When I was last in Northern Ireland the UUP would have been very much more likely to enter into an arrangement with the Tories, while the DUP were significantly more hardline
The UUP would have been more likely to enter into an arrangement with the Tories, yes, but the DUP would have been more likely to try to hold them to ransom, demanding big policy concessions in return for support.
In the New Politics, these amount to pretty much the same thing (well, except now public money counts as much as political concessions).
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Date: 2015-05-12 08:30 am (UTC)The UUP would have been more likely to enter into an arrangement with the Tories, yes, but the DUP would have been more likely to try to hold them to ransom, demanding big policy concessions in return for support.
In the New Politics, these amount to pretty much the same thing (well, except now public money counts as much as political concessions).