A mild-mannered veteran MP on the Labour left, one whose vote on the bombing of Syria remains uncertain, sent me an outraged text this morning, protesting at the "vile tone" of exchanges as the debate looms.
By concentrating his money on fewer voters — the ones whose votes are worth going after, because of where they live — he gets more bang for his bucks.
"He will say anything depending on whose votes he is trying to get," Ms. Quinn said.
Communist parties, on whose votes the government led by Mr Singh's Congress Party relies for a parliamentary majority, want to water down the 2003 Electricity Act.
But if their energy is equal to the task, it is not clear that the troops on whose votes they rely match their determination.
The Northern Ireland unionists of the DUP – on whose votes in Westminster the government's majority depends – appear to think those "deeper" customs arrangements, involving additional checks on livestock and food crossing the Irish Sea, breach their red lines on identical treatment for Northern Ireland.
A potential agreement had been derailed on Sunday when Dominic Raab, the Brexit secretary, made an unscheduled visit to Brussels to inform the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, that May could not get an agreement past her cabinet or the DUP, on whose votes her government relies.
He agrees with the rejection of populism enunciated by Burke in his speech to his electors in Bristol, accepting the principle that the representative should be expected to exercise his or her own judgement, not merely to accept blindly the views of those on whose votes his or her tenure depended.
Last week the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party — on whose votes May relies in Westminster — opposed a deal that would give their country special status within the U.K. to having regulatory alignment with its neighbor.
