Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland
Progressive Unionist Party
Also known as: An Páirtí Aontachtach Forásach
Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Progressive Unionist Party is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) is a minor unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was formed from the Independent Unionist Group operating in the Shankill area of Belfast, becoming the PUP in 1979. Linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Red Hand Commando (RHC), for a time it described itself as "the only left of centre unionist party" in Northern Ireland, with its main support base in the loyalist working class communities of Belfast. Since the Ulster Democratic Party's dissolution in 2001, the PUP has been the sole party in Northern Ireland representing paramilitary loyalism. The PUP has one elected representative on the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Russell Watton, the party's current leader.
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Background
History
The party was founded by Hugh Smyth in the mid-1970s as the "Independent Unionist Group" given the dissolution of the 1974 Volunteer Political Party. In 1977, two prominent members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party, David Overend and Jim McDonald, joined. Overend subsequently wrote many of the group's policy documents, incorporating much of the NILP's platform. In 1979, the group was renamed the "Progressive Unionist Party". Their position on the left of the political spectrum differentiates them from other unionist parties (such as the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party) which are ideologically right-wing. The party has had a degree of electoral success. In 1994,…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6039, -5.9487
- Address
- London |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=GDG7TdfTOoGq8AOb8ZzcBQ }}</ref>}}<br />Social democracy
- Established
- 1979
- Official site
- web.archive.org
Sources
- wikidata: Q1817613 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Progressive Unionist Party (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Progressive Unionist Party?
- Progressive Unionist Party is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6039°, -5.9487°.
- When was Progressive Unionist Party built?
- Progressive Unionist Party dates to 1979.