{"id":315235,"date":"2017-06-30T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/may-governments-legislative-agenda-scrapes-through-uk-parliament\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:37:41","slug":"may-governments-legislative-agenda-scrapes-through-uk-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/may-governments-legislative-agenda-scrapes-through-uk-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"May government\u2019s legislative agenda scrapes through UK parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>May government\u2019s legislative agenda scrapes through UK parliament<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Julie Hyland<br \/>\n    <br \/>30 June 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Conservative government\u2019s legislative agenda, outlined in last week\u2019s Queen\u2019s Speech, made it through parliament Thursday night by 323 votes to 309\u2014a majority of 14. This was primarily due to the support of the 10 MPs from the right-wing, sectarian Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May had struck a \u201cconfidence and supply\u201d deal with the DUP after June\u2019s snap election slashed the government\u2019s number of seats to 318. The agreement gives May a working majority of 13. In return for keeping her in power, the DUP will receive \u00a31.5 billion in additional \u201cpublic expenditure\u201d for Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the deal jeopardising the British government\u2019s supposed \u201cimpartiality\u201d as regards the power-sharing arrangements established in Northern Ireland under the Good Friday Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland\u2019s Stormont Assembly collapsed in January over a scandal involving the DUP. Talks Thursday between Sinn Fein and the DUP failed to find a resolution. If no agreement is reached on Monday, Westminster could impose direct rule.<\/p>\n<p>So desperate is May that the government was forced to make a last minute agreement to help Northern Irish women forced to pay privately in England for abortions. This was in order to stymie a proposed Labour amendment aimed at challenging Northern Ireland\u2019s extremely restrictive abortion laws. If passed, it would have thrown the Tory agreement into danger as the DUP is anti-abortion.<\/p>\n<p>May\u2019s tawdry, anti-democratic arrangements with ultra-right loyalists enabled her government to press ahead with its attacks on the working class.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after the Grenfell Tower inferno in West London, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/06\/30\/quee-j30.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 May government\u2019s legislative agenda scrapes through UK parliament By Julie Hyland 30 June 2017 The Conservative government\u2019s legislative agenda, outlined in last week\u2019s Queen\u2019s Speech, made it through parliament Thursday night by 323 votes to 309\u2014a majority of 14. This was primarily due to the support of the 10 MPs from the right-wing, sectarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}