00:05: SNP describe election as "very good" for them, saying that they have made "great strides."00:32: BBC saying it looks like SNP candidate John Mason may have won, although remains to be confirmed.00:45: Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy Leader of the SNP, says it is looking more and more likely that they have scored a victory, but refuses to...
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In the topsy-turvy paradox that is Northern Irish politics we have constitutional republicans (in the wider European sense) that are called 'nationalists' (the SDLP), nationalists pretending to be republicans (Sinn Fein) and, most strangely, 'unionists' (the DUP) who possess arguably the strongest sort of nationalism on the island- Ulster Nationalism. This point is demonstrated most clearly in recent weeks by Iris Robinson's comments regarding homosexuality and her attack on secularism. Iris's political development seems not to have embraced any Enlightenment thinking whatsoever and is stuck solidly before the epoch-making French Revolution of 1789- maybe stuck even as far back as 1690! Her views and those of the DUP have no place whatsoever in modern Britain except...