SDLP Election Video

[DOD]

I have to admit, as much as I dislike the SDLP, that was quite good. Still a bit patronising, but you expect that from someone with their heads lodged as firmly up their own arses as the SDLP. However, they talked about (or at least the people they used to speak for them did) real issues.

By comparison, the shinner one was really just going through the motions. Independence, peace process, blah blah. The problem in Northern elctions now is that SF have pretty much reached a ceiling, so they won't stand to gain much, the stoops are probably also going to be firly stable as are th DUP and the UUP. It really does promise to be one piss poor election.

I disagree. There are gains for Sinn Féin across a number of constituencies, West Belfast, South Antrim, Lagan Valley, and elsewhere; while Sinn Féin will be working hard to retain the gains from last time. The SDLP and Alliance are set to lose seats, continuing their long-term decline, while on the unionist side of the equation, the DUP look set to take a number of seats from the UUP.

Well okay, you may be right, I was thinking in terms of 2005, still though the gains will hardly be earth shattering.

[JCSkinner]

I have to admit, as much as I dislike the SDLP, that was quite good. Still a bit patronising, but you expect that from someone with their heads lodged as firmly up their own arses as the SDLP. However, they talked about (or at least the people they used to speak for them did) real issues.

By comparison, the shinner one was really just going through the motions. Independence, peace process, blah blah. The problem in Northern elctions now is that SF have pretty much reached a ceiling, so they won't stand to gain much, the stoops are probably also going to be firly stable as are th DUP and the UUP. It really does promise to be one piss poor election.

I would hope, now that PSF have become the SDLP-lite, that dissident Republicans would consider transferring their preferences to the SDLP rather than PSF in the forthcoming election, since, of the two Nationalist parties now espousing almost identical positions, the SDLP has the greater track record of getting things done.

[Risteard]

I would not advocate anyone giving any preferences to those parties which support English rule in Ireland. The SDLP are certainly less duplicitous than the Provos, who are a criminal gang supporting English rule in Ireland.

[meriwether]

It would appear that in ROC's rush to brand the SDLP as 'losers' he fails to spot the irony that SF have 'won' by embracing SDLP policies. They do this by pretending they havent, and putting out a 'revolutionary' image.
I would also dispute the victory he believes SF have won.

[rockofcashel]

It would appear that in ROC's rush to brand the SDLP as 'losers' he fails to spot the irony that SF have 'won' by embracing SDLP policies. They do this by pretending they havent, and putting out a 'revolutionary' image.
I would also dispute the victory he believes SF have won.

How well it's a FGer that understands the "poor" SDLP boy ..

[JCSkinner]

I see you're still incapable of presenting any differences in policy between the SDLP and Sinn Fein.
Probably because the only real differences are those I already listed, the ones you'd rather not highlight.
Let me congratulate your party on taking the scenic route to common sense. It only took 40 years and the deaths of thousands.