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Hatfield House: Details Emerge
Both The Guardian and The Times are running stories this morning about Owen Paterson’s tri-partite talks held in Hatfield House earlier in the month. Both stories suggest that the discussions focused...
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Lady Hermon to Stand for Labour?
Thanks to Iain Dale for Making this a Daley Dozen Post I am delighted – ecstatic almost – to hear that Boyd Black, of the Labour Party here, has appealed to Lady Hermon about potentially standing as a...
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Thankfully I’m not alone…
It’s encouraging to note that I’m not alone in highlighting the contradictions of the Conservative/UUP/DUP sectarian pact for Fermanagh South Tyrone. Here are a few of the more interesting quotes from...
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SDLP: No Nationalist Pact
I’m very encouraged to note that Margaret Ritchie and her team at the SDLP has rejected overtures from Sinn Fein to form an electoral pact for certain target marginal constituencies in the upcoming...
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Robinson Spills Beans re. Fermanagh South Tyrone
Paterson negotiated sectarian deal in candidate's "front room" Peter Robinson, in tonight’s Northern Ireland Leaders’ Debate, made clear that Owen Paterson was intimately involved in the sectarian...
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UUP Suck Local Tories Dry
I gather that Conservative Party central office has laid-off its 3 members of staff in Belfast following the disastrous Conservative/Ulster Unionist Party alliance that saw a decline in the combined...
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Basil McCrea’s U-Turns
Image via Wikipedia Basil McCrea, one of the hapless ones who wishes to “lead” the rudderless UUP, has made clear that he wants to distance the UUP from the Conservatives. According to Henry McDonald,...
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Conservatives Running in Assembly Elections
It looks likely that local Conservatives are to be required to be nice to the UUP in the Assembly elections next year. According to Mark Devenport over on his blog, “Conservative HQ will have to sort...
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Lord Feldman Commits to Cutting Ties with UUP
Lord Feldman’s recent statement, written for the Belfast Telegraph, is to be welcomed. It makes clear the Conservative Party’s intention to do what it should have done decades ago – namely to seek a...
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Tories Dump Nicholson
I met with the Northern Ireland Conservative Chairman, Irwin Armstrong, last week. Armstrong is not exactly one of Northern Ireland’s better known political leaders. He’s based in Ballymena so escapes...
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Thatcher’s Legacy
Margaret Thatcher (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When Margaret Thatcher was ousted from power in 1990 I was serving as a Conservative Councillor in Dacorum Borough Council in SW Hertfordshire. Just a few...
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