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How can they be whipped into pary line? Isn't the worst that can happen to them exclusion from said party?
by emp_zealoth 10y ago
How can they be whipped into pary line? Isn't the worst that can happen to them exclusion from said party?
- lmm 10y ago"Whip" is a term of art here. Yes, they could choose to leave the party. Even if they don't feel any duty to said party or to the constituents they're representing (who, realistically, voted on party lines, despite nominally voting for an individual representative), that still means leaving their whole career behind. I would be extremely surprised if we saw more than a handful of MPs do it.
- pjh68 10y agoOr become party leader, as in the case of Jeremy Corbyn who defied the labour whip over 500 times.
- akhatri_aus 10y agoLabour party members voted for him, not necessarily the leaders of the party.