I'm not actually worried by the DUP deal. Yes, they are awful people, but they are awful people no-one's ever heard of before. There's no support for their anti-science hard-right rhetoric. More than that, there isn't even any call for a debate on their positions. They can't even (reportedly) vote on most issues because of the English Votes for English Laws ruling. So in most cases the worst they could do is start a debate on issues that everyone else already considers long since settled; if they wanted to get a "creationism in schools" thing going (or indeed any of their policies, it seems) they'd have to start from zero. They're not even populists, they're just unpopular. And any changes they somehow did try and enact would happen against a backdrop of an incompetent leader trying ineffectually to negotiate with the world's largest economic bloc. They are toothless. All they'll succeed in doing is making the Tories even more unpopular and triggering another election.
On that basis then, here's a poll I've signed and you might want to as well.
https://www.change.org/p/winston-theresamay-to-resign-no-to-the-the-democratic-unionist-party-dup-postmanpratt1
They're awful people that anyone with an Irish connection has heard all too much of before. They are a party that was literally formed to deny civil rights to Catholics (and have since expanded their remit to take in gay people), and who have strong links with unionist terrorists responsible for over 1,000 murders.
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