Rightist idiots fall out...
Apparently, some NI Tories' noses are out of joint by their shameless, opportunistic hookup with the UUP being "endangered" by the UUP's rival (and shameless and opportunistic, needless to say) proposed pact with the DUP. Cue aghast noises from Catholic PPCs of the first, and apparatchiks of the second (obviously with some cognition of how this transitive association of how this might play back on The Mainland). One of the candidates that'd resigned in a huff came out with the (rather tortuous, but possibly apt) analogy that this was like starting off with a Tory/UKIP alliance, but then trying to add a UKIP/BNP one in parallel. The hilariously optimistic phrase "non-sectarian Unionism" was used -- and with a straight face. This all somewhat presupposes that the Conservatives, UUP and UKIP are all the acceptable face of the civic centre right, and the other two are an unacceptable tribalist fringe. That's really only about as valid as the large, somewhat mad religions that bully smaller, slightly madder religions as "cults", to my mind.