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TUV Conference lifts the DUP/Sinn Féin carpet to see what’s been swept underneath

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on November 26, 2016, 4:47 pm

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The TUV’s election results in May were disappointing, but the party took great cheer from the EU Referendum result (and the recent US Presidential election result). Taking credit for long-time lobbying for the creation of an Opposition, Jim Allister encouraged the two opposition parties to make it sustainable and help lobby for a permanent change to voluntary rather than mandatory coalition.

TUV Conference – from “a thorn in their flesh” to “a great big cactus inside their shirts”

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on November 19, 2011, 9:48 pm

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The TUV held there annual party conference in Cookstown today. I wasn’t there, but offer some snippets from the speeches (or highlights of speeches) emailed through from the TUV press office. There was practically no online activity around the conference – and the non-attendance of former candidate David Vance probably dampened the volume of tweeting. Party President William Ross opened the conference by addressing the party’s continued existence: I am sure that some are surprised to see us still alive, …