The election is done.
Well me and bear think we can trick, erm persuade Bob to vote for the champagne strip room and the V.I.P socialism area but we have our doubts about the welsh one. Apparently, he has terrorist links to the long bow, down with Chester Freedom party. Our aim is to remain strong and stable though. We are just waiting on the Queen to approve our man-date and give her speech.
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Given Bear is hols hope Tokes keeps true on champagne strip room and stuff.
Well all want VIP complimentary passes. If not then Pap regains control…
I haven’t seen too many people considering the aftermath of the election. This is going to be a hugely damaging period of government for the Conservatives. Almost 300K people have already signed a petition about them going into government with a supply and confidence arrangement with the DUP.
If May was weak before, she’ll be even weaker now. There’s near open revolt in the ranks of the Conservative Party, her authority has been utterly eroded and she’ll struggle to get any bills passed in Parliament.
I’m warming towards Ruth Davidson. Any MP who tweets the word “Bollocks” in response to a newspaper article is a good egg in my book.
I read a tweet today that some Tory mp on r4 said that part of the DUP support deal involves voting on the time allowed for abortions, the number of weeks. Not sure if that’s true or not.
I thought Iannucci on Question Time last night highlighted a very important point.
The peace process in Northern Ireland is in the shitter and things are delicately balanced with Sinn Fein showing no confidence in the DUP leader.
At a time where tensions are so high, the UK government has to be a broker of peace.
Having the DUP be part of the government makes that process of brokering peace untenable.
We’ve already seen in Northern Ireland what happens when stupid people feel disenfranchised from a free and fair democratic process.
Not clever.
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I suspect that any deal on abortion would be NI only, isn’t it currently banned over there?
Also, Arlene Foster has no seat in the UK parliament, so she would pulling strings in the UK government having not been elected to it.
This is the situation that so many on the right seemed to have a problem with when it was supposed that Nicola Sturgeon might play that role.
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Oh Tessa, what a fucking mess you’re in. Of your own making too. Now She’s about to make a pact with the anti-devil to help her deliver something she voted against not that long ago. Bet she wishes a great big wheat field would open up and swallow her.
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Mays top aides have quit. They have been roundly blamed by the senior Tories for being instrumental in fucking things up. If that is the case, then it is probably for the best. Hopefully May will get someone with a modicum of political savvy to keep her from fucking up too badly.
It’s always someone else’s fault & they’ll never take a good long hard look at themselves as to why they fucked up big time.
Was listening to Any Answers on Radio 4 where they had a kid too young to vote and a couple of calls from the yoof vote. All of them switched on and clearly pro Labour because Labour took an interest in the youth vote and the Tories were more interested in the Olds. Bodes well for the future
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Some of the papers I’ve seen on line would suggest that May was held hostage by her two advisors who came up with all the ideas and she had no say. That’s an adult safeguarding issue. Who wants to report it?
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Apparently, both Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill used to send abusive messages to ministers during cabinet meetings. This is according to Perrior, the recently resigned communications chief I referred to some time back.
The vast majority of these probably hit the Internet at some point. Theresa May talks about not having “safe spaces” on the Internet where extremism can thrive.
She seems to have let them get away with enough 
I know this has been alluded to in the Election Thread, but we’ve got some Maynority Government changes to report on.
First up, Damian Green, one of Theresa’s closest allies, has been promoted to First Secretary of State. The papers are referring to him as a Deputy, but this is your basic Ryker gig, absent the fetching beard and intergalactic nooky. Makes a lot of sense for the PM. He’ll likely have oversight of all departments with that Deputy Damian tag. She needs a grass.
Those fearing any Omen like occurrences will be relieved to know that the film character is called Damien Thorn, but completely alarmed to know that there are reasonably priced deed poll services about.
Next, Gove, last seen nuking Boris Johnson’s leadership ambitions and getting sacked off Theresa. Now looking after the environment. First policy is to send a bible to every tree.
If reports over on order-order are true, doesn’t look like the Conservatives have much confidence in the long term prospects of the DUP deal. Apparently, CCHQ has asked for people to apply to become Conservative candidates. By July.
This really is a clusterfuck of the highest order. The Good Friday Agreement at risk, with all the consequences that entails, entering Brexit negotiations before a programme of government has been announced. What is she going to say? All the while, there is mounting evidence that previous cuts have exacerbated situations that in many cases, could have been avoided.
All this because Theresa May cannot acknowledge her own failure.
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Was thinking about this GE campaign earlier and was struck by the impotence of people fixating over whether their prospective PM would use nuclear weapons in a hypothetical situation which would destroy vast swathes of land and at the same time ignoring climate change in the debate which **WILL ** destroy vast swathes of land at its current rate.
Need to get our priorities right going forward, that’s for sure.
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When is this nuclear war going to start in York?
They must be getting pretty pissed off by now that no one has pressed the button.
Maybe this could be a good argument for keeping nuclear weapons. No mass migration with nuclear weapons, as you’ve obliterated all those annoying people that would otherwise want to live somewhere safe.
Climate change on the other hand, will see mass migration of a scale never imagined before.
Needs a dedicated thread Mikey. Don’t remember seeing one on here.
Big agreement, @supermikey
We both know why that issue came up. It was one of the only attack vectors they had left, along with thirty odd year old associations to people now involved in the Northern Ireland peace process, meeting May only yesterday.
They wanted to put Corbyn into a position where he either abandoned his principles or made him look weak over security, I think the extremely risky, but true, post-Manchester speech struck a chord with the public.
This was a man taking a more holistic view of the terror situation. He’s hardly unique in taking that view.
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