but at least you can reconcile that. But for someone to leave a party today and join another one tomorrow just seems like a slap in the face to the constituents who elected them.