Mid-Ulster by-election

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Most Catholic unionists vote for the SDLP.

Both because Catholic unionists tend to be very soft unionists and because the SDLP are very soft nationalists.

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Presumably because there's no Northern Ireland branch of Labour but there is a general "Abroad" branch.

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I know it's hardly a concern for them at the moment, but that's got me curious: what's the Alliance and their base's reaction to the Liberals since the election been?

Naomi Long doesn't take the LibDem whip. She votes against the government more often than not.

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The SDLP and FF mused about teaming up several years ago. So there's that.

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If there were a United Ireland, Sinn Fein could enthusiastically and earnestly disassociated itself from terrorism. That would likely cause them to gain supporters.

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John McCallister had previously ran on for leadership of the UUP as a liberal and on a platform of pulling out of the all party mandatory coalition.

That leadership race was really weird, the liberal opposing sitting with Sinn Fein and the conservative supporting it.