Corporation Tax and The Union

"I believe that the prime minister is afraid of Scotland, because Scotland has been the backbone of the labour movement and now the bowl is broken... for the first time Labour is no longer in charge of affairs in Scotland."

So said Paisley on Tuesday, after Sir David Varney rejected demands for a cut in corporation tax in NI. If NI had got the cut requested, then Scotland would've taken the hump and more kudos for Salmond when Brown inevitably turned their request for the same treatment etc etc...
At least, that’s the Ulster Nationalist version.

In reality, if Northern Ireland had got the lower corporation tax rate, then it would have hit hardest those regions in Wales and Northern England that have a justifiable claim to the same beneficial treatment. The resentment would have been highest there and the rumblings of discontent regarding the unfair favourable treatment received by the devolved parts of the Kingdom would have then been diverted towards Northern Ireland, as well as Scotland- thus opening a second front for the various shades of separatism to concentrate their fire on.

Does that potential scenario register with Paisley and the rest of the Little Ulster-Men?

I think it does and they're not at all uncomfortable with its implications.

Amongst the Ulster Nationalist DUP hardcore there's a tangible resentment of "the English", accomodation can be reached quite easily with the SNP, but with (in theory) brother Unionists in the biggest constituent part of the UK?
"They’re not quite the same as us are they? Bit too tolerant of diversity, different values and what have you...a bit too British if you really want to know"

Chekov alerted me to this piece by Johnny Andrews in last night’s Belfast Tele.
Andrews is arguing a UK-wide, pan-UK Unionist approach towards the Corporation Tax question and lo and behold, the Conservative Party today have pledged to cut the Corporation Tax, if elected. Bearing in mind Brown’s stealing of the Tories’ clothes on Inheritance Tax, it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that a united campaign from the various opposition parties in the Commons and country could yield a similar result.

But can you really imagine the DUPes thinking on such a UK-wide basis, thinking like United Kingdom Unionists?
How deep, how genuine really is their Unionism?