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Is there more to life than shoes? (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Daniel Hannan and Roger Helmer were supposed to be sharing a platform with UKIP leader Nigel Farage and the Telegraph's Simon Heffer at the Bruges Group debate 'Will a Conservative Government deliver on Europe? ' However, due to 'heavy pressure' explained Barry Legg, the two Tory MEPs were not in a position to attend. As Trixy hears it, both MEPs, who sit with the non attached in the European Parliament...
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The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
I’ve been thinking about political language for some time now. Certainly since I read Fionnuala O’Connor’s piece in the Irish Time some while back on the use of terminology in the North. Or is it Northern Ireland? She makes some valid points on foot of complaints by Jim Allister, formerly of the DUP, amongst others [...]
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Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
We all know where the DUP stand when it comes to the Irish language. Or do we? Traditional Unionist Jim Allister has written to Culture Minister Gregory Campbell after he obtained documentation through an FOI request which revealed that DCAL had sent a paper to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport which stated: “Given the provision of indigenous language radio services in Wales and Scotland,...
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A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Simon Hamilton is widely regarded as one of the rising stars of The Devolution Experiment...and most unusually for one of The DUPed, he also has a blog . He is presently spending most of his time debating bovine anaerobic digestion ( the whys and wherefores of cows farts ) with Jim Allister MEP. There may well be those resentful and bitter enough to say that our representatives engaging in such arguments...
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In Flanders Fields (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Do you now there are still people who tell me that the EU has kept the peace in Europe for the last 60 years? The hell it has! I'll tell you what's kept the peace in Europe for the last 60 years: it's the Trans-Atlantic Alliance, it's NATO. It was for a long time the nuclear deterrent, it was 100,000 GIs in Germany. It wasn't the European Commission that pulled down the Berlin wall and dissolved the...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
By Noel McAdam Belfast Telegraph 11 September 2008 Sinn Fein Minister Conor Murphy has effectively snubbed First Minister Peter Robinson in the row threatening the Executive with potential High Court action . Mr Murphy has written to anti-deal MEP Jim Allister defending his handling of a major policy programme over which Mr Robinson accused the Minister of attempting to “subvert” the Executive and...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
The latest part of the war of words saga between the DUP and TUV has been over policing an justice and specifically the power which Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister might have over judicial appointments. Jim Allister launched a Policing and Justice document which attacked the DUP over the possibility that if P&J were devolved, even to the likes of Alliance, then the OFMDFM would still have...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
DUP questions about European expenses have brought an angry response from Jim Allister . He said the queries were about: “...trying to sling mud in his direction” Last week, Mark Devenport’s questioning of Jim Allister led him to admit for the first time that his constituency office was owned by his family. He had previously admitted he employs a family member. In his media profile, one of the roles...
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Andrew Allison (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
Something I often find puzzling, is why some Conservatives in the UK regularly align themselves with Democrats in the US. The natural allies of the British Conservative Party in the US is the Republican Party. Roger Helmer MEP discusses this and says 'Conservatives f or Obama? It makes about as much sense as Conservatives for Gordon Brown.' He is, of course, right. Read his full article HERE.
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Redemption's Son (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
The final part of this mini-series is on the recently formed Traditional Unionist Voice, which formed on the basis of opposing the DUP's acceptance of Sinn Fein into the government of Northern Ireland in 2007. The Traditional Unionist Voice. In 2007 Jim Allister MEP left the DUP after their party executive endorsed a resolution to set up a power-sharing government and an executive based on the d'hondt...
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ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Roger Helmer, MEP for the East Midlands, looks at some of the counter-poroductive attempts to reduce carbon emissions. Put ten economists in a room, and they'll come up with eleven different opinions. But there's one thing they'll agree on, and...
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Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Iain Dale posted another obituary early this morning. That of the latterday Robert Kilroy-Silk a-like David Davis MP , successor to Alan B'Stard as MP for Haltemprice. Back Where He Belongs? Don't know about that. Until he is being pompous daily on a day-time car-crash-telly Davis will not have reached his rightful place. About a third of the people of HaH voted we're told. But 9,000 students were...
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Twelfth demonstrations tomorrow are to be targeted by ex-DUP MEP Jim Allister to attack his former party and the Stormont administration.
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
WITH Peter Robinson hinting that a resolution to the devolution of policing and justice on the way, Mick suggested that the issue was not when powers should be handed over, but to whom. However, Jim Allister isn’t as worried about who the Justice Minister will be as he is about the powers it will bestow on the First Ministers, specifically the deputy one, to make judicial appointments. Allister writes...
