May Has the Confidence of Parliament: Really?

January 17, 2019 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Not on this Blog’s reading of the facts. The Tory party is terrified of an election in which it fears it would not only lose power, but its nationalist wing believes it might lose Brexit as well. The Government’s life support, the DUP, have only 36% of the votes in NI, are a Leave party in a Remain province and fear what could happen not only to them but also to the Union, on their terms, with the UK. So two political parties cobble together an alliance of opposites to stay in power, but the government they have sustained is entirely dysfunctional and cannot actually govern. All this talk of reaching here there and everywhere and finding consensus is rubbish. As is the notion that a majority will emerge. Something which is not there cannot emerge.

Sooner or later something is going to blow. When it does there will be a big bang. When the dust settles things will have changed. Everything in fact.