Theresa May’s £1billion deal with the DUP is not pretty, but it is best for Britain and means we have viable Government
The cash will be benefit Northern Ireland - an area much in need - and allows a guarantee that Jeremy Corbyn will be kept out of Downing Street
THERESA May is right to have done a deal with the DUP. It means we have a viable Government in the most difficult period Britain has faced in decades.
Lefties claim the DUP are extremists. It’s nonsense. They were hardliners 40 years ago. Not now. And their views on abortion and gay marriage are pretty mainstream in Northern Ireland.
On austerity they are to the left of the Tories, which is why the pensioners’ “triple lock” and winter fuel payments will be kept.
That will cost us billions more . . . but the Tories would never have dared fight another election with those in their manifesto anyway.
Labour’s hypocrisy is blatant and obnoxious. Twice, in 2010 and 2015, they lobbied for the same deal with the DUP.
They would doubtless be trying again if the DUP wasn’t allergic to Jeremy Corbyn’s fondness for the IRA.
And it is laughable of them to accuse the Tories of “bribing” the DUP. Labour’s policies are one vast bribe for voters: endless freebies paid for by others.
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Some Tories are worried about the deal, but what’s their plan? For their fragile minority Government to limp on undermined by all, including the DUP?
What then if it fell? A second election, the risk of Corbyn winning — and certain economic catastrophe for all.
This deal is not pretty. But it is best for Britain.
Migrants’ rights
THE Government could have given every EU citizen a mortgage-free country mansion and Brussels would still have whinged.
Their daily tough-guy poses are a joke.
We cannot fault Mrs May’s offer to secure migrants’ futures in Britain, other than that it continues to let them send UK benefits back home.
The EU, though, insists they must keep their rights granted by the European Court of Justice. How? They are greater than Brits’ rights. That is a non-starter.
Labour clings to the argument that the PM cruelly kept migrants in limbo. But she wanted to make this offer months ago, before Article 50 was served.
Labour should have a pop at Angela Merkel instead. She refused to discuss it.
People first
HOW can we still spend billions revamping Buckingham Palace and Westminster while thousands of tower blocks lack sprinklers?
Parliament needs a £4billion restoration. The Queen’s home needs £369million. But lives aren’t at risk there.
Every tower block could get a refit cheaper.
At Grenfell, sprinklers might have put out the fridge fire within moments and stopped it ever reaching the cladding.
Let’s put the people first. The Queen and our politicians can wait.