"Interesting"

[poliphilo]

Like the Brexit Referendum and the recent Presidential elections in the USA and France the 2017 British election has produced an "interesting" result- by which I mean one largely unanticipated by the power elite and unpredictable in its results. Mrs May expected a landslide that would put her in a strong position to negotiate with Europe. Instead she provoked a Labour resurgence that has wiped out her majority, left her personally discredited and reliant on the support in parliament of the party founded by Ian Paisley. "Coalition of Chaos" was the placard she tried to hang round Jeremy Corbyn's neck. Now she's wearing it herself.

It hardly seems likely that a Conservative-DUP coalition with a wafer-thin majority, led by a Prime Minister who has forfeited the support of much of her own party will wobble along for long. Corbyn's Labour is riding a big wave- with Corbyn himself the most popular politician in Britain- while Boris Johnson, like Churchill in 1940- is waiting for his country's call.

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[sorenr]

The French presidential election went as I thought it would - everything else just seems to go any which way.

I was quite please with the weakened Tories this morning, but then the DUP entered the equation and it all became somewhat more depressing. Renegotiating the Good Friday Agreement with the DUP as parliamentary support for a minority government will be... Interesting?

I'm slowly moving toward the point where I don't care about the UK, even though it became my adopted country for a while. Right now I just want the border with Ireland to be safe and soft. NI is the biggest hostage the UK has, going into the Brexit negotiations.