Lord Trimble

Trimble's short memory

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008

In his address to the Conservative conference, Lord Trimble played to the audience and indulged in mischief when he questioned Scotland's "funding advantage" and

Trimble alleges Salmond may be a nationalist

A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008

Today is Tuesday. David Trimble continues a bit further along that line of stating the bleeding obvious: THE former first minister of Northern Ireland, Lord Trimble, has accused Alex Salmond of trying to inflame people of every part of the United Kingdom in order to destroy the Union. The other points he made about the inaccurate economic comparisons between Scotland and the Republic and the necessity...

• Lord Trimble accuses Salmond of 'winding up unionists' in independence quest - Scotsman.com
• Lord Trimble accuses Salmond of 'winding up unionists' in independence quest - News Scotsman

Jeffrey Donaldonson hits back at Lord Trimble...

Redemption's Son (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008

In the light of David Trimble's comments yesterday at the Conservative Party conference there was quite a number of different opinions offered up across the blogging world ( Chekov , O'Neill , Fair Deal and Mark Devenport ). I find it encouraging that present within those blogs are a range of opinions and have encouraged healthy debate and will help contextualise the ongoing negotiations between the...

Devil in the detail?

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008

David Cameron has admitted that there are some difficulties in established the future UUP/Tory relationship. Devenport seems to focus upon where Sylvia Hermon stands. Lord Trimble’s intervention seems to have contributed to some electoral and relationship concerns . The subtext seems to be the Conservatives looking for a full merger with Ulster Unionists happier with what has been described as the...

Party Conference- Day One

ConservativesNI.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008

Speaking during the Nations and Regions session on Day One of the Conservative Party Conference, Owen Paterson said there was no reason why MPs from Northern Ireland could not be part of the Cabinet. Mr Paterson, who was joined on stage by Lord Trimble, also reaffirmed the Party’s commitment to field candidates in all parts of [...]

The UK Conservative (and Ulster Unionist') Party

A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008

The Conservatives will be the only truly UK-wide party fighting the next election: The Conservatives will fight for every seat in the UK, including Northern Ireland, at the next General Election. Former Ulster Unionist leader, Lord Trimble, made the announcement to delegates at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. The Conservatives are currently engaged in discussions with the Ulster Unionists...

Trimble demands release of Omagh bomb recordings

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008

By Alan Murray Independent.ie Sunday September 21 2008 DAVID Trimble, the former First Minister of Northern Ireland, has urged Gordon Brown to "urgently" release the secretly recorded conversations of the Omagh bombers on their way to devastate the town. Lord Trimble says it is imperative that the recordings and transcripts of what the bombers said as they drove to put the "brick in the wall" should...

Not quite the inside track..

A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008

The Newsletter now has its own political blog and three posts in, Stephen Dempster is already making an apology for spreading dodgy information : Thanks to the local Conservatives for getting in touch to let me know that I was wrong and not "safe" at all to presume that Lord Trimble is on the UUP-Tory joint working group on merger talks. He's not. Oops. Meanwhile, I am also informed that constant media...

Could Trimble be a Conservative foreign minister?

ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008

With the prospect of a formal UUP-Conservative alliance the already strong chances of Lord Trimble, who joined the Conservative Party in April after having taken the Conservative whip in the Lords, getting a senior role in a Conservative Shadow Cabinet/Cabinet...

Lord Trimble lined up as minister in Cameron government

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008

Lord Trimble is being lined up as a minister in a David Cameron government as part of the deal to bring Ulster Unionists into the mainstream of UK politics.

DUP outrage at paramilitary contact claims

Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008

The DUP has branded claims by Lord Trimble that a 'significant' party figure met a senior loyalist paramilitary boss in Portadown as "outlandish" .

• DUP outrage at paramilitary contact claims - SAOIRSE32

Hillary Clinton distances herself from adviser who branded Lord David Trimble a 'crankpot'

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008

Hillary Clinton's campaign has disowned a senior adviser who branded Lord Trimble, former Northern Ireland First Minister, a sexist "crankpot" whose views were suspect because he was a Protestant.

Hillary Clinton aide: David Trimble is a sexist Protestant "crankpot"

Telegraph Blogs - Toby Harnden (Free subscription) | 27/03/2008

Full coverage of the US Elections 2008 Extraordinary tirade today from Jamie Rubin , State Department assistant secretary in Bill Clinton’s administration and now a Hillary Clinton advisor, who branded Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, formerly David Trimble, as a “crankpot” (presumably a cross between a crank and a crackpot) - and anti-woman to boot - for daring to call into question the former First...

Hillary fibs about S-CHIP “experience”, too: Boston Globe

The Hillary Project (Free subscription) | 14/03/2008

By Ed Morrissey, Hot AirHillary Clinton has tried to claim credit for everything politically popular that happened during her husband's administration, and has even attempted to create a few that never happened at all. Most of these arguments have resulted in repudiation, as when Lord Trimble scornfully dismissed her supposed contribution to the Northern Ireland peace talks as “cheerleading”. Today,...

Hillary Clinton's Silly Foreign Affairs Experience

TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008

As an example of her foreign affairs experience, Hillary Clinton said she was instrumental in bringing about peace in Northern Ireland. However, Lord Trimble, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for the Belfast Accord of 1998, had a different view...