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Post by therealriga on Jul 5, 2024 20:03:30 GMT
Allister missed out in East Antrim as a DUP candidate in 1983 by 367 votes. 41 years has to be one of the longest gaps between a near miss in trying to get elected to Westminster and finally managing it?
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Post by batman on Jul 5, 2024 20:08:00 GMT
Paisley will benefit from the Farage endorsement. Nope, it will make no difference; as Ian Paisley Jr was always holding this, although with the lowest vote share for the DUP. Jim Allister got 16.8% in 2010, he may well surpass that. Noones coming through the middle. these two posts aged well |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jul 5, 2024 20:48:11 GMT
The TUV's issue has always been that Allister does not play well with others. Potential danger of having to let somebody else build a profile for the Stormont seat?
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jul 5, 2024 21:44:06 GMT
Nope, it will make no difference; as Ian Paisley Jr was always holding this, although with the lowest vote share for the DUP. Jim Allister got 16.8% in 2010, he may well surpass that. Noones coming through the middle. these two posts aged well Well, it has been a funny old election cycle. |
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Post by irish observer on Jul 6, 2024 15:28:07 GMT
Nope, it will make no difference; as Ian Paisley Jr was always holding this, although with the lowest vote share for the DUP. Jim Allister got 16.8% in 2010, he may well surpass that. Noones coming through the middle. these two posts aged well Like a good claret, which Young Ian is probably drinking since the shock of the Count Centre. |
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Post by irish observer on Jul 6, 2024 15:29:28 GMT
Irony for Allister is that he was a Big Fish in Stormont as basically the main opposition guy, now he's a Little Fish in Westminster. Harder to hold the seat now.
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jul 10, 2024 3:59:00 GMT
The TUV's issue has always been that Allister does not play well with others. Potential danger of having to let somebody else build a profile for the Stormont seat? |
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