A majority of 9 bought with the votes of the DUP - 316 to 309. The comparisons with the Major government's victory over rebels 16 years ago are clearly there; Brown is now struggling to exert authority over his party and the Labour rebellion was bigger than that Major faced. However there are differences too - it didn't get as far as a vote of confidence 42 days is unlikely to divide the Labour parties as fundamentally as Europe did to the Conservatives, but most importantly the public broadly support the government on this measure.
Personally I was against, the state is already powerful enough.
