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I'm not sure I get the relevance.
The Tories fought an election campaign on the basis of criticising the opposition parties to the hilt over the possibility of forming a coalition.
They have now entered into one themselves, giving away tax payers' money (something I'd have thought many more inhere would be up in arms over, but hey-ho, we can all be hypocrites when we want to be, I know I certainly can) to a party in a move that goes against the impartiality terms set down for Westminster in the Stormont agreement for power sharing in Northern Ireland. They have actually bought votes with our money, not theirs.
If Labour had won the election and proposed they give £1.5 billion of taxpayers' money to Sinn Fein, this forum would have exploded with apoplexy. It's another example of how much of an echo chamber the politics forums appear to have become in recent months.
All we need now is for someone to link it to the threat of Islamic terrorist attacks and we'll have a full bingo card for our resident right-wingers.
As it stands, what Labour do now after the election has as much to do with this Tory-DUP cash for votes bribe as what I had for breakfast does. |
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