Durant la campagne électorale, le gouvernement et le consortium ont senti que le règne conservateur tirait à sa fin; ils ont signé le contrat le 7 octobre 1993, deux semaines et demie avant les élections générales (1645) Ce gouvernement croyait - et mal lui en a pris - qu'une fois le contrat signé, le nouveau gouvernement libéral n'allait pas l'annuler.
They were replaced with people who would agree with a contract that in effect rewarded Tory loyalists and supporters. During the election campaign the government, indeed the consortium, recognizing that the Conservative government was on its last legs, tried to and in fact did sign the contract on October 7, 1993, two and a half weeks before the general election (1645 ) It thought that having signed the deal the new Liberal administration would not cancel the contract.