Conservative-DUP Deal - £1bn the price for strong and stable government?

rancidpunk

No. It's just another time that labour are massively hypocritical. They tried to do a deal with the DUP in 2010 remember?

Means testing the winter fuel allowance was a horrid Tory measure, except when labour proposed it in 2015.

Grenfell Tower was due to the Tory council penny pinching over £5k. But labour controlled Camden having similar cladding issues and hundreds of missing fire doors they are silent about.

rancidpunk

It's not corruption or bribery. It's commonly known as pork barrel politics.

It's no different than what happened in the 2010 coalition or any minority government from the 70s.

Sonic67

Yes of course politics here is no more principled than anywhere else and it stinks, people would do well to remember that before casting aspersions on other global powers.
Imagine if Trump bunged a wedge of money to a party to secure his position, there would (rightly) be an outcry.

Goooner

The money isn't going to the DUP. It's going to Northern Ireland to be spent by the DUP on things like construction projects. The same DUP that Labour wanted to do a deal with. Though that would have been ok.

Aren't some people wanting to see less austerity? Well here's money being spent and being spent outside of Westminster. Exactly what some forum members say should happen. Some are never going to be happy.

Sonic67

And of course the DUP will invest the money totally altruistically.
Don't get me wrong I'm well aware this is how politics works and as I said before, it sucks.

Goooner

Nigel Dodds threatens to release 2010 and 2015 correspondence with Labour

                               
Might be interesting if they did. Of course that was Brown, so not "Labour" so doesn't count really, does it?

Sonic67

Yeah. Money going to be spent by a loyal political UK party rather than one that wants to leave.

rancidpunk

Brilliant, it doesn't even get off the first page before the labour blaming starts

Sonic67

Labour supporters don't like to see the comparisons made with Labour. Brilliant. A few more votes the other way and Labour would be in a deal with the SNP. Not the DUP, as Corbyn and his IRA connection ruled it out, but someone.

Jezza99

If it keeps the Marxists out, I view it as more as an investment.