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

"It may be entirely co-incidental that the man who channelled £425,622 to the DUP had such extremely high level Saudi connections. We simply don’t know. We also don’t know whether the current Saudi ambassador had any knowledge of his father’s connection to Richard Cook. But here’s the thing: the DUP claims not to know either. And that is at best reckless and at worst illegal."

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/what-connects-brexit-the-dup-dark-money-and-a-saudi-prince-1.3083586?mode=amp

Barwell is the new Chief Of Staff.

@parliawint is a goldmine

Looking forward to see what Atul Hatwal on Labour Uncut has to say about all this

and will anybody care?

Meantime:

The DUP has "agreed to the principles of an outline agreement" to support the Conservatives on a 'confidence and supply' basis

This margin is tight as hell. Five barking Tories could give Corbyn a chance to form a government at any time. I don't think there are any that mad, but there are enough to otherwise paralyse, well, just about everything. Do the Tories agree on anything? Gutting the NHS perhaps.

Sorry I just fucking love this: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/09/jeremy-corbyn-west-nato-russia-215242

Labour’s more sensible officials have done their best to moderate or mask Corbyn’s underlying attitudes in order to make him more electable.

do the dup agree on gutting the nhs? this is their manifesto: http://www.mydup.com/policies/a-world-class-health-service

on the whole -- aside from stuff relating to religious ideology -- they want more money investing in NI resources, not cuts

Do the Tories even agree on the DUP being suitable bed partners.
Haven't heard if that was a widespread agreement or just TM thinking that it made things up to the majority figure when she was in a bind.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/northern-ireland/2017/06/no-theresa-may-dup-will-not-join-formal-coalition

^^^this is sensible on how the dup will roll

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB9o6sKXkAE1xsS.jpg:large

dup priorities re hung parliament as set out in 2015

(i don't actually think it's bad politics for opponents to belabour their attitude on sexuality and gender and etc, bcz it puts pressure on the tories -- but the dup have little leverage to impose these beyond NI, a very practical recognition of the limits of their abiluty to do so, and the harm it would do them, and much investment in the devolved GFA status quo… they no more want a return to the troubles than anyone else there. the bigger danger is the tories fucking up and destabilising NI as they flail, with a minor additional danger that being pressured when they're in such an awful position will cause them to fuck up… they are (as tom d said above) world-class trolls with obnoxious beliefs, and they are, along with the whole of NI currently, stuck in a stupid situation of their own making, the cash for ash scandal, but on the whole i trust their brinkmanship more than i trust may's)

that embed^^^will enlarge if you open image in a new tab, i think

somebody just shared this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsGVghRBdKI

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-vows-oust-theresa-10601306#ICID=sharebar_twitter

It’s back to the seventies with Theresa May

delicious

is jonathan pie our answer to chapo trap house or something

The Mail On Sunday dedicates 80% of the front page to suggesting Johnson is mounting a leadership campaign and the remaining 20% to an offer for a free head massager, which seems about right.

Jonathan Pie is our answer to an excruciatingly unfunny twat

b) they're about to crash headlong into a demographic ravine without a major change in direction.

The thing about young people is they become old people.

the thing about these young people is that there old age is not set to resemble that of our current set of old people

MAIL ON SUNDAY: Boris set to launch bid to be PM as May clings on #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/12DFS4LK5k

— Helen Miller 🗞 (@MsHelicat) June 10, 2017

Tory member of government: "Boris will never ever be PM. If he tries to go for it now he will never be forgiven. MPs don't want him" https://t.co/DJX5GIRv3f

— Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) June 10, 2017

i love a good donnybrook

a fight to the death

As young people grow old there will always be a tendency to believe that the world is going the wrong direction and that our downward spiral should be arrested or reversed, if only because youth are more naturally optimistic and forward-looking than they will be later on, as their fondest hopes fade and their health deteriorates. This is not fated, but the way that humans are put together favors this outcome over the next most common alternative of growing more contented with the world and being filled with admiration for the next generation coming up.

makes u think

Chuck Tingle weighs in:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0721G15FD/

At first, news of a hung parliament during England’s election of prime minister doesn’t concern Yon, but as the night unfolds, things start to get a little weird. Suddenly, the citizens of England appear to have lost all decision-making power, wandering the streets unsure of what to do or where to go as the curse of the hung parliament befalls them.

The LOLs have arrived

Statement on behalf of @Portadownlol1 pic.twitter.com/JFCkWZhxkt

— Portadown LOL 1 (@Portadownlol1) June 10, 2017

LOL.
like I thought that was going to mean it was the Northern irish Daily Mash or something.

The Sun cover today read "she's had her chips" with that picture of her eating some chips with a face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle.

Seemed like they'd turned on her already

Richard Burgon has said that Labour gained 150000 new members in the last 3 days taking membership up to 800000.

I was thinking when membership goes beyond a million, maybe cries of "entryism" must surely become redundant. Well apart from withing the lunatic centrist fringe of the party :p

the thing about these young people is that there old age is not set to resemble that of our current set of old people

^ ^ ^

I remember when McDonnell promised a million members last year I flatly did not believe it. When was the last time it passed a million? Must be the 50s. Blair peaked at 400k, I think.

Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, expressed concern at the weekend over the impact of a DUP deal on gay rights and other issues.

But one DUP source said: “Someone is stirring the pot with Ruth, who we regard as a hero of the union.”

*boak*

The Conservatives' habit of blowing things up and then insisting that only they can restore stability is starting to grate slightly

— John Gapper (@johngapper) June 9, 2017

xxp 52 according to wikipedia, if 800k is right then already the largest since 64. Legit teared up this morning thinking about the real possibility of a labour majority.

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 45% (+5)
CON: 39% (-3)
LDEM: 7% (-)
UKIP: 3% (+1)

(via @Survation / 10 Jun)
Chgs. w/ GE2017

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) June 10, 2017

Here's a first, linking to the Express
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/815141/Election-2017-DUP-Theresa-May-Arlene-Foster-Brexit-coalition

The LOLs have arrived

Statement on behalf of @Portadownlol1 pic.twitter.com/JFCkWZhxkt
— Portadown LOL 1 (@Portadownlol1) June 10, 2017
― stet, Saturday, 10 June 2017 22:52 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL.
like I thought that was going to mean it was the Northern irish Daily Mash or something.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 10 June 2017 23:03 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I too was expecting a cheap unfunny ripoff of Portadown News (RIP) but I guess life itself is a cheap unfunny ripoff of satire now (and maybe always)

John Gapper otm

Turns out the answer ton the wave of right wing populism was just to wait for them to fuck it up themselves through eye-popping stupidity and arrogance

LOL @ the DUP being the moderating influence on May's goverment (xxxp)

BREAK: DUP has NOT yet reached any agreement with the Tories. Sky sources: Downing Street issued the wrong statement in error.

— David Blevins (@skydavidblevins) June 10, 2017

This grinning must stop

This sniggering is in no way constructive

This is reminding me of when Rangers were going through their administration troubles (appropriately enough given the involvement of the DUP) when every single news story was like a little ray of sunshine in your life.

North is very interesting ATM

Paisley and McGuinness dead. No working relationship between their replacements, and everything soured quite badly on foot of a bitter recent election that leaves things very close to split right down the middle, a situation that Unionists will be very uncomfortable with across the full range of that sect, from minister to orangeman to demobbed uvf to PSNI rank and file (assuming of course that you aren't all four of the above)

Brexit held -in buzz terms at least- the prospect of a closer all-ireland relationship as all sides wish to avoid full border, tensions surrounding this as SF and no few wags on our side of things obviously treat it as bringing a 32 county nation inevitably closer. Complex.

We frankly coulda done without Foster getting a blank check, as the balance was already quite fraught and not many who've observed her performance so far would trust her not to injudiciously apply any extra powers she might wring from this.

I can't believe the Shinners are still persisting with that abstentionism garbage in the year 2017 tbh.

What is this, 1972?

For a gang a fellas that torture and execute widows with ten kids they sure are very fucking proud of their oaths tho but