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Date registered: July 10, 2010

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  1. Not ‘uber-’ unionists Tim, just unionists. — February 20, 2012
  2. Would Alex Salmond make a colony of Scotland? — February 7, 2012
  3. The New Unionist: Union with the Irish People as a whole — February 2, 2012
  4. Let us strengthen our Union – not see it break up — January 29, 2012
  5. Repairing the UK — January 10, 2012

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  1. UUP and its liberal core are dependent on each other… — 15 comments
  2. For The Union, It’s Federate or Separate — 15 comments
  3. Basil McCrea’s launch speech in full — 13 comments
  4. Robinson versus the segregationists — 12 comments
  5. United unionism is a myth… — 10 comments

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Feb
20

Not ‘uber-’ unionists Tim, just unionists.

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Tim Montgomerie

The increasing urgency of the Scottish question in British politics has presented an interesting opportunity to observe the faultines in what one might have expected to be the unionist coalition. This has already thrown up some strange occurrences. For example, Carwyn Jones, the Welsh Labour leader, recently expressed a high regard for the Prime Minister’s flexibility …

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Feb
07

Would Alex Salmond make a colony of Scotland?

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As the United Kingdom approaches its date with destiny and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the debate surrounding the possible shape of a post-Union Scotland are only going to get fiercer. What Scotland might look like outside the United Kingdom, whether Scandinavian utopia or isolated backwater, is one of the key fronts on which the …

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Feb
02

The New Unionist: Union with the Irish People as a whole

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One of the primary aims of  Open Unionism is to push our  readership out of its comfort-zone. We are therefore more than happy to publish this piece forwarded to us by the New Irelander blog:  In the early 1970s, a New Ireland Movement was convened in order to provide an empathetic space for people from North and South, Catholic and Protestant who …

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Jan
29

Let us strengthen our Union – not see it break up

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So – it’s to be 2014. The date with destiny we all knew was coming but tried to place at the back of our minds will come around quicker than the London Olympics (2007 doesn’t seem that long ago, does it, eh?) The Scottish people will have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to shape the destiny of …

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Jan
10

Repairing the UK

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After my mini-rant last month on what I see as a fundamentally broken approach to UK modus operandi it seems logical to follow up on how this wrong should be righted. In fact Cameron has quite admirably sought to bring this ‘limbo’ to a decisive end with his legally binding independence vote. It’s a tactic …

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Dec
22

The Dream Lives On: The Conservatives in Northern Ireland

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Since David Cameron became Conservative leader in 2005, he’s done a lot of backtracking. Yet one project he’s stuck with through thick and thin: breaking the Conservatives into Northern Irish politics. From employing full-time party staff to negotiating a fragile alliance with the Ulster Unionists, the party has put a lot of work into a …

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Dec
17

Devolved Government: Copying the Eurozone Crisis Model

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This is a piece from “St Etienne” who is normally to be found blogging here. The first drips of social unrest are permeating through Italy and Greece. Merkel is fighting the crosscurrents of Eurozone leadership and Germany domestic leadership. The French are being well, French. And everyone it seems is wanting a different version of …

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Dec
13

Introducing: Northern Ireland Conservative Future

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Continuing OU’s occasional series on the various unionist youth movements in Northern Ireland, we present the Northern Ireland regional branch of Conservative Future. Northern Ireland Conservative Future (NICF) is the organisation for those under the age of 30, and those in institutions of higher/further education, who are members of the Northern Ireland Conservative Party. NICF …

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Dec
09

Nomenclature Wars Part 2

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Yesterday I provided evidence of how Irish Republicans are using words and language to, well, basically rewrite history. Today I’ll give you two more contemporary examples of the importance of words and language in modern political discourse and why pro-Union activists should pay more attention to their effect. Imagine you are a Scot who is …

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Dec
07

Nomenclature Wars Part 1

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Recently Chris Tribble pondered on what we should call those who have heroically introduced the Arab Spring this year- Rebels? Protesters? Campaigners? Fighters? Guerrillas? Insurgents? Dissidents? Revolutionaries? Maybe even, depending on whom you ask, terrorists? Does it matter how we describe them? Yes, it does. How language is employed is important in determining not just …

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