Theresa May’s Tories pay £1.5 billion ransom to Loyalist extremists in return for fifteen minutes of infamy

Theresa May’s Zombie Tories have just paid a £1.5 billion ransom – £1 billion with £500 million on the side, if you believe the Tory media – to ensure the support of 10 Ulster DUP MPs. One reason the ‘deal’ took so long to finalise was that the Creationist, gay-hating, womens’ rights denying Clockwork Orangemen don’t work at the weekends on religious grounds. Their founder, the self-anointed ‘Rev. Dr.’ Ian Paisley made the preacher in ‘Night of the Hunter’ look positively benign before becoming Mr. Smiley after his mouth was stuffed with gold, so you never know, it might work. Then again, it might not. I’ve always been wary of organisations with ‘Democratic’ in their title – the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or Democratic Republic of (North) Korea spring immediately to mind. But that’s a side issue. Amongst other curiosities, the DUP played a strange role in Britain’s recent Tory Brexit campaign, allegedly acting as a conduit for dubious funding from Saudi Intelligence.  As First Minister, DUP leader Arlene Foster recently presided over a £500 million ‘renewable energy subsidy’ scandal which led to the withdrawal of Sinn Fein from the power-sharing agreement and thus the breakup of the... More