Conservative-DUP Deal - £1bn the price for strong and stable government?

la gran siete

I don't think that really matters after all it came to nothing.What will matter is that the rest of the UK will be thinking what's in it for them especially after all the austerity they have had to endure.Cornwall and South  Wales will no longer receive any EU grants so they are going to feel very aggrieved.Also as time goes by the DUP will most likely make further demands

Jezza99

Would that be the EU grants that are funded by our own money?

Rasczak

Given the recent Conservative-DUP deal, it seems the EU is more trustworthy as a distributor!

fluxo

Per capita government spending:


                                                                               

The grey boxes are based on 2015 spending. More recent data wasn't immediately available.

domtheone

Hopefully they don't and the correspondence are disclosed for all to see


Why doesn't it matter?

What if it turns out that Labour promised the DUP £2Billion.  Or £5 Billion?

Labour can always do bigger numbers remember since said numbers are usually picked off a tree

IronGiant

Labour voters don't think it matters
Tory voters think it might.  

Who'd have thought it?

Sonic67

Labour ordered the massive warship.

Tony Blair found bombing Iraq was unpopular and difficult to do from countries that might not side with you and it's a lot easier doing it from international waters where you can do what you want.

Because of the contracts signed by Labour it would be equally expensive to have cancelled it.

I know the carrier has launched now but it wasn't bought from a supermarket at the weekend.

Sonic67

But the EU cost us £10 billion. So we're still saving money.

Bl4ckGryph0n

It matters for about 3 hours news, perhaps 150 posts on here alone, and then it will be forgotten by those lefties and the hypocritical criticism will continue yet again together with some rewriting of history and denouncing that that wasn't really labour and doesn't represent true labour views and values.

In order to establish a coalition, something has to be compromised on. Plain and simple. UK public still don't seem to get that which is a shame.

Rasczak

I see Jeremy Corbyn is going to table an amendment to the Queen's Speech calling for the 1% public sector pay cap for the police and emergency services to end. Despite having found the magic money tree, the Conservative/DUP alliance plans to vote against:
Queen's Speech: Labour to force vote on public pay cap - BBC News

I wonder what sort of pay rise a £1bn injection of cash could have given to our nurses?