Injury time chance
Here, in Northern Ireland, they are a common sight as the biggest unionist, mainly Protestant, political party. The old-school DUP have stood as a block to change for many years.
In recent times, they have stopped abortion becoming legal here. They have not bent, and say they will not bend, to pressure to accept gay marriage, meaning NI is the only part of the UK where same-sex marriage is not legal.
Ian Paisley Jr, son of the party founder, has said he is repulsed by homosexuality.
The DUP also has a number of creationists as senior members and ex- leader Peter Robinson has backed a pastor who described Islam as “heathen” and “satanic”.
The DUP say they accept other cultures but do not wish to participate in their ways, so far blocking Sinn Fein’s Irish Language Act.
The DUP are traditionalists with brains and brawn and they have stood strong and unsmiling in the face of mockery and attack. They are not known to i nvolve themselves i n fuss, frivolity or fun.
In fact, when Arlene Foster joined from the more liberal Ulster Unionist Party, she was seen as a bit flash, a bit fancy and a bit female.
If the DUP do a deal with the Tories, there will be a price.
Sinn Fein will be working on how to halt any agreement but for now, the DUP is anticipating a celebration – and there is a definite whiff of mothballs in the air. THERESA May is not a team player, even though she is captain of the team. This led to own goals which the owners of her club, the British voters, could not tolerate. Instead of working with the other players Mrs May relied on three people not on the team at all – close aides Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy and her husband Philip. Mr Timothy and Ms Hill paid for their captain’s mistake with their jobs yesterday. At the time of writing, Mr May remains in place. It was Mr Timothy and Ms Hill who were behind the disastrous elderly care plan which involved old people who got ill losing their homes.
Mrs May dashed back from midfield to defend her goal with a cap on social care costs.
But without putting a figure on it she managed to let another ball into the back of the net.
This was just the worst mistake of an election campaign riddled with them. Yet Mrs May had the arrogance to believe she was playing in the top flight while Jeremy Corbyn fielded a Sunday league side.
This newspaper was not an enthusiastic fan of either team, but we accept that Mr Corbyn played a blinder while Mrs May was blind to the mess she was about to make of Britain.
With only nine days to go until the most important negotiation in a generation over Brexit we will be fielding a weak and wobbly team in a coalition of chaos with the DUP.
That is why Mrs May’s Blues now face relegation, and Mr Corbyn’s Reds have proved themselves ripe for promotion. Mr Corbyn grew in stature during this election campaign, while Mrs May diminished before our eyes.
And the big danger now is that she will lose an important vote in Parliament and we will be plunged into another election.
It is not just Brenda of Bristol who does not want to go through that again. It’s a prospect we all dread.
Yet either this year or next another election is inevitable.
It is also certain Mrs May will not be leading the Tories into it.
They are unforgiving of a leader who cannot score and they will dispense with her like an unwanted manager. It is likely