Election Pacts

It’s all a bit of a mess

Sara McCracken on April 28, 2017, 6:55 am | Readers 542

I decided to get over my FOMO and steer clear of social media when I was off for a week over Easter. Given I hadn’t heard any news or picked up a newspaper I allowed myself two minutes on Twitter – only to find that we were heading for yet another election. Seriously Mrs May! I love an election and exercising my hard-won democratic right to vote as much as the next person, but further polarising the country is not …

The Democratic Peoples Republic of Northern Ireland

Kris Nixon (Belfast Barman) on March 22, 2015, 3:06 pm | Readers 1447

“I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts” – Terry Pratchett Election pacts, who wants ’em, who needs ’em, who gets ’em? That seems to be the name of the game this week, I’m sure not everybody got what they wanted, but if nothing else, a few party higher-ups have added quite a lot of chapters to their autobiographies. Every cloud and all that jazz… I don’t get election pacts, it makes no sense …