Ponsonby Press Breaking News: Budget Hawks Reject ULC Coalition

==ELECTION NEWS: Budget Hawks Reject ULC Deal==
Just yesterday, it seemed that against expectations, the Popular Republican Movement would be leading government for the next term rather than the Coalition of Conservative Unionists after PRM Leader Sheldon Whitehouse agreed to five key terms laid out by United Left Leader Alberto Garzon. Despite the deal supposedly being settled between the two leaders - and despite an apparently premature concession speech from James Brokenshire - the agreement did not hold up on the Popular Republican end. Today, a majority of the party's Budget Hawk Caucus challenged Whitehouse's decision based on party bylaws that state that all officially sanctioned Popular Republican factions must consent to a coalition in order for it to be approved by the Party Leadership. The Budget Hawks held a ballot which rejected the notion of an alliance with ULC by a small majority, killing the deal and effectively ensuring that the Popular Republicans would, as originally expected, be heading opposition rather than government this term.
The Chairman of the Budget Hawk Caucus, Cumbernick Bandersnatch, who is known for his conservative challenge to Sheldon Whitehouse in the most recent Popular Republican Leadership Election, delivered this explanation for his caucus' actions:
Originally posted by Cumbernick Bandersnatch:
Look, I know that what we did has cost us control of government. I really do get that and we didn't take this decision lightly and I suspect that's why a large minority in my caucus wanted to approve the deal anyway. But in good conscience, we have to ask ourselves under what conditions we want to be a governing party. Just this year we rolled out the new slogan: The New Falleen Centre. I know and everybody else knows that Sheldon Whitehouse is to the left of me, so I understand why he pursued this deal. But when I think of our message - the common-sense message, balancing the budget, protecting freedoms, even the more left-ish ideas like protecting entitlements and making new investments, they all get kind of lost in the noise in this proposed coalition. We're talking about the United Left Coalition, which claims to represent communists, and which has staked itself recently on "environmentalism", even though there's no definitive evidence that the planet is becoming less healthy due to fossil fuels or anything like that, and social justice causes... at what point do we admit that our core message gets lost in this agreement? I wanted us to lead this government, I really did, but this just wasn't the way to do it at a time like this.
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