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Spending Review: Hardly a Bitter Pill for Northern Ireland
Image by The Prime Minister's Office via Flickr There’s a lot of nonsense and hyperbole being spun around the 4-year spending review announced by the Chancellor today – and the effect of these cuts on...
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Oblivion
Image via Wikipedia Ian Parsley looks set to continue his meanderings in political oblivion. Now that he receives no income from Conservative Party internal quangos he’s setting off on a new course...
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Conservatives in the Assembly?
Local Conservatives are dropping me heavy hints that they will be fielding candidates in next year’s Assembly elections – in opposition to former ‘partners’ in the UUP. This decision is to be welcomed....
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CCHQ Shafts Northern Ireland Conservatives
Big on Society, Small on Principle (Image Wikipedia) Conservative central office has never really cared for Conservatives who happen to reside in Northern Ireland. CCHQ has a history of being...
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Blogger Solidarity
Image by Slugger O'Toole via Flickr Chekov, over on the 3000 Versts Blog has highlighted an open letter from two local bloggers to Owen Paterson, NI Secretary of State, and chief architect of the...
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Conservatives Dump UUP?
Image via Wikipedia I have received a media release from Conservative Central Office confirming that the Party will be organising in Northern Ireland from here on as the Conservative Party (no...
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Why Conservatives are Wimps
Is Cameron serious about detoxifying our politics? Image via Wikipedia This is an extended version of a comment I have made on my previous post. I felt it deserved greater oxygen. A few of my former...
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Corporation Tax and Growth
I’m delighted that the Treasury has now cleared the way for Northern Ireland to strike its own corporation tax rate. The announcement was made yesterday and today the Welsh are making noises that they...
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The Past Isn’t The Future
Image via Wikipedia The following article was written for the Belfast Telegraph. Not sure if it was published. Northern Ireland doesn’t have much of a commercial sector. But one of its biggest...
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Warsi, Paterson and the “Holy See”– pushing against the tide
Paterson meets the pope. Is that a good thing? Earlier in the week the “Secretary for the Holy See’s Relations with States”, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, hosted talks between the “Holy See” and a...
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