For the DUP the union has lost all equivalence to Union. It’s become an Ulster thing. It’s all about Loyal Orders, gay-bating, Ulsterishness, Ulster-Scots, Blandness, Dourness and Isolation. It’s about making this place anti-cosmopolitan, separatist and parcohial. It’s everything the Union isn’t. Just compare the DUP’s definition of Unionism with a Londoner’s. A Londoner, confronted with the word “Unionist” thinks of a ranting “Irish” nutter.
Source: Disaster for Unionism? Election Crap. blog post on Jeff Peel’s (Public) Diary posted on 28th May 2009.
