Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on Theresa Villiers: “I’m extremely pleased that we were able to answer the Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill’s request for a military helicopter…”
   on 27 March 2013 at 1:18 am

   “It would have been wrong to turn away anyone in a position to help, given the dire circumstances that many of the province’s farmers found themselves in. Fair play to Sinn Fein for their maturity.”

   That’s the thing though, normally you would not have to praise a political party in doing this, its a no-brainer.

   Glad to see that SF recognises some uses to the British Military though, whether it is bomb difusion or livestock feeding.

   I don’t think Pete was trying any political pointscoring, just pointing out the irony in it all.

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2. Comment on Nesbitt: “change happens and if you don’t roll with it then you’ll be left behind”
   on 21 February 2013 at 9:59 am

   Red Lion,

   the party you describe would have an awful hard time differing itself from Alliance, and they would have the edge over a liberal unionist party.

   You may say that Alliance is not unionist – fair enough. But if the only difference is that a LUP is unionist and Alliance is not you automatically push the constituional question to the top when having to explain why you are different to Alliance. The opposite of what is needed.

   A political party has to be different, and if not it has to do stuff better than the other similar parties. That is why the UUP is failing.

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3. Comment on Nesbitt: “change happens and if you don’t roll with it then you’ll be left behind”
   on 20 February 2013 at 10:44 pm

   Red Lion, it sounds like you just want another big tent unionist party full of socialists, liberals and conservatives that are just not as nasty as UUP/DUP. How will this achieve normal politics?

   Do we really need a big tent party that no-one is quite sure what it stands for… other than the union?

   Love them or hate them, everyone knows what the Conservatives stands for at least.

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4. Comment on Nesbitt: “change happens and if you don’t roll with it then you’ll be left behind”
   on 20 February 2013 at 1:18 pm

   “What’s the Tory active (door-stepping) membership in NI?”

   Couldn’t tell you Otto.

   Interestingly your idea that NI Cons should have a friendly link with FG is not a bad one.

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5. Comment on Nesbitt: “change happens and if you don’t roll with it then you’ll be left behind”
   on 20 February 2013 at 11:40 am

   “hope Basil McCrea and John McCallister don’t join the Tories, apparently they are being courted if you go by the supposed headline in tomorrows Belfast Telegraph”

   Its not and easy thing to set up a party Red Lion, you need manpower, time and money – 3 things that a new unionist party would not have. Additionally creation of new parties from the top down generally do not work or have very limited sucess – think Robert McCartney of UKUP or Respect in Britain. Its the worker drones that are important in a party.

   Basil & John say nothing different from what NI Conservatives say, NI Cons are pro-union, non-sectarian, already have a diverse membership, they have money and they have party infrastructure in place. Seems logical to me.

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6. Comment on SDLP chooses Patsy McGlone to contest Mid Ulster…
   on 26 January 2013 at 2:58 am

   There will be a joint unionist candiate. I have heard.

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7. Comment on Sinn Fein’s ‘creative accountancy’ over funding the gap for a United Ireland
   on 25 January 2013 at 11:36 am

   Sinn Fein muddling economic figures? Surely not!

   People do not like uncertainity, that is why an United Ireland will always be an uphill struggle.

   The SNP is finding that out the hard way.

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8. Comment on Does Robinson’s move to the right on #flegs open a viable space on the Unionist ‘left’?
   on 25 January 2013 at 12:02 am

   Continuting on from my “99% tof political parties that ever existed are now extinct remark”, I hope you guys realised we are witnessing history.

   We are watching the oldest political party in Ireland dying a slow, painful death. Fading into irrevelancy. Nothing lasts forever.

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9. Comment on Does Robinson’s move to the right on #flegs open a viable space on the Unionist ‘left’?
   on 24 January 2013 at 11:54 pm

   I don’t think people here realise how much it costs to actually start a political party from scratch that can compete.

   99% of political parties that have ever been created are now extinct. There is a reason for this.

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10. Comment on Villiers: “It is crucial that political leaders here concentrate on working together on pressing economic and social issues…”
    on 23 January 2013 at 4:01 pm

    If the DUP changes its stance to an United Ireland, they hell yeah a border poll would be called.

    There is no point of calling a border poll if the status quo is certain to win, waste of time, money and resources that can be better wasted on stuff that actually matters at this point and time.

    A Border poll should not be used as a propaganda tool for either SF or the DUP.

    Sinn Fein says “let’s have a debate.” Geee, what’s stopping them? Free country as far as I’m concerned to debate to their heart’s desire.

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