17 quotes from DUP politicians that are actually real

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1. DUP deviates - when it suits - in its hatred of different regulations

The Democratic Unionist party (DUP) has rejected any regulatory divergence between Northern Ireland and Britain in the Brexit deal, but there is already some divergence – and it will help keep the lights on, and the food safe, at the party’s annual conference on Saturday.

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Northern Ireland is part of a single electricity market with the Republic of Ireland, it applies extensive checks on livestock coming from Britain and has distinct rules on the transport of hazardous waste – pragmatic, uncontroversial measures which are not deemed threats to Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom.

However, DUP leaders who gather in Belfast for the party’s conference will thunder anew against different rules for Northern Ireland and Britain envisaged in the Brexit deal, branding them an existential threat to the union and therefore reason for the party to issue its own threat to pull the plug on Theresa May’s government.

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The DUP’s critics accuse the party of diverging from reality or, at least, consistency. It favours different rules for Northern Ireland, for example the bans on abortion and same-sex marriage, when they align with the party’s social conservatism.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/24/dup-deviates-when-it-suits-in-its-hatred-of-different-regulations