But he ruled out ejecting the UUP from the five-party coalition at Stormont, which is dominated by the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Féin.
I'm nearing 50 which, according to new coalition rules, is the age at which Britons will be taken outside and shot to keep down unemployment.
He also criticised the speed at which the coalition was attempting change, saying the government was trying to do "too many things".
The measure: Osborne is continuing the policy started by the Liberal Democrats under the coalition to raise the threshold at which people start paying income tax.
Think of his disastrous address to a well-behaved trade union rally against the coalition government's spending cuts, at which he hosed down the crowd in Hyde Park with flattery, telling them they walked in the footsteps of the civil rights movement in America, at exactly the same moment as more militant activists began attacking shops in the nearby West End, overshadowing his speech completely.
This second sodomy charge followed a stellar performance by Anwar's three-party opposition coalition in the 2008 general elections, at which the opposition made huge gains against the Barisan Nasional – and was overturned in 2012 by Malaysia's high court.
Thompson was photographed carrying an internal email from Helen Boaden, the BBC News director, saying that she had had lunch with Andy Coulson, the coalition government's director of communications, at which he had expressed concern "that we give context to our Spending Review Season".
In this case, news of the exploit was reported ahead of the industry coalition's intended public disclosure date at which point Intel immediately engaged the US government and others".
Attacks directed at coalition forces, which had begun to rise in 2005, became even more violent and sophisticated.
He added that the coalition's decision to raise the point at which people start paying income tax to £10,000 a year would also help many households.
