It’s a tough coalition to hold, thin majority, they are more likely to go confidence and supply which has held in Ireland despite entrenched enmities.
As an aside the discipline in the current coalition here is a sight to behold. Behind their backs everyone leaks and briefs against each other but in public nobody blinks. Someone I used to know is a minister and he stood up in front of the Dáil with a grim face lying about the most basic EU law concepts to protect something set up by the government before the last with reporting guidelines from the last government. All things he knows are wrong, literally against the law, he has a doctorate in EU law, but coalition discipline was that tight.
It’s obviously a non-starter in the UK because the first thing Labour would have to give up would soon deny them the majority and the government and probably the next election.
Also, unionism. I don’t think even a confidence and supply agreement is realistic because Labour wouldn’t work with an independence party. (Not so much vice versa, I think, though the SNP would definitely ask for concessions such as support for a referendum. And since Labour wouldn’t give those an agreement wouldn’t happen)
Other than that they could come to an agreement but Labour is solidly unionist and even if it wasn’t what I said above applies still and there would be no political future in it
The only way I can see anything holding together is if Labour insist on support for a change to PR voting in return for support for (or no opposition to) another independence referendum.
I fully expected the Tories to just about scrape by and then tout that as a major victory, even though it would have been a historic drop even if they had made it.
It all would have been fine if not for that meddling media.
While hinting that his error over Paterson was to blame, he tried to talk down the clock and blame the media before claiming that his “golden rule” was not to talk about his own leadership.
A Lib Dem candidate has apologised for drawing parallels between the treatment of people who cross the English channel and that of Jews during the Holocaust and for comparing Home Secretary Priti Patel to senior nazi Joseph Goebbels.
Patel is horrible, but for those of us who lost people in the Holocaust these comparisons are deeply offensive. Goebbels was one of the strongest advocates for the elimination of all Jews, and he was successful to the extent that the world Jewish population has still not returned to pre-Nazi levels. There is nothing Patel has done that rises to that level of monstrosity.
