May & Dup

Well the Battle of the Boyne will become a Bank Holiday. We don't currently have one in July, right? Oh, they do already in NI.

The Sash to replace the National Anthem?

England voted Tory, Scotland voted SNP, Wales voted Labour, Northern Ireland voted DUP

DUP member wants to see creationism “taught in every school”...

like betfair created in 6 days

Surely they'll only have very minimal input, 10 seats to the tories 318, they will be less significant than the lib dems were in 2010 coalition.

New calendar for the UK, January, February, March, March, March.

Can't see any progress in NI while this coalition happens.

It's just a fantasy "maydup" coalition

(On twitter)

Fancy going into government with a bunch of racist, bigoted right wing homophobic thugs.

But I suppose the Democratic Unionist Party will get used to the Tories.

Ruth Davidson's campaign saves May from total disaster & she repays her like this. Shameful and desperate stuff from May

Just read in the papers today

DUP are strong believers in the triple lock

PENSIONS

Looks like May is in a HEADLOCK

Just about all Tory MPs voted against the gay marriage bill.

Not sure why Ruth is more worried about the 10 DUP MPs in parliaments rather than the 100's Tory MPs on this subject.

paisley the younger finds gay people repellent the commons tearoom should be interesting

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/2112553/Gordon-Brown-wins-crucial-42-day-vote-thanks-to-Ulster-MPs.html

Gordon Brown wins crucial 42 day vote thanks to Ulster MPs

Just nine votes saved the Prime Minister from an embarrassing defeat as he survived a backbench rebellion at the last minute.
Mr Brown had staked his authority on winning the vote, personally calling dozens of Labour MPs to persuade them to back increasing the time limit that terror suspects can be held without charge.
But his victory - which means Britain now has the toughest anti-terror laws in the Western world - ultimately depended on the support of the MPs from the Democratic Unionist Party.
Mr Brown was accused of doing backroom deals with the Ulster MPs in order to save his own skin and indulging in "pork barrel politics".
If the nine DUP MPs had voted against the controversial legislation, which will see the detention limit without charge raised from 28 to 42 days, it would have been defeated. If they had abstained it would have required the casting vote of the Speaker to pass the legislation.

The narrowness of Mr Brown's victory calls into question the government's mandate for introducing such a controversial law. However, recent opinion polls had indicated that the public was overwhelmingly in favour of the legislation.
Details of what the DUP had secured for voting with the Government have begun to emerge.
Householders in Northern Ireland were due to begin paying water rates at levels equivalent to those in the rest of the UK from 2010, rising from £160 next year to £250. The DUP have now won an agreement that the £200 million this will raise annually will be spent on taxpayers in Northern Ireland.
In addition, Shaun Woodward, the Northern Ireland Secretary, assured the DUP that the Government had no plans to end the ban on abortion in the province. Abortion has never been legal in Northern Ireland, and women and girls seeking a termination often travel to the England for the procedure.
Thirty six Labour MPs voted against the Government and the Government majority of 65 was reduced to just nine, with 315 MPs in favour and 306 against. Ann Widdecombe, the former minister, was the only Tory MP to vote with the Government.
Willie McCrea, a senior DUP MP, defended the party's decision to back the Government.
"As far as we are concerned in the Democratic Unionist Party we decided on an issue of principle on national security," he said. "Without apology, the DUP and the one Ulster Unionist voted side by side together.
"Northern Ireland knows more than any other part of the UK what the ravages of terrorism can do. We could not in any way put our hands to something that would endanger the UK."
The vote was considered the biggest test of Mr Brown's year-long Premiership and he will hail the victory as one for improved British security.
Earlier in the Commons Mr Brown clashed with David Cameron over the issue. The Conservative leader said the proposals were "draconian" and "ineffective".
Mr Brown said the proposal was "not only popular" but "necessary and right."
After the vote Mr Brown was seen congratulating the Labour whips, he also kissed Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary who had been piloting the laws through the Commons.
He also thanked Lady Sylvia Hermon, the Ulster Unionist MP, who also voted with the Government.
But the raising of the detention limit from 28 to 42 days was attacked by the opposition and civil liberties groups, who had argued that they were a step too far. terror suspects in Britain can now be held for a month longer without charge than any other Western country.
Australia allows police to hold suspects for 12 days without charge.
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said: "We won the argument, they bought the votes. It wasn't the argument that won the day it was the (Labour) whips that won.
"Gordon Brown can't be proud today."
But Tony McNulty, the Home Office Minister said: "I thought common sense would prevail.
The Prime Minister had the bravery and courage  to stick to his guns, to stick to his principles.
"Now there is a huge task to persuade all Parliamentarians in the Commons and Lords."
Austin Mitchell, the Labour MP for Grimsby, said that rather than abstaining he switched to support the Government to "save Gordon for the nation." But he added that he did it in the knowledge that he did not think the 42 days would be enacted.
Tony Lloyd, the chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, said: "This leaves the Labour Government very much in tune with what this country wants."
A Daily Telegraph/YouGov poll showed that 69 per cent accepted the need for the 42 day detention limit for terror suspects in "exceptional circumstances."
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said it was a "victory of pork barrel politics." He added that it was "a sad day for the tradition of liberty in this country."
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of civil rights group Liberty, said: "Recent years have shown how forgetting Britain's moral compass has left our country less safe; so on to the House of Lords- once more the guardian of fundamental rights."
Mr Brown and Home Office ministers spent the past few days lobbying backbench MPs. Up to 60 were threatening to rebel but a range of "sweeteners" are understood to have been offered to secure the support of several dozen MPs.
The Prime Minister personally called those who were threatening to vote against the Government  speaking to some backbenchers at length who have not spoken to Mr Brown for the past two decades.

That wouldn't happen for obvious reasons Ovalman.

Actually true winningthought but I was being sarcastic.

Labour sought a DUP pact so Pot Kettle Black springs to mind.

http://www.irishnews.com/news/2015/09/02/news/hillary-clinton-emails-labour-sought-dup-election-pact-248668/?param=ds12rif76F

I can read Gin's post thanks. And no, you weren't being sarcastic, you were being disingenuous.

Of course, Corbyn's Labour is very different from the murderous Neoliberal Blair/Brown 'NuLabour', so its no surprise they approached DUP - their modus operandi was power at any cost.

More nonsense from lefties about GFA in danger because of influence on government.

Means Corbyn can never be PM at least since he is clearly biased to the IRA

Beginning to think May's advisers were brought in by the world elite to  "lose " the election. Now the next one can be lost followed by a remain win in a second EU referendum.

Ahh !! Anyone remember the good ole days when we had democratic elections, the ballots were counted, the winner declared and everyone just went about their business again until the next election a few years later.?