ForwardWithArlene

The pendulum swings – time not for Unionist panic nor inaction

Turgon on March 4, 2017, 11:30 am

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So the elections results are in: a sea change has occurred. The bark of unionism’s boat is near overflowed. All may not yet be lost but all is about to be. Wail, lament, tear clothes, put on sack cloth or more realistically start surfing rightmove to find a nice house in the North of England or Midlands or maybe Wales (house prices preclude the south and Scotland will soon be gone). Well maybe and only a naïve unionist would dismiss …

Arlene’s triumph: time for others to reconsider their pitches and where that horse is

Turgon on May 7, 2016, 6:48 pm

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So the results are all in. The result: nothing has changed and a bit has changed. The fall in the nationalist / republican vote and levels of seats has been analysed and will bear further analysis. The changes or lack of them on the unionist side are, however, just as interesting. Ben Lowry and Sam McBride in the News Letter have their analyses and I would demur little from either of them. Arlene Foster and the DUP’s triumph is marked. …

Arlene Foster the vision thing and Angela Merkel

Turgon on March 15, 2016, 11:18 pm

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Following Arlene Foster’s successful first conference as DUP leader and before the frenzy of the run up to the elections in the spring it is maybe time to take stock of the third DUP leader and her achievements thus far. Firstly even to have become DUP leader is a significant achievement and one which speaks of her political talent no matter what one’s views of her politics. Foster was a gradually rising star in the UUP under Molyneaux and Trimble’s …

“A swing of only two votes in every hundred from the DUP to Sinn Fein would see Martin McGuinness become the next First Minister”

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on March 6, 2016, 12:51 am

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NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING has started with DUP leader Arlene Foster’s appeal to unionist voters to support the DUP so that Martin McGuinness doesn’t become First Minister. In the speech she also outlines 5 parts to the DUP’s vision for the next Assembly term.