A carelessly drawn-up laundry list of legislative odds and ends will define the legacy of the Cameron eraPolitics is a Darwinian commerce,and failure can be cruelly punished. But so can success, as the Conservatives are now finding out. The party rode into the election with an enviably minimalist campaign message – you remember it, or rhymes with long-term economic flan” – and a laundry list of eyecatching policies that they would,oh so regretfully, ditch at the merest whiff of coalition negotiations.
And then they won an overall majority. Their backbenchers were thrilled; those pesky Liberal Democrats had been crushed, and now the country would see the full glorious might of a full-bore Conservative government. Sunlit uplands,good times, boogie.
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Source: theguardian.com