Everything Ulster - Election 2005

I came home from work today to find a number of leaflets to add to my now considerable deluge of election information in preparation for next Thursday's poll. I already had received communication from the Ulster Unionists, DUP and Alliance, today I found information from most of the remaining parties (with the notable exception of the Workers' Party, political component of the official IRA). So what did they all have to say for themselves...?

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SINN Fein today accused PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde of "political intervention" when he revealed that his assessment was that the IRA were still recruiting. He said that his current assessment was that they have the "capability" and "capacity" to return to armed struggle. Of course the Daily Ireland (AKA the Völkischer Beobachter) was on the case to stand up for the brave men of Sinn Fein against the evil 'extension of the British state' that Orde leads.

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EAST Antrim is the 2nd smallest constituency by population ( ~15% Catholic) with a 2001 census total of 84,062 people (of which I was one!). It also had one of the lowest turnouts in 2003 with only 56% of the 60,897-strong electorate. Here we see Ulster Unionist incumbent, and MP for 22 years, Roy Beggs attempting to see of a fierce challenge from one of the DUP's big names, Sammy Wilson, who was a hair's breadth away from taking the seat in the 2001 General Election.

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