Rumours were this time that the DUP had named a large sum of money as their price for coalition with the Tories
I think that was a joke. Well, half a joke: clearly no politician is going to turn down a large barrel of pork for their constituents, so if Cameron were to offer an extra billion for the DHSS (or apparently the DHSSPS as it is now, presumably because they had some spare Scrabble tiles lying around) that would certainly predispose them to listen to what he had to say.
But policy-wise, there's not much between the DUP and the UUP these days. It's probably best to think of them as the Judean People's Front and the Popular People's Front of Jeudea of Unionism; though even then relations are thawing. They formed a stand-aside pact this election which netted them a seat each.
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I think that was a joke. Well, half a joke: clearly no politician is going to turn down a large barrel of pork for their constituents, so if Cameron were to offer an extra billion for the DHSS (or apparently the DHSSPS as it is now, presumably because they had some spare Scrabble tiles lying around) that would certainly predispose them to listen to what he had to say.
But policy-wise, there's not much between the DUP and the UUP these days. It's probably best to think of them as the Judean People's Front and the Popular People's Front of Jeudea of Unionism; though even then relations are thawing. They formed a stand-aside pact this election which netted them a seat each.