the government has been using the threat of embarrassing stories, information the webs may held on mps, then basically saying, unless you vote with us, we will give one of these... and the second, the mp who has just defected from the conservative party to the labour party, christian wakeford, he said he was told that he government whips that if he did not vote with the government, that funding for a new high school in his constituency — much needed funding for a constituency that had not had a new high school for a long time — would be withdrawn if he did not but with the government, and i think this is really interesting, seeing the reaction to the story at westminster tonight, the two sorts of reactions. people say, of course this is what the government whips do. they have always applied pressure for mps to vote, and then i think there are