The day after the U.K. election Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was caught relaxing outside a pub in Islington.



“We’re going to do it all again in a few months. I’ve got my train ticket,” he said. “We’re nearly there.”

How could he be so confident?

Technically he had just lost. The Conservatives set up a coalition within hours.

Oh, sure. The coalition is razor-thin and could fall apart if it lost just a special election or two. But "months"?

The reason Corbyn is so sure of himself is because of the little-known, minority coalition partner - the Democratic Unionist Party, or D.U.P.

Just look at what these wackos believe.



The DUP are the reason Northern Ireland hasn’t legalised same-sex marriage, and it’s the only place on the British Isles that hasn’t yet done so.

They’ve used what are known as ‘petitions of concern’ to block all progress on the matter, and earlier this year, they said they’d rather block the formation of a government than let same-sex marriage be legalised in Northern Ireland, calling it a “red line” in negotiations with Sinn Féin.

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Arlene Foster, the head of the DUP, said in 2016: “I would not want abortion to be as freely available here as it is in England and don’t support the extension of the 1967 act.”

In Northern Ireland, the maximum penalty for the ‘crime’ of drug-induced miscarriage under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 is life imprisonment.

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Their former environment minister Sammy Wilson was a climate change denier. In 2014 he called it a “con”. The Guardian also reports it has a number of creationists among its senior members.

The DUP is the political wing of the 18th century, a bunch of homophobic bigots, and now they have the Tories over a barrel. — Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) June 9, 2017

That alone is embarrassing, but when you look at who they run with, it gets worse.



The D.U.P. also has a history of ties to loyalist paramilitary gangs responsible for past terrorist atrocities.

The party’s leader, Arlene Foster, even met last week with the head of the Ulster Defence Association, a paramilitary group that was supposed to have disbanded after a peace accord was signed in 1998, but continues to exist and was implicated in a gangland-style killing just days earlier.

Terrorist organisations literally did a mail drop last week telling people they had to vote for them. — Stuart Gibson (@stuartgibson) June 9, 2017

Good morning, Britain. Here’s some old photos of the DUP, in case you haven’t met them before. pic.twitter.com/3ZQGBCy2qM — Colin Graham (@19acres) June 9, 2017

This will likely be the most unpopular coalition partner since the Black and Tans. How long before a picture of Theresa May shaking hands with someone connected to terrorism makes it to social media?

How long before a financial scandal gets examined?

An online petition against this coalition already has 300k signatures, and it isn't a day old yet.

When this coalition falls apart, it'll only be after a significant amount of time and political embarrassment.

The Lib Dems aren't interested in a coalition with the Tories. Nor is SNP or the Greens.

It's either DUP or no one.

That means Corbyn's prediction of another election will come true, but Conservatives will look weaker by then.