The British Press Mocks The New Conservative Alliance

UK Prime Minister Theresa May, expecting results she anticipates worse than she had hoped, on June 9, 2017, in Maidenhead.

Forty-eight hours after the UK elections, Theresa May will hold her cabinet this Saturday. The Prime Minister, who has lost an absolute majority in Parliament, will try to regain control. It has already announced the formation of a new government to " carry out the Brexit ". But the British press is echoing this morning's echo of the catastrophic situation in which the Conservatives find themselves.

Theresa May, who dreamed of an indisputable victory, is forced to ally with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland (DUP) if she wants to claim an absolute majority in Parliament. This alliance goes badly with the British who consider the DUP as a party of far right, very eurosceptic, against marriage for all and against the right to abortion.

Even the Conservative papers laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation. The Daily Mirror titled "  a coalition of crackpots  " by highlighting DUP officials known for their overflows and bouts of violence.

Uncomfortable position

The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and The Times, all of the right-wing newspapers, publish an unflattering portrait of Theresa May and insist on the very uncomfortable or even untenable position of the Prime Minister who nevertheless clings to keep his post Head of government.

This is a humiliation for Theresa May, which did not escape the Guardian who this morning's title "  From pride to humiliation  ", reminding that yesterday the Prime Minister had to apologize to his colleagues And Conservative MPs who lost their riding Thursday night.

DUB, operating instructions

The North-Irish Unionists find themselves the makers of the king, or rather of the Queen, after an election which was to bring stability but which ended with a blocked Parliament.

Now a party of government, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was originally a protest party created and led by the late Reverend Ian Paisley, who embodied a tough union with the hereditary enemy, Sinn Féin, a political The Irish Republican Army (IRA).

The DUP is known for its clear opinions: it opposes homosexual marriage and militates against abortion that remains illegal in the province. One of its members has also advocated that the theory of creationism be taught in the same way as the theory of evolution at school.

Alongside the Conservatives in Westminster, their main concern will be the Brexit for which the DUP voted enthusiastically, unlike the rest of the Northern Irish. And if they do not want the return of a physical border with the Republic of Ireland, the Unionists will try to get Belfast to have no special status during the Brexit negotiations to prevent the province keeping a foot In the European Union