DUP agree to support conservatives

I'm curious to know now what the Tories gave up in exchange for the DUP support.

This deal will be very bad for Northern Ireland as well as the rest of the UK.

As you may or may not have heard, Northern Ireland has no government because of the RHI Scandal (google it), basically, McGuinness stood down in protest at the DUP blowing £500m of N.I taxpayers money to farmers/businesses burning wood pellets!

Literally: £1.60 back for every £1.00 of wood pellets burned! That is the level of intelligence that Theresa May is dealing with. You should be scared.

From living in N.I, Sinn Fein probably won't form a local government if the DUP start swearing allegiance to the Tories. So even if the UK gets some sort of government, NI could still be without one for ages.

I really hope, somehow, Jeremy Corbyn will get into power because he at least he has acknowledged the existence of Northern Ireland, the tories have very little/nothing to help us in the past 5 years. Tony Blair actually did quite a lot.

They've already got Number 10 ready to welcome Arlene.
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Upon reading about previously that I don't understand how they didn't see it coming a mile off.

If you're offered above cost price to use a certain fuel then you're going to have the heating on full blast with the windows open 24/7. It's so glaringly obvious.

We're getting in the spirit to celebrate those new Saudi arms deals.

Nope, it would be a repeat as per usual, with any/every party. Who knows what would happen, but I think the most likely outcome is either the Tories or Labour will secure a majority were a second election to be called. Tories would run a better campaign (maybe even with a new leader) and thus reclaim lost confidence/support, or Labour could be galvanised further and sweep to further success (Especially as now people have realised that Corbyn..well can lead an extremely effective campaign).

For reference, this exact situation, a minority government followed by a second election, happened in the 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_October_1974

As you can see, in the first, neither Labour or Tory won a majority. Labour tried to govern in minority, second election occurred, and they secured a majority (albeit a small one).

That makes sense, tbh her campaign was very poor and took people for granted
and yeh i was revising that today for history (britain 1951 to 2007) but i feel like that isnt the exact same just cos it was a minority, the personalities and campaigns of the leaders were different than today and you didnt have parties like the greens and ukip taking votes, not that either of them took many but still and elections nowadays seem to be more like a reality tv show tbh people are so easily influenced by stuff on social media

As we saw in this election, it was a return to 2 party politics. LAb/Tory each polled above 40% of the vote, which hasn't happened since the 70s (1970 in fact), so one can argue that the influence of the minor parties is diminishing. As for social media influencing people, that's to be expected given we do live in the age of it!

Wonder how long this will last http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40236152

I think I may need to stock up on my popcorn cause this is going to be a show and a half!

We won't reach the end of the year with this arrangement. Banking on another election in the Autumn.

I'm curious to know now what the Tories gave up in exchange for the DUP support.

Best get married quick then



No not another one it was hard enough to make up my mind the first time
Would it be between fewer parties tho? Cos otherwise won't the same thing happen again?

To be fair, Theresa May did warn us that if she lost her majority, we'd have a coalition of chaos propped up by terrorist sympathisers. Nice to see a politician delivering on their promise for once.

There's a lot worse on the backbenches of the mainstream parties (and the front bench of one of them!). But let's not make the DUP a caricature: it has a woman leader when Labour and the Lib Dems never have, it supported the Northern Ireland version of the Turing Law providing pardons for people convicted of homosexual offences in the past. It was wrong to appoint a climate change denier as energy minister in Northern Ireland, certainly, but to present them as somehow beyond the pale (particularly given the state of the Labour Party) is bizarre.