mcnarrygate

UUP suspend David McNarry for 9 months #mcnarrygate

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Tom Eliott wielding scissors at the opening of David McNarry's Saintfield Advice Centre Opening

Earlier this morning when I wrote … Neither has David McNarry gone away. I’ll be very surprised if one Strangford MLA won’t be spending next week sitting in the leader’s office in UUP HQ figuring out how the party can limit the damage the other Strangford MLA could yet still do. … I didn’t expect that David McNarry’s disciplinary action would be completed quite so quickly. UTV, BBC and others report The MLA David McNarry has been suspended from the …

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“the game for the UUP is virtually up unless it is able to come to terms with … the unpalatable reality”

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Tom Eliott wielding scissors at the opening of David McNarry's Saintfield Advice Centre Opening

The king of the UUP-scourging quote is back. David McNarry, the man who gave us the line “the party will close ranks and anybody who wants to be a hypocrite will get their photograph taken” has given up his early Lenten abstinence from the media. The UUP member and independent MLA at the centre of the party’s most recent fracas has emerged and spoken once again to the News Letter, despite the ongoing disciplinary process and the instruction to all …

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