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5 hours ago, QPR Dee said:

a billion for what?

To form a government, which they did....

The Democratic Unionist Party, who secured more than £1bn in funding for Northern Ireland in return for supporting Theresa May’s government in a “confidence and supply” arrangement that compels it to prevent the government from falling but not to support it on every measure, are not closely aligned with the Conservatives on spending plans.

Under the “confidence and supply” deal, the DUP agreed to back the Conservatives only on finance bills, Brexit legislation and protecting “national security”.

It said the party’s support on other issues would be decided on a “case-by-case basis” – making the agreement much weaker than a formal coalition.

DUP MP Ian Paisley Junior told the Guardian before the vote: “We made clear to her majesty’s government on issues like this we reserve the right to vote on the basis of our own manifesto. This doesn’t threaten the deal at all.”

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I think he's just tryna get sacked tbh.

he'll do something else dumb, May will have enough, he'll make some half hearted attempt to either try for leadership or just go to the back bench where he'll become an ultrabrexiteer saying everything and doing nothing before he becomes a consultant for a hedge fund 

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The Tories were unprepared for a snap election in June, Theresa May - who called a snap election in April - said today.

The Prime Minister admitted that a "significant factor" in the party's disastrous election result, which saw her lose her parliamentary majority, was not having time to put together a 'less centralised' grassroots campaign.

And she said the party would "think carefully" about using social media to create "negative atmospheres" in future campaigns.

She also bemoaned the lack of people "coming together for debates" during the campaign, after repeatedly refusing to take part in head-to-head debates herself.

Asked if she thought it being a snap election had been a "significant factor" in the party's poll drubbing, she said: "I think it was, because by definition in a snap election you’ve not been able to prepare people for it. So out there people have to work quite quickly to put their local campaigns together, and you do get slightly more of a central approach."

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-were-unprepared-snap-election-11252868

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Maajid Nawaz labelled the Labour Party "institutionally anti-Semitic" following a series of controversial comments at the Labour Party Conference.

The Labour Friends of Palestine wrote on Twitter that the "two-state solution will end the occupation – our solution will be the final solution" - a reference to a Nazi code name for the plan to murder all Jews during World War Two.
That followed controversy at their Conference, where one speaker saying they should have a debate on whether the Holocaust actually happened, while another compared supporters of Israel to Nazis.

These left Maajid fuming and, on the back of a 45% rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Britain, he said that the Labour Party has a problem with anti-Semitism.

Full Story: http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/maajid-nawaz/labour-institutionally-anti-semitic-maajid-nawaz/

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