If Tories nakedly give public money to those who vote Tory they'll outrage those who think public money should go to those in need but the electorate will get the message, helped by the outraged sharing it, that if they want money they should vote Tory.
It's not that dissimilar to awarding huge public contracts to Party donors and associates. Yes, it's a disgraceful abuse of public money. But nevertheless businesses that want huge public contracts will learn they need to donate to the Tory party and employ current/ex Tory MPs.
It's not clear to me how you resolve this problem. What we dignify with the description 'constitution' isn't much more than an unenforceable agreement to abide by the rules of cricket. And if you decide you want to bowl bodyline there's not really anything to stop you.
We, of course, mostly out of sheer stubbornness, will continue pushing back but I don't have any real sense that the British Establishment is up for grappling in any meaningful way with what seems to me to be happening.
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