Scotland-Northern Ireland Unionist Party?

between 1912 and 1965 there was a "Unionist Party" in Scotland working very closely with the Conservative Party (it merged with the Tories in '65) around the same time the Ulster Unionist more or less controlled Northern Ireland, I was thinking is there any way these Parties might have merged, maybe pushed for (gotten?) a Scottish Parliament in the inter-war years?
 
I don't see the motive. What does either organisation gain from a merger? The two parties were rather different in form anyway - the Scottish Unionists were much more outlooking (ie imperialist) and rather less sectarian. TBH the differences in policy between the Scottish Unionists and Conservative Party were practically non-existent - it would be accurate to see the Scottish Unionists as the autonomous Scottish branch of the UK Tories, and the Ulster Unionists merely as an affiliated organisation.
 
Actually the Scottish Unionists were affiliated with the Orange Order and benefitted from a significant Orange Vote in working class areas, the link with the OO was only broken over the Anglo-Irish agreement. You are correct that they weren't as parochial as their Ulster counterparts and were much more like natural Tories in their policies.

The Old Ulster Unionist Party was a very broad church of people who just supported the Union but had little common shared ideology apart from that. As Unionism fragmented in the early 1970's much of the working class vote went to the DUP which today is quite left wing in outlook when you examine their policies. The DUP is also more Ulster Nationalist than Unionist, which means basically they reject deeper integration of NI deeper into the UK but still want the English to fund everything, which is why they get on so well with Sinn Fein as apart from the Border Question and related issues they have an awful lot in common.
 
Actually the Scottish Unionists were affiliated with the Orange Order and benefitted from a significant Orange Vote in working class areas, the link with the OO was only broken over the Anglo-Irish agreement. You are correct that they weren't as parochial as their Ulster counterparts and were much more like natural Tories in their policies.
Whilst it is correct to say that the Scottish Unionist Party benefitted from the orange vote, it is incorrect to say they were directly affiliated. This was never the case. If you can prove me wrong, I will happily concede, but would be surprised if you could.
 
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