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Originally Posted by Cherie
I've though for a while some of the climb downs are a "we are listening to the people stunt" or am I too cynical
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It is fear of being defeated by a rebellion of their backbenchers Cherie.
Apart from the junior Doctors, if this pause is genune from the govt, then it is because they realise that public opinion has remained strong for the Junior Doctors.
As for the Academies and also the refugees along with the PIP cuts and hardened criteria, they were threatened with backbenchers even voting against.
So only to avoid the humiliation of being beaten on a Commons vote, they do a U turn.
Only last week Cameron was firmly stating that all schools to be forced to be academies would be in the Queens speech.
That is until the backbenchers made it clear they were moving against the policy of enforcement.
However that is good and I applaud the U turns, I only wish there were more from this particular govt.