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Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) - Working-class party, staunchly pro-Unionist and linked to the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force. Party claims to be anti-sectarian and dedicated to a pluralist society. Site includes manifesto and details of their history. Supports the Good Friday Agreement.
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - The most religiously fundamentalist of all the Unionist parties and the leading party opposed to the Good Friday Agreement. Supports the devolution of power to Stormont. Site contains newsdesk, policy booklets party history and video archive. Led by Ian Paisley. The largest Unionist party at Stormont.
Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) - Led by David Trimble. Favours the Good Friday Agreement. The most "mainstream" Unionist party.
United Kingdom Unionist Party (UKUP) - Opposes the Good Friday Agreement and devolution. Favours increased integration with the UK and opposes religious sectarianism. Aligned with the United Kingdom Independence Party. Lost its sole Westminster MP at the 2001 general election.
North Down DUP - Information, news and facts about the Democratic Unionist Party in the North Down area.
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What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Unionist The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Unionist To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Unionist I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Unionist Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Unionist What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Unionist No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Unionist Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Unionist "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Unionist Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Unionist There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Unionist "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Unionist There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Unionist If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Unionist "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Unionist
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