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1. Comment on TUV: the end?
   on 8 May 2010 at 7:31 am

   Cruel, cruel….

   LMAO

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2. Comment on TUV: the end?
   on 7 May 2010 at 11:46 pm

   Comrade Stalin,

   “Jim Allister tried to steamroller over people in the debates he featured in, and came across as an ignorant bully. I have always found find his gravelly, drawling voice to be a source of intense irritation and I’m sure he wasn’t the only one.”

   You’re not alone in that. The man is almost entirely lacking in charisma, if not to say charm. Every time I see and hear him I sense a terrible bitterness in his soul. Pretty it is not.

   He’s a dying breed and I trust this election has presented us with the death-throes of this sort of embarrassing and atavistic hardline Unionism.

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3. Comment on ‘Celebrity’ candidates shouldn’t give up the day job
   on 7 May 2010 at 8:03 pm

   Mark,

   “Seems being known doesn’t guarantee being rated by the electorate”

   Peter Robinson was well-known too. People knew him too damned well and that’s why they rejected him.

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4. Comment on We’re here!
   on 22 April 2010 at 12:25 pm

   See that? I couldn’t see the “and” in that last line and had to guess. Wrongly it seems….

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5. Comment on We’re here!
   on 22 April 2010 at 12:18 pm

   See that? I couldn’t see the “and” in that last line and had to guess.

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6. Comment on We’re here!
   on 22 April 2010 at 12:18 pm

   The comment box is curtailed for me.

   This means that any characters I type beyond the first 63 disappear into the right margin.

   I’m using Firefox and my screen res is 1680×1050. Does that make the difference?

   The only way I can comment effectively is to write in a word-processor an d copy/paste.

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7. Comment on Derry Essays 1: Precarious future of the living Protestant heritage
   on 22 April 2010 at 9:11 am

   I do wish certain Nationalist commenters here would lose the broad brush. Unionists are not a homogeneous glob. Some of us are actually pretty fair-minded.

   But you can identify the bigoted Unionist pretty quickly. He’ll be the one to use Londonderry come hell or high water, sometimes twice in the one sentence. Others, like me, will use it once then switch to Derry for all subsequent instances.

   If nothing else, that wards off Repetitive Strain Injury.

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8. Comment on Unionist Unity is not a Sectarian proposition…
   on 19 April 2010 at 11:37 pm

   As a matter of interest, how do we know that those 70 attacks on Orange halls were sectarian?

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9. Comment on “Losing seats was never part of the inevitability narrative…”
   on 14 April 2010 at 5:26 am

   John EB,

   Thanks for the update on the canvassers. I’m in South Down and so far only the SDLP have been darkening my doorstep.

   So no sign yet of DUP activity round your way? I’m really curious as to what sort of reception Robbo will get. A mate of mine in Castlereagh is looking forward to whatever spiel the dupers have in store for him. It’s going to be an uphill battle, that’s for sure.

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10. Comment on “Losing seats was never part of the inevitability narrative…”
    on 14 April 2010 at 4:14 am

    John EB,

    Has Peter Robinson been canvassing yet in your neck o’ the woods? And how did he look?

    How do you fancy his chances? I’m wondering whether David Vance will make a dent.

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