The Lord Lieutenant advises the Government at home that things have come to a deadlock and that a dissolution will change nothing.

Thereupon the Irish members at Westminster begin to move; they threaten general hostility to the British Ministry.
They proffer their support to the Opposition.

It may of course happen that the British Ministry can, like the Unionist Government of 1886, defy the Opposition and the Irish members combined.

If so the English Cabinet can risk a constitutional conflict in Ireland, though it is a conflict likely to end in disturbance or civil war.

But judging the future by the past the eighty members will hold the balance of power.