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Listed below are comments made by The-N-Don between Wednesday, 10th June 2009 and Tuesday, 25th August 2009.

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Should Matt "do God?" 11:20pm on 25 Aug 2009 Stormontspy,

A few questions about your arguments and their lack of apparent sense.
1. Sinn Fein being responsible for reducing police numbers on the ground? As far as I'm aware police levels have been on average 7,500 since at least 2006, and if I'm not mistaken Sinn Fein have been loud proponents on community style policing, with more officers on the streets.
2./3. You say that people like Shaun Woodward should mind their own business, yet you also call for local government to be reduced. The PSNI has to be accountable to a higher authority, it may seem unfortunate, but in a democratic society that will be government of some form or another.

I think people in this country are too eager to spit out the same usual lines about ALL the parties as well as our elected representatives. Perhaps if we were all willing to engage and look beyond some of the typical stereotypes that exist then this little Island might just run a bit smoother.
Just when you thought it was safe.... 6:27pm on 27 Jul 2009 Stormontspy,
It is not the responsibility of The Electoral Office to enforce the removal of electoral posters. The piece of legislation surrounding this is Article 87 of The Roads Order (Northern Ireland). The parties have 14 days to remove the posters, after that it falls under the remit of the roads service. They will most likely get in touch with the parties themselves and if posters still remain they will remove them and bill the parties.
Ps, I'm sure you'll agree there are more than just SDLP posters still up.
"We haven't gone away, you know" 10:19pm on 10 Jun 2009 Stormontspy,
To answer one of your original questions, I'm pretty sure Maurice Morrow was Diane Dodds' election agent, though Jeffery Donaldson was the director of elections. I think the election agents role is more to make sure all the technicalitiesare been followed and liase with the likes the electoral office, wheras Donaldson would have been responsible for overall strategy and the organising throughout the country.
With regards to the Allister situation, I really hope the majority 66,000 people who voted for him did so because of:
1. Diane Dodds looking incredibly out of her depth and lacking charisma
2. The expenses issues
3. The continued deadlock at Stormont
As someone said, Allisters beliefs belong with the ark, he has nothing to offer most people here. I was at the kings hall on Monday and the behaviour of him and his supporters was an embarassment to every single person in this country. Standing in North Antrim would be a double edged sword, it's probably the place where he would have most support but it would still be incredibly risky taking on a Paisley, even though it is a lightweight version in Ian Jr.

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