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.@NigelDoddsDUP speaking at our NI Plan launch this morning. pic.twitter.com/0LJkwukDTJ
.@DUPleader outlines our 12 point plan for Northern Ireland as we launch our latest policy document this morning. #NIPlan pic.twitter.com/CMDHztbljV
We are very clear that we will not be supporting a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour party in a government because we believe Jeremy Corbyn would not only be hugely detrimental to the United Kingdom in terms of the break-up of the United Kingdom, and we have heard the whole discussion around the Scottish independence referendum, and we would be very fearful for the economy of the United Kingdom and we would be very fearful for the defence of our United Kingdom on a global scale.
So there are many, many reasons why we couldn’t in all consciousness support a Jeremy Corbyn-led administration.
The Brexit party leader Nigel Farage also claimed today that Britain in some respects resembles a South American failed state. He said:
There are elements to our system which resemble a failed state in South America.
Hundreds of Brexit Party candidates last week were bombarded with messages telling them they shouldn’t stand, some of them quite threatening and at the same time others offered inducements.