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Winter Fuel Payment …Iain Duncan Smith Is Not A Friend.

Posted on November 16, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

One of the exhibitors at the SDLP Conference was a charity for Older People…which now sadly means ME. So in conversation with the guy on the stall it emerged that I am entitled to a Winter Fuel Payment…a benefit given … Continue reading →

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Colum Eastwood …New SDLP Leader

Posted on November 14, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

I blogged this on 5th November. “There are three groups in SDLP. One supporting Alasdair and one supporting Colum….but dont ignore a large body of opinion that this contest (for two different reasons) should not be taking place.” Dare I … Continue reading →

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How To Explain SDLP….People Like Sarah

Posted on November 13, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

I saw this yesterday. I thought it was interesting. A feature of SDLP Conferences is the election of people to positions in the Party. It is not all about Leadership and famous faces that you see on TV. A lot … Continue reading →

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SDLP …Two Parties For The Price Of One (dont take this seriously)

Posted on November 12, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

I am not entirely sure if I paid my 2015 membership fee to SDLP. I hope I did because I am really getting my money’s worth….two Parties for the price of one. It is not entirely about Leadership contest. Rather … Continue reading →

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Show Trials…And Show Arrests

Posted on November 12, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

In Norn Iron, we have gone one step better than Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. They merely had Show TRIALS. We are much more civilized. We have Show ARRESTS. And like the regimes of Hitler and Stalin, it is all … Continue reading →

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Stormont Remembrance…Cunning Stunts

Posted on November 12, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

What would Bloggers do without Poppy Season? The annual commemoration of stories that define Norn Iron in all its crap-ness. So the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Remembrance and Silence. And the Hall at Stormont. … Continue reading →

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Poppy And Rugby

Posted on November 11, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

i have only ever been to three rugby matches. The first was in the winter of 1970-1971 at Maynard Sinclair Pavillionat Stormont. Civil Service “Fourths” or “Fifths” were playing. They were an unlikely sports team, drawn from civil service departments … Continue reading →

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At The Going Down Of The Sun…I Dont Give A Tinkers Curse

Posted on November 8, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

When I was a child, I used to think that people wearing poppies were going to weddings. Of course in the 1960s, there were a lot of sprightly 70year olds who had memories of World War One. But essentially the … Continue reading →

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A Nervous Week In SDLP

Posted on November 7, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Again I emphasise that I am not a delegate at next weekend’s SDLP Conference. And I therefore do not have a vote…as instructed by my local branch. And again, I emphasise that I do not intend to be in Armagh … Continue reading →

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“Je Suis Uncle Andy”

Posted on November 6, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Now here is a strange thing. Earlier this year, several French journalists were shot dead. Their “crime” in the eyes of Islamist extremists was that their satirical magazine (Charlie Hebdo)  had published unflattering images of the prophet Mohammed (peace be … Continue reading →

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