Nov
07
Great analysis over at The Dissenter… the blog takes a look at the reasons why Basil McCrea lost the UUP leadership election and also considers the challenges ahead for Tom Elliott. Although focused on the UUP, there are many points relevant to all unionist Parties.
Sep
22
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=strategy&iid=291400" src="http://view3.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/291400/king-chess-piece-lying/king-chess-piece-lying.jpg?size=500&imageId=291400" width="500" height="333" /] The UUP leadership contest concludes this evening. From the get-go, I opened up this blog to both candidates to place material and (in my own small way) to help get information out into the public domain. I intentionally set out to be a facilitator and haven’t taken …
Sep
07
Here’s the full text of Basil McCrea’s speech. I’ve also uploaded a word doc version onto the Box.net widget in the sidebar as well… Speech to the Media at campaign launch Basil McCrea MLA Good morning everybody and thank you for taking the time to come to what is the start of a new era …
Sep
06
Basil McCrea launched his leadership campaign this morning. I wasn’t unable to get along to it, but I called in with a few people to get their sense of how it went. Overall, the Elliott campaign should be worried – Basil was described as putting in an immense performance. So as not to place individual …
Sep
03
I hear that Basil McCrea will be be holding his Leadership Launch event on Monday at 10am. Venue for the event is The Merchant Hotel, Belfast. Organisers says Basil will be outlining his manifesto, platform and vision for the Ulster Unionist Party. I’ll hope to make my way along to the event and will post up once I get …
Sep
03
Candidate for the UUP leadership election, Basil McCrea, has written a piece for the News Letter as part of the News Letter’s Union 2021 series of articles. This article appeared in the News Letter on August 24… ‘Unionist leaders must pick right fights’ Unionist unity would be a strategic mistake, argues BASIL McCREA GIVEN the …
Aug
26
Tom Elliott has launched his bid for the leadership of the UUP. Here’s an article he wrote for the News Letter this week, plus links to his webpage and to Mike Nesbitt’s blog (who seems to be the media operator behind Tom’s campaign). I’ve asked for a copy of his launch speech and I’ll post that …
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