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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 11:25 
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I wonder what Ruth Davidson, a lesbian, thinks of a potential coalition with the homophobic DUP.


How are the DUP homophobic? Citation?
(I've no idea btw, genuine q. I have virtually no knowledge of N.I. politics)


They repeatedly vote against same sex marriage (as well as women's rights e.g. abortion) etc

They're all a bunch of cunts basically :)


Do people like this still exist in mainstream politics? Incredible, really.

Ireland, in many respects, mirrors the religious politics you get over in t'US.

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I have literally NO idea about Irish government, or the UDA, UDP, IRA, Sinn Fein or whoever these people are, so someone will have to either explain in very basic terms about who they are and why they matter(ed) or tell me what to think in a straight manner without any kind of satire/sideways glances/mocking because otherwise I won't get it.


Ok from what I know it's like this, any Northern Irish people please feel free to correct me if I've got any of it wrong:

IRA (Irish Republican Army) are/were Northern Irish paramilitary republicans seen as terrorists by the British
UDA (Ulster Defence Association) are/were Northern Irish paramilitary loyalists (to the Crown) seen as terrorists by the Irish

Sinn Fein is a political party that is/was endorsed by the IRA - left wing nationalists a bit like the SNP I guess.
Democratic Unionist Party is a political party that is/was endorsed by the UDA - right wing conservatives.

They both power share in Northern Ireland as part of the Good Friday Agreement (the binding peace agreement).

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I've just read that a candidate in Walsall lost his seat after 38 years. He'd been there since 1979.

Amazing! The longest I've had a job is 5 years....


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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How long do you think May will survive then?

There must be daggers out for her, Torys went from predicted landslide to hung parliament largely thanks to the way she was perceived.


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I've just read that a candidate in Walsall lost his seat after 38 years. He'd been there since 1979.

Amazing! The longest I've had a job is 5 years....

Walsall North, yep. In Walsall South the Labour MP increased her majority, so feck off Northern Walsall.

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How long do you think May will survive then?

There must be daggers out for her, Torys went from predicted landslide to hung parliament largely thanks to the way she was perceived.

2 more years until the Brexit deadline hits. She's going to coalise with the UDP.

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I have literally NO idea about Irish government, or the UDA, UDP, IRA, Sinn Fein or whoever these people are, so someone will have to either explain in very basic terms about who they are and why they matter(ed) or tell me what to think in a straight manner without any kind of satire/sideways glances/mocking because otherwise I won't get it.


Ok from what I know it's like this, any Northern Irish people please feel free to correct me if I've got any of it wrong:

IRA (Irish Republican Army) are/were Northern Irish paramilitary republicans seen as terrorists by the British
UDA (Ulster Defence Association) are/were Northern Irish paramilitary loyalists (to the Crown) seen as terrorists by the Irish

Sinn Fein is a political party that is/was endorsed by the IRA - left wing nationalists a bit like the SNP I guess.
Democratic Unionist Party is a political party that is/was endorsed by the UDA - right wing conservatives.

They both power share in Northern Ireland as part of the Good Friday Agreement (the binding peace agreement).

Thank you. That has helped a little, but I reckon it'll all come good for my understanding over the next few weeks.

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Has anyone seen any analysis of what happens to May's thin coalition majority in the light of EVEL and the reliance on Scottish Conservative MPs?


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English Votes for English Laws.

https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/law ... lish-laws/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Loth ... l_election

Prevents Scottish MPs from voting on laws that only affect England and Wales. Designed by Cameron to shield the Commons from SNP influence. Now potentially about to backfire.


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Define: EVEL

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English Votes for English Laws. Under procedures introduced in the last parliament, bills with clauses affecting England only have a vote before the final reading that only English MPs can vote on. Of course, the new House of Commons can quite easily change this rule if it likes.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Has anyone seen any analysis of what happens to May's thin coalition majority in the light of EVEL and the reliance on Scottish Conservative MPs?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2017/results/england

suggests that Ms May has a 65 majority in England

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suggests that Ms May has a 65 majority in England

Ah, yes. You have to include Wales too I think, but it's still 51.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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English Votes for English Laws.

https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/law ... lish-laws/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Loth ... l_election

Prevents Scottish MPs from voting on laws that only affect England and Wales. Designed by Cameron to shield the Commons from SNP influence. Now potentially about to backfire.

Surely the tories would have an outright majority if you only counted England or am I being thick?


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Swivel-eyed Nicky Morgan calling for the PM to go in the "long term" already. Say what you like about the Tories but they're much better at getting rid of their unwanted leaders than Labour :DD

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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Surely the tories would have an outright majority if you only counted England or am I being thick?

No, I was being thick.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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People that understand - if this was a FPTP election, who would have won?

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People that understand - if this was a FPTP election, who would have won?

It was, wasn't it?


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People that understand - if this was a FPTP election, who would have won?

It was a FPTP election. Do you mean PR?

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Wouldn't the DUP really want a no border with the EU?

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Lonewolves wrote:
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People that understand - if this was a FPTP election, who would have won?

It was a FPTP election. Do you mean PR?


There's no single system of PR, but let's assume we're using the simplest and taking the UK as a single electoral area distributing seats strictly on percentage. The Tories would get 42.4% of the seats (274); Labour 40% (260). The Lib Dems would get 48 seats.

Other systems would allocate votes/seats differently and all have their own quirks.

So very different, and naturally people might behave differently under such circumstances.


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These are the Tories' new buddies:

https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/ ... 1454678016



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Kern wrote:
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People that understand - if this was a FPTP election, who would have won?

It was a FPTP election. Do you mean PR?


There's no single system of PR, but let's assume we're using the simplest and taking the UK as a single electoral area distributing seats strictly on percentage. The Tories would get 42.4% of the seats (274); Labour 40% (260). The Lib Dems would get 48 seats.

Other systems would allocate votes/seats differently and all have their own quirks.

So very different, and naturally people might behave differently under such circumstances.

Yeah, I'm aware of the different systems, but as Grim... was struggling with the basics I wanted to keep it simple. ;)

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I've just noticed that Labour got the correct number of seats (ish) to match its vote share.


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These are the Tories' new buddies:

https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/ ... 1454678016




Oh, so they're the nasty party. ;)


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2017
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I've just noticed that Labour got the correct number of seats (ish) to match its vote share.

Yep, which is why even though Labour didn't win, to get 40% when the polls showed a double digit lead for the Tories even a couple of weeks back, it's an astonishing achievement.

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I've just noticed that Labour got the correct number of seats (ish) to match its vote share.

Yep, which is why even though Labour didn't win, to get 40% when the polls showed a double digit lead for the Tories even a couple of weeks back, it's an astonishing achievement.



My seat is one of the tory's safest ones, had a 16,000 majority. What was interesting to see was that Labour took all of the UKIP votes from the last election giving them a gain of 13%.


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Swivel-eyed Nicky Morgan calling for the PM to go in the "long term" already. Say what you like about the Tories but they're much better at getting rid of their unwanted leaders than Labour :DD


viewtopic.php?style=26&p=911073#p911073

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May speaking at No 10, she now sounds like an actual robot reading out lines.

EDIT - 'Friends and allies' in the DUP. Nice friends you've got there, Theresa.


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A somewhat underwhelming speech from Mrs May delivered with little passion.

'The promise of Brexit': who comes up with this shit?


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She didn't acknowledge anything that's happened in the last 15 hours! She basically just said "brexit keeps on keeping on"

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Swivel-eyed Nicky Morgan calling for the PM to go in the "long term" already. Say what you like about the Tories but they're much better at getting rid of their unwanted leaders than Labour :DD


viewtopic.php?style=26&p=911073#p911073

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She wouldn't stand a chance. It's Boris, Rudd or someone like Stephen Crabb.

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It sounded like a speech given by an iPhone.

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It sounded like a speech given by an iPhone.


That, I suspect, is a big part of the problem all along.
No charisma = serious disadvantage. Corbyn might well have completely barking policies and a very tenuous grasp of economics (IMO) but he has charm and considerable resilience, not to mention absolute authenticity and, by and large, honesty. This stuff matters.

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I don't know I felt quite reassured. I think she has the strength and stability to make sure that we're definitely all still fucked.


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It sounded like a speech given by an iPhone.


That, I suspect, is a big part of the problem all along.
No charisma = serious disadvantage. Corbyn might well have completely barking policies and a very tenuous grasp of economics (IMO) but he has charm and considerable resilience, not to mention absolute authenticity and, by and large, honesty. This stuff matters.



He also reminds most people of their grandad :DD


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You would have thought she'd have shown a bit of contrition and a willingness to reach out to those who have voted against her party this week. But no, full steam ahead and ignore everything that's happened in the last 8 weeks.

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You would have thought she'd have shown a bit of contrition and a willingness to reach out to those who have voted against her party this week. But no, full steam ahead and ignore everything that's happened in the last 8 weeks.


It was just a flesh wound!


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It sounded like a speech given by an iPhone.


That, I suspect, is a big part of the problem all along.
No charisma = serious disadvantage. Corbyn might well have completely barking policies and a very tenuous grasp of economics (IMO) but he has charm and considerable resilience, not to mention absolute authenticity and, by and large, honesty. This stuff matters.

P davies says:

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"The issue is that the Conservative Party, nationally, have made a pig’s ear of the campaign.

"What Jeremy Corbyn has done has successfully done is to tap into people's weariness of austerity.

“If this campaign has taught us one thing is that it has nothing to do with Brexit, but lots of people are tired of austerity.

“If you knock on people’s doors like I have, you know what people are talking about.

"I hope that my further term is longer than my third term was.

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Tories and DUP won't work as well as she hopes. May is toppled. We have another election. Maybe another hung parliament. Time for Brexit negotiations decreases.

It's going to be very interesting

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I agree about May, but the DUP have been propping up weak Tory governments for a long time and I don't see that changing, short term at least. They don't want a hard Brexit collapse/Corbyn's in Single Market at any price stance, even less than the Tories themselves. That they've struck the deal within minutes, pretty much, probsbly tells its own story.

I do agree that a GE within a year or so is quite likely though, which, if competently handled the Tories could win. Especially as they now know what they're up against and time to galvanise, not alienate older voters.

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But will the more tolerant, pro-LGBT wing of the Tory party rebel against this new alliance? That seems feasible.

I'm going to predict another election and hung parliament, but Tories and Lab to be neck and neck, maybe even Labour slightly ahead, especially if Boris is in charge

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I've just read that a candidate in Walsall lost his seat after 38 years. He'd been there since 1979.

Amazing! The longest I've had a job is 5 years....


His vote share actually increased by about 4%, but the UKIP vote dropped 16% and the Con vote increased 15.9%, so they swept up the ukip losses.

The labour majority vote of our seat increased significantly, on the other hand. Mind you, I'm not entirely sure what 'north' Walsall encompasses. If it's near Brownhills, etc, it's quite a different mindset from around here.

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But will the more tolerant, pro-LGBT wing of the Tory party rebel against this new alliance? That seems feasible.

I'm going to predict another election and hung parliament, but Tories and Lab to be neck and neck, maybe even Labour slightly ahead, especially if Boris is in charge


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But will the more tolerant, pro-LGBT wing of the Tory party rebel against this new alliance? That seems feasible.

I'm going to predict another election and hung parliament, but Tories and Lab to be neck and neck, maybe even Labour slightly ahead, especially if Boris is in charge


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But will the more tolerant, pro-LGBT wing of the Tory party rebel against this new alliance? That seems feasible.


If it really is true what people are saying about the DUP then a sizable chunk of my conscience would love that to be the case. My guess, though, is that every Tory MP to a man and woman is thanking their lucky stars that they're even still in power *at all* and, short term at least, mouths will be welded shut. It's cynical I know, but I just can't see it any other way, the horses are well and truly scared, here, and were it not for the Scots JC would be going to the Palace about now. We came within a fag paper's breadth.

On the other hand, of course, there's the issue of a divisive Leadership contest which surely must, now, come. Enough for the govt. to lose a No Confidence Motion at some stage, if in dissarray? Possibly.

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Notwithstanding the first part of my post I'm fairly done with predictions I think. :D
For me, I don't think the Brits like a hung parliament much, so, provided the Tories don't do totally unnecessary, ridiculous shit like telling all the old duffers there're doomed in terms of social costs and winter fuel (when the election was supposed to be able Brexit :rolleyes: ), and as against the very real spectre of a hard Left Labour government (which hardly anyone thought a plausible outcome), I personally think the Tories would win fairly convincingly. But seriously, what do I know. :)

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Sky sources saying DUP are saying no deal has been done and discussions are ongoing. Has May jumped the gun here? It's obviously looking like a minority govt with C&S from DUP. They'll ask for loads more money for NI of course too.

Very shaky if so. I bet it won't last six months.

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You are using the 'Ted' forum. Bill doesn't really exist any more. Bogus!
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RIP, Owen. RIP, MrC.

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