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Oct. 12th, 2018 07:18 am
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The sky is still waking up, wind rustling through the gardens and woods. R is home, working from the house today. I don't know whether to try to do my work while he's here, or surrender to the truth that it's all going to be a bit noisier and just lark about. I'll see what the volume's like.

The DUP seem set to b*gger up Mrs May's chequers plan; it's almost funny. So last election, May doesn't get her majority and has to court the DUP big time, to the tune of £1.5 billion in order to have a 'confidence and supply' arrangement with 10 MPs, ie a guarantee that those MPs will vote with the government when necessary. Some remonstrate saying it's a bribe; no, no, says the govt, it will all go towards the people of Northern Ireland, who are quite poor and that's important... So poor and so important to the tories there was no mention of this donation in their manifesto, it just turned up as a wondrous afterthought. But now of course, the DUP are having conniptions about even the merest hint of a border between the NI and the mainland, and are threatening to vote down the budget. Whereupon the government turns around and says that this would be in breach of the agreement and the £1.5 billion would have to be paid back!

It grows more toxic not less. The DUP can probably bring Theresa May down, and that would be their hope, to put Boris or some other hard line Brexiter in her place. But in that event, her party would have 14 days to put a government together and there's no guarantee that anyone available could command the confidence of the house. That would mean an election, which might bring about PM Corbyn, a Sinn Fein sympathiser.

The murmurs are that we are moving towards a break up of the Union. I have always been against it, because I thought Scotland and NI would be poorer, but one can see why the voices grow loud. The rankness of the current situation is unarguable.

Date: 2018-10-12 12:26 pm (UTC)
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I've never quite understood why NI isn't a part of the mainland. (Yes, yes, I know it has something to do with religion.)

Surely, more independence votes are just as unfeasible as another Brexit vote?

Though with the price of oil going back up, Scotland's shot at making it alone seems a lot more viable.

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