UK General Election 2017

[seafoid]

From the FT

New export opportunities from May's BNP-UK!p-DUP Brexit - Going Global
- Bowler hats
- Orange sashes
- Drums
- House/Wall painting
- Penny whistles
- Non understandable English classes (ideal for non secure communications)
- Green energy schemes (c) Bernie Madoff

[T Fearon]

If the DUP screw more money out of the Tories for all of us here,for hospitals,schools roads etc,fair play to them.Idealogists on this thread need to get real and face the following facts.

1.A United Ireland is as big a non runner as ever,opposed moreso by Dublin than anyone else.

2.There are no measurable benefits from a United Ireland in any case.

3.SDLP and SF have delivered zilch for Northern nationalists.

4.As a result of the previous point Political Unionism continues to run rings round nationalism

5.As the DUP rightly say,Britain pours loads more money into the North than the EU does.

[sid waddell]

From the FT

New export opportunities from May's BNP-UK!p-DUP Brexit - Going Global
- Bowler hats
- Orange sashes
- Drums
- House/Wall painting
- Penny whistles
- Non understandable English classes (ideal for non secure communications)
- Green energy schemes (c) Bernie Madoff

Pray the gay away seminars
All cakes in the UK must be iced with anti-gay political messages
BBC NI's Saturday 5pm sports report to be broadcast UK-wide - no GAA included

[Avondhu star]

From the FT

New export opportunities from May's BNP-UK!p-DUP Brexit - Going Global
- Bowler hats
- Orange sashes
- Drums
- House/Wall painting
- Penny whistles
- Non understandable English classes (ideal for non secure communications)
- Green energy schemes (c) Bernie Madoff

Ulster fry replacing school dinners

[LeoMc]

No majority is better than a bad majority.

[Maroon Manc]

What a woeful campaign from May and the Tories in general.

I can barely recall anyone questioning Corbyn on his economic policy and the one time he was questioned on his childcare pledge he forgot his figures, he was well able to bat away any questions on his links to the IRA yet they still continued to hound him on it.

I see at about 3am Farage seemed convinced there would be another referendum on brexit.

[Stall the Bailer]

May made the election about her "strong and stable" and couldn't back it up. Fail
Today she is till trying to make it about herself,  seems she hasn't learnt a thing about the results.
The certainty she's now talks about, really equates to how it can't and won't last. The sooner the better.

[BennyCake]

May didn't visit the North pre-election, now it's their 'friends in DUP'. The DUP are being used, pawns in a game. Can't they see that? Or maybe it's just that they put up with anything as long as they're under Queen Lizard and can wrap their fleg around themselves?

[Stall the Bailer]

No matter how much you hate the dup, you have to give it to them. They now have more power than they ever had. The way they have dodged RHI, faked their st. Andrew's commitments re. Irish act etc. The snakes have nothing to learn. How much hay can they make now?

[screenexile]

No matter how much you hate the dup, you have to give it to them. They now have more power than they ever had. The way they have dodged RHI, faked their st. Andrew's commitments re. Irish act etc. The snakes have nothing to learn. How much hay can they make now?

There is clearly no incentive for them now to go back to Stormont.

There is every chance it's Direct Rule for the North with the DUP pulling the strings in the Tory Government and no Nationalist voice there to dispute it. . . worrying times for Nationalism but Sinn Fein seem happy enough so everything must be OK!

[AhNowRef]

oh dear Jaysus .. wait til the poor aul English get a load of this    lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAa4xPkk2Pw

[yellowcard]

No matter how much you hate the dup, you have to give it to them. They now have more power than they ever had. The way they have dodged RHI, faked their st. Andrew's commitments re. Irish act etc. The snakes have nothing to learn. How much hay can they make now?

Expect the triumphalism to reach heights not seen for a while during the marching season.

[Walter Cronc]

This is great they DUP being exposed for what they are on a world stage.

This will bury the Tories. I expect May to be gone shortly.

Boris to take over? 

[yellowcard]

No matter how much you hate the dup, you have to give it to them. They now have more power than they ever had. The way they have dodged RHI, faked their st. Andrew's commitments re. Irish act etc. The snakes have nothing to learn. How much hay can they make now?

There is clearly no incentive for them now to go back to Stormont.

There is every chance it's Direct Rule for the North with the DUP pulling the strings in the Tory Government and no Nationalist voice there to dispute it. . . worrying times for Nationalism but Sinn Fein seem happy enough so everything must be OK!

That's a strong possibility. The DUP can feign wanting to go into government in Stormont now but probably have no intention if they are pulling the strings of the Westminster government. I can't see the lifespan of this parliament lasting the full term though so a lot will depend what they achieve during the Brexit negotiations. Plenty more volatility to come and the rollercoaster ride will continue.

[Keyser soze]

Well sure if there is one thing [well a list of things] that install a bit of backbone into the nationalist population its a bit of oul prejudice and discrimination from the DUP. Sure they never learn, they might make some short term gains but these will inevitably backfire on them in the longer term. so bring on your hard Brexit and hard border cos it will be counterproductive in the near future.

Interestingly, [well maybe I'm the only nerd interested in such stuff] looking at the figures yesterday v the 2015 GE results:

the DUP added 108k to their vote total compared to 2015. About 72k of this came from UUP/TUV/UKIP/Sylvia/Con losing votes giving them a gain of c.36k from the increased vote they got out.

SF increased their vote by c. 55k in the same period with about 5k of this coming from SDLP giving them a net gain from increased turnout of c50k meaning the nationalist vote has gained more comparatively from increased turnout than Unionists have.