Posted on March 7, 2007 by Editor
By Jeff Peel - NI Area, Conservatives
Today the people of Northern Ireland are being asked to vote for a new Assembly. As Conservatives, we want people to think carefully before proceeding the way they may have in the past. The media – particularly BBCNI - presents our four “main” Parties as pretty much all there is [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2007 by Editor
James Leslie, Conservative candidate for North Down, has said that this election must mark the end of the one dimensional political agenda of the last 30 years.
The statement follows the publication of two national opinion polls showing Conservatives leading Labour by at least 11 percentage points, sufficient to provide an overall majority at the next [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2007 by Editor
Neil Johnston will be taking part in a BBC Web Panel today hosted by Jim Fitzpatrick at 2.30pm. Neil is our candidate for Lagan Valley and is Chairman, NI Area, Conservatives.
You can watch the broadcast live on the BBC NI web site or the recorded version on demand.
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Posted on March 2, 2007 by Editor
James Leslie, Conservative candidate for North Down, has called for more action to protect the environment by the promotion of renewable energy, especially locally available biomass.
“We must move away from the simplistic notion that energy means electricity. In fact electricity only comprises around one third of total energy consumption, with heat and transport accounting for [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2007 by Editor
The Electoral Commission is advising anyone who wants to vote in the Assembly elections on 7 March 2007 that they need to bring with them an approved form of photographic ID. Approved forms of ID are:
• A valid British, Irish or EU Passport
• A current UK photographic driving licence
• Translink Senior SmartPass
• An electoral identity card
A telephone helpline (0800 [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2007 by Editor
The Conservative Party today became the first political party to publicly call into question the proposed stadium at the Maze.
Neil Johnston, the Conservative candidate in Lagan Valley said, “When the government says it is going to spend multi millions on a project we should all be very concerned. When the government says it is really [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2007 by Editor
Well it had to happen…the media taking an interest in our campaign. But with the Tories surging ahead in the national polls and people on the doorstep fed up to the eye teeth with local politicians rambling on about singing the national anthem at Queen’s University graduation ceremonies, it had to happen. UTV did a short [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2007 by Editor
Conservative Party Assembly Manifesto
The Conservatives in NI will launch our manifesto for the Assembly elections today. We hope to have the Manifesto on this web site as well as the media briefing documents by late afternoon. The media briefing will be held at 1.30pm. Members of the media should contact office @ conservativesni.org [leave out the spaces] [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2007 by Editor
This video - the introduction to David Cameron’s Conference Speech at the Party Conference in Bournemouth - gives a sense of what Conservatives are trying to achieve. It’s a new day for Northern Ireland too. On March 7 you can vote for a new start. New politics for a New Northern Ireland.
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