Alasdair McDonnell is meeting with the police today regarding his favourite issue - flags. McDonnell, still trying to tie the flags to loyalist paramilitarism, said "The police have been left in no doubt that loyalist bunting and flags are extremely unpopular with local residents."

Well they're not 'extremely unpopular' with this resident. In fact, this resident quite likes them.

Do you know what is extremely unpopular with this resident though? The football stadium come terror-shrine proposed for the old Maze prison (or "Long Kesh" if you prefer the terrorists' terminology, Alasdair) site. In fact, it's so unpopular I've written to Big Al about it - twice. On neither occasion did he see fit to reply to this constituent, despite my pointing out that nearly 500 people (a number of whom live in Alasdair's South Belfast constituency) have signed the same petition against the Maze Stadium/Terror Dome.

Representing everyone, eh? That's a laugh.

Follow up:

I know in the grand scheme of things 500 doesn't sound like a lot but bare in mind this was an online-only campaign with zero publicity. If even 10 of these were from South Belfast (and I'm sure it was far more), don't 10 constituents deserve an answer?

For the record, Michael McGimpsey of the Ulster Unionists was just as bad.