Did you think that any Tories would vote against May, or that the DUP would vote for Corbyn?

Every Tory disagreed with Corbyn. As did every member of the DUP. Every Lab, Lib Dem and SNP no voted with Corbyn. The result was that parliament was split 52/48%. Is that a consensus or a majority?

it was enough to create this clusterf@ck!

I find it amazing really...

For 2 years the Torries have gone from self harm, to self-disembowelling and are now in stage 3 “full fledged group self immolation”...and despite that the chap still can’t score a single f’n point !!

Not one, he has no clue, no political acumen, none, zilch.

It is absolutely mind boggling !!

May’s deal will go down as the worst thing in British politics, and Corbyn will forever be the guy that was one level below that

Reality check: David Cameron and George Osborne were the number one cheerleaders for austerity. The folly that austerity could generate growth (nonsense in any self respecting economic model) was stated and trumpeted by the latter, and sold in Europe by the former.
Both of them wanted the head of the IMF chief economist (Olivier Blanchard) to be chopped off when he called their BS on this ahead of a key EU summit. The Germans bought into it since this was the way, in their view, to rein in the profligate southern nations.

So, by a large margin, austerity was a UK gift to the entire EU. Actually a Tory gift, by the very same geniuses (and if you have ever spent 30 mins in a room with Osborne you know I’m joking) that brought you the Brexit referendum.

And note that the British, Tory, government pushed austerity for purely domestic reasons: the British were, at that time, against cutting the welfare state in virtually every poll. But not the hardcore Tory backbenchers. So the “new” Tories had to come up with a novel spin: austerity for growth — what a nonsense. Even Miliband’s labour drank the cool aid, and lost the election thanks to their great platform: “austerity light.”
When this misguided — totally ideological and unnecessary for the UK — policy delivered, and the brits started to feel the pain, the very same right could not say “it was our policies.” So it had to be the EU and the immigrants to be blamed this time around.

The rest, including the economic and social consequences and the Brexit vote, is history.

And if we get a Brexit — even better for the very same right, a no deal one — there will be a sever fiscal crisis. Hence, once again, a “good reason” to peddle cuts to the social security network — stay tuned.

Exactly.  So why did Corbyn even instigate the no-confidence vote?  Everyone knew he would lose it.  It just make himself look daft.  The guy seems to be short of a few brain cells.

However bad Theresa May comes across, it seems Corbyn will always come across even worse.

I agree with you about the DUP.  I was horrified when the Tories joined forces with the DUP.  But, on your other point, there is a big difference between voting against a proposed deal and voting against a political party.  The thing that I find odd is that many politicians (Tory and Labour) seem to think that if we had a different PM then suddenly we would get a wonderful deal from the EU.  They must be deluded.  It's not going to happen.

I wouldn't be too smug about it May only very narrowly swerved it by a margin of 19 votes and 10 of those were from the DUP.  Corbyn neither looked daft or "short of a few brain cells" to me.  The WTO have very lax regulations regarding all sorts of things particularly how the financial institutions are run which is the very reason why the Tory government want it. 
May's husband works for Capital Group, the largest shareholder in arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, whose share price has soared since the airstrikes in Syria.  He/they have many dealings with offshore investments under the 'blind trust' agreement whereby nobody under any circumstances can 'interfere' or simply find out what the real deal is?  BLIND TRUST a very appropriate description for this type of corruption and is possibly the main reason the EU will not deal with them.

Those 10 DUP votes cost £100 million each.

Bet there ain't one in five in poverty frequent this forum....

Nope, sorry. According to their own misguided propaganda:

“If we don’t get a grip in government spending, there will be no growth” - George Osborne (2010, chancellor’s speech to Tory convention)

And he has repeated the same nonsense about a zillion times. But that speech is worth reading, since it’s all about growth and how their beautiful austerity would deliver that - check it out, it's quite funny to read ex post if one forgets the human cost of incompetence.

The voodoo economics idea was that by reducing public debt there would be more private investment (pound for pound), hence that would generate growth.

Thanks to this beautiful (and utterly wrong) working assumption, under George Osborne the realised GDP growth in the UK has been lower than the government’s own forecast EVERY SINGLE YEAR - quite a brilliant result.

To this day, the UK still lags the US recovery thanks to his misguided policies in response to the financial crisis (we had austerity, they had Obama's stimulus, and history has spoken, but as usual it will be forgotten).

Theresa May has the apocalyptic gaze of an unloved teddy bear lashed to the front grill of a bin wagon.

and how's our deficit? I guess we don't have one now?  All the cuts made and bedroom tax, getting all the sick and disabled proving they are.. sick and disabled.  Cutting all youth centres, OAP centres etc etc etc. But it was worth it yes, as we are now stronger and happier and have no debt.

Happy days