Corbyn or Smith - lay your best!

[Hermit]

Still counts.

It's a pyrrhic victory for the Tories. The new government will not last the full term unless the DUP does a Clegg and simply goes along with whatever the new Prime Minister tells them to rubberstamp. May's opportunistic miscalculation will ensure that Labour is going to form a new government in a year or in three at the latest.

[Scot Dutchy]

If it had been the other way round. Oh I agree and I really wonder what she is hoping to achieve. She is wounded and going into Brexit is pure madness. Her two primary advisors have jumped ship.

[JimC]

Still counts.

It's a pyrrhic victory for the Tories. The new government will not last the full term unless the DUP does a Clegg and simply goes along with whatever the new Prime Minister tells them to rubberstamp. May's opportunistic miscalculation will ensure that Labour is going to form a new government in a year or in three at the latest.

Maybe that's what the DUP will do, in return for a place at the trough, AKA cabinet. I gather they hate Labour, and would realise that them going along for the ride would be the best chance of keeping Labour out of power for at least a full term...

[Brian Peacock]

The thing with this new Tory arrangement with the DUP is that the Good Friday agreement obliges the UK government, of whatever hue, to be scrupulously neutral in it's dealings with NI parties - and yet we find ourselves with the current government depending heavily on a confidence and supply arrangement with the major portion of the two NI antagonists. The DUP are anti-abortion, anti-LGBT rights and SSM, climate-change deniers, anti-Muslim and, of course, anti-Catholic. I cannot see any agreement between the Tories and the DUP which won't in effect compromise NI democracy in favour of the unionists.

Personally, I think it's time to see those who argue the republican cause in NI actually taking up their seats in Westminster - something which they've forsaken for historical reasons (the 'British' being the old oppressor). The 'war' is over - the 'politics of compromise and contract' won the day, and even though the peace is tenuous, and some still try their damnedest to keep the fires of hatred and mistrust stoked, the people of NI really just want to get on with living their lives without worrying about their neighbours and who their kids are playing with or talking to.

[Hermit]

Jonathan Pie has something to say about the Labour leadership issue.



Stick that in your pipes, Corbyn drubbers, and smoke it. Yes, you know who you are. And what.

Fucking idiots.

[pErvinalia]

NOrmally that guy annoys me, but I enjoyed that.