Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on Tweet like a politician … ideally, thinking about how it’ll be read and misread
   on 15 April 2013 at 7:34 am

   “Got on bike today. Got soaked. Changed. Got in car. Billy Bragg. Meeting. Got back in car. Elvis Costello. Thatcher’s legacy?”

   More honest Tweet would be
   “Got on bike, Got in car……Jumped on Political Bandwagon..”

   No fan of career politicians like Conall, obvious question to him is how did Thatcher affect you growing up in Spain?
   Had he had success in getting his career of the ground with the Irish Labour Party his Tweets would more than likely have been the opposite in tone and content. and aimed at a different audience

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2. Comment on A LAST PLEA FROM SIR GEORGE QUIGLEY FOR MORE NORTH-SOUTH COOPERATION
   on 27 March 2013 at 5:35 pm

   Where does cooperation end and competition begin.
   Does NI produce anything that Ireland doesn’t or can’t?

   Single Electricity Market, not really, NI businesses pay pretty much the highest price for electricity on Europe.

   Desiring to match Ireland’s CT rate is not cooperation, it’s competition.

   It’s likely that in the near future the £ will drop to match the € and/or cutbacks will make NI labour cheaper. It won’t be cooperation when NI can undercut Ireland it will be full-on competition.

   What makes it interesting is that GB is now Ireland’s BFF so I wonder would they hand over NI to keep everything sweet or would indeed would the Dail suddenly go all republican and push for unity to get rid of the competition.

   On things for sure this isn’t cooperation!

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3. Comment on Corporation Tax is not Northern Ireland’s elephant in the room…
   on 27 March 2013 at 1:26 pm

   The 23Billion is a bigger elephant in the room, tiny NI’s contribution is circa One Billion for defence and another Billion on interest.

   The UK is banjaxed financially, come 2015 it will be the most indebted state in western Europe owing £1.4 trillion.

   The people paying the piper (even after 80 billion in cuts) are German and French banks, lending HM Treasury about 120 billion this year.

   So I think Merkel will have the last say on NI’s budget in a few years time,

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4. Comment on “Already, two Sinn Fein special advisers have been submitted to vetting procedures put in place by Sammy Wilson, the finance minister, as a condition for paying them.”
   on 27 March 2013 at 10:20 am

   Speaking of jailbirds,
   I see Francie Malloy is being replaced by one,

   SF are going to have the TUV and DUP slugging this out for a while, where’s me popcorn

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5. Comment on “Already, two Sinn Fein special advisers have been submitted to vetting procedures put in place by Sammy Wilson, the finance minister, as a condition for paying them.”
   on 27 March 2013 at 10:17 am

   What in God’s name could a jailbird advise anyone on except the best way to eat porridge?

   Dunno, lets ask Nelson Mandela

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6. 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 10:14 am

   Good grief, first the cops stop belonging to unionism and now the army, can only hope unionists are keeping careful count to ensure that the same number of unionist sheep get fed as fenian ones or the DUP will have the foot soldiers out….again

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7. Comment on FM and dFM troubles: “a lot more work to be done before there’s true unity…”
   on 26 March 2013 at 9:56 pm

   iirc during the outbreak of Foot & Mouth in GB it was claimed NI livestock was Irish (and not British) so surely they should have called the Irish army

   Was the RIR involved, how many medals have they put in for?

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8. Comment on “Already, two Sinn Fein special advisers have been submitted to vetting procedures put in place by Sammy Wilson, the finance minister, as a condition for paying them.”
   on 26 March 2013 at 10:36 am

   “Fair play to Jim Allister.
   Is he the only person actually working at Stormont?”

   a question that will be much more widely asked in unionist circles than nationalist ones.

   So this will cost who votes?

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9. Comment on “Already, two Sinn Fein special advisers have been submitted to vetting procedures put in place by Sammy Wilson, the finance minister, as a condition for paying them.”
   on 26 March 2013 at 6:32 am

   The other point is, does SF care,

   there are only 19 SpAds in Stormont

   they have people with a ‘past’ in lots of elected and unelected positions.

   Is there anyone left with a ‘past’ to get on the political ladder. The IRA moved to Spectaculars in the 80′s so less vols went to prison. Kavanagh has a ‘past’ and was made a SpAd in 2012, he’s in his 50′s.

   All in all, it’s bolting the stable door…….

   on the flipside, Nelson Mandela would be barred from being a SpAd. Crazy huh!

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10. Comment on “Already, two Sinn Fein special advisers have been submitted to vetting procedures put in place by Sammy Wilson, the finance minister, as a condition for paying them.”
    on 25 March 2013 at 5:58 pm

    Very surprised to hear that SF submitted to Sammys vetting procedure.

    this only happened about 9 months ago, the ‘special’ vetting was IIRC made up by Sammy as one of several solo runs he’d gone on (trying to micro manage every depts budgets being the others) SF refused to submit as the ‘special’ vetting was not legal in any way.

    So even more surprised that they submitted because the TUV Bill was on the way, I would have thought it would have been the SF sting. That once the Bill was passed a SF SpAd would get a large amount of cash as backpay, very much putting the cat among the pigeons.

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