Obviously no senior Tories wanted to go out and defend courting the DUP, but the sight of Michael Fallon - who has consistently voted against or abstained on gay rights - being asked by Andrew Marr “So these are your new close friends, are you repulsed by gay people?” is yet another self inflicted wound.
Corbyn delenda est?
If you mean Nick Timothy, he’s gone: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/world/europe/theresa-may-britain-nick-timothy-fiona-hill.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
Corbyn’s as bad as May. Neither are fit for the top job. The danger are the SNP.
And the Tories got the highest share of the vote since Blair in 1997. The big unanswered question is whether this is some form of progressive movement and Corbyn is just getting started, or whether it’s a high water mark and the normal service of centrist to moderate right wing governments will soon be restored. I suspect the latter, and if another election is called soon voter fatigue will favour the Tories - but for the last few years things have been all over the place, so it’s hard to have any real confidence either way.
But were I a betting man, I’d put a small sum on Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson being PM by the end of the year.
Westminster only: Survation (as accurate as YouGov):
LAB: 45% (+5)
CON: 39% (-3)
LDEM: 7% (-)
UKIP: 3% (+1)
Some more stuff on this new paradigm of 70%+ yoof engagement and VOTING; not only did Labour get to this group (18-25) that was previously not accessible via traditional methods (canvassing,newspapers, political programmes), it got to them first. The Tories now hae to work, GE after GE to try and convert them. Very, very interesting.
These people don’t often engage before 30, and now they have experienced voting and will be back. Another cultural shift; the yoof vote in packs - anecdotally, they were showing up in packs 10-20 at a time, between 7pm and 10pm (presumably meeting after work, in the pub).
This age group was an epic win for Labour.
Totally new in so many ways to UK politics, if not more widely.
Just think, if they’d turned up last year or in 2015, we wouldn’t have Brexit to contend with.
Last year at least; once bitten, twice shy.
Not sure Labour had the manifesto in 2015.
And Boris would undoubtedly quickly remove European fantasies of tens of billions in Brexit fees and would instead keep his earlier promise of an extra 350 million per week for the National Health Service. Right?
Unlikely. Brexit under the Tories will fuck us over, just as much as Corbyn with a strong mandate for his fantasy economics would. We are probably screwed either way, as there’s no stable, vaguely centrist option.
I’m just going to remind people of this prediction I made.
So, 650 parliamentarians (for now), of whom:
52 are ‘non-white’
45 are LGBT
208 are ‘non-males’ 
51% went to Comprehensive schools
How prescient. Here’s another “prediction” you made 5 hours later.
Self-congratulation; it’s never a good look.
p.s. London is socialist - Labour got 55% of the vote: BOOM! 
And Michael Gove slithers his way back into the cabinet at the Department of the Environment. Gove’s credentials for the environment brief include lobbying for the UK to ditch the Habitats Directive after Brexit, and trying to remove all mention of climate change from the National Curriculum when he was Education Secretary.
I’ve only seen one photo of Gove this evening and I already want to properly punch his lights out.
I’m just not sure whether that is entirely irrational or rational.
I am still learning about UK (and Irish) politics, but after reading his page at Wikipedia, I’m gonna have to tell you that I’m leaning towards “rational”. That guy is a dick.
Disappointed Davis hasn’t moved. Every time he opens his mouth I am more convinced this country’s doomed.
I can’t see this new Cabinet generating much confidence. I think it will show May as very stiff-necked and captured by hardcore eurosceptics. About the only appointment I welcome is Lidington as Lord Chancellor.
It’s quite the indicator of dickness that he thought he should write a foreword to the King James Bible.
I am a Canadian living in the U.K. for the last 3 years. I have absolutely no understanding of how this government works, and the more I read the more confused I become. But, with what little I do understand, I’d have to agree with you.