Ranier Fsadni on Franco Debono (2)
In The Times today:
On several occasions, (Franco Debono) has referred to last October’s House of Commons’ Conservative backbench rebellion, by 81 MPs against a three-line whip.
As of this week, he will be able to cite the likely rebellion, by even more Conservative MPs (although on a free vote), against Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to legalise gay marriage.
He has used such examples to draw a parallel with his own actions.
I have yet to read or hear anyone ask him, however, to clarify this example.
As the UK reports amply show, backbench rebellions in the House of Commons (even under previous governments) are usually symbolic, meaning they are staged in the full knowledge that they will not result in the loss of the vote, let alone the collapse of the government.
That, to the best of objective knowledge, is what is considered “correctness” in liberal democracies elsewhere. If he knows better, he should be asked to elaborate and we should be told.
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Debono DOESN’T know better. He just thinks he knows best.