Saving a Government at £1.5 billion

[javikha_4]

You could buy an awful lot of cladding for that.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/theresa-may-strikes-deal-dup-leader-arlene-foster-support-minority-governm...

[joe_bloggs*]

They've found the "Magic money tree" they keep mentioning,

Getting into bed with such a corrupt,bigoted and backward looking party,What were the DUP thinking?

[j_uk643]

lol

[j_uk643]

It's funny how only certain tragedies involving certain groups get the old rt gastric juices flowing, and how the rest get effectively ignored, no matter how horrific

just saying like dahlinks

[fallen-archie]

Meanwhile the Corbynista's are making their way home from Glastonbury, which was of course a triumph for the president in waiting, and all those young environmentally friendly poor people who somehow managed to find £230 per ticket to attend, leaving behind them a true vision of what Britain has to Look forward to Once Mr corbyn gets into his presidential palace.

[j_uk643]

not the lesser spotted flat-cap chiv chav lol

1.5 billion could have bought the whole of the NW with about 1.4 billion left over to ship it out to sea lol

[fallen-archie]

[astrologica]

I wonder if any of those youngsters who listened to him, and fell for his garbage, have ever googled 'Marxism'?

[fallen-archie]

Here's pretty boy Owen who clearly has studied Marx

[joe_bloggs*]

The  monster continues to politically indoctrinate innocent children in marxist ideology !!

"So Charlie got the Chocolate factory, and he found out that they paid NO CORPORATION TAX"

[javikha_4]

Marxist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Sy6oiJbEk

[javikha_4]

BoJo missing his MoJo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqz6H0Crbm8

[j_uk643]

That's over 100 million per MP!!! Bet Nigel wishes he had run now, even if he's lost all seven times before

[fallen-archie]

Or put another way will benefit NI to the tune of £450m per year for two years at a cost to all British tax payers of £7 per annum, As a comparison you can sponsor a donkey fo £36 per annum! Or by a good quality flat cap suitable for a twitcher.

[joe_bloggs*]

Keep your eye open for these when you next visit Ikea:

[j_uk643]

Thats just a down payment old chap, total bill will be far more.The deal is limited to confidence motions and supply bills, anything else requiring support will be extra, and agreed on a case by case basis and it will need revisiting in 2 years, should they survive that long.NI already receives large amounts from the UK, significantly above the norm, it has about the highest imputed deficit in the UK .
And the reason the whole of the UK should be paying additional amounts to NI of £150 million for ultra fast broadband, £200 million for health, £100 million health and education, £400 million for infrastructure, additional amounts for mental health etc £100 million for 'deprivation' basically giving the population of NI initially about £540 per head of free additional income, when the public sector in the uk is facing pay freezes and cuts?
Additionally with further movement of public sector jobs out of the SE to NI and elsewhere, enterprise zones and additional inward investment plans and promotion. It will also mean lost revenue from a likely reduction in CT, and air passenger duty, to the UK exchequer, not to mention other lost revenue due to the deal
Super fast broadband alone will be about the same as 25-30 years of Halls profits shifting spam around the North

Then there's the peace agreement at risk, assembly suspended since January and one side now propping up the UK govt the so-called honest broker meant to impartially hold the agreement together whilst being dependent for it's political life upon one side to that agreement .An agreement to extend the Military Covenant to armed forces in NI wont help optics.
Best tell the local kids, babies, in the street or up chimneys to cough up their down payment of £7 plus plus pa, and forget the donkey
It's a flat cap moment obviously - is Blackpool treating for twitching as well, the wonders of modern medicine eh
You could both have your picture taken with 'kiss me kwick' hats on. It would be a collectors item I'm sure

[j_uk643]

lol, wise they dropped the 'strong and stable' logo

[cee-dee]

Leaving aside the obviously biased viewpoint..... what's the alternative to what's transpired?

Corbyn said he was ready to govern, how could he do that with nowhere near a majority? Parliament has hardly got going and he's sacked three shadow ministers and one's resigned after a rebellion so a Corbym led government just wouldn't work at all never mind for a few weeks.

The other alternative would be another election. The country needs that like a hole in the head. The cost of it all would be bad enough never mind the uncertainty.

For now, the best way out of a bad job is the line now being followed, distasteful though it might be.

[j_uk643]

I thought you had left it aside??

As far as elections go, fixed term parliaments act put that 5 years away, May decided the polls looked so good for her, she wanted to circumvent that act for her own gain. The rest is history.

The understanding of that outcome is still ongoing and the conservative party is still in shock over events  The electoral dice fall wherever they fall. There have been minority governments before with or without the DUP this one is likely to have a similar life span.

The incumbent conventionally has first chance at forming a government which may or may not be one in which it has an overall majority either on its own or with some form of arrangement . Heath tried in 74 and failed, Wilson picked it up.Both were minorities. 

One of the problems with the DUP deal is the way in which the arrangement is clearly, publicly one based primarily on cash, offering seats and votes for about a 100 million each. 

The peace agreement is also put in jeopardy when one party is critical to supporting what is supposed to be an unbiased broker to that agreement especially at problematic times.

Political rhetoric isn't necessarily meant to be taken literally.  If the amendment was meant to try to peel off pro European Tories, at this moment in time  It wasnt likely .A party in shock, isn't likely to respond.