Posted on September 27, 2007 by Editor
Comment by Jeffrey Peel, Vice Chair, Policy, Conservatives in Northern Ireland
As a recent Belfast Telegraph leader argued, “Attempts to introduce teaching creationism in public schools - not private - have consistently been rejected as contravening the separation of church and state. Most people, not just humanists, would agree.” As a Conservative I agree too. The separation [...]
Filed under: Alliance Party, DUP, Education, creationism | 8 Comments »
Posted on May 23, 2007 by Editor
OK, so what’s new, I hear you ask, rubbish on the Alliance web site? Yes but this time they have had the audacity to suggest that the Conservatives in NI are “anti grammar school”. These are the words used by some councillor we’ve never heard of called Mervyn Jones. And this ill-informed nonsense is on [...]
Filed under: Alliance Party, Education | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 12, 2007 by Editor
The Conservatives today called on the SDLP, UUP and Alliance to join forces to provide an effective opposition voice to a Sinn Fein/DUP coalition at Stormont should devolution be restored.
According to Jeffrey Peel of the Conservatives, “the results of this election show that many people voted simply to keep the other lot out. The media [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2007 by Editor
Roger Lomas, the Conservative candidate for South Belfast, has issued a public challenge to David Ford, the Alliance Party Leader, to come clean on his Party’s relationship with the Liberal Democrats.
According to Lomas, “I was delighted to hear that Charles Kennedy - the former Lib-Dem Leader - visited Northern Ireland last Thursday in support of [...]
Filed under: Alliance Party, Assembly Elections, Conservative Party, Conservatives Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly Elections | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 22, 2007 by Editor
Our web site poll shows that nearly two thirds of respondents think that local political parties have no influence over how we are governed. And, remarkably, respondents come from all backgrounds - over 20% voted for Sinn Fein or SDLP last time; 20% for DUP; 38% Ulster Unionist and 16% Alliance. A whopping 83% of [...]
Filed under: Alliance Party, Conservative Party, Conservatives Northern Ireland, DUP, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly Elections, SDLP, Survey, UUP | No Comments »
