I'd agree with the broad thrust of what you're saying there Cavey in some regards, but it's only a slightly comforting side-effect of a fuck-up so big you can see it with the naked eye from space, but the DUP are disgusting and to me this demonstrates how the Tories will just do absolutely bloody anything to cling onto the power they clearly believe they were put on this earth to wield.
So yes, if this neuters the worst excesses of the Brexit that was originally mooted then it's to the good, but then again we need to remember that May went into this election looking for a mandate to take a wrecking ball to the UK economy and the hopes and aspirations of millions of people, especially the young.
The whole thing is a dreadful spectacle, Cameron and now May in the space of a couple of years have proven to be astonishingly reckless, literally gambling with the fate of a nation out of hubris and arrogance.
At least it finally blows apart the lie that the Conservative Party is the 'steady hand of government' or whatever other nonsense they love to trot out on a regular basis.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... y-of-chaosQuote:
Somehow the myth of strong and stable Conservative government persists. For example: time and again, surveys suggest that voters trust the Tories more on the economy, despite the chaos unleashed by the pound-crashing, inflation-inducing referendum. Maybe it’s the patrician bearing of men like Cameron. Or the determined authoritarianism of May. This is unpleasant medicine, but you’re going to take it – it’ll do you good in the end. We know best. We’re the natural party of government, after all.
If the last seven years have taught us anything, it’s that this is pure fantasy – worse, a brazen lie. Forget the rhetoric, forget the home-counties-accountant demeanour of Philip Hammond. These people cannot be trusted to run the country. The record demonstrates clearly that they are the real party of chaos.
In the end it wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn who transported us back to the 1970s, but May. In February 1974 Edward Heath asked “Who Governs?”, before losing an election and paving the way for a second that October. It’s now 2017, but the question seems relevant again. Who do you believe is capable of governing in the national interest? Today’s Conservatives have shown beyond doubt that it isn’t them.