Tuesday, August 5, 2008

DUP- The Diverse Unionist Party?

The Dupes are clearly panicking at the thought of becoming too close to the rest of the UK.

Nelson McCausland:
"The great strength of unionism is that it is possible to be a left-wing unionist a right-wing unionist or a centrist unionist," the DUP MLA commented.

But according to the DUP’s version, not a Catholic, homosexual or a socially liberal one; Nelson expounding on the diversity of Ulster nationalism unionism is akin to receiving a lecture from King Herod on nursery school provision.
"Unionism is bigger than left-right politics and is able to encompass all people with all political positions on socio-economic matters. By aligning themselves in a clear and unambiguous way with a centre-right political party, the leadership of the UUP is effectively telling its members with centrist or left-wing political leanings that they are no longer welcome.”

Other than the issues of the EU (where Tory views would tie in almost 100% with the Dupes), Cameron’s Conservatives are about as close to their traditional roots as New Labour; the concept of right and left-wing, as previously understood, is disappearing from UK politics- it vanished a long time ago from the Northern Irish version.

And this is my Quote of the Day:
However, Northern Ireland Conservative David Fry hit back at Mr McCausland and called the DUP "the Protestant equivalent of Sinn Fein".

He said: "When Mr McCausland claims 'unionism is bigger than left-right politics' he is effectively saying that Northern Ireland should not be a full part of the UK.

"Left-right, Conservative-Labour politics are the politics of the UK. The politics of the Union are bigger than what passes for unionism in Northern Ireland."

He added: "The DUP may settle for the politics of 'ourselves alone' but our leader, David Cameron, is determined that people in Northern Ireland should no longer be treated as second class citizens in the UK.""

The Union is that of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom, and it’s time Northern Irish unionists of all descriptions left “Ulster” with the nationalists of the DUP and starting working with like-minded individuals throughout the rest of the “UK”.

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