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WELFARE STATE NETWORK!

Socialist Outlook no. 103, June 8 1996 · 274 words

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David Coen AT LEAST part of the reason why John Major last February went along with David Trimble's demand for elections in Northern Ireland, apart that is from depending on him to keep the Tories in power if they lost their Westminster majority, was the need to keep the Ulster Unionists onside.

lan Paisley's Democratic Unionists refused and still are refusing to talk to Sinn Fein. No Unionists: no talke Members receive each issue of Action.

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The method was not one approved by Trimble and the election results show why - the UP, though still the largest party, lost ground to Paisley's DUP. Any chance the British could have used the UUP to force Paisley to the talks on June 10 has also gone out the window. Their only success in outflanking the DUP and fragmenting the Unionist bloc is the winning of two seats each by the Progressive Unionist Party and the Ulster Democratic Party, linked to the UVF and the UDA respectively. Both are willing to join the talks,

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