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Ulsters Last Stand?: Can Unionism Move Beyond Insurance Policy Politics?
How has Ulster unionism arrived at where it is today – fractured and uncertain, yet dominated electorally by the DUP, a party that tells us it offers unionists sure footing in uncertain times? In his latest book, Ulster’s Last Stand? Reconstructing Unionism after the Peace Process (Irish Academic Press, 2010), Prof. James McAuley from the [...] read our review »
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Books: Listening to Van Morrison…
Great little review of Listening to Van Morrison by Griel Marcus… It’s a short book, not a biography or a career survey, but an attempt to follow those moments in Morrison’s music, as he’s made it from his first records with Them, from Belfast in 1965 to the present day, when something happens that breaks [...] read our review »
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Of the Old North and other Vanished Kingdoms..
I’m currently trawling through Norman Davies’s fabulous new tome – “Vanished Kingdoms” – Five stars in the (London) Telegraph’s review from Ben Wilson: All the nations that have ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand,” writes Norman Davies. “The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human [...] read our review »
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Comment on South Belfast Orange and Black call for agreement
on 12 April 2010 at 4:42 am
I have it on verey good authority that there will not be a Unionist Unity candidate in South Belfast unless the DUP pull S pratt and let Bradshaw run as a C&U.
The DUP are pulling every dirty trick they know, and they are still failing.
Peter Robinson should NOW step aside and give Ulster’s Unionist party the chance to regain the ground he has lost.
I would rather vote for a Tory than vote for my own party under the leadership of Robinson. This is the biggest mistake that Dr. Paisley ever made.
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Comment on What do you think of the campaign so far?
on 11 April 2010 at 9:30 pm
His Posters only go as far as Agnes Street- that is North Belfast
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Comment on What do you think of the campaign so far?
on 11 April 2010 at 3:18 am
one half of upper Shankill is North Belfast – always has been
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Comment on What do you think of the campaign so far?
on 11 April 2010 at 2:53 am
No UCUNF posters in North or West Belfast, Dodds seems to own most lamp posts in most of North Belfast but no DUP in West Belfast.
Gerry is everywhere in West Belfast (must have spent a fortune on posters)
No sign of anyone else on the lamp posts
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Comment on West Belfast, social depravation and that fouled-up-in-the-works poverty strategy…
on 8 April 2010 at 12:54 am
Below are the Contents of a letter put through a friends door in West Belfast last night. (this friend is a life long DUP voter).
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2010 is your chance to Vote for Change
Dear XXXXX
Are you sick of politicians, their double (and often triple) jobbing? Their love of money and their lack of work?
Are you sick of the constant fighting between our politicians? The childish bickering about one or two issues while they completely ignore the important issues like Employment, Education, Crime and Debt?
West Belfast has the second highest rate of unemployment in Northern Ireland, more than double the unemployment of East Belfast. Since 2005 Unemployment in West Belfast has increased by over 50% – placing more and more families in the ‘benefits trap’.
I decided just over a year ago that I have had enough of sitting and complaining about our politicians, I decided that if we want to change things for the better then ordinary people have got to get involved.
For the last five years I have worked with the Simon Community, in this time I have seen just how badly some of us have been let down by our politicians, both in Stormont and at Westminster.
I have been shocked, time and time again, at how easily our young people, families and our elderly are being ignored into poverty and despair.
That is why I have decided to stand as your Conservatives and Unionists candidate for West Belfast, the time for ‘Orange versus Green’ politics is over, we are all suffering the effects of a Dysfunctional Executive in Stormont and an incompetent Government in Westminster, we need change.
If I am elected as your MP I promise you that I will work for every citizen, I will work to make sure that you get the representation you deserve.
This is not an empty promise, like you, I have grown more and more disgusted by the inability of those we have voted into power to provide us with even the most simple leadership – I want change.
This election you will, for the first time, have a chance to select the party who will be in charge at Westminster, a party who will work to improve the opportunities of those stuck in the benefits trap, a party who want to see Northern Ireland get the support and representation it deserves.
For the last 13 years the Labour government has raised taxes and borrowed money like there is no tomorrow – next year the interest we pay on our national debt will be more than we will spend on education – this must stop!
I am asking you, for the good of your family and your community, to vote for change. If you do I am promising you that I will be a full time representative, doing a full time job – I will not get involved in the childish name calling and lie telling – I promise to be the public representative you deserve.
Please do not stay at home on election day, if we want change, if we want better for our children and grandchildren, then ordinary people like you and me need to make a stand.
If you would like to contact me to discuss your concerns or issues, or would like to know more about my Vote for Change campaign in West Belfast, please contact me.
But most importantly, on election day please VOTE FOR CHANGE.
Thank you for your time
This was addressed to my friend (and two other copies were delivered to his wife and son) and was delivered by hand in an area where DUP (or UUP for that matter) have not been seen for a while.
Someone seems to be doing their homework – I know it impressed my friend and his wife.
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Comment on Could it be a UFO?
on 4 April 2010 at 5:12 pm
Joe 12
UMOITS – is this a new UUP electoral pact?
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Comment on They’re all out to get me!
on 3 April 2010 at 1:35 pm
Most Oppressed Prat Eever?
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Comment on Robinson expected to speak to the BBC this evening…
on 3 April 2010 at 1:28 am
Tonight shows why I left the DUP – and why I will never vote for them as long as him and his ilk lead the party that worked for unionist people.
I wish I could vote for the UUP, but I can’t. Nor can I vote for ‘yesterdays man’ and his TUV.
How many unionists will ignore the election because unionism no longer exists in our parties?
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Comment on BBC goes on the attack against Robinson tonight…
on 31 March 2010 at 4:14 am
Kelvin
I get the feeling you are not being straight.
Pity you need to ask questions when you have already decided on the answer.
If you were there 77-82 you would know just how big a brain Robinson is.
But then those with rose tinted glasses don’t like to be reminded of bad times.
Robinson has no right to lead the DUP, he has created a party on the verge of collapse (as much from the inside as from without).
I lost any respect I ever had for him last December.
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Comment on Super Tuesday – NAMA & Live Links
on 31 March 2010 at 4:01 am
Is there any truth that Anglo Irish are into Odyssey for almost £60 million?
Will it enter into NAMA?
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