The Battle for Fermanagh and South Tyrone

[gallsman]

Well done to Michelle Gildernew and rightly deserved. The people of Fermanagh South Tyrone are no mugs.
But please could everyone stop referring to the sdlp as a nationalist party - they are not and are a pro union party who take their seats in Westminster and have a 'leader' who constantly refers to the 6 counties as ' northern ireland' . Rant over .
But yee haa time !!!

Intelligent fellow.

Says Einstein!

I prefer Newton.

[Nally Stand]

Well done to Michelle Gildernew and rightly deserved. The people of Fermanagh South Tyrone are no mugs.
But please could everyone stop referring to the sdlp as a nationalist party - they are not and are a pro union party who take their seats in Westminster and have a 'leader' who constantly refers to the 6 counties as ' northern ireland' . Rant over .
But yee haa time !!!

Intelligent fellow.

Well Gallsman, the SDLP admitted as much themselves. Didn't they call themselves POST-NATIONALIST??? They have shown their true colours as always and the people have one again shown them the middle finger and in bigger numbers than ever!

[Zapatista]

Says Einstein!

The famous dog from back to the future or the less well known guy from the funny photo?

[gallsman]

Well done to Michelle Gildernew and rightly deserved. The people of Fermanagh South Tyrone are no mugs.
But please could everyone stop referring to the sdlp as a nationalist party - they are not and are a pro union party who take their seats in Westminster and have a 'leader' who constantly refers to the 6 counties as ' northern ireland' . Rant over .
But yee haa time !!!

Intelligent fellow.

Well Gallsman, the SDLP admitted as much themselves. Didn't they call themselves POST-NATIONALIST??? They have shown their true colours as always and the peoplehave, one again, shown them the middle finger in bigger numbers than ever!

They comfortably retained all three seats...Even Ritchie, who anyone with half a brain cell finds difficult to like had no bother winning.

[JohnDenver]

Lets see Arelene fosters celebrating now, like she did last night 

Was watching last night online, was a great evenings veiwing but this part nearly made me sick. Well up her hole the auld bag!!

Anybody know what time roughly that she was at this celebrating craic?

[Zapatista]

Well Gallsman, the SDLP admitted as much themselves. Didn't they call themselves POST-NATIONALIST??? They have shown their true colours as always and the people have one again shown them the middle finger and in bigger numbers than ever!

Someone said earlier on the thread that it might be worth appreciating the trad SDLP voters who casted their voters for SF. Good advice I think.

[Nally Stand]

Well done to Michelle Gildernew and rightly deserved. The people of Fermanagh South Tyrone are no mugs.
But please could everyone stop referring to the sdlp as a nationalist party - they are not and are a pro union party who take their seats in Westminster and have a 'leader' who constantly refers to the 6 counties as ' northern ireland' . Rant over .
But yee haa time !!!

Intelligent fellow.

Well Gallsman, the SDLP admitted as much themselves. Didn't they call themselves POST-NATIONALIST??? They have shown their true colours as always and the peoplehave, one again, shown them the middle finger in bigger numbers than ever!

They comfortably retained all three seats...Even Ritchie, who anyone with half a brain cell finds difficult to like had no bother winning.

With Reduced minorities. And the strategist brains in the SDLP still did foresee that their refusal to withdraw from Fermanagh/South Tyrone was a suicide attempt. HALVED THEIR VOTE  And they will further rue their decision come the assembly elections!

[armaghniac]

Anybody know what time roughly that she was at this celebrating craic?

BBC NI just after the first figures came in showing Connor 4 votes ahead. Check the time of that count (01:30 or whenever).

[Nally Stand]

Lets see Arelene fosters celebrating now, like she did last night 

Was watching last night online, was a great evenings veiwing but this part nearly made me sick. Well up her hole the auld bag!!

Anybody know what time roughly that she was at this celebrating craic?

she was sneering and punching the air in the studio after the first result came in at about 3 am as far as I remember! It's all a blur

[stibhan]

This is not a day for soundbites... we can leave those at home... but I feel the hand of history upon our shoulder with this, I really do 

[Final Whistle]

Fair played to Michelle and the team

Scour on the radio saying well done to Conors for getting so close having only entered the race late.

Tough sh&^e - it was 2 orange against the green and we won

^^^Hardly the progressive opinion that is likely to make our protestant neighbouirs see eye to eye with us. Yes Unionism may be in  a state right now, but petty point scoring will do nothing but alienate them further. We are all on here bestowing our congratulations to Michelle, how about we take a leaf out of her book and extend the hand of friendship to our protestant neighbours.

As we will find out soon enough, there is an oppertunity for green and orange to unite in the same fights, and on two different battlefronts also.

[gallsman]

Well done to Michelle Gildernew and rightly deserved. The people of Fermanagh South Tyrone are no mugs.
But please could everyone stop referring to the sdlp as a nationalist party - they are not and are a pro union party who take their seats in Westminster and have a 'leader' who constantly refers to the 6 counties as ' northern ireland' . Rant over .
But yee haa time !!!

Intelligent fellow.

Well Gallsman, the SDLP admitted as much themselves. Didn't they call themselves POST-NATIONALIST??? They have shown their true colours as always and the peoplehave, one again, shown them the middle finger in bigger numbers than ever!

They comfortably retained all three seats...Even Ritchie, who anyone with half a brain cell finds difficult to like had no bother winning.

With Reduced minorities. And the strategist brains in the SDLP still did foresee that their refusal to withdraw from Fermanagh/South Tyrone was a suicide attempt. HALVED THEIR VOTE  And they will further rue their decision come the assembly elections!

A reduced minority? How does someone win a first-past-the-post election with a minority?

SDLP vote halved? You think unionists are the only ones who know how to vote tactically?

[stibhan]

How does someone win a first-past-the-post election with a minority?

A lot of them do. Most parliamentary candidates, certainly in the North, win a FPTP election with a minority of the votes cast.

[leenie]

Great stuff, and a well done the good folk of F & S Tyrone.

thanks....


congrats to michelle...

[Nally Stand]

Well done to Michelle Gildernew and rightly deserved. The people of Fermanagh South Tyrone are no mugs.
But please could everyone stop referring to the sdlp as a nationalist party - they are not and are a pro union party who take their seats in Westminster and have a 'leader' who constantly refers to the 6 counties as ' northern ireland' . Rant over .
But yee haa time !!!

Intelligent fellow.

Well Gallsman, the SDLP admitted as much themselves. Didn't they call themselves POST-NATIONALIST??? They have shown their true colours as always and the peoplehave, one again, shown them the middle finger in bigger numbers than ever!

They comfortably retained all three seats...Even Ritchie, who anyone with half a brain cell finds difficult to like had no bother winning.

With Reduced minorities. And the strategist brains in the SDLP still did foresee that their refusal to withdraw from Fermanagh/South Tyrone was a suicide attempt. HALVED THEIR VOTE  And they will further rue their decision come the assembly elections!

A reduced minority? How does someone win a first-past-the-post election with a minority?

SDLP vote halved? You think unionists are the only ones who know how to vote tactically?

Ah wud ye cheer up! You'd think you would be happy to see a nationalist take a nationalist seat! Oh wait, your obviously a stoop so maybe not