Monthly Archives: April 2015

Poster Boys & Girls…#11 Mark Brotherston (Conservative)

Posted on April 17, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

14th April 2014 Bangor, across the road from the Railway Station. Mark Brotherson is the Conservative candidate for North Down. Probably the best known of the five local Tories who are standing. Another eleven have been parachuted in from England. … Continue reading →

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Poster Boys & Girls…#10 Andrew Muir (Alliance Party)

Posted on April 17, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Tuesday 14th April.   Andrew Muir (Alliance candidate for North Down) in High Street, Bangor near a bar called “Fealtys”. Muir is one of those second tier Alliance politicans. Youthful but a veteran, he has already been Mayor of North … Continue reading →

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Poster Boys & Girls…#9 “Lady” Sylvia Hermon (Independent)

Posted on April 17, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Tuesday 14th April. This poster of “Lady” Hermon, the outgoing Independent MP for North Down is in Hamilton Road, Bangor. I find Bangor curiously “non political” in the traditional Norn Iron sense. It is almost semi-detached from Norn Iron and … Continue reading →

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Sinn Féin: A Half-Arsed Policy

Posted on April 17, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Remember the good old days when Sinn Féin was so purely Republican when they would not stand in Elections…north and south? They called themselves “Anti H Block Prisoner” in 1981 and got elected to Westminster, An Dáil and local councils … Continue reading →

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SDLP South Belfast Campaign Launched

Posted on April 15, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Last night. Malone House Hotel, Belfast. Alasdair McDonnell was in pretty good form officially launching the South Belfast Campaign.   Fearghal McKinney MLA made a short speech (first pic) before Alasdair spoke. There is a good mood in SDLP these … Continue reading →

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The Slugger East Belfast Debate: I Wuz There (Kinda)

Posted on April 15, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

I had a busy day yesterday. Breakfast in a shopping mall at Craigavon. Bus to Lurgan. Train to Bangor, getting there around noon. A few hours there in the company of a fellow blogger. At 3pm, I was on a … Continue reading →

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The Ginger Ninja

Posted on April 14, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

As she prepares for her head-to-head encounter (courtesy of Slugger O’Toole)  Naomi Long did an interview with “Sticky” Henry McDonald in yesterdays Guardian. I dont suppose that there are many copies of The Guardian sold in East Belfast…it is £1.60 … Continue reading →

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Political Parties Have A High Turnover

Posted on April 13, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Over the weekend, I was thinking about just how many members of SDLP Youth, I have met over the past five or six years. I was thinking about this even before I saw two former SDLP staffers interviewed within about … Continue reading →

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Hillary Term?

Posted on April 12, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

I really want to like Hillary Clinton. She is after all a Democrat…which means she is a lot better than any of the assorted fruit cakes, neo cons and self-styled Christains in the Republican Party. There does not seem to … Continue reading →

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Cuba…Close But No Cigar…Yet!

Posted on April 12, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

It has to be good news that United States of America and Cuba are actually talking. The fifty odd years of hostility has outlived the Cold War and has frankly taken on the appearance of two elderly neighbours who fell … Continue reading →

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