Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on SDLP launch manifesto … flags, symbols, and upping the ante on unification
   on 22 April 2011 at 12:37 am

   [i]Why does Translink have a monopoly on much of the transport system here? The rest of the UK has competition, which drives down prices and increases service provision.[/i]

   Here in East Anglia Stagecoach have a private monopoly so there is absolutely no competition, the service is terrible and the fares have shot up massively ahead of inflation. There can’t really be competition in transport, either you get the bus or you don’t; they’re not gonna start racing each other on the same routes or something.

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2. Comment on Slugger Awards: Up and Coming Politician
   on 11 January 2011 at 2:13 am

   Dawn is hardly ‘up and coming’, she’s been around long enough. I’d go with Conall as one of the few co-opted politicians anyone has actually heard of apart from Jonathan Bell whom I have only heard of because he got ejected from the chamber.

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3. Comment on Slugger Awards: Nominations are now open…
   on 22 December 2010 at 3:31 pm

   Constructive opposition: John Dallat for the Public Accounts Committee work into NI Water.

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4. Comment on Tom Elliott (updated with video of press conference)
   on 24 September 2010 at 2:42 am

   “I think it’s safe to say that there is a viciously sectarian streak running through certain people in that party.”

   Well, I have heard a certain recently appointed Alliance councillor making horribly snobbish and derogatory remarks against working-class people living in the Markets. Does that mean Alliance have a viciously bourgeois streak running through certain people in that party?

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5. Comment on Was Friedman right? The debate on American post-1980 reforms
   on 27 May 2010 at 12:38 pm

   Also, I’m not sure Argentina ever had an economic liberal government

   What would you call Carlos Menem, then?

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6. Comment on Strange bedfellows in Labour leadership bid
   on 27 May 2010 at 9:15 am

   Frank Field published a letter explaining his reasons (http://www.frankfield.co.uk/files/download.php?m=documents&f=100526164154-260510JohnMcDonnell.pdf). He wants to encourage an open debate and says he won’t actually vote for McDonnell. Fair enough, I suppose.

   Despite his views on the IRA, I hope he gets on the ballot paper. It would be a change from the New Labour candidates and would hopefully bring out the differences as people would feel pressure to shift to the left a bit.

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7. Comment on Irish News reveals O’Loan is far from isolated on unity call
   on 25 May 2010 at 8:51 pm

   “and enjoys sizeable support for his comments across the SDLP.”

   Amongst a few people in North Antrim maybe but anyone I have spoken to was horrified at his remarks and the unilateral way in which they were released.

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8. Comment on DUP/Sinn Fein’s 37 day plan for public protest..
   on 18 May 2010 at 6:23 pm

   Yes, that is what Mark Thomas and other activists did with the restrictions imposed on public assembly in London under the terms of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

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9. Comment on You can have your own avatar on Slugger…
   on 16 May 2010 at 7:46 pm

   Actually, scrap that. It works now.

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10. Comment on You can have your own avatar on Slugger…
    on 16 May 2010 at 7:46 pm

    Although it doesn’t seem to be working for me

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