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Soph0571

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Sun Nov 25, 2018, 07:33 AM Nov 2018

17 quotes from DUP politicians that are actually real [View all]

On abortion.
I would not want abortion to be as freely available here [Northern Ireland] as it is in England and don’t support the extension of the 1967 act

The group's leader Arlene Foster, speaking to the Guardian in 2016.



On climate change.
I don’t care about Co2 emissions to be quite truthful...I still think climate change is a manmade con.

Sammy Wilson, former MP for East Antrim, and former Northern Irish Assembly environment minister, who also said climate change campaigners views were a "hysterical pseudo-religion".


https://www.indy100.com/article/dup-theresa-may-tory-deal-alliance-minority-government-quotes-arlene-foster-lgbt-abortion-religion-7783241

Ulster. The bible belt of Europe - and they hold in their hands the future of Brexit. Oh goody.
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