Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on Team Martin McAuley for North Belfast…
   on 19 April 2010 at 5:43 pm

   Our very own Pitt the [even] Younger. Good luck to him. He should stand in every constituency.

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2. Comment on Some thoughts on North Antrim
   on 17 April 2010 at 6:46 am

   Letter from North Antrim

   We’ve waited many years for the Big Man to retire. We’ve had to put up with his sectarian tribal taig baiting for more years than any of us care to remember, although he was always quick to remind us that many “Roman” Catholics came to him for help and he was only too willing to help “them” (I wonder why?). Then along came his heir. He “knew of” a major property developer, he and his father took advantage of the very cheap rents(!) in Ballymena and in general ruled their feifdom like parternalistic landowners. What did they deliver? IPS was good on agriculture (always seen at ploughing matches and the annual bull-fest at the King’s Hall) but he was better than his heir at the old personality bit which matters a lot in the rural areas. Did our world stop turning because he didn’t represent a significant minority?

   No, it didn’t, and regardless of whether the representative for the Developers Unity Party or the Trust Us Very party win, it won’t matter a jot. It will just be the same old same old in North Antrim. The world will keep turning and we’ll survive, albeit without representation for the significant minority. Thank the deity for equality laws.

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3. Comment on An English Debate
   on 16 April 2010 at 3:47 pm

   I thought they all came across as phoney and insincere. More charisma and inspiration in a plume of volcanic ash.

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4. Comment on Election literature online
   on 15 April 2010 at 5:25 pm

   Surely this is nothing more than a case of pot meet kettle?

   IPJ will lose votes in North Antrim because he’s not his father and does not hold the same appeal as IPS did. Whether he’ll lose enough to have to give up his holiday home on the north coast, we can only hope.

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5. Comment on I have no idea what to do with my ballot
   on 14 April 2010 at 3:18 pm

   Drumlin, haven’t seen anything about her so far – not even a poster. I assumed it was the usual suspects standing.

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6. Comment on Sinn Fein offer for Nationalist Pact spurned
   on 14 April 2010 at 2:56 pm

   Why didn’t SF offer to stand down in FST if the SDLP stood down in S Belfast, I wonder?

   Good on Margaret for standing up to them – they know that if the SDLP agreed to the pact they would most likely lose S Belfast if up against a united unionist candidate.

   Are any ‘soft’ unionists likely throw the SDLP a vote in protest at the unionist pacts? There must be some who are disgusted at the blatant sectarianism and tribalism, surely.

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7. Comment on I have no idea what to do with my ballot
   on 14 April 2010 at 2:20 pm

   Who should a liberal feminist with no particular interest in nationalism/unionism living in North Antrim vote for? Anyone?

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8. Comment on “The package aims to deliver £225m in total…”
   on 13 April 2010 at 6:48 pm

   Can someone tell me why, as a taxpayer, I have to pay for this?

   I lost money on an investment last year – will the Exec repay me?

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9. Comment on BBC goes on the attack against Robinson tonight…
   on 31 March 2010 at 8:39 pm

   “but calling people ‘an abomination’ due to what they get up to behind closed doors (especially when you’re getting a bit of extra marital sex yourself) is also disgusting to some of us.”

   Agree absolutely but that doesn’t make Mr Hall’s misogyny any more palatable to me.

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10. Comment on BBC goes on the attack against Robinson tonight…
    on 31 March 2010 at 8:21 pm

    Branding Iris a “tart” smacks of the misogyny of the DUP itself. Disgusting term.

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