Even the ultra-hardline Democratic Unionists, led by the Reverend Ian Paisley, are quietly shifting.
Mr Trimble's own dissidents and Mr Paisley's Democratic Unionists had always predicted that Mr Trimble would be conned.
Most of the others were scooped up by Ian Paisley's anti-agreement Democratic Unionists.
The Democratic Unionists took their two seats when the administration was first appointed but refused to attend its meetings.
Altogether 133 Tories opposed the bill, along with 15 Labour MPs, four Lib Dems, eight Democratic Unionists and an independent.
The Democratic Unionists are likely to vote with the Tories, though not without demanding goodies for Northern Ireland in return.
That was before the Good Friday Agreement and in a poll held when its main rivals, the Democratic Unionists, did not stand.
Peter Robinson, the scandal-hit first minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionists, lost his East Belfast seat to the nonsectarian Alliance Party.
Sinn Fein had hoped that its deal to share power with Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists in the restored Northern Ireland executive last month would improve its prospects.
Talks on policing have been going on for months, and the British government, like Sinn Fein, has grown increasingly impatient over the Democratic Unionists' failure to close the deal.
In a statement, the party's disciplinary committee said Mr Weir had been found guilty of six charges, including voting with the anti-agreement Democratic Unionists, against his own party on 10 occasions.
These groups hope to derail a peace deal that has seen Sinn Fein (long the political arm of the IRA) sharing power with the Democratic Unionists at the province's parliament at Stormont.
MPs debated the issue of Europe in the House of Commons and backed a motion by the Democratic Unionists commending Mr Cameron's use of the veto as a "vital means" of protecting the UK's interests by 278 votes to 200.
His scheduled encounters with senior figures from the Ulster Unionists, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Fein have been described as "private courtesy meetings".
The British and Irish governments have been keeping up phone contacts this week after separate talks with Sinn Fein, the Ulster Unionists and the Social Democratic and Labour Party failed to find any mechanism to move the process on.
Senator Andrew Johnson was a Tennessee Democrat who had refused to join his Southern Democratic confederates and stayed with the northern Unionists.
But it did, of course, delight the obstreperous end of the Social Democratic Party and was acclaimed by trade-unionists, who hope that some 60, 000 Holzmann-connected jobs will be saved.
Once, primaries were essentially family quarrels, as trade unionists jostled with lifestyle liberals for the Democratic nomination and economic conservatives jostled with religious zealots for the Republican.
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