evidence: The TUV merging with the DUP is also off the table. People seem to forget that, although very similar in many ways, the TUV differs from the DUP on one very fundamental issue – power sharing. [...] Therefore, no merger between the DUP and TUV is likely. If such a merger were even ideologically possible at all. [...] Perhaps the best course of action would be for all those parties to contest elections at different levels? Everyone contesting council elections, just the DUP and UUP contesting Assembly elections and the DUP alone contesting Westminster elections?