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On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 18:02:02 +0100, LFS <lauraDRAGON.spira@gmail.com>
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>On 09/06/2017 17:22, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 15:12:36 +0100, Katy Jennison
>> <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 09/06/2017 14:30, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>>> On Friday, June 9, 2017 at 9:09:06 AM UTC-4, the Omrud wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We went to vote yesterday afternoon.  As we collected our ballot papers,
>>>>> the lady (perhaps 80 years old) who had been ahead of us returned to the
>>>>> desk to post her paper in the box.  She addressed us directly with some
>>>>> emphasis and entirely seriously: "I hope we don't get a Communist
>>>>> government.  We'll have Putin running things soon".
>>>>>
>>>>> We stepped sideways and got on withour own voting.
>>>>
>>>> Well, nearly ... the BBC World Service just said that May has turned to an obscure
>>>> Northern Ireland party with 10 seats to make her "ruling coalition."
>>>>
>>>
>>> "Obscure" in the sense of "dark, dim; gloomy, dismal" and
>>> "unenlightened, benighted" (OED).  According to one blog (and I've no
>>> reason to think it exaggerates by much) the DUP's opinions apparently
>>> include:
>>>
>>> Abortion should be “ruled out for rape victims”
>>> The Pope is the Anti-Christ
>>> Gay couples “more likely to abuse children”
>>> “Homosexuality is an abomination”
>>> No gay marriage
>>> “Gays more vile than child abusers”
>>> Attempts to reduce CO2 emissions are “Green propaganda”
>>> Claims that fossil fuels will run out are “nonsense”
>>> “Man-made climate change is a con”
>>> Creationism should be “taught in every school”
>>> Removal of evolutionary teaching from the curriculum
>>> The 60 million-year-old Giant’s Causeway is only 6,000 years old
>>> Line dancing is “sinful”
>>>
>> Those opinions/beliefs may be held by some members and supporters of the
>> DUP however their election manifesto mentions only one or two of them.
>> 
>> I recognise several of those quoted opinions as having been expressed by
>> individuals rather than by the party as a whole.
>> 
>> My impression is that the DUP will not attempt to impose the religious
>> beliefs of its more fundamentalist Christian members on the whole of the
>> UK.
>> 
>> Also, I think that the party's supporters and those who voted for it
>> have a broader range of attitudes and beliefs.
>> 
>>> (From
>>> https://tompride.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/desperate-theresa-may-gets-into-bed-with-barmy-extremist-dup-to-hang-onto-power/)
>> 
>
>But Arlene Foster looks as if she could be a bloody difficult woman, to 
>coin a phrase.

That's putting it politely.

I'm not sure what her role will be. She is leader of the DUP but not an
MP. One of the 10 MPs, Nigel Dodds, is deputy leader of the party.


-- 
Peter Duncanson, UK
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