The good folk of England are about to find out what it really means to be “Bratash”.
Theresa May thought she was channelling Thatcher when she decided to “crush” her opponents.
However, it didn’t’ work out like that.
She lost the majority that she had and is now proposing to lead a minority administration assisted by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
It was meant to be a walk over for May, as easy as naughtily running through a wheat field.
She deliberately made the election presidential.
It was either May or Corbyn.
The election was meant to be about two people, not policy.
That was the choice that she presented to the British people.
Theresa May did so because she believed that the alternative to herself was utterly unacceptable to the average Brit.
Jeremy Corbyn, was viciously portrayed as by the Murdoch media as a cross between Michael Foot and Mr Bean.
They hoped that this caricature would make him toxic to vast swathes of potential Labour voters.
However, when people, real people, met Corbyn they saw a seriously decent man who was in politics for the best of reasons.
One of the main smears thrown at him was that he had previously met with senior members of the IRA.
I would have thought that was excellent training to be British Prime Minister as residents of Number Ten have been engaged in sit downs with the Army for generations!
This island is at peace precisely because during the conflict there were back channel communications between the various sides.
Even Mrs Thatcher had her emissaries seek out the views of the Army Council.
Now the current incumbent of 10 Downing Street is in bed with the DUP/UDA.
During the election the UDA openly endorsed a DUP candidate, Emma Little Pengelly.
Incidentally, the father of that MP was imprisoned for attempting to import arms for Loyalists during the conflict.
However, this isn’t about the past, but rather what is happening now.
Only last month the UDA is believed to be behind the murder of Colin Horner.
He was shot dead in a supermarket car park in Bangor in front of this three year old son.
This is understood to be part of an ongoing UDA feud.
For God and Ulster you understand…
I’m afraid that the decent people of Middle England are about to meet the Bosnian Serbs of the United Kingdom.
These creationist, climate change denying, homophobic racist bigots are currently the biggest party in Norn Iron.
Moreover, they happily accept the public endorsement of fascist drug barons.
It is that “welcome to my world” moment for the nationalist folk of the Six Counties.
I suspect that at some point in the next few months some Etonian chap in government is going to empathise with the daily burden of Sinn Féin representatives.
“I say, you actually had to sit in government with THESE people? Oh how beastly!”
I just hope that Sir Humphrey doesn’t have to attend an immersion course in Ulsturr Scatch.
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NT/Croppy,
Totally agree with your assessment of Curriculum for Excellence. From a teachers perspective when it was first mooted and then introduced to schools, it was first referred to as Curriculum for Excrement, I shit you not.
Once upon a time in the not too distant past we had an education system universally admired.
Where did it all go wrong?
Phil, I recently saw TS2. Absolute hoot. My wife looked at me with a shocked expression on her face as I rolled about the floor in convulsions of laughter . My youngest son, now in his mid thirties sat totally bemused. After 10/15 minutes I managed to struggle to my feet.
Forty five years ago, myself and four other members of our SRC , went to listen to group who we were considering booking for our graduation ball in 1973.The venue was a social club in Larkhall. My worst fears were confirmed when we were scrutinised very carefully ,and confronted by a huge mural ok King William of Orange in the main hall. It was a bit like Easy Rider with conversations stopping and all eyes turning towards us. My companions did not have a scooby
To cut a long story short, what was portrayed in TS2was near enough spot. We were told,” We know what you are so leave” We did by a side door. Amazing! My son said”Seriously dad?
Ask your mother she was there
NT your two comments here combined amount to non sensible rants. I respectfully suggest you collect your thoughts before posting.
Why are they not sensible, John? It’s a perfectly reasonable opinion.
There,s nothing reasonable about them ,nor coherent. The SNP are to blame for Labour voters not voting Labour because they didn’t think they would poll so high,WTF.
Blame the system for kids lack of progress ,its incumbent on parents to ensure their kids progression ,not the state. It also one of the few areas the SNP are genuinely trying to improve.
Not a socialist but voted Labour , if this one had voted this and that one had voted that.
Then the Braveheart reference , all Scots are treacherous etc , really.
Then the quantum leap to “Empire” and how Scotland led the charge , we,ll just forget about The Jacobite Rebellions and all that followed each rising. And the Highland Clearances etc.
Then the further leap to revisionism ,unqualified , and predicated on what. I cant be arsed wasting any more time or energy on any more of it , a fucking double dunt of a rant.
My comment is about how the working class are trod on by those in the upper echelons of society who’s cruel divisive ideology is based on class and the only way for things to be changed is by ordinary people not the reformists that sit in parliament and espouse a type of democracy that keeps them on top as the rest struggle. I think you’ve me mixed up with another poster as I’ve never mentioned Braveheart or the Scottish nationalists or any of the above in your reply.
Not once was there any debate on class politics during this mess, tragic stuff.
And you know why that was, Noel, it’s because ‘there is no such thing as society’ and the poor are only there to provide sustenance to the parasites sitting atop the machine, and to feed said machine with their blood, sweat and tears for their struggles.
A part of me cant help but think that this entire ‘election’ was manufactured, (it wouldn’t be the first time) and manoeuvered for just such an outcome, an unholy alliance with the haters of the DUP, because who else have the ruling uk elites used in the past to prop up their corrupted undemocratic system, to wreak war and division, other than the unionists themselves?
Now all the pieces are in place for the forthcoming havoc to be unleashed, and, as the past 800 years have shown us, these sort of peepul, from the bottom to the top, love nothing more than causing totally bloody havoc, be it via pointless wrangling through Parliament or on the streets of our towns, and in the minds of our peoples, themselves.
We thought only quite recently that our day had come at last, and maybe so did they, which is why they’re rounding up the garrisons and the trenches are being dug.
For, as this week has shown, they’ve reasserted their power base in both football and society, and no amount of shouting ‘Unfair!’ from the tims in gallery will prevent their plans going forward, be they humiliating us further or simply rinsing us out their hair for good.
And while we all gape at the outcomes and argue about the reasons, their inexorable agenda continues in its steadily malignant divisive creep, with most folk unwilling to even consider the magnitude of its dividing and conquering reach.
There will probably be another G.E.before the year’s end so keep calm and don’t worry,it’ll all be ok.GF7
Dear God, man, read the post again.
Deck chairs on the Titanic.
Dead woman walking, methinks. And I DON’T mean Arlene Foster.
To those who voted to remain in the UK in the scottish independence referendum, this is what you voted for, so dont complain now.
Better that than being another another struggling, dying economy.
My Father and i have contributed(with pleasure) to your site over the last 3 years.
You said that Sevco this pre season had 750k to spend on players ..potentially rising to little over £1m.
Phil, This is yet another example of you swinging and missing. (happening too often)
They are making multiple signings and its making a mockery of everything you said.
Somehow they are finding money to do this…Clearly you are none the wiser as to how this is being done.
How about some facts mate!
I think you have commented on the wrong piece…
Check my comment on Phil’s previous post.
Who in Scotland actually votes Tory? And Why?
Is it the elderly who will lose their children’s inheritance when they have to sell their home to pay for their care if they have to go into a home?
Is it the disabled who have to pay to rent the extra bedroom in their own home?
Is it the working family who are losing out on child tax credits?
Is it the women who have been raped and have to go through the humiliation of putting it down on a form?
Is it the rich who are being promised a big tax cut?
Is it the business owner who is also being promised a big tax cut?
The unbelievable answer is that it is probably most of the above, especially the elderly and the well off.
They mostly voted on a single issue over Indyref2.
They’d rather give the SNP a bloody nose over this than protect themselves against Tory attacks and austerity.
Talk about turkeys voting for Christmas.
I despair! But you will get what you deserve.
SNP to blame fairly and squarely crops. Ex Miners and their kids in the old Ayrshire towns decimated by thatcher voted Tory, if Scotland had known labour was going to poll so high they would have voted labour.
Sturgeon and SNP are all about flagship policies and no substance. The schools are bloody awful, curriculum for excellence at primary is frankly PISH. my poor kids go through this shite, 10years and they haven’t done a thing. All they are obsessed about is indy….. well let me tell you that’s all but over.
What possibly do all you nats have in common with tweed wearing fuckers in affluent parts of Aberdeen Edinburgh and the large land owning parts of the borders??? As opposed to the ordinary working man in Yorkshire Lancashire wales and Merseyside etc??
I’m not a socialist but I voted labour for first time as I like many others feel it’s time for revision of which way we go. Pity Scotland couldn’t do same, elect 3 tories instead of 13, and 25 labour and you have May resigning.
Bloody that acting like from Edward in braveheart was right: THE PROBLEM WITH SCOTLAND IS ITS FULL OF SCOTS!!! ….. treachery is in the fucking blood…… and no don’t give me pish about empire, the Scots were bloody so enthusiastic about empire they led the charge at times in India.
My ancestors suffered at Scottish as well as enlglish/British hands… none of this revisionist pish about saor alba. Tosh bloody tosh.
Didn’t expect anything different from you NT.
SNP to blame for everything as usual.
You just can’t see past your narrow line of political vision.
Though you have totally bamboozled me over the ‘revisionist pish’ you were talking about.
Remember my mantra? ‘Independence for Ireland, Independence for Scotland’?
Does that sound like British Imperialist talk to you?
My ancestors too had to flee Ireland and the famine to survive.
It’s why I am a republican socialist.
I can’t agree that had working class people of Ayrshire known that Labour were going to do so well in England that they would not have voted Tory.
The polls were showing a huge surge in popularity for Labour. For goodness sake they almost turned over a 20% deficit in the polls in 6 weeks!
The unionist parties made this a one issue election in Scotland – Indyref2.
They succeeded in deflecting from the damaging Tory policies I have already outlined.
Working class people all over Scotland voted Tory.
The Tory resurgence was also partly down to tactical voting by Labour, Lib Dem and UKIP voters.
The SNP vote was down just a couple of percentage points on the last election.
I agree with you on Curriculum for Excellence. It is rubbish but the SNP are at least trying to address the drop in standards with their Pupil Equity Fund which is giving headteachers millions extra to spend as they see fit.
Independence isn’t an obsession, it’s a policy and a socio-political ideology.
If you don’t agree with it then that’s fine but there is no need to demonise it.
I guess you’ve never spoken to a headteacher about these millions they have to spend. Way too little and probably too late for one generation of kids, and of course the money can’t actually be spent as the HT sees fit; there are guidelines. Unfortunately there’s a lot of this sort of thing obvious only to those who’ll remove the blinkers.
Yes Steve, I have spoken to headteachers and I know the amounts different schools are getting every year for the next 5 years guaranteed.
I know of one school which is getting 55 grand and another which is getting an extra 136 grand per year.
The amount you get partly depends on the number of kids in your catchment area who get free school meals.
These are not insignificant amounts by any means!
I can assure you that the amounts received by other schools are substantial and headteachers do have a great deal of autonomy and flexibility over what the cash is spent on.
They can even hire extra staff.
Which generation is it too late for?
It’s a new and innovative idea which by its nature can only assist this current generation.
I’d respectfully suggest that you might be the one with the blinkers on Steve.
Are you just a bit sore that we have yet another Tory government propped up this time by the lovely, tolerant DUP?
Fair enough, you clearly have spoken to headteachers however outside our big cities there are schools getting a fair bit less than your lower example and nowhere near enough to hire extra staff. After 10 years of the Nats we’re seeing kids leaving primary education sadly lacking in some basic skills. In IndyRef years a primary education lasts a generation +3 😉 I agree though, its a step in the right direction.
As for Tories and DUP…words fail…
Fair and valid points all, NT, but for the edward line,mas its Scotland’s problem is NOT that it’s too ‘full of Scots’, its that the entire country is owned by the English elites, and their lapdog Scottish underling cousins.
Google ho owns all the estates, all the fine bonnie lands …
It’s Lizzie, the duke of Marlborough, the duke of Westminster & the duke of Buccleuch and … that’s it.
These are the 4 landlords of Scotland, and even the dukes are just there as caretakers for Lizzie herself.
You see the inherent underlying problem here ..?
Can’t help but laugh when I see various commentators up in arm’s about the DUP. There has been a football club in this country who have many supporters whose whole ethos of supporting their club links very nicely with the “politics” of the gorgeous DUP. The SMSM media have been fawning over them for decades, despite their anti equality ethos. Maybe just maybe, they will be exposed for what they are, and the link between the two highlighted. Forever Scotland’s Shame.
And what about the poor foxes….are we just going to stand by and let them get slaughtered…..tally ho……
Hey, lucky we have the BBC here to balance things out with half hourly news bulletins all day long headlining with the DUP’s stance on gay marriage and the LGBT issue. If I didn’t know better I might think that it had some kind of left wing anti conservative, pro liberal agenda or something.
Oh, and of course, they’re racist too.
The snowflake election.
Hi Phil,
13 Tory seats now in Scotland,unlucky for some,devastation for everyone else.The population is in shock,some will have taken to their beds,in the hope that they’ll wake up and it’s all just been a dream,a feqn nightmare.
And worse still;the DUP are needed to push bills through the House.Ahhhh!!!
If a more upsetting outcome was possible,I’ve yet to dream it.
We can only hope they decide to run it back,do it again,ffs please.?HH
How ironic that after battering Corbyn for sitting down with terrorists the Tories end up in government with them.
This is footage you won’t see in the MSM
See here Mrs May’s new best friend, Arlene Foster, joining-in enthusiastically in the singing of this hate-filled ditty:
https://twitter.com/graham4sinead/status/873244809410031620
That video is so false,and if it was done in jest;well,it’s in very poor taste.Religious bigotry is no joke,in some parts of Scotland simply wearing the ‘wrong’ football top,can get you stabbed,and worse still,DEAD.
Bad enough was the result,but that’s just shameful.
People will compare that to T2-Trainspotting,but that,T2,was set in a private members club.Whereas that video was onstage as the results from a nationwide election were being declared.The implications of it I understand,and they may be based in fact,but that is just wrong,
Poor form.Did you watch that before allowing it Phil?
I laughed heartily at T2,but not at that shitshow.
I believe that video was put together by a sevco supporting site!!
Yes I do believe your correct in believing so.?
Look closer it’s fake, no one on the podium is singing that.
That is footage from a DUP get together and the audio is lifted from an online video in a club where some of the unlightened are singing along to a Tiffany track.
The video is a fake
The sentiments in the audio, sadly, are not
Democracy sure is a bitch when folk don’t vote the way you think they should.
One side in N.I. votes for the DUP when there was another Unionist alternative , that’s democracy.
The other side votes for Sinn Fein when they too had alternatives, again that’s what democracy brings.
And, as you well know, Corbynn didn’t deal with the IRA in any back channels , he welcomed them on the steps of the GLC. when hostilities were still a daily occurrence.
This is footage of Mrs May’s ‘friends’ and political saviours that you won’t see on the MSM.
See May’s new best friend Arlene Foster enthusiastically joining in the hate-fuelled anti-catholic ditty:
https://twitter.com/graham4sinead/status/873244809410031620
I don’t think that audio is authentic.
Yes apparently it is a spoof.
However it is a highly satirical spoof insofar as it has that indispensable quality of great satire -IT IS BELIEVABLE.
It certainly fooled me – I live in the constituency that contains Larkhall and where on 200- odd votes separated the SNP (of which I am a member) and the Conservative and Unionist party – as Mrs May was at pains to call it!
Who would doubt that this cast of characters would behave in this way, if the cameras weren’t there? Or even if they were. God help a Union reliant on this mob.
It was late very late/early today when I saw that and at first glance it looked genuine. Havin looked few more times the mouthing isn’t quite the same. Bloody hell apologies to the more religious amongst us…… we know they think that anyway about Roman Catholics. Even through they don’t no say as bluntly.
Their allies in UVF UDA RED HAND and more, many who have strong funding and support from that most wonderful of nations…. yes Scotland (who else). Theresa May is in bed with real terrorist sympathisers if not terrorists in DUP…Difference is those fellas from UVF UDA ET ALL, killed largely Irish Catholics. Where as the republican paramilitarys bombed England, An English life is clearly worth more than an Irish catlholic life to the daily mail and the sun.
This is Britains shame. Now I have news for you all, I class myself as ultimately British, but my britain is the modern one and guess what, the good people of England as phil roughly desscribed them will awake from their ignorance on matters 6 counties, and they shall put pressure on their local Tory, especially ones sitting with only a thousand or so majority in their constituency. The pressure will go on May, and the tories will have to choose new leader. No to mention 19 tory MPs are gay.
Then we have a new election. The evils of this nation Britain committed in Ireland it must continually live and come to terms with…..HOWEVER DIVORCING ITSELF FROM THAT PAST, today here and now. Means rejecting the DUP and the people in those Tory seats will I’m sure and I hope and I know will write to their mp to say NO.
Ruth Davidson will gently flex her muscles too. They must.
The public must have another go, another election. I’d like to see a labour majority. I’d like the lib dems to do well… I have my opinion. We all have our own. BUT NO TO THE DUP. As their founder once said: never never never.
With respect.
May hasn’t got there yet. The word is she wants a coalition not a vote by vote basis but that will need others to agree it as she is now fatally wounded.
It’s not clear what the price to pay is and it may be too high. There are now a lot of stories going around about the UUP and the left side of the Tories won’t allow themselves to be pulled around to that extent.
Sorry, meant the DUP. Just finished typing previous and news came through that the coalition idea was dead and currently nothing is actually agreed and now needs to wait until Monday as they don’t do politics on a Sunday. You couldn’t make this up.
No, you couldn’t.
But someone is …
Hi Phil,
As well you know the UK Establishment and Media is as biased as the Scottish Establishment and Media, maybe not as Racist and Sectarian! So how do we overcome the Media? Jeremy Corbyn I think is embarking on a long term strategy to reform the Labour Party at grass roots, especially the ever increasing young and elderly population. But the challenge is for you and other like minded bloggers to join together and coordinate and orchestrate a defence to protect this radical change in the Labour and hopefully the SNP part to protect him and the people from the Establishment Media and develop a Community Strategy to give a future of hope for the young and the comfort of protection for the elderly! ………. A small ask, no, but the day is now!……and remember we will have all the grandchildren supporting this cause!
Keep, keeping on Phil!
Mrs May must surely know of the “Cash for Ash” and the various other scams rampant in the north bleeding tens of millions from the British tax payer and enriching the select few DUP supporters. Bang goes the enquiry into those little enterprises.
phil , you say “this is not about the past “ .
some off these characters believe the world has a past that only goes back 10,ooo years
although if your a supremacist then Darwin connecting the species to monkey`s won`t fit your view of yourself and others .
however for May , if you fly with the craw`s …….
This is fantastic, as you said it is a welcome to my world moment. This will portray the DUP and the very idea of Unionism as ridiculous internationally. They have a soap box the planet will hear through the Beeb. Turn the microphone up!
Apologies to the original Frankenstein, he wasn’t such a bad guy compared to this lot
Don’t you think it is time that the only other party in the Six Counties took their place to oppose this ‘Frankenstein ‘ coalition?
no…!
Sinn Féin do not, will not, swear allegience to a foreign monarch (who is titular head of an army who murdered many Irish people with impunity) nor sit in a foreign parliament
they are elected on this mandate by people who are very clear on this point – and, I would submit, understand complicated political issues far better than many of the sheepizens of Dailymailshire….
the increased SF representation in the 6-counties will successfully represent their voters by working closely with the people who actually run Britain…. the civil servants!
and not on one knee tugging their forelock and drooling over their Lord and masters….
Pardon my ignorance, but doesn’t that happen by implication by power sharing at Stormont?
‘By any means’
Why would they need to?Besides some of their beliefs that are questionable,they also prove on a weekly basis that they are unfit and unable to govern.As the other lad above says,’Turn up the mics’