In North Belfast forget politics just remember you’re a Catholic…

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I guess this is Sinn Fein calling a spade a spade, but in the party’s vision of an Ireland of Equals it seems that Protestants need not  apply…

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It’s not that it’s wrong. The toxic nature of north Belfast means that Catholics and Protestants do generally split this way. And FPTP offers an opportunity just to further squeeze SDLP hold outs and a small but growing number of Catholic Alliance voters in North Belfast.

But from the only party to have been found guilty of religious discrimination at Stormont it is also blatantly sectarian.

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