Schade, dass man bei den Konservativen in den USA genau andersherum agiert: Zuerst die Karriere und dann die eigenen Prinzipien.
“If anything, those threats have made it more difficult for MPs to back down, because if you decide to back the government in that circumstance, you are effectively saying you value your career over your principles,” one MP said.
"Sam Gyimah, the former universities minister, wrote in the Guardian: “For MPs like myself, Downing Street has framed the choice as: speak your mind or keep your job.”
MPs who rebelled included former cabinet ministers Philip Hammond, Greg Clark, David Gauke, Caroline Nokes, Stewart and Greening.
Many more were former ministers including Steve Brine, Stephen Hammond, Anne Milton, Margot James, Guto Bebb, Dominic Grieve, Sam Gyimah, Richard Harrington, Oliver Letwin, as well as backbencher Antoinette Sandbach and Tory veterans Ken Clarke and Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/03/...-commons-showdown ----------- Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth |