Finance minister criticises banks
BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Sammy Wilson criticises the local banks, saying they must increase lending to viable local businesses at reasonable terms.
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Count your northern blessings
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Amid all the political moaning, it's a relief to find one northern member of the younger generation who's not downcast with life. But even here, there's a catch… Northerners have had the distinct advantage or disadvantage, whatever way you might perceive it, of being under a separate state of economic governance, which has allowed us to escape the same economic depression that has forced many...
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Must See: WeatherAction.com 'Climate Fools Day' Sammy...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Must See: WeatherAction.com 'Climate Fools Day' Sammy Wilson YouTube Part 1 & 2 | Climate Realists It is thanks to Ralph Tittley fromKane-tv.com we can now show you Sammy Wilson at his very best.
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Health latest from Northern Ireland and Wales
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Northern Ireland’s Finance Minister has sparked controversy by saying that hospitals across Ulster could perform more efficiently. Speaking during Question Time, Sammy Wilson told his DUP colleague, Mervyn Storey, there was: “Scope for the health minister to continue to drive forward improvements in productivity within the Health Service and to reducing that ...
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Row over NI hospital efficiency
BBC News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Hospitals in Northern Ireland could perform more efficiently, the Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson, has said.
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Tory U-turn and DUP `isolationism`
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
There has been a noticeable presence of NI Tory correspondence in the letters page of the News Letter in recent weeks. A noticeable theme seems to be portraying the DUP as isolationist, which presumably builds on the UUP`s claims that the DUP are actually ` Ulster Nationalists `. Meanwhile the DUP have been attacking the Tory stance on Europe over the past month or so. First we had Ian Paisley in his...
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Minister 'confident' on PMS deal
BBC News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Sammy Wilson says he is confident there will be a satisfactory conclusion for members of the failed Presbyterian Mutual Society.
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Great British public in agreement with `our Sammy`?
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
According to a poll by the Times , some 59% of the UK population agrees with former NI Environment Minister, Sammy Wilson, that the case for Global warming is not proven. It seems the Government and Green lobby has a lot of work to do with a sceptical UK public in the run up to next months climate change summit in Copenhagen.
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Magnetic attraction of climate 'scepticism'
BBC NEWS | Richard Black's blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
There's been interest on this blog and elsewhere about a meeting organised on Wednesday by Piers Corbyn , the independent UK weather forecaster who argues that the sources of modern-day climate change lie in magnetic interactions around the Earth rather than greenhouse gas emissions on it. So - a genie to your Aladdin, though emphatically not all-powerful - I thought I'd go along. Held at Imperial...
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DUP MP solitary advocate of death penalty at Commons' debate
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
We’ve had Ian McCrea’s campaign to prevent the Pope visiting Northern Ireland, Iris Robinson’s hate-filled remarks about homosexuals, Sammy Wilson’s climate change denial , Edwin Poots et al with their five thousand year old Earth and Jim Wells versus wifi . But if anyone still harbours a suspicion that the DUP might be remotely connected, by even the flimsiest thread, to the...
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Deal or Too Slow Deal
Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
I've just seen Gordon Brown's response to Nick Clegg's questioning in PMQs about the Copenhagen summit and raising the issue that Labour is doing too little (I'd add too late) on the Climate Change. Brown replied that ALL parties should campaign together for a deal at Copenhagen. Strangely that only last week all parties bar one , plus Sammy Wilson of the DUP did vote positively for their own responsibility,...
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Wilson slams workers' sick levels
BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Some civil servants are missing work when they are not genuinely sick, Finance Minister Sammy Wilson says.
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Wilson follows in Clarkson's footsteps down bowels of Belfast
BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Finance Minister Sammy Wilson follows in the footsteps of Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson by being lowered into the biggest hole in Ireland.
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Global Warming Naysayers
Blonde sagacity (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
In case you missed it, HuffPo is blaming the fact that an all-time low number of Americans now believe that Global Warming is man-made on a group of 18 people. They seem to overlook the simple truth that there is too much evidence to the contrary...like, oh, the globe has been on a cooling trend for the past 11 years... According to HuffPo, the 18 MMGW Deniers are: Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Steve Doocy,...
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'No Pope Here'. DUP reps and activists join Facebook hate group.
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Have a glance at this charming Facebook group entitled ‘No Pope Here’. It includes such heart-warming (and grammatical) sentiments as, “wats the point him goin ther its basicly a death wish for him its like him sayin KILL ME NOW LOL” and “no pope is welcum here keep him out fgau NO SURRENDER X”. Lovely, I’m sure you’ll agree. Although I must confess that...