THE prize for the most fatuous comment about last week’s British elections goes to Gavin Robinson, the charisma-free DUP leader.

At Stormont on Monday, faced with the indisputably momentous fact of three nationalist leaders of the UK’s devolved regions, Robinson – in true DUP fashion – rose to the challenge of maintaining the party’s default position of denying reality.

He denied the groundbreaking results mark a seismic change – “fanciful nonsense”, he declared. People were voting against Starmer, not against the union.

Complete garbage, but then as usual everyone’s out of step except the DUP.

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For them nothing can change. As Maurice Craig wrote: “To hell with the future and long live the past.”

British electronic media and newspapers agreed there’s a constitutional dimension to the results in Scotland and Wales.

The Guardian leader on Monday said: “The starting gun has been fired on a new and constitutionally contested era in the politics of the UK.” Nail on head.

Robinson disregarded the fact that Scotland’s re-elected First Minister John Swinney’s campaign was aimed at gaining a mandate for an independence referendum.

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