"I think, Brendy, that you malign his motives for standing as an Ulster Unionist (forget precisely which UU party): he was thrown out of the Tory party for suggesting that folks should vote Labour because Labour then was strongly anti-European-integrationist (early 70s, I think). He was invited to stand as an UU because he strongly supported their Unionist principles."

So what, all of a sudden, makes you the big expert on what I think