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It seems to me if they want to cling on and form a government they should ditch the DUP idea and seek to get agreement with the other big parties on what they want to push through. It's about time we had a more consensual collaborative approach to government. May though has no credibility now. I have no idea who they have in their top team that would be up to it either. Rudd barely convinced her own constituents. Johnson is a liability.

I said previously that this election was entirely unnecessary for Brexit and that if that really was the single biggest problem since the war, they should build a cabinet or at least a Brexit committee from across parties to get the best talents involved. I still believe that David Davies is incapable and that Kier Starmer is the obvious choice to represent Britain. Of course the nature of Brexit may be very different now.

We'll see what happens but I can't see how May can cling on now, her own party wants her to resign.

I agree. I think it's becoming clear she went to the Queen too soon as she wasn't certain at that time the DUP would support her. If you're not sure whether you can form a stable (yes, that's the actual word!) administration the Queen has to issue a sort of conditional yes and you go back when you're sure. (It happened with Alec Douglas Home.)

And yes, at least trying to come to some sort of collaborative arrangement with the other parties would be a more satisfactory approach before putting us in hock to the likes of Ian Paisley Junior who said "I am pretty repulsed by gay and lesbianism. I think it is wrong. I think that those people harm themselves and – without caring about it – harm society."