Alliance Westminster candidate Paula Bradshaw has slammed SDLP Leader Alasdair McDonnell for deliberately misleading the public on the Department of Justice consultation on regulations concerning abortion in the case of fatal foetal abnormality. Responding to comments on the BBC Sunday Politics programme, Councillor Bradshaw said: “I am sorry that Dr McDonnell has opted to mislead […]
Opinion piece from Alliance Leader David Ford in the Belfast Telegraph The election on May 7th is your opportunity to vote for Northern Ireland to move forward. Alliance is the clear, unequivocal choice for those who want to tackle the key challenges that face our community, so we can all move forward together. In 2010, […]
Naomi Long has pledged to make tackling tax dodging a priority in the new Parliament. The Alliance East Belfast Westminster candidate said transparency in public life would be an important issue for any Alliance MPs to pursue with the new Government. “Tax evasion costs the country a substantial amount of money each year. It is […]
Alliance Leader David Ford has said that the new Health Minister must bring a change in views towards issues such as the ban on gay men donating blood but there are major doubts over whether this will be the case. His comments were made after Jim Wells resigned following two controversial remarks he made in […]
Alliance North Down MLA, Stephen Farry, has called on Jim Wells to clarify reported comments that he made to a lesbian couple in Rathfriland on Saturday in which he is alleged to have questioned their lifestyle while he was out canvassing. Stephen Farry MLA said: “Alliance had expressed scepticism over the nature of Jim Wells’ […]
A democracy gives its citizens many rights. But at the core is being able to vote and hold to account those in power. However, one group of potential voters is being left behind and denied that privilege. While young people in Scotland are being given the opportunity to vote in the 2016 election, nearly 50,000 […]
Alliance Leader David Ford has said remarks made by Health Minister Jim Wells at a South Down hustings on Thursday expose a deep vein of homophobia and disrespect for the LGBT community which runs throughout the DUP. Mr Ford added any resignation by Mr Wells following his linking of gay relationships and abuse and neglect […]
Alliance North Down MLA, Stephen Farry, has said that Jim Wells must apologise and retract the remarks he made in which he alleged that facts indicated that children raised by same sex couples are far more likely to be abused or neglected. Dr Farry said that if he is unwilling to do so then his […]
Naomi Long accompanied by special canvasser Naomi Long has had a special guest on her latest canvass around the streets of East Belfast. Chaz the guide dog, alongside owner Elaine Orwin, accompanied East Belfast Alliance candidate Mrs Long while she knocked doors around Belmont Church Road yesterday (Tuesday). Mrs Long said the canvass was a […]
Alliance North Belfast representative, Jason O’Neill, has condemned those behind a bomb attack in North Belfast on Tuesday night in which a device exploded after it was fired or thrown at a passing Police vehicle. It is believed that the device exploded in the air and caused damage to the windscreen of a parked car. […]