The Magic Money Tree in action

mellowsun

No magic money tree for nurses or for the police, but if you are a homophobic, religious political party then here's a billion pounds I found down the back of the sofa.

Humorously articulated by Artist Taxi Driver

https://twitter.com/chunkymark/status/879314165671886849

We need another election now to get rid of these clowns.

TheBlueWolf

At this point I'd like to see politics in its entirety banned, but yeah isn't it convenient how that sort of cash turns up to sweeten the DUP when it's obviously needed elsewhere.....

mellowsun

To be fair, the money is for NI as a whole (although I understand NI already gets more cash per head than any other part of the UK).

But it's the ease with which we can find this money for things like this, but not for arguably more pressing areas, which makes this smack of some sort of gerrymandering.

fields5069

And Wales and Scotland will be left wanting, and rightly pissed off.

CabbageCat

fields5069 said:

And Wales and Scotland will be left wanting, and rightly pissed off.

You missed one.

Legionreturns

Wales and Scotland have a fund matching agreement, so the amount will triple

Ravenous

mellowsun said:

gerrymandering.

We don't have Gerrymandering in the UK!  That's the US.

We just bribe our voters instead, or so it seems.

Fretwired

It's not new money. It's money that's been 'brought forward' for infrastructure projects for the whole of N. Ireland, so the government will get a large chunk of it back in taxes and down the line the budgets will be adjusted. No fan of May but this is peanuts. Sadiq Khan is jumping up and down .. DUP bigots .. doesn't Khan support the Muslim Brotherhood? What is their stance of gay rights?

Fretwired

fields5069 said:

And Wales and Scotland will be left wanting, and rightly pissed off.

Well they know what they can do then. N Ireland is a special case for obvious reasons.

antifash

Fretwired said:

It's not new money. It's money that's been 'brought forward' for infrastructure projects for the whole of N. Ireland, so the government will get a large chunk of it back in taxes and down the line the budgets will be adjusted. No fan of May but this is peanuts. Sadiq Khan is jumping up and down .. DUP bigots .. doesn't Khan support the Muslim Brotherhood? What is their stance of gay rights?

Do you read EDL or Britain First literature? 

http://www.snopes.com/sadiq-khan-video/

Ravenous

Not that much money by Westminster standards though - I mean it's only three or four of them Boris Garden Bridges.

And the squeaky wheel gets oiled...

Anyone notice the photos at the signing don't actually show Theresa signing anything?  She ain't stupid...

Evilmags

Northern Ireland is already a money pit. Still if my taxes do something useful, like keeping Corbyn out, then I suppose it's better than wasting it on cheap environmental virtue signalling by cladding concrete buildings in flammable insulation. 

The more I see of government in a tin the more convinced I am that most of its functions need privitised or abolished. 

Fretwired

antifash said:

Fretwired said:

It's not new money. It's money that's been 'brought forward' for infrastructure projects for the whole of N. Ireland, so the government will get a large chunk of it back in taxes and down the line the budgets will be adjusted. No fan of May but this is peanuts. Sadiq Khan is jumping up and down .. DUP bigots .. doesn't Khan support the Muslim Brotherhood? What is their stance of gay rights?

Do you read EDL or Britain First literature? 

http://www.snopes.com/sadiq-khan-video/

What are you smoking? The Muslim Brotherhood is a legal organisation in the UK and are not terrorists. David Cameron carried out a review and found they had NO TERRORIST links so he didn't ban them. What you're banging on about EDL for God only knows. However, the Muslim Brotherhood have pretty much the same view on gay rights as the DUP. Corbyn and Khan have attended Brotherhood events. A whiff of hypocrisy.

TheBlueWolf

Fretwired said:

It's not new money. It's money that's been 'brought forward' for infrastructure projects for the whole of N. Ireland, so the government will get a large chunk of it back in taxes and down the line the budgets will be adjusted. No fan of May but this is peanuts. Sadiq Khan is jumping up and down .. DUP bigots .. doesn't Khan support the Muslim Brotherhood? What is their stance of gay rights?

The Brotherhood most likely have the same stance as the DUP, basically that homosexuality is a stain on society and needs curing

The need to bring Khan into this is irrelevant anyway. We're currently going through austerity, which requires a lot of cuts, so the money that's been 'bought forward', could well be money saved by the same cuts. Besides it's not like anyone else pays taxes in Britain...... right?

Fretwired

TheBlueWolf said:

Fretwired said:

It's not new money. It's money that's been 'brought forward' for infrastructure projects for the whole of N. Ireland, so the government will get a large chunk of it back in taxes and down the line the budgets will be adjusted. No fan of May but this is peanuts. Sadiq Khan is jumping up and down .. DUP bigots .. doesn't Khan support the Muslim Brotherhood? What is their stance of gay rights?

The Brotherhood most likely have the same stance as the DUP, basically that homosexuality is a stain on society and needs curing

The need to bring Khan into this is irrelevant anyway. We're currently going through austerity, which requires a lot of cuts, so the money that's been 'bought forward', could well be money saved by the same cuts. Besides it's not like anyone else pays taxes in Britain...... right?

I give up ... Khan and co aren't moaning about the money, but that the Tories are in an alliance with the DUP. Personally I don't care as I can't stand the Tories but I'm finding the rank hypocrisy throughout UK politics hard to swallow.

TheBlueWolf

@Fretwired I totally get what you mean and the hypocrisy of politicians makes me angry too. I'm just bored of having it pointed out that all politicians shysters

TheBlueWolf

PS you responded 2 mins before me. Oops lol

mart

Evilmags said:

.... 
The more I see of government in a tin ...

I like the sound of government-in-a-tin. Do you find it in the canned vegetables aisle in Tesco?

Legionreturns

What would be hilarious, but definitely not out of the question, is failing to get her queens speach through anyway. It's entirely possible that her own back bench will vote it down. 

EricTheWeary

Legionreturns said:

What would be hilarious, but definitely not out of the question, is failing to get her queens speach through anyway. It's entirely possible that her own back bench will vote it down. 

It wouldn't take many and the Scottish Tory MPs are in a strong enough position to control May if they wanted to; Ruth Davidson would only go up in my estimation if she lead them to revolt against Theresa. 

marantz1300

So austerity was a con , there's loads of money to spread for the "right" causes.