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1921 – 1979
The six counties of Northern Ireland (created after the creation of the Irish Free State in 1921) have been returning MP’s to Westminster centuries, but it is only since 1950 when the concept of one elector, one vote was established with the abolition of the university seats that Northern Irelan’s MP’s really started to count.
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Most impressive Mr Hayfield – many thanks for all the effort involved.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-37281097
This is hilarious, not necessarily for the intended reasons
http://observer.com/2016/09/this-viral-hashtag-about-men-having-periods-took-an-interesting-turn/
Proof, if ever it were needed, that
1. Twitter is the ultimate echo chamber,
and
2. There are some special little snowflakes out there who are determined to see the extreme offensiveness in absolutely everything.
Been out all day and media reports don't seem to be explicit on this.
Or does one follow the other - ie if he was elected by MPs as Chairman then by resigning does he also leave the Committee?
History
1930s Outdoor Baby Cage. https://t.co/ykUcFpjBMK
Obviously just one seat less so the net change can't be vast but how are seats (ie overall) changing - eg from safe to marginal etc?
Presumably all current (sitting) NI MPs likely to vote against the Statutory Instrument? That's quite important - if any vote for then it would increase the chances of it passing quite a bit.
Worth reposting this. It is not just Corbyn's leadership skills (or lack of) which make him unfit to be Labour leader. It is what he believes, what he says and what he does.
James Craig certainly deserves to burn in hell, as per @Charles below, but a special place should be reserved for the IRA and those who supported them who brought so much misery to so many for so long.
Good evening, everybody.
Craig, when he betrayed Carson, turned Northern Ireland into a sectarian hellhole for 50 years.
Antrim East: DUP safe,
Antrim North: DUP safe,
Antrim West: DUP safe,
Belfast East: DUP / Alliance marginal (DUP safe if Unionist pact in place),
Belfast North West: SF / DUP marginal (unlikely to change if Unionist pact in place),
Belfast South West: SF safe,
Dalriada: DUP safe,
Down North: Ind safe,
Down South: SDLP safe,
Down West: DUP safe,
Fermanagh and South Tyrone: SF / UUP marginal (potential to change hands if Unionist pact in place),
Foyle: SDLP safe,
Glenshane: SF marginal (Unionist safe if Unionist pact in place),
Newry and Armagh: SF safe,
Strangford: DUP safe,
Tyrone North: SF safe,
Upper Bann and Blackwater: SF marginal (Unionist safe if Unionist pact in place)
So Labour DID vote against a bill which Labour MP Caroline Flint successfully amended. Answers on a postcard please. https://t.co/1W6jrwEe0W
Anyone might think I know that whereof I speak
Owen Smith: 'We're not champagne socialists but we do want champagne for everyone.' I'm sold. https://t.co/fS5oyxOvVp
Second was integrated Ulster (which would have been much more balanced between Catholic and Protestant)
Third was a liberal, outward looking and progressive Northern Ireland
What he got was Craig's dystopian dream of a benighted realm he controlled (Carson was forced to retire to London)
Unless they nick it...
owlschampers for everyone....Incidentally, I have the original land deeds for my family's farm in Ireland from the 1780's, from a time when Ireland - the whole of the island - was independent, before the Wolf Tone rebellion, before the 1801 Act of Union.
#KeithVaz will cede his place on liaison cmtee but remains member of admin cmtee and jt cmtee on national security https://t.co/FjhdnwkGVD
https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-office/Brief-Guides/Select-Committees.pdf
appears to indicate that chairmen are elected separately and are not normal members, so resigning means you're no longer on the committee at all.
If there's a market on it, I'd make Chuka the favourite, even though Yvette is standing, because Chuka is currently a member already.
My impression is that there's a certain sympathy in the Commons for Vaz, since after a career with recurrent controversy he seemed to have found an effective niche: he was seen as one of the stronger committee chairs. In addition, if no law was broken, many MPs are generally aware of one or another embarrassing personal matter that they'd rather not see the light of day, so there's a "There but for the grace..." factor. It's clear that he couldn't chair the committee given its focus on the prostitution issue, but unless more comes to light I think MPs will now mostly be gentle with him.
In an interview with the Guardian, the Labour leader said he hoped party officials were not working against him but could not rule out the possibility.
“I’m surprised at the numbers of people who’ve been denied a vote and I’m surprised at the lack of reason that’s been given to people,” he said, in his strongest intervention on the subject so far.
“I’m concerned about that because surely in a democratic process everyone should be entitled to vote unless there is some very good reason against them.”
The Compliance Unit making these decisions includes 2 right wing members of the NEC that have been voted off FFS
Roper also had their Democrat/Republican/Independent split at 38/32/29, in recent times there has always been more people who are registered as Democracts than Republicans and as a result 'Independents' skew Republican.
The CNN/ORC poll has their sample split as 28/32/40. The sample is not great or there has been a mass deregistration of Democrats that has otherwise gone unnoticed.
It'll have you all reaching for the mind bleach.
I'm afraid that journalism standards have fallen so much that it's now par for the course that the simple most basic of facts isn't even mentioned in any report on the subject.
I like the name Dalriada for a constituency. Lots of history behind it, and for once in Ireland none of it to do with Catholics vs Protestants.
Thus it will remain with Lab.
clinton isnt clear, just a strong favourite.
Edit - Beaten by Alastair on the 80s pop music reference.
I'm clearly losing my mojo
On a serious note I am really excited about the prospect of champagne coming in pint sizes bottles once we leave the EU.
Sorry but I can smell the hypocrisy from here.
Somehow, I doubt Hillary will be different to Obama.
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/773267745890824192
One suspects that this story may unfold further.
Officials should be well-briefed by now on displaying documents in public.
But, as a matter of course to my firm and my client, I have all my papers fully sealed up in a wallet (at the very least) whenever I walk around the floor, yet alone the building.
And I do it naturally. So God knows why civil servants don't.
How low can Labour go?
On current trends, I am quite prepared to accept that there will be a moment for Labour where the Corbyn years are seen as a golden era, even if I can't quite imagine what that might actually look like.