Election 2010 - Northern Ireland

CliffyBiro

CliffyBiro

CliffyBiro

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I think we should have our own thread to discuss the various parties in Northern Ireland as it's much less broadcast which leaves a lot of people, such as myself, not fully clued in as to what each party will offer.

Who are you leaning towards? Or do you have a long-held allegiance to a particular party?



A poll would be appreciated dons.

Ulster Unionist Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Democratic Unionist Party
Sinn Fein
Alliance Party
Other
 
This isn’t a local election. It’s for choosing the Government of UK to sit in the UK Parliament. Why should we have a separate thread for NI, we don’t have them for Wales or Scotland yet alone England. It's a national election. I’m sure you can get clued up on your candidates locally. You don’t need a thread to help you select your choice.
 
I think most people have already decide who they will vote for in Northern Ireland. For many they have a choice of 2, and they have to decide themselves who they want to go for.
Given the relatively low numbers on this forum from NI, I'd think no poll would be appropriate.
Quite honestly, there are things that irk me greatly about all 5 parties you have mentioned. From their support of the gypo community, to their failure to pay tax on landdeals, to being led by the nose by Davy C, and the election of a ridiculous woman as leader, and their utter blandness while thinking they are important.
I won't need to associate which strand with which party.
I've pretty much figured out who i will vote for, but for many many seats in NI, there is next to no point in voting as the result will stand. Some seats, such as mine, will indeed be hotly contested.
 
I'll be voting SDLP so they get one more vote towards beating Sinn Fein, which they won't. I'm also in the same constituancy as you skippi though I imagine our voting preferences may differ slightly :p
 
Do you think Northern Ireland will ever get to the point where party politics are no longer down a sectarian divide? I guessing probably not as the fundamental political divide doesn't really have much of a compromise.
 
iamdjdz said:
I'll be voting SDLP so they get one more vote towards beating Sinn Fein, which they won't. I'm also in the same constituancy as you skippi though I imagine our voting preferences may differ slightly :p
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I have no preference whatsoever. This will be the first time I have used my vote.

Leaning ever so slightly towards Alliance but I don't like their on-the-fence approach to the United Ireland/UK Rule debate. They can still have an opinion on it without having a sectarian motive.

Also, it would feel like a wasted vote due to their lack of support previously.
 
RDM said:
Do you think Northern Ireland will ever get to the point where party politics are no longer down a sectarian divide? I guessing probably not as the fundamental political divide doesn't really have much of a compromise.
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This is why I was considering Alliance.
 
I used to vote for the best candidate shame most people don't do the same otherwise we'd have a fantastic democratic goverment.
 
RDM said:
Do you think Northern Ireland will ever get to the point where party politics are no longer down a sectarian divide? I guessing probably not as the fundamental political divide doesn't really have much of a compromise.
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I think a lot of people are feed up with our politicians, useless comes to mind. With time they will get swapped out so long as things don't flare up but the sectarian divide outside of politics is there to stay.
 
I was reading today that Sinn Fein have no voting rights in the Commons because they refuse to swear the oath.
So yeah, if I lived in NI - anyone but them.
 
I'll be voting Alliance again - was very pleased when my candidate won for South Belfast last time around 2007. I'm hoping slowly they'll gain ground and displace all the sectarian parties. The SDLP have gotten a lot more moderate as time has gone by and hopefully all the other parties will follow suit.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk_politics/election_2010/northern_ireland/8641358.stm

Northern Ireland gets too much state funding, Conservative leader David Cameron has said.

In an interview with Jeremy Paxman on BBC 1 on Friday, he said NI was a place where government spending must go down.

He said he wanted to focus on promoting the private sector and providing what he called a "bigger, richer society".

Mr Cameron's comments have been backed by his electoral partners in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Unionists, but attacked by other NI parties.

During the interview, the Tory leader agreed that he had said in some parts of the UK the "state accounts for a bigger share of the economy than it did in the communist countries of the old eastern bloc - it is clearly unsustainable".

Asked by Mr Paxman which part of the UK he was referring to, Mr Cameron said: "I think the first one I would pick out is Northern Ireland.

"In Northern Ireland it is quite clear, almost every party, I think, accepts that the size of the state has got too big, we need a bigger private sector," he said.
 
This is indeed correct.

Aparently the tax burden to the UK from Northern Ireland is worth approcimately 20,000 per head of population per year. Thats a phenomenal amount of money, and given how many folks in NI don't work, don't pay tax, do the double, skive, spide, and generally claim the sick, it would equate to those who actually work having to earn over 115,000 anually as an anverage wage to support the tax burden.

Wages in NI do not remotely come close to that. We are a parasitic blight. Cameron however might well need the support of parties here, but you can bet he'd rather go libdem and cut off NI cashcow, instead of team up with DUP and have to maintain the cashcow.

I see hard times ahead for the NI civil service, when the cuts come.
 
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