UK election surprise: Manchester terror attack (and others)

[Ca.]

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U.K. Election 2017
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Friday June 9, 2017
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7:31:34 AM
Alex Morales U.K. Politics Reporter
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Labour under Jeremy Corbyn are heading towards a vote share of more than 40 percent. For comparison, Tony Blair won power with shares of 35.2 percent in 2005, 40.7 percent in 2001 and 43.2% in 1997.

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7:28:06 AM
Alex Morales U.K. Politics Reporter
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Former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan tells me the Conservative Party "has some hard questions to ask itself." She continues:

"This is not an election campaign which has healed divisions across the country in the way it needed to."

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7:27:12 AM
Rob Dawson Photo Editor
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Security is unsurprisingly tight outside the home of Jeremy Corbyn this morning.

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7:20:38 AM
Svenja O'Donnell U.K. Government Reporter
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May's poor campaign being blamed for much of these losses at CCHQ. As a Tory source put it to me earlier:

"Corbyn's last rally was a party in a chapel. May's was a short speech in a basement in Meriden. That tells you all you need to know about her campaigning style."

The party will not want to keep her as leader after this.

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7:19:37 AM
Alex Morales U.K. Politics Reporter
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Of those potential runners, Davis has stood twice before and lost, while Johnson almost stood last year -- before a savage attack on his leadership credentials from Michael Gove prompted his withdrawal before even announcing his candidacy. Read about that here:

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7:14:18 AM
Svenja O'Donnell U.K. Government Reporter
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It's really looking increasingly hard for Theresa May to stay on. The next questions are:

who will be in the running for the Tory leadership if she steps down? and
if the Tories hang on in a minority government, how long before another election?


It's looking increasingly likely Brexit talks will be delayed, and another vote may well be in the offing within months.

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7:11:51 AM
Alex Morales U.K. Politics Reporter
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We're still waiting for Theresa May to come out and give a speech. Big questions are being asked about how long she can remain prime minister. She called the election asking for voters to give her a mandate for her brand of Brexit, and while the Conservatives remain the biggest party, a hung parliament only weakens the U.K.'s hand in Brexit negotiations.

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7:09:31 AM
Alex Morales U.K. Politics Reporter
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Caroline Lucas holds the Green Party's only seat in Brighton Pavilion. The Liberal Democrats didn't stand there in order to boost her chances. She celebrates the Tories' losses in her victory speech:

"Today that sea of blue is receding; hope is growing. People have shown that we can do politics differently."

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7:08:28 AM
Mark Evans European Economics

Here's another view of the state of play, with most of the results in and a hung parliament assured. Some of those smaller parties are going to be crucial in the coming weeks. If you're a Bloomberg terminal user, you can see more at {EU <Go>}.

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7:03:04 AM

Mark Cudmore Macro Strategist, Singapore
In my view, the long-term macro fundamentals for sterling were already very negative before this election. The critical issue from the vote is how it might shift the Brexit situation. And ultimately, that dynamic probably hasn’t changed too much.

We’re in a sweet spot of uncertainty for the U.K. How long will Theresa May survive as the Conservative Party leader? What does this result mean for Brexit negotiations?
All the "noise" will weigh on sterling in the short-term but have the fundamentals really shifted that much? No
Many investors will claim that, far from a strengthened mandate, whatever government represents the U.K. will now have reduced credibility when negotiating Brexit terms

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7:00:15 AM
Alex Morales U.K. Politics Reporter
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Ed Balls, former finance spokesman for Labour, says he expects another election because it'll be very hard to negotiate Brexit as a government without a majority.

"The reality is you can't run the country on a none-of-the-above basis"

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6:59:33 AM
Alex Morales U.K. Politics Reporter
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Meanwhile, the Tories have held what had been their only Scottish seat, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale. Scottish Secretary David Mundell returns with a slightly diminished majority, but still well over 9,000. He'll have competition for his job, now that the Tories have more Scottish MPS

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7:03:04 AM
Mark Cudmore Macro Strategist, Singapore

In my view, the long-term macro fundamentals for sterling were already very negative before this election. The critical issue from the vote is how it might shift the Brexit situation. And ultimately, that dynamic probably hasn’t changed too much.

We’re in a sweet spot of uncertainty for the U.K. How long will Theresa May survive as the Conservative Party leader? What does this result mean for Brexit negotiations?
All the "noise" will weigh on sterling in the short-term but have the fundamentals really shifted that much? No
Many investors will claim that, far from a strengthened mandate, whatever government represents the U.K. will now have reduced credibility when negotiating Brexit terms

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6:58:33 AM
Garfield Reynolds Markets Editor
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Markets are staying calm as it becomes clear that we have a hung parliament. While several analysts have forecast declines in the pound going forward -- I have seen $1.21 touted -- for now sterling is stuck between $1.27 and $1.28. Global bonds are flat; Asia-Pacific stocks are gaining, more or less, while U.S. equity futures are little changed.

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6:53:56 AM
Alex Morales U.K. Politics Reporter
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Stephen Crabb, the former Tory leadership candidate who held his Welsh seat earlier, says the government will have to be "balanced" and "pragmatic" on Brexit, and reach out to other parties.

"We need to be trying to forge as much cross party consensus on this as possible."

 

[Gary]

According to RT,

Theresa May is facing calls to resign as a hung parliament has now been confirmed.

The Tories are unable to win a majority at this stage. This means Prime Minister Theresa May’s gamble to call a general election to boost her Brexit bargaining hand has failed dismally.

Although the Tories may be able to form a minority government with support from Northern Ireland's DUP, surely Theresa May’s credibility is completely shattered now. So much for her "strong and stable" mantra! What a miscalculation in calling this snap election. Such wishful thinking yet again.

 

[Ant22]

I live in a predominately Tory area in Yorkshire. I thought yesterday I would test the water with regards to the election. Mentioned Corbyn in a positive light on two occasions and my did I get a reaction. You could say the reaction was Ob both occasions absolute horror. I was told how Corbyn was a friend of the terroists and had laid flowers on an IRA members grave. How he had supported Palestinian terrorists
The other occasion was how could he be trusted to negotiate brexit. The usual media repeated stuff I suppose. The stupid thing is Corbyn has dealt with these questions with regards to the IRA etc but the media lies are still swallowed. Suppose if you tell the lies enough it really does get the point home eventually.
Looking at numbers at the Corbyn rallies though all I can hope is it's a different scenario in other places.

I guess your neighbours woke up to really interesting news Thebull!! It's not Labour majority but as Anam Cara says:

(...)

'Unelectable' Corbyn could be the next PM in a hung parliament! :)

:)

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/08/europe/uk-general-election-2017-live-updates/index.html

Website crashes as voters look for answers
Theresa May is hoping to find backing from one or both of the unionist parties in Northern Ireland (The Democratic Unionist Party and Ulster Unionist Party) who support her Brexit position.

However, it appears people across the rest of the UK have been frantically googling what DUP means. As a result, there have been reports that its website has crashed.

Given how much more openly political talk this election brought I'm not surprised at all to see the website crash.

And yet I do wonder how much rigging was involved - and whether the results are in fact close to what was planned on purpose?

 

[Voyageur]

Being far removed from the continent of the election, had tuned into CBC to try and get a handle on what was going on. They interviewed a number of people (exit interviews) and people seemed divided, leaning more towards the Labour side if anything (the CBC said that the Tories were ahead at the time). Of the Labour side, the sentiments were of disillusionment with the Tories, primarily in social ways. Of the Tories side, the sentiments were focused almost exclusively on the terrorist issues, from what could be gauged.

Was surprised that the election, what was shown of it, was just a blip as the news was completely enamored upon the Comey hearings. The election was like a side note at the end.

It will be interesting to see how this develops in the Parliamentary system.

 

[Gary]

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has reflected on the election result, telling reporters: “Incredible result for the Labour Party because people voted for hope. Young people and old people all came together yesterday.

“A very high turnout, huge increase in the Labour vote and they did it because they want to see things done differently and they want hope in their lives.”

Corbyn told Sky News that Labour is “ready to go everything we can to put our program into operation,” and reiterated his call for Theresa May to quit.

He said: “The arguments put forward by the Conservative Party have lost. I think we need a change.”

When asked whether he intends to try and form a government, he says: “We are ready to serve this country. That is what we fought the election for.”

On the possibility of another election, he says: “Parliament must meet and parliament will then have to take a decision on what happens when a government puts forward a Queen’s Speech.”

On whether Brexit talks must go ahead, he says they will have to because Article 50 has been invoked.

He says putting negotiations off is “not completely in Britain’s hands.”

“We are ready to undertake negotiations on behalf of this country,” he says.

https://www.rt.com/uk/391419-election-night-live-updates/

Theresa May will make a speech at 10am BST. I doubt she will be resigning now, but her long term position looks untenable given this election disaster and the dismay (no pun intended) of many of her Tory colleagues.

 

[Windmill knight]

And yet I do wonder how much rigging was involved - and whether the results are in fact close to what was planned on purpose?

When we say that an election is rigged, that can mean a number of many little tweaks and tricks here and there that accumulate to tip the scales in the desired way (and one could count the totally biased media as part of the rigging; even the carefully timed terror attacks). So I don't think the results are what they planned for; it's more like that's the best they could do against the huge rise of the popularity of Corbyn. I don't think they wanted a hung Parliament at all. It feels like a huge defeat for May and a victory for Corbyn, the media are presenting it like that, and you can even see it on the faces of the two leaders this morning.

I find it interesting (and annoying) that last night when I went to bed the Parliament was decidedly hung, and this morning the Tories are four seats up and Labour five down from the exit poll, and the Tories are making a deal with those 10 DUP Irish MPs, which would magically give them just barely the majority they needed. It's that 'good luck factor' that the bad guys seem to have. Like the evil fairies came out and gave them the final little push they needed. So no doubt the bag of tricks was used to the max, but at what price? Like Anam Cara says:

Theresa May will make a speech at 10am BST. I doubt she will be resigning now, but her long term position looks untenable given this election disaster and the dismay (no pun intended) of many of her Tory colleagues.

That's the beauty of it. They made a big miscalculation and altough they haven't lost the power, their train is coming off the rails. And the more they try to force it back on track, the more chaos there will be. That sort of seems to be the pattern in many places around the globe these days.

 

[seek10]

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has reflected on the election result, telling reporters: “Incredible result for the Labour Party because people voted for hope. Young people and old people all came together yesterday.

“A very high turnout, huge increase in the Labour vote and they did it because they want to see things done differently and they want hope in their lives.”

Corbyn told Sky News that Labour is “ready to go everything we can to put our program into operation,” and reiterated his call for Theresa May to quit.

He said: “The arguments put forward by the Conservative Party have lost. I think we need a change.”

When asked whether he intends to try and form a government, he says: “We are ready to serve this country. That is what we fought the election for.”

On the possibility of another election, he says: “Parliament must meet and parliament will then have to take a decision on what happens when a government puts forward a Queen’s Speech.”

On whether Brexit talks must go ahead, he says they will have to because Article 50 has been invoked.

He says putting negotiations off is “not completely in Britain’s hands.”

“We are ready to undertake negotiations on behalf of this country,” he says.

I dont know much about UK politics, but I thought I will watch the results. The sentiment from the time results trickling in seems to be Tories are in bad shape, Labour is doing good. When one looks at the crowd Corbyn pulled when compared with blanks May pulled (similar to Trump and Killary pattern), I thought it should have been sweeping for Corbyn than 32 extra MP's they got. In the end, it came out just like Exit polls predicted.

Corbyn says putting off Brexit not in entirely in UK's hand, but the Brexit secretary says "Tories would lose mandate to leave EU single market if they lose majority, suggests Brexit Secretary"

_http://www.independent.co.uk/News/uk/politics/hung-parliament-brexit-single-market-eu-latest-news-theresa-may-majority-tory-mandate-david-davis-a7780541.html

Now Tories don't have majority, they have to depend to DUP which is Pro-Brexit. We know they can easily rig the system particularly with electronic voting machines, after looking at the result, makes me wonder Is this what PTB wants from the beginning?. I know this is speculative, but can't help in this age of fake news media.

 

[luc]

That's the beauty of it. They made a big miscalculation and altough they haven't lost the power, their train is coming off the rails. And the more they try to force it back on track, the more chaos there will be. That sort of seems to be the pattern in many places around the globe these days.

Well said, it seems that's what's going on right now. It also reminds me of the session where the Cs talked about how the Lizzies (paraphrasing) need to use ever more force to 'sustain their species', but that ultimately it will fail. I guess if you are fighting against a 'natural force of change', against non-linear dynamics and such, the energy needed to sustain your wishful-thinking-reality rises exponentially. Their reality has so many cracks now (as opposed to let's say 10 years ago) that keeping it alive must strain 'them' to the max. What happens when the whole thing finally bursts is anyone's guess - maybe a gigantic weather event or a stock market crash? Housing bubble burst? I think it's just impossible that all this goes on forever, and who knows, we might be close to a crossroads...

 

[Carl]

I find it interesting (and annoying) that last night when I went to bed the Parliament was decidedly hung, and this morning the Tories are four seats up and Labour five down from the exit poll, and the Tories are making a deal with those 10 DUP Irish MPs, which would magically give them just barely the majority they needed. It's that 'good luck factor' that the bad guys seem to have. Like the evil fairies came out and gave them the final little push they needed. So no doubt the bag of tricks was used to the max, but at what price? Like Anam Cara says:

That's the beauty of it. They made a big miscalculation and altough they haven't lost the power, their train is coming off the rails. And the more they try to force it back on track, the more chaos there will be. That sort of seems to be the pattern in many places around the globe these days.

Man that is exactly what I thought. At what cost have they achieved this? Barely scraped through by the skin of their teeth.

If there is any justice in this universe, they may have just used up their last bit of 'luck'.

The establishment has disgraced itself yet again, despite 'winning'. Alliance with the DUP? After all that slating Corbyn over Northern Ireland stuff? You couldn't make this up. Things are gonna get really interesting from here.

 

[Ca.]

I find it interesting (and annoying) that last night when I went to bed the Parliament was decidedly hung, and this morning the Tories are four seats up and Labour five down from the exit poll, and the Tories are making a deal with those 10 DUP Irish MPs, which would magically give them just barely the majority they needed. It's that 'good luck factor' that the bad guys seem to have. Like the evil fairies came out and gave them the final little push they needed. So no doubt the bag of tricks was used to the max, but at what price? Like Anam Cara says:

That's the beauty of it. They made a big miscalculation and altough they haven't lost the power, their train is coming off the rails. And the more they try to force it back on track, the more chaos there will be. That sort of seems to be the pattern in many places around the globe these days.

Man that is exactly what I thought. At what cost have they achieved this? Barely scraped through by the skin of their teeth.

If there is any justice in this universe, they may have just used up their last bit of 'luck'.

The establishment has disgraced itself yet again, despite 'winning'. Alliance with the DUP? After all that slating Corbyn over Northern Ireland stuff? You couldn't make this up. Things are gonna get really interesting from here.

RT

“If this poll turns out to be anywhere near accurate, it would be an extraordinary result.

“There’s never been such a turnaround in a course of a campaign … Labour has run a positive and honest campaign - we haven’t engaged in smears or personal attacks.”
https://www.rt.com/uk/391432-election-hung-may-resign/

Well here's one prediction I'm happy to make. It's gonna be a long night for Theresa May and the Tories.Whatever happens May is TOAST!
_https://twitter.com/labourlewis/status/872925877981646849/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fuk%2F391432-election-hung-may-resign%2F

Former shadow cabinet minister Clive Lewis was less diplomatic in his language, simply tweeting: “Whatever happens May is TOAST!”

Leave campaigners are concerned the hung parliament could put the brakes on Brexit.

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall, who has since resigned after failing to win any seats, tweeted: “If the exit poll is true then Theresa May has put Brexit in jeopardy. I said at the start this election was wrong. Hubris.”

UK General Election: Shock hung parliament leaves Tories scrabbling for deal to keep power Live updates
Published time: 8 Jun, 2017 20:37
https://www.rt.com/uk/391419-election-night-live-updates/
Snip:
13:27 GMT

The Labour Party has responded to the Prime Minister’s announcement that she will be forming a new government with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUC).

The party said Theresa May should deliver on the will of the British people instead of “burying her head in the sand”.

"Theresa May claims nothing has changed, but the clear message from the electorate is that everything has changed.

"Instead of burying her head in the sand, May needs to listen to what the people of Britain are saying,” Labour said, according to Sky News.

"The British people have not given her the landslide she wanted and many predicted, and Labour will not stand by and let her impose policies that do not have public support or legitimacy.

"Labour will fight for a jobs-first Brexit. We will defend the NHS and press for policies that benefit the many not the few, and we will oppose any attacks on the living standards of working people and pensioners."

UK Election Chaos Sparks Selling Spree In Bonds & Bullion
_http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-09/uk-election-chaos-sparks-selling-spree-bonds-bullion

Because nothing says sell safe-havens like a shocking election result in the nation at the center of European Union chaos...

Exit Polls signal May failure... sell Gold
chart:
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/06/07/20170609_10Y1_0.jpg
At least bonds initial reaction made some sense... but since then it's been Sell the dip in yields and buy stocks... because more QE will paper over any political cracks, we're sure...
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/06/07/20170609_10Y.jpg
Some have suggested that this is due to the May colatilion implying a 'softer' Brexit, implying less global turmoil, implying less need for safety? We remind those 'thinkers', like pregnancy, there's no half-Brexit.

 

[Ant22]

And yet I do wonder how much rigging was involved - and whether the results are in fact close to what was planned on purpose?

When we say that an election is rigged, that can mean a number of many little tweaks and tricks here and there that accumulate to tip the scales in the desired way (and one could count the totally biased media as part of the rigging; even the carefully timed terror attacks). So I don't think the results are what they planned for; it's more like that's the best they could do against the huge rise of the popularity of Corbyn. I don't think they wanted a hung Parliament at all. It feels like a huge defeat for May and a victory for Corbyn, the media are presenting it like that, and you can even see it on the faces of the two leaders this morning.

I find it interesting (and annoying) that last night when I went to bed the Parliament was decidedly hung, and this morning the Tories are four seats up and Labour five down from the exit poll, and the Tories are making a deal with those 10 DUP Irish MPs, which would magically give them just barely the majority they needed. It's that 'good luck factor' that the bad guys seem to have. Like the evil fairies came out and gave them the final little push they needed. So no doubt the bag of tricks was used to the max, but at what price? Like Anam Cara says:

Theresa May will make a speech at 10am BST. I doubt she will be resigning now, but her long term position looks untenable given this election disaster and the dismay (no pun intended) of many of her Tory colleagues.

That's the beauty of it. They made a big miscalculation and altough they haven't lost the power, their train is coming off the rails. And the more they try to force it back on track, the more chaos there will be. That sort of seems to be the pattern in many places around the globe these days.

I guess you're right Windmill knight that the results are not what they planned for. When I saw the results this morning my first thought was "surely that cannot be this stupid to keep making the same mistakes". Well, of course they can: predicting the outcomes of their own actions is not exactly their key strength.

Risk assessment and learning from others' mistakes clearly isn't either:

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/391689-uk-vote-may-corbyn-conservatives/

RT: Is it a turning point in UK domestic politics, and has Theresa May’s gamble backfired on her?

Mark Garnett: Throughout this campaign, I had a very big reminder of something I’m old enough to remember: in February 1974 Edward Heath, Conservative prime minister called an election, because he wanted a bigger mandate. There was no real need for him to call the election, except to strengthen his position, and that backfired very badly. In the next day, the headlines were: “Heath’s gamble fails.” It seems that the headlines are going to be the same with the name May replaced for Ed Heath. Certainly, it’s been a very curious decision. Mrs. May at first said that there would not be an election. Then she said that there would be one, and that got the campaign off to a very bad start, and she never recovered. She proved to be quite an unconvincing performer. Whether the Conservatives thought that it didn’t really matter that she was not the most natural campaigner or not – that they are going to win anyway – that seems to have been the calculation. If so, that has backfired very spectacularly…

I find it interesting (and annoying) that last night when I went to bed the Parliament was decidedly hung, and this morning the Tories are four seats up and Labour five down from the exit poll, and the Tories are making a deal with those 10 DUP Irish MPs, which would magically give them just barely the majority they needed. It's that 'good luck factor' that the bad guys seem to have. Like the evil fairies came out and gave them the final little push they needed. So no doubt the bag of tricks was used to the max, but at what price? Like Anam Cara says:

That's the beauty of it. They made a big miscalculation and altough they haven't lost the power, their train is coming off the rails. And the more they try to force it back on track, the more chaos there will be. That sort of seems to be the pattern in many places around the globe these days.

Man that is exactly what I thought. At what cost have they achieved this? Barely scraped through by the skin of their teeth.

If there is any justice in this universe, they may have just used up their last bit of 'luck'.

The establishment has disgraced itself yet again, despite 'winning'. Alliance with the DUP? After all that slating Corbyn over Northern Ireland stuff? You couldn't make this up. Things are gonna get really interesting from here.

Yeah, the DUP are definitely a fun bunch: https://www.rt.com/uk/391671-dup-uk-election-northern-ireland/ :O


Edit: grammar

 

[Joe]

and the Tories are making a deal with those 10 DUP Irish MPs, which would magically give them just barely the majority they needed.

Not nitpicking, but the DUP is decidedly NOT "Irish". They'd take serious exception to being called that, so go ahead!

 

[Joe]

Two agendas, equally important, were served by the likely rigging of the vote, which probably was largely confined to Scotland (they had past experience with the Scottish ref.) By removing votes from the SNP and giving them to the Scottish Cons. party, the Conservatives overall gained enough seats to be the largest party AND to have enough to form a minority party in Parliament with the DUP, and at the same time putting the kabosh on a 2nd Scottish referendum. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of rigging in Northern Ireland also in order to up the DUPs seats to allow them to 'cover' for the Tories.

 

[Carl]

Two agendas, equally important, were served by the likely rigging of the vote, which probably was largely confined to Scotland (they had past experience with the Scottish ref.) By removing votes from the SNP and giving them to the Scottish Cons. party, the Conservatives overall gained enough seats to be the largest party AND to have enough to form a minority party in Parliament with the DUP, and at the same time putting the kabosh on a 2nd Scottish referendum. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of rigging in Northern Ireland also in order to up the DUPs seats to allow them to 'cover' for the Tories.

I thought that too, that there was more likely rigging where you wouldn't expect it, primarily the DUP votes. It really did blind-side a lot of people. And now that you mention it, it makes a lot of sense that they would target Scotland in the same way. Like really, parts of Scotland voted Tory? The same people who wanted OUT of the UK and remain IN the EU? No chance.

 

[Gary]

One consequence of this proposed Tory/DUP minority government may be a final breakdown in Northern Ireland's fragile political power-sharing arrangement. The UK and Irish governments are currently trying to mediate between the DUP and Irish nationalists to restore the Northern Irish government. So how can mediation work if the DUP is going to form part of the UK government?

Earlier this year it was DUP leader Arlene Foster's involvement in the £400m 'cash for ash' energy scheme scandal that led to the collapse of the power-sharing agreement in Stormont prompting the late Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness to resign. A Tory/DUP alliance is only going to increase tensions between the political parties in Northern Ireland.

An online petition demanding that the Conservatives scrap plans to form a government with DUP support, has gained nearly 300,000 signatures in just 12 hours.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/election-results-dup-conservative-theresa-may-petition-deal-northern-ireland-a7783021.html

I do wonder if this already precarious situation could deteriorate further into escalating sectarian violence and a return of the 'Troubles'. As Siobhan Fenton writes in the Independent:

When she called the general election, it was clear that Theresa May had little idea of the damage such a poll could cause Northern Ireland at a crucial time for power-sharing. By entering into a coalition with the DUP, it is even more apparent that she does not consider peace or stability in Northern Ireland a priority. Instead, she is sacrificing years of work on the peace process in order to get the keys to No 10.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/dup-conservatives-northern-ireland-coalition-ulster-defence-association-paramilitaries-peace-process-a7782631.html