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Comment on Progressive unionism by Dilettante

Because sad as it is, neither of those parties have broken through (and the Alliance is border-neutral, if it were the old Alliance I'd back it but I'm not neutral). The UUP has the prominence and representation to be the vehicle for a new unionism.

My point was that this thing that the UUP did for the last hundred years (as you put it) has been very effectively taken by the DUP. They're the party that do that stuff now, with some of the loonier elements going TUV. There's simply no need for three parties to do the same thing.

What does the DUP do so differently from a communalist UUP that you won't join it?

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