Re:Inside the Irish Republican Army (1994)
by Macha on Monday July 25, 2022 @09:19AM
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> The Alliance party, the non-aligned neo-liberal party here, had a massive jump in votes in the recent election.
I think this is more a splintering of the unionist community as the DUP has taken a hardline and self-harming pro-Brexit, anti-protocol, no compromise approach. For the US readers, the DUP's social views would make many of the US republicans look liberal. Their last leader was ousted for merely abstaining on, rather than opposing, a ban on gay conversion therapy. Now the DUP is holding the entire NI political system to ransom unless they get their way.
There are many unionists who are done with that shit but are still pro-UK, and this is the group that flocked to alliance in large numbers last election.
I think this is more a splintering of the unionist community as the DUP has taken a hardline and self-harming pro-Brexit, anti-protocol, no compromise approach. For the US readers, the DUP's social views would make many of the US republicans look liberal. Their last leader was ousted for merely abstaining on, rather than opposing, a ban on gay conversion therapy. Now the DUP is holding the entire NI political system to ransom unless they get their way.
There are many unionists who are done with that shit but are still pro-UK, and this is the group that flocked to alliance in large numbers last election.