"n'er cast a clout til May be out aka NO BREXIT: hell is other voters -- UK election 2017

also reading on twitter that sinn fein say the dup-tory coalition contravenes the good friday agreement

(but haven't tracked down a link to an actual story, so pinch of salt)

i suspect bringing the dup in this way does actually bring a LOT of um difficult irish politics onto the english front pages, including exactly the kinds of ppl nigel dodds has spent time hanging around in the past

If DUP Is only a party in Northern Ireland doesn't that effect the ability to make a coalition anyway?
If you're supposed to be doing that using legitimacy as a buzzword or whatever.
Just would have thought you'd need a party that was present throughout the UK, like.

It isn't really a coalition.

Also only gives them a 2 seat majority which looks a bit dodgy.

past is probably a more precise word but ppl are going to say coalition bcz it rams the problems (and the hypocrisy) home

anyway i haven't found a link to the story and don't know enough abt the GFA to say if it's plausible

xp: one is all they need to form a government (which may well not last long, i'm old enough to remember the late 70s, they were lots of fun for this kind of stuff)

past s/b PACT, sorry

Thinking about May out on Downing Street behind her podium, railing at the EU for meddling in the UK election feels like a lifetime ago.

Did anyone see Anna Soubry on channel 4 news. Clearly pissed, in the British and North American senses.

I was thisclose to Patsy/vodka/cigarette meme post.

Haha!

Meme From ILX Of Yore Reappears

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39027000/jpg/_39027407_abfab-bbc-203index.jpg

B****cks. Folk might remember I fought a leadership election on the other side of that particular argument.... https://t.co/IQev2xSnUp

— Ruth Davidson (@RuthDavidsonMSP) June 9, 2017

davidson pours water on the idea that she's going to go her own way

http://i.imgur.com/9BcpRXK.jpg

has matthew goodwin ate that book already

She's pretty straight talking but I think she's protesting too much there, probably using the fact they'll keep the whip to mean they're not "going their own way".

I think her constituency is going to force this of her. If she wants to keep those 12 at the next election, especially with Labour and LDs suddenly seeming plausible in Scotland again, she needs to court the huge Remain base, and also acknowledge that not only is Scotland more open to immigration, it'll be in recession without it. Add to that the gay rights angle and she has makings of a party-within-party

Here's a video of Jonathan Powell talking about how this DUP coalition contravenes the Good Friday agreement because because it relies on the impartiality of Westminster.

https://www.facebook.com/JeremyCorbyn4PM/videos/1708919496068789/

sorry, I couldn't find the video outside of Facebook.

I cannot wait for Ruth Davidson to crash and burn. She lucked out because of Sturgeon's stupidity and imcompetence.

poll
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB6TUQDXoAArfxn.jpg

i found the trevi fountain and the colosseum somewhat deflating when visiting them on a family holiday so i think i'll have to go for ecumenism

Soubry's BBC interview with dimbleby around 5am election night was wild. Worth seeking out.

as ever i must choose 'antichrist'

This tweet is EVERYTHING and its brutality is to be admired:

https://mobile.twitter.com/PolComForum/status/873186390539988993

savage

this article excerpt doing the rounds is great 1 because of the utter stupidity of the suggestion by Fiona Hill, 2 bcos of the impression it gives of May standing back behind the aggression and rudeness of her spads, as the layer between her and the cabinet, and the world really.

Blimey. pic.twitter.com/X9lYAWFa5h

— Theo Bertram (@theobertram) June 10, 2017

also yes that was a hell of a Police Community burn.

call: new circs new thread:
brexit negging when yr mandate is is trash: or further chronicles of a garbage-fire