To have denied them would have risked consigning Mr Cameron's leadership to the hell of Eurocentric rowing and rebellion that dogged his predecessor, John Major.
Without anger, we would be reconciled to accept the unacceptable, tolerate the intolerable, and thereby consign ourselves to a status quo in need of repair.
Those consigned to the fields were the ones least willing or able to learn, the least energetic, the least honest and trustworthy, the most vicious and brutish.