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After Deirdre Nelson and Harry Greenaway quit the DUP, their old party called them "rejects" and "opportunists". What does that make Arlene Foster, Jeffrey Donaldson and Shaun Woodward?

All defectors leave on points of grand principle as opposed to anything to do with their own careers. I am looking forward to the day when a defector proclaims "I have no problem whatsoever with my old party's policy positions. But there are at least half a dozen old codgers who won't vacate their seats and I have no chance of getting anywhere unless I jump ship. Plus how I am supposed to get promotion after having spilt wine all over the constituency chairman's jacket at the annual cheese and wine do?"

Tonight the South Belfast councillor Jim Kirkpatrick also switched allegiances, leaving the DUP for the UUP. Having surveyed Jim's between the unionist parties I was reminded of Cedric Wilson's old nickname. If Cedric was the "serial protestor", then Jim must be the "serial defector."

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