George Galloway
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Det nordirske strengt højreorienterede parti Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) er en "mildere form" af den USA baserede Ku Klux Klan, som engang terroriserede og myrdede sorte borgere, siger Respect Party lederen George Galloway.

Det tidligere parliamentsmedlem tog del i en paneldiskussion om Tory-DUP tillliden og forsyningsaftalen i hvilken partiet gav tilsagn af dets ti MPer til Tories (det konservative parti) imod at få over £1 milliard pund af investeringer i Nordirland. Aftalen blev afsluttet i mandags.

DUP er kendt for sine ubøjelige højreorienterede standpunkter, som omfatter skabelsesteorien, anti-abort, og anti-LGBT, såvel som benægtelse aff klimaforandringer.





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They also have historical links to pro-British Loyalist paramilitary groups - an irony given the Conservative campaign against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who the party often alleged was an IRA sympathizer and, thus, unsuitable for power.

Talking to American chat show host Larry King on RT, Galloway said the DUP were "extreme loyalists, the kind of people who went to your country and became hillbillies."

Asked how extreme they were, Galloway said: "In the next two week you will see how extreme.

"Three thousand wooden pallets were stolen today in Belfast to build bonfires. On those bonfires there will be figures of everyone from the pope to the Irish nationalist leader Gerry Adams.


"Maybe I'll get a dummy this year, I did one year, anyone they hate, anyone from a Roman Catholic background like me could end up on that bonfire," Galloway said, referring to the July 'marching season,' in which Loyalists celebrate the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

Describing the Protestant Orange Order, which carries out what he called "provocative" marches through Catholic areas, Galloway explained: "They are a kind of Klu Klux Klan, a milder form, maybe, of the Klu Klux Klan and Theresa May is now clinging to power by the tassels of an Orange sash."