Ed Miliband is in Northern Ireland
TheTruth1983
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And listening to him speak I am struck by how underwhelmed I am.
No passion, no vision, no cliche left unturned.
No passion, no vision, no cliche left unturned.
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TheTruth1983
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Nope, just Tories and UKIP (1 each)
Starting to think so.
Utterly uninspiring man.
He's looking for his next job.
No, but SDLP MP's used to take the Labour whip (not sure if they still do) which is why they don't stand in Northern Ireland as they might need their support in a hung parliament. In fact Northern Ireland residents were banned from joining the Labour party until a court challenge, ironic as IIRC the first labour party conference was held in Belfast.
He will be meeting those who will have to deal with his government after the May election
Like mould, you mean. Yes, I can see the likeness.
It's better that he stays on the mainland for the next few months though - then Labour are well and truly doomed at the GE.
There's so little support for them that even the campaign to get them to organise and stand in N.I., "CLR" or the "Campaign for Labour Representation", was moribund by the mid 1990s!
Nah, cos they'd be competing with their fellow Socialist International party, the SDLP.
As an aside, I do hope that Northern Ireland at some future stage could move to ordinary political spectrum politics and not the perennial nationalist vs. unionist stuff. While that latter aspect persists, I do not want any of the Ulster parties anywhere near the British TV leadership election debates.
Translation: Northern Ireland should be frozen out until such time as they become what I want them to be.
Nope; the UK national election debate should not be hijacked by either the DUP or Sinn Fein for their own benefit and turned into a diversionary unionist vs. nationalist partisan slanging match. You should try watching BBC Parliament or UTV NI first before you make comments like that.
I was thinking candida albicans ...:D
Actually, we USED to have it! Under the original Stormont parliament we had a pretty healthy Northern Ireland Labour Party.
Bloody hell!!! when did they introduce the need for a passport to travel around the UK?
I stand duly corrected, phylo - lo siento.
Whatever happened to it - did it fade away or merge with another party? I would have thought that Northern Ireland, being relatively more industrialised than the south, would have been able to support a cross-community party of the working people.