What Has Happened With Theresa May And The Dup??

[-SharonA-]

If no agreement, why is she still PM? If I remember rightly there was a hung government and she did not have enough seats!

[Canary42]

I thought she bought them off with £1bn taxpayers money.

[fiction-factory]

Shis PM because the Tories are (by some way) the largest party. Yes, they could be defeated in any votes if the DUP and all other opposition parties vote against them, but I don't think it has happened on anything major- or maybe anything- yet.

[ToraToraTora]

I suggest you read up on how our democracy works.

[New Judge]

If no agreement on what?

[Jackdaw33]

The DUP agreed to support the Tories on a confidence and supply basis. As long as they don't jump ship Mrs May has a working majority of about 17.

[fiveleaves]

The DUP wont bring Theresa May's government down because they cannot take the risk of Jeremy Corbyn being PM so it that sense she is perfectly safe. Whether she is safe from Tory MP's is quite a different matter

[ichkeria]

They won’t bring the government down, but the point of their ‘arrangement’ is to vote with the government to get legislation through

[Jackdaw33]

A good point. Given Corbyn's reputation of cosying up to the IRA he will never become PM as long as the DUP have any say in the matter.

[-SharonA-]

Tora, I tend to rely on AB to get my political education!!

Thanks figleaves and Ichkeria.

[gulliver1]

The DUP cosied up to the UVF jackdaw , what's new ?

[Old_Geezer]

I echo NJ.

[youngmafbog]

Gulliver, the point is that it is highly unlikely the DUP will push too far on May because the alternative, COB is close the the IRA (which they really would not like).

Any relation the DUP has is irrelevant for this point.

[ichkeria]

Not necessarily: because as I pointed out earlier, the value of the DUP to the government is the assurance that they will always vote with them on whatever issue. Remove that assurance and it would be a huge blow. On a vote of confidence no doubt they could nonetheless be relied on to prolong Mrs May’s agony ...

[gulliver1]

I think the Conservative Party and their link up with the DUP, and the fact that DUP were linked to UVF, is very, very Relevant .

[ichkeria]

The DUP were not linked to the UVF.
Other than that, spot on lol

[sandyRoe]

A man called Ken Gibson was for a long time an 'usher' in Paisley's Ravenhill Rd church.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Gibson_(loyalist)

[gulliver1]

DUP, Political branch of the UVF, UDA.

[ichkeria]

No they aren’t.
Perhaps you’re think of the PUP and the UDP (although something tells me you aren’t)
The UVF and UDA are separate groups who’ve often been more or less on feuding terms with each other.
I don’t care at all for the DUP, but let’s get our facts straight

[THECORBYLOON]

The UVF has links with the PUP not the DUP.

[mushroom25]

Gulliver, the political wing of the UVF was not the democratic unionist party, but the progressive unionist party (PUP). there have been 2 "PUPs" though, the earliest being the protestant unionist party, from which the DUP evolved at the end of the 1960s.
that's not to say the DUP never had any shady dealings with loyalist paramilitaries - the creation of the ulster resistance group is proof enough of that.