Stormont Assembly Elections 2017

[imtommygunn]

What is the point in another election. Absolute waste of time and money.

[Minder]

What is the point in another election. Absolute waste of time and money.

Yeah fcuk that, to get the exact same result give or take a seat

[Olly]

Does anyone else steal election posters and take them home and have like a family life with them? At the minute Michelle O'Neill is ironing and Mike Nesbitt is poking the fire.

[north_antrim_hound]

Does anyone else steal election posters and take them home and have like a family life with them? At the minute Michelle O'Neill is ironing and Mike Nesbitt is poking the fire.

Where's Arlene
                        Just keep her on standby, everyone runs out of bog roll at some stage

[Farrandeelin]

Is Brokenshire offering another election to help out his mates in the DUP?  Could be worth £5m of our money to him and the DUP?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-39218555

The repulsive little Tory/Unionist Puppet is simply trying to scare SF into toeing the line and kowtowing to Big Arnie Fister .... I doubt it will work out the way he thinks it will ... And on we go .. ffs    ... What a bunch of odious horrible scrotes the Tories & the DUP are ... absolutely disgusting oxygen thief's the lot of them 

+1.

[Far East]

Does anyone else steal election posters and take them home and have like a family life with them? At the minute Michelle O'Neill is ironing and Mike Nesbitt is poking the fire.

Surely Mc Elduff is poking the fire, keeping er lit...

[north_antrim_hound]

What is the point in another election. Absolute waste of time and money.

Yeah fcuk that, to get the exact same result give or take a seat

Westminster has pinned their colours, its two fingers up to the nationalist electorate
Last weeks election was about the Rottweiler stepping aside or am I missing something
DUP must want another election when they backed her after this week
They came out in the first round and got a bloody nose but didn't get knocked out
Now they want to reload (with the UUP in their corner this time) and come out in round 2 swinging and get back POC because they are control freaks
There will be no crocodile insults this time to get our ganders up as they have to have learned something
We have to that ourselves
It's a sh.te state of affairs but there's not point in voting last week and not going again this time
How many here think SF should fold and let go why we voted in the first place

[haranguerer]

What is the point in another election. Absolute waste of time and money.

Yeah fcuk that, to get the exact same result give or take a seat

Nationalist apathy (like this) could result in a vastly different result. If there is another one, its vital the nationalist vote is even more motivated than at the last one, as the unionist vote will be. If they increase their vote/seats, it will have been a result for them.

[seafoid]

What is the point in another election. Absolute waste of time and money.

Yeah fcuk that, to get the exact same result give or take a seat

Nationalist apathy (like this) could result in a vastly different result. If there is another one, its vital the nationalist vote is even more motivated than at the last one, as the unionist vote will be. If they increase their vote/seats, it will have been a result for them.

Is there any seat when the SDLP and SF could combine to lose the DUP a seat?

[johnneycool]

What is the point in another election. Absolute waste of time and money.

Yeah fcuk that, to get the exact same result give or take a seat

Nationalist apathy (like this) could result in a vastly different result. If there is another one, its vital the nationalist vote is even more motivated than at the last one, as the unionist vote will be. If they increase their vote/seats, it will have been a result for them.

Is there any seat when the SDLP and SF could combine to lose the DUP a seat?

Strangford is a possibility for the SDLP if SF were to step down.

[ardtole]

beat me to it jc.

[vallankumous]

Is there any seat when the SDLP and SF could combine to lose the DUP a seat?

They didn't do it in Fermanagh South Tyrone for General election they won't do it now. And rightly so, they stand on very different platforms.

[Applesisapples]

There is no nationalist majority in the North. You roughly have a 42/42% split give or take if you include the TUV and the other 16% non-aligned in terms of 1st preference votes. But that doesn't even equate to 42% in favour of a UI, it means that 42% are at worst cultural nationalists, and there are many who would not vote for a UI in the morning. SF keep talking about persuading unionists of the benefits, they need also to persuade nationalists although that would be an easier task. Many nationalists myself included whilst holding the aspiration of unity will only vote for it in the right circumstances, for me the worry is creating the troubles in reverse, for others it is the NHS, education and welfare.

[seafoid]

Is there any seat when the SDLP and SF could combine to lose the DUP a seat?

They didn't do it in Fermanagh South Tyrone for General election they won't do it now. And rightly so, they stand on very different platforms.

They have done it in FST in the past eg 1970 , 74, 81. SF are v close to 30 which is the magic number and DUP minus 1 or 2 would mean they couldn't get the veto. Unionists have no hassle voting tactically.

[Owen Brannigan]

SF keep talking about persuading unionists of the benefits, they need also to persuade nationalists although that would be an easier task. Many nationalists myself included whilst holding the aspiration of unity will only vote for it in the right circumstances, for me the worry is creating the troubles in reverse, for others it is the NHS, education and welfare.

Not sure it would be much easier because at least the Unionists are visible.  With Nationalists you will never now how they will go in the voting booth despite what they say and do outside of it.  It is easy to be aspirational while the unionist majority always ensure that the aspiration cannot be achieved.