North Antrim Alliance representative Jayne Dunlop has sucessfully lodged her papers for Westminster today. Speaking after her nomination, Jayne Dunlop said, “I am pleased to have this opportunity to represent Alliance in North Antrim. As an Alliance candidate I have a strong commitment to tackling division in our society as well as providing a fair […]
ALLIANCE Party candidate for North Belfast, and Children’s Spokesperson, Marjorie Hawkins, heartily supports the demand for an overdue wage increase for classroom assistants in Special Schools. Mrs Hawkins said: “As a governor of Hillcroft Special School, and as a first-hand witness, I know how teachers and classroom assistants not only attend to these pupils’ education […]
Alliance has nominated Party Leader David Ford MLA, and his predecessor Sean Neeson MLA, as its Westminster candidates for South and East Antrim. Mr Ford stated: “David Burnside effectively admitted yesterday that there is now no difference between the Unionist parties. Both have had their chance to deliver stability, both failed. They seek a mandate […]
Alliance has nominated a complete set of candidates for the constituencies wholly in County Down. Alongside Julian Crozier in South Down, Cllr David Alderdice will contest North Down and Kieran McCarthy will contest Strangford. Dr Alderdice’s candidacy in North Down is sure to make it a three-way battle for Westminster. He stated: “Alliance stood down […]
East Belfast candidate Naomi Long MLA outlined today why not only local, but global responsibility, is at the heart of Alliance’s message to the electorate. Cllr Long, a member of Belfast’s Fair Trade Steering Panel, which is trying to obtain Fair Trade City Status, said: “Alliance estimate that local irresponsibility on the part of other […]
With the campaign for both local government and Westminster elections truly underway, alongside the continuing suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly, it is understandable that a significant section of the electorate is turned off by what they see. The Good Friday Agreement was supposed to change our lives for the better. The Ulster Unionists and […]
East Belfast Alliance Assembly Member, Naomi Long, has revealed that, following an investigation of complaints she received last Autumn about a premium rate phone service, the operator in question has now been fined £10,000 and banned from operating such a service for 1 year. Her complaint to ICSTIS, the telephone information services watchdog, followed a […]
East Belfast Alliance Assembly Member and Westminster candidate, Naomi Long, was one of the first candidates to successfully lodge her papers as nominations opened for Westminster this morning. She and her fellow Belfast Alliance candidates Gerri Rice (South Belfast) and Marjorie Hawkins (North Belfast) were joined at the Electoral office this morning by Alliance Party […]
The Alliance Party has nominated Julian Crozier as its candidate for the South Down Constituency in the Westminster Election. Julian Crozier lives near Rathfriland where he works a small agricultural holding. He is a former civil servant and Chief Executive of the Training Employment Agency who now is employed as a consultant dealing mainly with […]
Alliance candidate in Lagan Valley, Seamus Close MLA, has said a fellow candidate’s call to “decent people” to vote Ulster Unionist is insulting. Mr Close stated: “Basil McCrea further illustrates the hypocrisy of his party by referring to ‘decent people’. The suggestion is clear — that if they do not vote for him they are […]