by nabidana | Dec 3, 2014 | Northern Ireland
Sinn Féin and the DUP may not agree on much, but one thing they do agree on is the exercise and maintenance of political power. Theirs is a murky, unpleasant world, an agreed apartheid where each is content to wield influence and control over their own ghettoised...
by nabidana | May 10, 2010 | Election 2010
Apologies for the title, but really, seriously, what is it we have now? The Liberal Democrats offered Proportional Representation. They slumped in the election losing seats, and retained their position as the third party in UK politics. The Labour Party offered a...
by nabidana | Feb 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
The decision to elect Margaret Ritchie MLA leader of the Social, Democratic and Labour Party is the decision which will destroy the party. To be fair, the choice was between a political operator at turns smooth and utterly unsophisticated whom many in the party...
by nabidana | Jan 25, 2010 | Diplomacy, Hoons, Northern Ireland, politics
The title should presage a joke, but, to be honest, the impact of the idiot leaders of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom flying to Hillsborough today was nothing short of sickening, as each sought to use the situation in Northern Ireland to deflect...
by nabidana | May 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
I was bored, and have decided to promote a meme. The #MPsGotTalent twitter meme will track politicians in the UK and associate them with the fantasy talent fellow memeticists assume they have. For instance: @benarchibald believes that Sir Alan Beith (Lib Dem) is an...