DUP and Tory f*ck up thread

[killer b]

Have to say, I'm in awe of the trolling skills of these guys.

 

[Buckaroo]

Its draughts actually

Nah, it's not even noughts and crosses.

 

[Raheem]

The Tory government will be weak, but the DUP will also want to keep Corbyn out of power enough to support them for the Queen's Speeches, budgets, votes of confidence etc.

It would be astonishing if that were ever in doubt. The point of getting a deal has to be Brexit.

 

[likesfish]

there playing russian roulette with an automatic

 

[Supine]

Its draughts actually

Snakes and ladders

 

[Idris2002]

I think the DUP's game is called "fuck you".

 

[Puddy_Tat]

have they got any policies to put in the queen's speech tomorrow?

at the moment i'm thinking it could along the lines of

"mey government is utterly farked. mey government will continue to flail round aimlessly. one is orf to arsecot."

 

[Cid]

Potential judicial review on the way too...

 

[Idris2002]

The thing about the DUP we forget is that they're basically small time, small town hicks who got lucky.

 

[8den]

Obviously playing hardball for leverage, but this is all funny as...

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If a group of creationist climate change deniers are publicly calling out May's government's negotiating acumen, then you are completely fucked when it comes to brexit.

 

[8den]

After two years of negotiating David Davis announcing the Brexit deal, the divorce bill is £9 trillion, and the UK remains in the EU but now you're all Belgian for some reason.

 

[killer b]

The thing about the DUP we forget is that they're basically small time, small town hicks who got lucky.

I don't think any of us are forgetting this at all.

 

[Raheem]

The thing about the DUP we forget is that they're basically small time, small town hicks who got lucky.

That's the most anyone ever is.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

In case The Queen's Speech is even more rot than usual, here's this:

 

[8115]

Lovely stuff.

Theresa May under pressure as DUP says: ‘Show some respect’

 

[Smangus]

I don't think I've ever enjoyed politics as much as the last 4 weeks and it just keeps getting better and better

 

[Cid]

I don't think I've ever enjoyed politics as much as the last 4 weeks and it just keeps getting better and better

It can't last, surely but....

 

[Puddy_Tat]

on tweeter as tomorrow's daily mirror front page

 

[frogwoman]

on tweeter as tomorrow's daily mirror front page

 

[magneze]

Glorious

 

[pengaleng]

jesus, still??

god she looks done in on that front page

 

[killer b]

We shouldn't forget that as well as trolling may, the fuckers are also trolling us: come the vote on the queens speech, they'll troop through the government lobby whatever.

 

[8den]

I don't think I've ever enjoyed politics as much as the last 4 weeks and it just keeps getting better and better

Is it possible to die of a schadenfreude overdose?

 

[brogdale]

We shouldn't forget that as well as trolling may, the fuckers are also trolling us: come the vote on the queens speech, they'll troop through the government lobby whatever.

Raises an important question about how they will respond, though the QS is not voted on immediately.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

We shouldn't forget that as well as trolling may, the fuckers are also trolling us: come the vote on the queens speech, they'll troop through the government lobby whatever.

They will of course. But only after having wounded the govt to an extent that makes the thing they dread, Corbyn in power, way more likely. The DUP are also Fuckwits.

 

[killer b]

Speaking of trolling and Corbyn in power, McDonnell apparently came out with this tonight...

John McDonnell: "The Tories need to sort themselves, because when we get into government we will need an effective opposition."

 

[brogdale]

They will of course. But only after having wounded the govt to an extent that makes the thing they dread, Corbyn in power, way more likely. The DUP are also Fuckwits.

I'd say their decision whether to support or abstain will rest upon the deal being settled; they're obviously hanging out for something(s)...so if May doesn't yield they may just abstain to let her know her weakness.

 

[teqniq]

The thing about the DUP we forget is that they're basically small time, small town hicks who got lucky.

This might be the kind of lucky that is not the kind you want for all parties concerned.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'd say their decision whether to support or abstain will rest upon the deal being settled; they're obviously hanging out for something(s)...so if May doesn't yield they may just abstain to let her know her weakness.

Only if they're idiots. This is an absurd game of chicken. The DUP in some ways have more to lose than the Tories. The Tories can lick their wounds and come back in the next election. If the DUP let Corbyn in, and are seen to let Corbyn in, they could be finished in a few years' time.

Right at the beginning of this, I thought the DUP were bound to overplay their hand. And sure enough, that is what they are doing. They are not equals in this negotiation, but are acting as if they were. They're fools.

 

[Celyn]

The thing about the DUP we forget is that they're basically small time, small town hicks who got lucky.

We don't forget that, and no-one does, but the whole "getting lucky" is not fun, not good. DUP is quite scary.

My own sneaky thoughts are that the LibDems will walk back in, saying "Oh we are even nicer to the Tories than the DUP, and we have even got as much as twelve M.P.s, which makes us really popular and important."

A bit of fluffy television chat things ... and soon it will be sold to us as "Oh, at least it's not that scary mad DUP in charge now, eh? It's just the Tories and their followers in power.

And on we go again.