The ever excellent Newshound carries a Suzanne Breen look, from the Sunday Tribune, at the 9 newly elected DUP MPs in Red-necks and rabble-rousers. Or is the DUP human after all?The article has moments of humour as well as political assessments , for example when discussing Nigel Dodds:
Nigel Dodds reckons new babies won votes for Mark Durkan and Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy.
Wife Diane is warned that, if Sinn Féin threatens to snatch North Belfast next election, she must “take full advantage of modern technology” to produce a baby for the campaign trail.
“I’ve done my bit for God and Ulster, I’m not doing that!” replies the Shankill Assemblywoman.
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