Theresa May
(the prime minister, not the pornstar) has so far succeeded calling
an early election that cost her party their majority, announced a
coalition before it was properly negotiated and is even now
announcing cabinet appointments ecen though you usually save a few to
bribe your coalition partner with.
Her chosen
coalition partner is the DUP: a far right Irish Unionist (that means
pro-UK) party founded by former terrorists that is the most
anti-choice party in government, rabidly anti-LGBTQ and climate
change deniers. Sinn Fein has already started grumbling about this
coalition, which is exactly the sort of tension you want to encourage
in Northern Ireland. I mean, what children these days really need is
the character building experience of bomb drills at school like what
I had.
Elsewhere in
the Conservative Party, press interviews are being given in which the
sharpening of knives can clearly be heard. Not that anyone can blame
them. There didn't have to be an election for another three years and
any other leader who losyt the majority would have resigned out of
sheer bloody pragmatic shame to spend more time with their index
linked pension.
When this
all started there were two theories. There was the generally accepted
idea that the Conservatives wanted a more solid mandate for Brexit
and to not have to fight an election after the Article 50 deadline
just in case (you know, on the off-chance) Brexit completely fucked
the economy. Then there was my theory where they were so completely
unable to control the Brexit negotiations that they just wanted to
throw the election and make it someone else's problem.
During the
campaign, as May did seemingly everything she could to alienate her
core voters (like the Dementia Tax), it started to make an awful lot
of sense.
Now, she's
holding on to power when any other politician would resign and
willingly getting in to bed with the DUP who, even by Conservative
standards, are utterly mad.
I guess what
I'm saying here is: Has anyone seen The Producers?
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