[Can't these scumbags just get a job like normal people?-ed]

The government has announced that it will give more than £1m to a project aimed at moving the UDA away from violence and crime.

The Ulster Political Research Group has spent the past six months drawing up a business plan to persuade the government to fund a 3-year project.

It said this could help transform the UDA into a non-paramilitary group. The strategy appears to have worked.

The funding was announced by Social Development Minister David Hanson.

“I expect that this additional support will deliver a quickening in pace of the work of the UPRG in their conflict transformation work that the latest IMC report identified was required,” he said.

The £1.2m will be used in six areas where the UDA has a strong presence, and to employ up to a dozen staff.

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