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If PM Earl of Orford (Sir Robert Walpole) hadn't rigged a by-election, causing his forced resignation and subsequent peerage, what would have changed? He was too old to continue much longer, so what would the butterflies have been? What I've seen suggests the problem was like Imelda's hubby, namely blatant rigging rather than rigging in itself. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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