ae07 – Slugger O'Toole

Looking back at the DUP’s 2007 Manifesto

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on March 29, 2011, 9:00 am

| Readers 149

Stormont’s political structures don’t lend themselves to parties making too many promises in their election manifestos. And so reading through the DUP’s 2007 Assembly manifesto, could have been titled Playing it Safe rather than Getting it Right. This morning the DUP will launch their latest campaign manifesto in the run up to May’s Assembly elections, but I wanted to take a look back to see how their performance matched their promises in 2007. Unionism needs a strong DUP. The safeguards …

SDLP criticises Sinn Fein of ‘over canvassing’…

Mick Fealty on March 16, 2007, 9:44 pm

| Readers 445

On our last Slugger Radio outing Sammy noted that Sinn Fein’s electioneering techniques were miles ahead of the field. Unfairly so, say several senior SDLP MLAs. Here’s Dolores Kelly: “We were getting reports of Sinn Fein going twice to the same doors on the day of the election asking if people had voted,” she said. “People were complaining to us that there were up to 10 men standing outside the voting station and that they found it quite intimidating.” She …