BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm just back from the rain sodden La Mon hotel in County Down where I was helping out on our live coverage of the DUP conference. I've been asked to contribute a "colour " piece to our main news website so you should hopefully be able to see my more extened thoughts there. In brief, though, this was a well attended occasion in which the party staked its round for the next election. It has...
eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I totally and utterly agree with these comments from Roger Helmer. Martin Beckford over at the Telegraph recently asked, what on earth would the Church of England hierarchy talk about if they couldn’t talk about their climate change initiatives? I have often recently wondered the same. Now that a judge has declared that belief in man-made climate [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Roger Helmer says Anglican hierarchy has dropped the gospel in favour of 'the new religion of climate alarmism' A Tory MEP has accused the Church of England of having "abandoned religious faith entirely and taken up the new religion of climate alarmism instead". Roger Helmer, who resigned from the Tory frontbench in Europe when the Westminster leadership dumped its promised referendum on...
Bloggers4UKIP (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The chairman of the UK Independence Party has said the party will consider an alliance with Jim Allister's TUV in future elections. Paul Nuttall, UKIP MEP for the North West of England, was speaking to the News Letter yesterday after a low-key exploratory visit to the Province.UKIP has only one politician in Northern Ireland at present — Kilkeel councillor Henry Reilly, who defected from the...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The DUP has released a 35 page document on the eve of its annual conference under the optimistic title of "Building On Success". If you were to read Peter Robinson's foreword you might conclude that the party is about make a great leap forward. The party leader says that "once again unionism faces a choice in the next few years. Do we build on what we have achieved or risk throwing...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The media has already established its angle on the North Antrim general election contest. It’s all about Jim Allister and whichever Paisley is nominated to rebuff his challenge. To a degree the preoccupation with the DUP / TUV contest is understandable. After all, in 2005 Senior romped home with more than 25,000 votes and Ulster Unionist candidate, Rodney McCune, was beaten to second spot by...
Political Scrapbook (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Left Foot Forward reported today that Tory MEP Roger Helmer is organising a “climate change sceptics’ conference” in Brussels. The list of speakers is a Who’s Who of climate change denial – people with an axe to grind in one hand and a distinct lack of peer-reviewed science in the other. But one name on the list [...]
Tory Radio (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Have humans changed the climate? That was the question posed today, Wednesday Nov 18th in the European Parliament, Brussels, at a Conference hosted by Conservative MEP Roger Helmer. Nine eminent speakers from Europe and North America included Prof. Ross McKitrick, the man who demolished the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s “Hockey Stick” graph; Prof Fred Singer...
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Conservative MEP Roger Helmer is today hosting a "climate sceptics' conference" in Brussels. The news once again undermines David Cameron's claims to that the electorate can "Vote Blue, Go Green". James Delingpole, wrote yesterday on his Telegraph blog, that: "Today I’m off on the Eurostar to Brussels (”a carbon neutral journey” it ...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
During Monday's "Stormont Live" I asked Alasdair McDonnell if it really mattered who won the SDLP leadership contest as the party would inevitably face a squeeze at the next Assembly elections, given that Sinn Fein would tell nationalists it had a realistic chance of becoming the biggest Stormont party. Consequently Sinn Fein would have the right to nominate Martin McGuinness as First Minister,...
Tory Radio (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
In Roger’s latest podcast on Climate Change, he comments, “The truth is the public are sick to death of being harangued and abused and blamed and increasingly taxed over the issue of climate change when many of them can see the climate is not changing very much and they have serious and in my view well [...]
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Alex Kane responds to Jim Allister`s letter in the News Letter on Saturday, which itself was a response to Kane`s challenge for Allister to outline a realistic and achievable alternative to mandatory coalition. Jim Allister states: “ I and TUV do not accept that we must continue to be the only part of the democratic world where by law you can neither vote a party out of government nor have an...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
It's been a disappointing few weeks for Euroscepticism and for the Eurosceptic movement but The TaxPayers' Alliance are leading the way in consolidating popular unhappiness at the EU. Better than talking about sovereignty and other vital (but less earthy) topics, talk about the economic cost and waste of the European project. From this Friday (20th November) cinemas will be running this advert: The...
Daniel1979 Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Here is my latest recommended reading list. Please note, I do not necessarily agree with these posts and articles, however I found them sufficiently interesting to warrant a recommendation: Christopher Booker says that the EU Commission have stayed in office illegally. JuliaM says we must never get rid of Jury Service, and has a good example of why. Roger Helmer MEP has a good piece about the Bureaucracy...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
A SENIOR SDLP Assembly member has called on First Minister Peter Robinson and the DUP to stop allowing the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister to “set the DUP agenda”.
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