May to lead minority government backed by Northern Irish party as Brexit talks loom

I think her failure to distance herself from Trump, and not support the EU and the Paris accord loudly enough really pi**** off a lot of British voters.

May and the right wing press, described Jeremy Corbyn as a 'terrorist sympathiser' . Now May is forming a 'coalition of chaos' .... With actual terrorists.

Now May is forming a 'coalition of chaos' .... With actual terrorists.

It's almost beyond belief. The DUP are racist, bigoted, climate change-denying, anti-abortion neanderthals with a long history of links to loyalist paramilitaries. Actual terrorists. They are so foul that moderate Tories are protesting against this coalition less than 24 hours after it began.

Brexit was apparently about "taking back control control" from Brussels. Now that control has been given to a gang of far-right Christian Taliban in Belfast. Madness.

Had no idea what the DUP was about. Thanks to the UK posters for enlightening me.

Ruth Davidson, leader of Conservatives in Scotland, where the party did well, said the results showed the Conservatives should prioritise good trade relations with the EU. "We must in my view seek to deliver an open Brexit, not a closed one, which puts our country’s economic growth first," Davidson said.

Not entirely up to you am afraid. Can't believe a few British politicians are still telling voters May/the UK are in the driving seat for Brexit negotiations. They aren't.

The EU will see these results as further proof that Brits dunno what they want and that their political class isn't up to the job.

It's extraordinary that Theresa May is planning to just shrug her shoulders and carry on as if nothing has happened.

How much did this unnecessary election cost the taxpayer? The administrative cost of holding the 2010 general election (polling stations, count staff etc) was £113 million.

I don't want to hear any more lectures from the Tories about the 'British values' of tolerance and equality for all while they are sleeping next to this steaming mound of bigotry.

Deplorables.

Almost 70% of Brits eligible to vote didn't vote for Corbyn, yet he has the "people's mandate".No he doesn't.

The mandate she's got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence

That may be, but I still have more confidence in the Conservatives than in any other party. I lost all confidence in Labour after Blair and Brown. I never had confidence in Liberal Democrats to begin with. UKIP are a little too nationalist for my tastes, while the remaining minority parties are, at best, a joke. I wasn't happy with some of the things May was saying, but in the end I really didn't have anyone else to vote for. A party I have low confidence in, or any number of other parties that I have zero confidence in.

If only Britain's Liberal Democratic Party could by like Japan's one. Must be nice to have a party whose politicians actually have spines.

The Northern Irish Party? So the Brits haven't left Ireland yet?

Congratulations to Jeremy Corbyn.

May unexpectedly called the snap election seven weeks ago, three years early, polls predicting she would massively increase the slim majority she inherited from Cameron.

Once again, the polls were proven to be wrong. I'm not shocked.

CrazyJoe - I think her failure to distance herself from Trump, and not support the EU and the Paris accord loudly enough really pi**** off a lot of British voters.

Seriously? Everything is NOT about Trump. The Brits have their own priorities and problems. The bizarre attempts to blame Trump for everything that happens in the world simply reeks of desperation.

@arrestpaul

Once again, the polls were proven to be wrong

The polls mentioned were at the time the election was called, not on the eve of it - in the intervening period, Corbyn ran a great campaign and May ran an omnishambles, so it's not a huge surprise that the position changed dramatically. The polls taken in the final week were actually fairly close to what ended up happening.

The socially conservative, pro-Brexit Democratic Unionist Party's 10 seats give the right-wing Conservatives a fragile but workable majority, which May said would allow her to negotiate a successful exit from the EU

May called the election because she said that the small majority the Conservatives had was insufficient for successful negotiations with the EU. Now that she has no majority at all she still claims she can negotiate a successful exit. No wonder she lost when she talks such nonsense; I expect she will be gone within a few months. She is utterly useless as a PM. The bigots of the DUP will not go down well with some of the more open-minded Conservatives. If we're lucky May will manage to split the party before she goes down in flames.

The Northern Irish Party? So the Brits haven't left Ireland yet?

Enjoying the thumbs down. keep them coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts

@Fizzbit

I think the Brits posting here are aware of the NI situation.

What's the crackpot conspiracy take on the situation and how is the MSM involved?

The Tories shacking up with a bunch of bigoted, homophobic, terrorist supporting crackpots from a previous century won't go down well with Britons, including many Conservatives. What did May promise them I wonder - try to bring back the death penalty, criminalising homosexuality, imprisoning women who have an abortion? The DUP want all that and more.

This dodgy alliance also puts the final nail in the coffin of NI power sharing and the peace it brings - how can other NI parties trust a government in bed with the DUP? It's telling that they are the only party willing to work with the Tories and lame duck May. Fortunately, this deal won't last.

Our government relying on bigoted religious lunatics. We have become more like the US.

Jimizo,

Welcome to the post-truth world. Led by that walking lie himself Trump. Come in, the water is warm.

On June 4th May said the UK was too soft on terrorism. On June 9th she formed an alliance with them to stay in office. Sick.

The Tories shacking up with a bunch of bigoted, homophobic, terrorist supporting crackpots from a previous century

Natural bedfellows some might say. It was the Conservatives who supported the Unionist resistance to home rule back in 1912.

The situation in Scotland might be interesting. The Tory "resurgence" gives them 13 seats in Scotland. The two most prominent Conservative politicians in Scotland are both openly gay (Ruth Davidson and David Mundell). It's already been reported that Davidson has demanded some reassurances on LBGT rights from May in regard to any coalition with the DUP. (Not sure what the DUP response was. They'll probably find a convenient passage somewhere in the bible that gives dispensation to Scots.)

Anyway, with the marching season only a month away, they'd better get these Brexit negotiations wound up quickly.

Theresa May role can probably be summed up as care-taking, janitorial in the sense of political decontamination, and deep manifestoral fumigation, the result of a disastrous  election campaign, courtesy of chiefs of staffs, Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, and strategist Lynton Crosby.

In ten days Brexit negotiations are due to begin, Theresa May and lets be frank, the recent local council election gifted Mrs May a 16 to 20 point lead over Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party, in between Diane Abbot, bless her, excruciating bouts of meltdown oral hokey-cokey. Theresa May toxic performance in such a short space of time managed to make Jeremy Corbyn appear almost statesmanlike in comparison. So much so when a push come to a shove life-long conservative voters caught the political equivalent of ballot box typhoid.

A deep breath, a step back,  elect a new party leader, and yes, another general election must take place. Corbyn cannot under any circumstances justify claiming, running a 266 seat minority government is a democratic mandate to run a country. It isn't by any means!

So it's grin and bear it politically and back to the drawing board. But to attempt to negotiate Brexit under a cloud would provoke a thunderstorm of political uncertainly and economic instability.

Senior DUP member; Nelson McCausland believes that the British people are descended from the lost tribes of Israel.

He also wanted the Ulster Museum to promote creationism in its exhibits, believing that the world is only a few thousand years old.

He defended a loyalist band playing an anti-Catholic song outside of a RC church.

He's also a noted oponent of same sex marriage and Pride marches.

Ah, the DUP. A step back in time for the UK with this lot in.

What a debacle; brought to the British by their version of Donald Trump. She totally botched it!

May / the Tories / the Conservatives.....and now this coalition with the NI crowd. What next? I think the 'what next' part of it is an ineffectual government for the UK, for the time being.

And so it begins......

Tories look at reducing abortion time limit to pacify their new creationist overlords.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/owen-paterson-hints-at-debate-on-reduced-abortion-times-as-tories-enter-pact-with-dup_uk_593bbdf2e4b0b13f2c6ae281

The arithmetic is blatantly clear, the current Conservative party has 318 seats, 8 shy of an overall majority. The Labour party has 262, requiring 64.

As soon as Jeremy Corbyn attempts to present legislation to parliament or even submits a queens speech, the main opposition will censure a motion of no confidence, the DUP will carry the motion, game over, regardless of alleged coalition.

A number of his own parliamentary party, amongst the 172 PM that supported a vote of no confidence, do not endorse elements within the parities election manifesto. To start such an important process as UK/EU severance, these sensitive negotiations must carried out under the most politically appropriate, favourable, and stable conditions.

The DUP aren't stupid. They are a canny set of Folks, and the Conservatives may regret getting into bed with the Devil.

Corbyns appeal intensified mainly due to the Conservatives stupid policies that clearly benefited those who are wealth, and really support Conservatives, and themselves, rather than for the good of the Country as a whole. The care support, issue I think screwed them big time, 100K should have been raised to 600K for housing equity, since you can probably only buy a shoebox in the UK now for less than 100k.

Oh , and as a Diabetic... her policies towards the NHS really screwed over a lot of people who may have thought that she would have been on their side... they forgot the fact that she's a Tory Wealthy Tosser. (Sorry for the language there, but is there anything else to explain her and her ilk ?)

Hi mmwkdw, yes any propping up or coalition involving the DUP is nauseating and repulsive. Which is why there will need to be another election. Not if, but when. I understand that advisers Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill have resigned.

So as soon as a process of selecting the next conservative party leader is completed then a decision will need to be forthcoming to obtain a mandate from the people to govern, and in turn address the Article 50 negotiations.

Unfortunately, yet, another election... may have a nauseating effect upon the UK voters... so could actually bring the Tories back into absolute power.

A couple of interesting issues arose during the last election. It was seemingly haphazard with a lot of voters being turned away for whatever reason... the Social media plays by both parties were interestingly different. Conservative as always advertising down your throat, whereas Labour took the quietly quietly approach of promotion via supporters... that's according to the BBC Research (not from personal info).

The DUP, were they to play their cards right, could actually see a benefit for the whole Brexit process - but I personally have little hope there. Following Brexit, Ireland (the South) will becoming a 2nd class European nation - as it will be seen as the easy entry point to Europe for the UK, so thus the breakdown will start. And during negotiations asking the UK for a huge exit fee will certainly hasten that.. denying otherwise is plain stupid. And the alternative... is that Europe, becomes a supporter for the IRA... which puts themselves into the cross-hairs of the UK armed services - a thought inconceivable since WW2... but now Germany is in Control once again, perhaps not something too far fetched.

And the alternative... is that Europe, becomes a supporter for the IRA...

How so? The IRA are a spent force. All that remains are the fringe dissidents who have very, very little support in the Republic. The majority of Irish people, north and south of the border have no interest in going back to the dark days of the troubles.

FizzBit June 10  02:33 pm JST

"The Northern Irish Party? So the Brits haven't left Ireland yet?"

Enjoying the thumbs down. keep them coming.

If you really don't know something as basic and fundamental as that but insist on preaching on and on about this, that and the next thing, you richly deserve them.