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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jan 30, 2013 12:41:51 GMT
He's a fucking windowlicker.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 30, 2013 15:06:00 GMT
Willie FRAZER [Independent] Isn't he the guy behind the loyalist flag riots protests in Belfast? If so, it will be interesting to see how many, or how few, votes he gets at the ballot box. This is a constituency (well some of one) that used to elect William McCrea so there may be some receptive ears there. |
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Post by Richard Allen on Jan 31, 2013 0:47:25 GMT
Isn't he the guy behind the loyalist flag riots protests in Belfast? If so, it will be interesting to see how many, or how few, votes he gets at the ballot box. This is a constituency (well some of one) that used to elect William McCrea so there may be some receptive ears there. It was of course a very different seat that used to elect McCrea. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jan 31, 2013 0:49:03 GMT
And many of the people who voted in Mid Ulster in 1992 are dead now.
They were also dead in 1992, mind you.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 31, 2013 2:19:43 GMT
This is a constituency (well some of one) that used to elect William McCrea so there may be some receptive ears there. It was of course a very different seat that used to elect McCrea. Yes and No - it was this very seat on these boundaries that twice sent him to the Assembly (& once to the Forum), and has sent his son twice since. Yes it was the old seat that last sent him to Westminster in 1992 but IIRC he would have got there even on the notionals. Sure some things have changed in the last 21 years but not everything and not everyone. |
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Post by Andrew_S on Feb 11, 2013 16:32:11 GMT
Mid Ulster by-election will take place on 7th March.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2013 20:02:11 GMT
Mid Ulster by-election will take place on 7th March. Finally! And I hope that the BBC News Channel are already making proper preparations for the coverage of the Count. Their recent record is not good. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2013 22:08:51 GMT
Mid Ulster by-election will take place on 7th March. Finally! And I hope that the BBC News Channel are already making proper preparations for the coverage of the Count. Their recent record is not good. For a foregone conclusion in Northern Ireland? They'd struggle to include it in an internal email never mind broadcast news |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Feb 14, 2013 21:57:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2013 22:13:33 GMT
I'm assuming "Independent" rather than an actual 'joint ticket' ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2013 23:16:57 GMT
Does this mean the end of the UUP then ? and if so how would that affect other voting patterns as the nationalist side would be split ? |
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Post by Sibboleth on Feb 14, 2013 23:26:24 GMT
This kind of despicable sectarian dickwaving was routine before Good Friday in the Year of Our Lord 1998, of course.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Feb 14, 2013 23:32:19 GMT
And it still applies in Fermanagh & Tyrone. I don't think this need signify anything more than a desire to embarrass Francie Molloy.
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Post by The Bishop on Feb 14, 2013 23:40:58 GMT
Does this mean the end of the UUP then? In a word, no - though they may be in terminal decline anyway...... |
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Post by Sibboleth on Feb 14, 2013 23:43:10 GMT
May??!?!!!
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Post by The Bishop on Feb 14, 2013 23:47:21 GMT
I'm nice like that  The speed and scale of their demise has been pretty astonishing by any standards, tbh. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2013 23:52:00 GMT
"Last Updated: Thursday, 22 November 2007, 14:18 GMT
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Sinn Fein MLA denies 'informing'
Mr Simpson (left) made the allegations against Mr Molloy (right)
The Northern Ireland Assembly's deputy speaker has said a claim that he has been a police informer is "rubbish".
The DUP's David Simpson claimed Sinn Fein's Francie Molloy had been working as an informer for almost 30 years.
The Upper Bann MP used parliamentary privilege to make the allegation in the House of Commons.
He claimed Mr Molloy was recruited by police in 1979 after being caught in a compromising position and provided information which damaged the IRA.
The Upper Bann MP also claimed in the Commons that Mr Molloy had been involved in the murder of Frederick Lutton. The former RUC Reservist, who was shot dead in Tyrone in May 1979, was Mr Simpson's cousin.
In the Commons on Wednesday, Mr Simpson said: "Molloy passed on information to the police in Northern Ireland. This helped them to break open the IRA's notorious East Tyrone Brigade."
(BBC News)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2013 0:06:40 GMT
What do you do if you wanted something raised in parliament if you have a SF MP, do you just go next door to somebody less mad (albeit marginally in the case of DUP)
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Feb 15, 2013 0:15:47 GMT
I hadn't realised that was the full context of Simpson's accusation. So he was both accusing him of murder and trying to get his kneecaps shot out? I think that'd definitely get him taken off the Christmas card list.
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Post by timrollpickering on Feb 15, 2013 1:00:07 GMT
This kind of despicable sectarian dickwaving was routine before Good Friday in the Year of Our Lord 1998, of course. And even afterwards - in 2001 the UUP didn't run a candidate here, the only seat they sat out that election. In reaction to this, John McCallister, MLA for South Down and a former UUP deputy leader, has resigned from the party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21468573 |
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