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NotSoDour retweeted
@Toibin1 is very much in favour of this @reformparty_uk policy of scrapping taxpayer funded translation services.
Until it is him requiring the translation service. 🙄
NotSoDour retweeted
Hate to dampen nationalist journo / activist excitement at the latest LT poll, but here's LT quite rightly giving the more meaningful "poll of polls" figure, across all polls from 2022.
It's 57/43, excluding don't knows.
Following the latest LucidTalk (LT) @BelTel polling (Autumn26 poll) re. a NI Border Referendum - Here is the updated LT 'Poll-of-Polls' re. the NI Border Ref. Q. There's no change in the 'running total', but a small change (in brackets) when the 'Don't Knows' are excluded. The running total is: Pro-NIintheUK 47%, pro-united Ireland(UI) 35%, 'Don't Knows' 18%. - exc. 'Don't Knows' that's pro-NIintheUK 57% (-1), pro-UI 43% (+1).
NotSoDour retweeted
Following the latest LucidTalk (LT) @BelTel polling (Autumn26 poll) re. a NI Border Referendum - Here is the updated LT 'Poll-of-Polls' re. the NI Border Ref. Q. There's no change in the 'running total', but a small change (in brackets) when the 'Don't Knows' are excluded. The running total is: Pro-NIintheUK 47%, pro-united Ireland(UI) 35%, 'Don't Knows' 18%. - exc. 'Don't Knows' that's pro-NIintheUK 57% (-1), pro-UI 43% (+1).
NotSoDour retweeted
Not so, Suzanne, sorry. LT are one pollster who do (not their fault) a disproportionate share of the UI polls. But their findings are not replicated by other pollsters, always way higher. 42% is also 3 points lower than LT had it in 2020.
ARINS, Liverpool, L&T all say in 30s %.
NotSoDour retweeted
For all the angry Celtic fans jumping all over my post. This is William Angus from Carluke who played for Celtic and won V Cross for bravery. He got cheered at Celtic park when he returned. He would have got boo’d if it was today and he turned up at their game. Just saying.
NotSoDour retweeted
The poll on this in 2020 was actually better for Irish unity supporters, with 45% in favour and 47% against.
Six years on, it’s pretty much as it is.
EXCLUSIVE: The gap between support for Irish unity & NI staying in UK has narrowed to 4 points in the past year. A new @LucidTalk poll shows 46% of voters want to maintain the Union, while 42% would choose a united Ireland if a border poll was held now.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
NotSoDour retweeted
#OnThisDay in 1987 the IRA planned to bomb the Remembrance service in Tullyhommon on Fermanagh border with the Republic. The bomb was 4 times the size of the Enniskillen device. The parade was largely made up of children. It failed to go off & was made safe by bomb disposal #OTD
NotSoDour retweeted
'At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.'
#RemembranceSunday #LestWeForget
ALT An angled close-up shows the black marble gravestone of the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey, scattered with individual paper red poppies. Gold-inlaid capital letters on the polished black surface read in part, "... RESTS THE BODY / ... BRITISH WARRIOR / ... UNKNOWN BY NAME OR RANK / ... OUGHT FROM FRANCE TO LIE AMONG / ... MOST ILLUSTRIOUS OF THE LAND / ... BURIED HERE ON ARMISTICE DAY / ... NOV: 1920, IN THE PRESENCE OF / ... HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V / ... HIS MINISTERS OF STATE / ... THE CHIEFS OF HIS / ... AND A VAST CONCOURSE..." In the foreground at the bottom left, a dense cluster of bright red paper poppies is partially visible.
‘They Think It’s All Over’ was a brilliant tv show 🙂
In the event of a tie at the end of They Think It’s All Over, the winner was often decided in the most random ways.
Like here in 1996, when Gary Lineker had to answer a question from the quiz book that he allegedly wrote.
A quite brilliant show.
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NotSoDour retweeted
Honoured to attend the unveiling of a plaque and laying of a wreath at Woodvale Cricket Club in memory of Brigadier John Alexander Sinton VC OBE FRS DL.
A remarkable Ulsterman whose military bravery, scientific achievements and contribution to public life deserve to be remembered. A fitting tribute to a distinguished life of service.
NotSoDour retweeted
A non-story designed as clickbait
In no other public organisation is there a requirement to declare membership of private institutions. Yet when they do, police are criticised for it
Is there any evidence that membership by any of these officers affected their professionalism?
REVEALED | The number of PSNI officers who are members of ‘notifiable organisations’ such as the loyal orders has been branded “alarming”.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
NotSoDour retweeted
You could use this panel as an alternative to general anesthesia.
NotSoDour retweeted
Think what's more "Alarming " is that we have those with links to terrorist organisations on the policing board ....
REVEALED | The number of PSNI officers who are members of ‘notifiable organisations’ such as the loyal orders has been branded “alarming”.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
NotSoDour retweeted
Given this is a sizable sample (>3k) this poll is worth noting;
Combined Unionist vote (DUP/UUP/TUV): 43% (up 2.9% from #ae22)
Combined Irish nationalist vote (SF/SDLP): 39% (up 0.9% from #ae22)
The big challenge for unionism is getting their vote out and transferring.
EXCLUSIVE: SF support surges as DUP hits 5-yr low & TUV rises in @LucidTalk poll. UUP down but still just ahead of unionist rivals as Alliance & SDLP fall 🧵
🟢SF 28% (+6)
🔷UUP 15% (-1)
🟠TUV 14% (+2)
◼️DUP 14% (-1)
🔴SDLP 11% (-2)
🟨Alliance 9% (-1)
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
