UDA backing Conservatives Jim Nicholson?
Carried as their lead story, the Sunday World the report that UDA Boss, John Bunting, has been helping out in the Ulster Conservatives and Unionist Euro election campaign.
The North Belfast Brigadier was reported to have been seen putting up posters of Jim Nicholson. Nicholson refused to comment directly, referring the papers editor Jim McDowell to the UUP Press office where a spokesperson said that it cannot be “interpreted as the UDA backing the UUP or the UUP backing the UDA.”
North Belfast MLA and SDLP European hopeful, Alban Maginness, said that he was “horrified” adding that he was “utterly shocked that a constitutional party like the Ulster Unionist Party would use or allow itself to be construed to be used by a paramilitary organisation.”
new blue thats not what i asked, are you saying John Bunting did not put up posters. Yes or NO
Sever:
It’s a legitimate question to ask the UDA. However the question was “What possible justification does the UUP have for this?”. To which the correct answer is that they don’t have to give any justification. If Ian Brady starts sending you love letters then you don’t have to justify it to me.
If I was a public figure (like JN), then yes, people would be entirely entitled to know why Ian Brady was sending letters to me, and I would be expected to distance myself from it.
Is it unreasonable to expect a democrat to distance himself from paramilitaries who appear to be showing their support ?
By the way, if Jim were foolish enough to go on television and try to use the excuse you just suggested, he would lose the election.
Tigers Bay is a UDA controlled area.
Tigers Bay Concerned Residents Association is a UDA controlled grouping.
The UPRG are a UDA controlled grouping.
Members of the UDA rarely vote so this could be seen as a thinly veiled attempt at encouraging voting.
No one cares about the UUP or whatever silly name they want to call themselves and in using Mr Bunting they are aligning themselves to someone who is almost as unpopular as the Egyptian brothers. What members of the UDA call Mr Bunting is unprintable but rhymes with spout and gout.
Hope that helps.
New Blue
2 points:
“No UDA ‘Commander’ or ‘Brigadier’ put up posters for Jim Nicholson.”
That presumably leaves open the possibility that John Bunting carried the ladder, or carried the posters, but didn’t actually climb the ladder. Does he have vertigo?
“According to the Minister / Pastor the apology was for wrongly putting their name into the Sunday World article.”
Are we to take it from this then that the article in itself is correct, the only problem being that the pastor was readily identifiable (he wasn’t named)?
Andrew Charles,
Still no update?
So, in summary, what you’ve done here is blogged on an independent site on a topic so toxic that your party’s own website (presumably for very sound legal reasons) has studiously ignored.
No links, no corroborating evidence, no updates.
But that doesn’t matter because despite the toxicity of the subject, if, for whatever reason, lawyers get involved it’s not going to be the orange little arse of the DUP which is going to be smacked but, as I said at the start, the owner of an independent site.
Do you not think you and your fellow DUP apparachniks owe Mick an apology on this?
oneil. this was a newspaper report – you want to gurn to to the Sunday World – but theres no reason to doubt what was printed
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I am aware it was a newspaper report but get someone to explain what this sentence from my last comment means:
“No links, no corroborating evidence, no updates.”
If I was a public figure (like JN), then yes, people would be entirely entitled to know why Ian Brady was sending letters to me, and I would be expected to distance myself from it.
CS. The UUP has issued a press release categorically refuting the allegations. I’d say that is putting some distance between it and the ‘brigadier’.
Still no response fro New Blue?
Could this be because someone is still trying to concoct another verbal sidestep?
http://www.sundayworld.com/
Nothing here about this ‘story’. Maybe someone could ring 1 of the many ‘Psychics Helplines’ on offer to get answers. Or check out Paris Hiltons website. Is this actually a newspaper?
North Belfast Watcher
Very cheeky of you sir.
You are, I am sure, aware that I responded to your comments on another thread.
This matter has been proven beyond reasonable doubt to be nothing more than the construct of over active, DUPlicious individuals.
Obviously, that was DUPlicitous
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