The New Conservative Party And DUP Backdoor Coalition In The UK
So that’s it. Following its electoral humiliation earlier this month the Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom has givenContinue Reading
Tag: The Conservative Party
The DUP And Its Potential Deal With The Tories: It’s The Border, Stupid!
Journalists are just as susceptible to “fake news” as anyone else, especially when the news chimes with their own beliefsContinue Reading
The DUP Turns The Screws On The Tories, While Demanding Respect From The UK
During the corruption scandal which finally brought down the power-sharing executive at Stormont in late 2016, early 2017, the DemocraticContinue Reading
The DUP’s Greatest Fear? The Liberal Secularists Of The UK
Sammy Wilson, one of the ten, ultra-nationalist Democratic Unionist Party MPs expected to vote Theresa May and the Conservative PartyContinue Reading
The List Of DUP Demands Delaying The Backdoor Coalition With The Conservatives
Though the surprisingly prolonged talks between the Democratic Unionist Party and the Conservatives may give the appearance of inevitable failure,Continue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn: I Fully Understand The Many, Many Aspects Of Irish History
And the people of Ireland wish we could say the same of Theresa May and her wretched fundamentalist-appeasing Conservative PartyContinue Reading
Tory-DUP Deal In London Makes Fianna Fáil-Sinn Féin Coalition More Likely In Dublin
Irish and British political commentators are already warning of unintended consequences stemming from the backdoor-coalition deal between the Conservative PartyContinue Reading
The Tories Form A Backdoor-Coalition With The DUP – And UDA, UVF And RHC
As I’m sure most readers are aware, Theresa May’s Conservative Party has formed a backdoor-coalition with Arlene Foster’s Democratic UnionistContinue Reading
Theresa May And The Tories Will Seek A British Internet For British People
The recent general election manifesto launch by Theresa May and the Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom highlights theContinue Reading
The 2017 Local Election Results In The UK, A Victory For UKIP By Any Other Name
Just a few quick points on last week’s local elections in the United Kingdom and the continuing post-referendum shift inContinue Reading
Theresa May And Britain Heads For A Brexit-Mandating General Election
Theresa May, the right-wing prime minister of the United Kingdom and a politician who couldn’t find her country’s legacy colony on the islandContinue Reading
DUP Laundered Brexit Money For Mysterious Constitutional Research Council
After much speculation, the controversy embroiled Democrat Unionist Party (DUP) has finally come clean and named the British lobby group itContinue Reading
Brexit Negotiations Are Driven By Greater England’s Nostalgia For Its Former Empire
Nicholas Boyle of Magdalene College and the University of Cambridge has written a particularly caustic evaluation of Greater England’s continued hegemony overContinue Reading
Brexit, The Disconnect Between London And Greater England
In the lead up to June’s Brexit referendum, the plebiscite on Britain’s membership of the European Union, there were several things which made me question justContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Problem And England’s New Motto, Ourselves Alone
I’ve been travelling and working overseas for the last wee while which has left me with precious little time, energy orContinue Reading
David Cameron Gives Showing The Pig A Whole New Meaning
The steep-streeted town of Drogheda has offered many fine contributions to Irish culture, though perhaps none more so than an English languageContinue Reading
The Peculiar Nature Of British Democarcy
Following up on the unexpected results of the UK general election Adrian Kavanagh has examined the barely democratic nature of Britain’s first-past-the-postContinue Reading
Nicola Sturgeon And The SNP Stun Everyone
Some absolutely astonishing results from the UK general election so far, with the stand-out story being the sweeping of the electoralContinue Reading
The UK General Election 2015
My predictions for the general election in the UK (and the north-eastern bit of Ireland that the British stubbornly cling onContinue Reading
The British Extreme Targets The Centre
Finally, someone in the UK press has recognised the shameful political scheming by the Tories (and Labour) which could giveContinue Reading
Greater England Is At Ease With The European Tea Party
The Scottish National Party is a popular, mainstream, democratic, left-of-centre European political group which has managed the devolved government of Scotland since 2007. It’sContinue Reading
The Rump British Colony In Ireland Goes Into Monty Python Mode
So the regional political parties in the north-east of Ireland, the last administrative rump of the British colony on this islandContinue Reading
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