Sentences with phrase «need their votes anyway»

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And if for some reason he was voted out or asked to resign, he didn't need to be there anyway.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

It's a plan we didn't want and don't need, but Owens voted for it anyway.

Theorectically, that's helpful to Grisanti, who very much needs the Conservative line, but lost his chance of landing it — in Long's eyes, anyway — when he crossed over to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage with the Democrats.

For one thing, the concessions needed to win enough Democratic votes would quickly alienate Republicans (who aren't all that thrilled about voting for a federal education bill, anyway), so I'm not sure the math would work.