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14 March 2010
I'm not the Kingmaker : Nick Clegg
By R8 Your Politician @ 11:44 :: 9 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: England, Politics, E-Democracy, Activism, Politicians

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09 March 2010
Lost labours - why I support the Lib Dems
By R8 Your Politician @ 12:08 :: 9 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Wales, England, Politics, Politicians

 Today I launched my pamphlet, Lost labours, with Nick Clegg.

As somebody who has a long involvement with the Labour party, including editing the New Statesman magazine, I have been able to give a frank and honest appraisal of a decade and a half of New Labour. And in it I explain why I can no longer support them, and am instead turning to the Liberal Democrats. You can read a more condensed version in an article I wrote for the Guardianhere.

Alongside one million other voters, I deserted Labour in 2005 in protest at Iraq in favour of the Liberal Democrats, the only party to oppose the war. My decision to back the Lib Dems in 2010 is based in a more fundamental appraisal of Labour’s record together with a positive assessment of the Liberal Democrats’ platform.

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19 February 2010
RURAL AFFAIRS AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE Tuesday 23 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 14:52 :: 11 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics, E-Democracy

RURAL AFFAIRS AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
AGENDA
4th Meeting, 2010 (Session 3)
Tuesday 23 February 2010
The Committee will meet at 1.30 pm in Weigh Inn Hotel, Thurso, Caithness

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19 February 2010
THIS WEEK IN THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT Week beginning – 22 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 14:47 :: 33 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics, E-Democracy
THIS WEEK IN THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT    
 Summary      
  Week beginning – 22 February 2010
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17 February 2010
Public Petitions Committee Official Report 9 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 06:00 :: 48 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics, E-Democracy, Petitions

Public Petitions Committee Official Report 9 February 2010

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16 February 2010
Public Audit Committee Official Report 10 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 04:48 :: 40 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics, E-Democracy

Public Audit Committee Official Report 10 February 2010

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16 February 2010
Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee Official Report 10 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 04:46 :: 39 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics, E-Democracy

Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee Official Report 10 February 2010

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15 February 2010
Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee Official Report 10 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 15:14 :: 60 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics, Legislation

Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee Official Report 10 February 2010

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15 February 2010
Helping the emergency services to save the lives of at-risk rural patients
By Paul Cannop @ 15:09 :: 48 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics, E-Democracy, Petitions

Helping the emergency services to save the lives of at-risk rural patients

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15 February 2010
New scandal to rock the Democratic Unionist Party
By R8 Your Politician @ 09:17 :: 37 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Politics, Politicians

Over the past few weeks R8YourPolitician has been aware of potentially damaging allegations and accusations that were brought to our attention by citizens regarding senior members of the DUP.  

When we first came across the alarming statements we put them to the side as the usual Mourne Mountain fairy dust sprinkled lies aimed at spreading rumors and slandering public servants which is very common there is at least one a week from each political background.  We regularly get political rivals, political foot soldiers trying to slander the political opponents and use R8YourPolitician platform to push their ludicrous claims.

One of the sources came to us weeks before the Iris Robinson scandal, weeks before the media got any sniff of it.  However unlike the Iris Robinson saga we could not verify the claims and so refused to push it.  Weeks later when it all broke in the media the source came back saying "told you so".  

So when this source came forward again with these new revelations set to rock the DUP, revelations that have nothing to do with Peter or Iris but other high profile public servants in the DUP we set out to see if there was any validity to these claims.  We tried to find other points of reference that could verify the claims being made.  Much to our surprise we were contacted via Skype from a citizen expressing extremely similar allegations regarding the same DUP member.  So now we have two citizens different parts of the country, different age groups and totally opposite in many ways coming through with the same revelations.  Further more scratching the surface it seems that there is definitely something brewing.  Two credible sources in our eyes validating the same story is starting to ring alarm bells that something is up.

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15 February 2010
Rural Affairs and Environment Committee Official Report 10 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 02:47 :: 39 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Rural Affairs and Environment Committee Official Report 10 February 2010

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12 February 2010
N.Ireland Ministerial Statements from the 2009-10 Session of the Northern Ireland Assembly
By R8 Your Politician @ 17:09 :: 60 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Politics, E-Democracy, Legislation, Devolution

Below are links to the written Ministerial Statements from the 2009-10 Session of the
Northern Ireland Assembly as of Feb 12th 2010: 
11 January 2010

Social Development

Cold Weather Payments

8 December 2009
Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister

Strategy for Victims and Survivors

26 October 2009
Regional Development

Publication of the DRD Corporate Social Responsibility Policy

21 August 2009
Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister

Westminster Draft Legislative Programme for 2009-10

 

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12 February 2010
Public Audit Committee Report
By Paul Cannop @ 15:43 :: 46 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Public Audit Committee Report

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12 February 2010
Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee Official Report 9 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 15:41 :: 45 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee Official Report 9 February 2010

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12 February 2010
Local Government and Communities Committee Official Report 10 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 15:35 :: 45 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Local Government and Communities Committee Official Report 10 February 2010

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12 February 2010
Official Report 11 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 15:31 :: 33 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Official Report 11 February 2010

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11 February 2010
11 February 2010 Forth Crossing Bill at Stage 1
By Paul Cannop @ 16:10 :: 22 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

11 February 2010 Forth Crossing Bill at Stage 1

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11 February 2010
11 February 2010 Alcohol etc. (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1
By Paul Cannop @ 16:07 :: 33 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Alcohol etc. (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1

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11 February 2010
Official Report 10 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 15:33 :: 39 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Official Report 10 February 2010

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06 February 2010
THIS WEEK IN THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT Week beginning – 8 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 13:12 :: 52 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

THIS WEEK IN THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

Summary

Week beginning – 8 February 2010

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06 February 2010
Official Report 4 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 11:13 :: 58 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Official Report 4 February 2010

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06 February 2010
Scottish newspaper industry
By Paul Cannop @ 08:36 :: 66 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Traditional Media ( Tv, Radio & Newspapers)

Scottish newspaper industry

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06 February 2010
The decision on Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
By Paul Cannop @ 08:30 :: 88 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

The decision on Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

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06 February 2010
Official Report 3 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 08:25 :: 39 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Official Report 3 February 2010

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03 February 2010
Scottish parliament
By Paul Cannop @ 17:29 :: 99 Views :: 3 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics, Traditional Media ( Tv, Radio & Newspapers)

Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Bill

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27 January 2010
بعد ان تم اعتقاله ماذا ستفعل الحكومة العراقية حيال هذا الامر؟ : After he was arrested What do the Iraqi Government do about this matter
By Ayman al-Mehdawi @ 15:53 :: 160 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Politics, International , Politicians

كثيرا من الحكومات في العالم تضع ضمن اولوياتها توفير الحماية لمواطنيها من اي هجوم ارهابي قد يتعرضون له، كما انها تسخر كافة امكانياتها المادية واجهزتها الامنية بكافة تشكيلاتها للحيلولة دون تعرضها لمثل هكذا هجومات ارهابية قد تؤدي بارواح مواطنيها والممتلكات العامة والخاصة، ويكون الجانب الاستخباراتي هو العامل الرئيس الذي تعتمد عليه الحكومات في العالم لكشف اي محاولات او نوايا لهجوم ارهابي يستهدفها داخل اراضيها.

Many governments around the world make it a priority to protect its citizens from any terrorist attack might be exposed, as they harness the full potential of physical and security apparatus in all configurations to prevent exposure to terrorist attacks like so may lead lives of citizens and public and private property, and have the intelligence is the main factor upon which governments in the world to detect any attempts or intentions of a terrorist attack target inside its territory.

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06 January 2010
Another Graduate programme, another waste of tax payers money
By Patrick Lismore @ 12:09 :: 269 Views :: 4 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Youth, Politicians , Citizen Campaign's, Government Disclosure : Freedom of Information
Graduate Acceleration Programme
 
Here we go again, a new year a new programme same bullshit I suspect.  I just read in the Belfast Telegraph that the Minister for Employment and Learning in N.Ireland Sir Reg Empey has just launched a new tax payer funded graduate programme that aims to offer graduates work placement along with training.  I would love the Minister to answer me a graduate who joined one of these graduate programmes a year ago when I left a top IT company in Europe to come home to N.Ireland and bring my skills back.  What happened to this programme? how come a whole year has gone by and this graduate who passed the competency based interview and done pretty well has had no contact, no job placement and no opportunity to study the post graduate qualification even though I am in this "successful pool of graduates" that Parity NI claims they have.
 
This new graduate programme sounds very similar to the graduate programme I joined a year ago, leaving my job with one of the best IT companies in the World out in Europe to come back and join the "Intro Programme" run by Parity NI.  This new GAP programme sounds very similar to the Intro Programme.  Work for a company while you study for a qualification only this time graduates will work for their unemployment benefit and a small "weekly bonus".  Where as the Intro Programme at least encouraged employers to pay the minimum wage this new programme is going to give employers highly qualified and highly motivated professionals who are desperate for a job to work for basicly nothing.
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10 December 2009
Open letter to Mark Durkan
By R8 Your Politician @ 01:01 :: 120 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Politics, E-Democracy, Social Media & Politics, Activism, Community news, projects and websites

Morning Mark

Open Question for you

You need to convince the public that climate change is happening and not just a reason to raise taxes. There is little if any proof that the global warming is anything other than what was going to happen anyway.

There have been many articles by respected authorities and scientists actually showing in the last 10 years the earth has ACTUALLY COOLED.

Globally what Britain does when China, Africa, Asia etc etc go unfettered is going to have such a minimal impact. 

Rate Mark Durkan

Letter was asked to Mark Durkan by John Davidson on Facebook 

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08 December 2009
The Calling : For the sheep
By M Brown @ 20:02 :: 58 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: International , Community news, projects and websites

The Calling - kewego
In March 2009 I was approached to create a combined and summarized version of "The Big Picture" "Fight the NWO With Global Non Compliance" and "NWO The Final Solution."

The aim was to condense all 3 films into a one hour solution based production that would appeal to a wider audience and be suitable for television.

This film is the result.

Should some people you know still remain blind to the urgency of the world situation and to their need to be informed and act upon such information, it is my sincere hope that this film may help you to open their eyes.
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08 November 2009
R8 Your Politician, The electorate & Politicians
By R8 Your Politician @ 18:16 :: 196 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Youth, E-Democracy, E-Government, Polling & Statistics , Social Media & Politics, Activism, Grass Roots Initiatives, Citizen Campaign's, Government Disclosure : Freedom of Information

R8YourPolitician (Rate Your Politician) is a newly established reputation based E-Democracy rating platform for the public to rate and review Politicians.  It is an innovative new E-Democracy web platform that engages and empowers ordinary citizens through effective use of Internet technology.  Citizens can actively take part in rating politicians on a scale of 1 – 5 and leave a review.  Citizens can also put forward topics and questions for Polls.  Citizens no longer have to wait to the next election let Politicians know how they feel, they can now contribute to a Politicians reputation on a daily basis 24 hrs a day 7 days a week.  As Politicians are debating in Parliament or talking on the news citizens can be rating them and leaving a review.     Constant engagement and real time rating can now be integrated into daily political life.  Opinion polls are mentioned every week in the newspapers and the media.  The media does not tell you that these polls can range from a few hundred pounds to almost £12,000 per poll, possibly more how many citizens have that kind of money to spend on a Poll.  On the R8 Your Politician website citizens can put forward topics and questions for Polls and we can run them scientifically so that they can be used to support issues and causes that citizens are involved in.  That empowers not just citizens but the many pressure groups and community groups across the country that lobbies government; they can now have opinion polls to support their campaign and cause while they are rating their politicians.

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05 November 2009
Politicians who have engaged
By Patrick Lismore @ 01:54 :: 297 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Politicians , Press Release's

 

We thought we should let the users know the following Politicians who have engaged so far.  We decided before we would launch that it was only fair to write to Politicians and let them know about their profile and to have an opportunity to engage and update their profiles if they wanted to.  
 
It took a fair amount of time to compile a list of all Politicians in N.Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales.  When the emails went out all the N.Ireland MLA's, Scottish MSP's & for the most part Welsh MLA's were notified.  All the emails bound for Westmininster were rejected by the sp@m filter.  You would think it would be common for organsiations and groups across the 4 regions to be contacting Politicians often as a group.  A simple email from R8 Your Politician to all of Westminister was rejected.  That means I will have to manually email each Politician in Westminister.

 

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16 October 2009
Social Media, Politics & the Public
By R8 Your Politician @ 21:10 :: 310 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: E-Democracy, Social Media & Politics, Activism, Grass Roots Initiatives, Citizen Campaign's

What is Social Media?

Here is some definitions;

1 : A category of sites that is based on user participation and user-generated content. They include social networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook, social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, social news sites like Digg or Reddit, and other sites that are centered on user interaction.

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2 : Online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other.

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3 : An umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words and pictures.  This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and "building" of shared meaning, as peoples share their stories, and understandings.

Source

I came across this video which prompted me to write this article.  The video is titled "Social Media in plain English"..................

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14 October 2009
Calling all Politicians
By @ 23:51 :: 462 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Politics, E-Democracy, Social Media & Politics, Activism, Politicians

R8 Your Politician would like to take this opportunity to make Politicians aware that this website is here for them just as much as it is here for the public.

R8 Your Politician welcomes feedback from Politicians on how to better improve the website content and quality.  Politicians are invited and welcomed to submit articles for publication on the site and request changes and updates to their profiles and rating pages.  If you have an important issue or piece of legislation you are trying to create awareness about please send us the articles.

R8 Your Politician also welcomes and invites all Politicians to record and submit a short video so that we can add it to your public profile.

Politicians make sure we have all your official, updated profile information.  Emails will be sent to all Politicians asking for profile information.  Make sure to include links to everything you want added.  Blog links, Website links, Twitter & Facebook links. 

Lastly Politicians spread the word amongst your colleagues in your party.  Encourage your constituents to engage, rate you and leave a review of your work.

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04 September 2009
R8 Your Politician is in the Heat is on Awards
By R8 Your Politician @ 05:24 :: 204 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland

RateYour Politician R8 Your Politician is in the "Heat is On Awards", 6 finalists will be announced for this year’s competition between 12- 2pm 5FM, 6FM, 7FM will R8 be in with a chance to win
http://www.theheatisonawards.com

Source: www.theheatisonawards.com
The Heat is on Awards is a competition for entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland that have an exciting new business idea. £3000 is up for grabs for the most imaginative and also feasible idea. Only business ideas that have not started up yet can be considered.

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09 August 2009
UK poll: Afghan war is ‘unwinnable’
By M Rice @ 16:27 :: 161 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: International

UK poll: Afghan war is ‘unwinnable’

 

 Most Britons believe the war in Afghanistan is "unwinnable" and want troops pulled out, according to a newspaper opinion poll.

Fifty-eight per cent see the offensive against the Taliban as a lost cause, while 52 per cent want the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan, the poll commissioned by the Independentindicated.  The ComRes telephone poll of 1,008 Britons, which was conducted between July 24 and 26, came as the bodies of four British soldiers were flown home to a UK airbase on Tuesday.  The troops were among 22 UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan this month, bringing the total number of service personnel to have died in the conflict since 2001 to 191.

 

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13 July 2009
JOURNALISM IS ALIVE AND KICKING
By @ 10:38 :: 196 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: International

 All hail Diana Rusk! Diana is a Journalist for Belfast’s Irish News, yesterday she wrote an article which I must say inspired me. The title of the article was The Practice of burying bad news is ‘alive and well’.  

 

 

What was Diana referring to or implying one may ask? It’s quite simple Diana is merely exposing the Government practice of releasing sensitive information otherwise known as bad news on a busy news day. 

Diana disclosed how it was 4pm on the last day of the assembly before the summer recess and on the day of a high profile murder case where the murderers of Harry Holland were being sentenced.

 

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13 July 2009
When Will Politicians Come Forward?
By @ 10:31 :: 202 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Politics

 After more revalations regarding Politicians Expenses the latest Politician to make the headlines is the DUPs Jeffrey Donaldson. It has been revealed that the Lagan Valley MP racked up £555.54 movie bill in various London Hotels between 2004 and 2005. Unlike other M.Ps it thus far hasnt been proved that it was of the Pornographic kind. 

This will come as a bitter blow to the DUP after Ian Jnrs latest slip up. Jim Nicholson must be rubbing his hands with glee as the DUP is caught up in scandal after scandal.

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09 July 2009
A member suggest we nominate Tom Elliott MLA for Politician of the Month
By R8 Your Politician @ 14:42 :: 193 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Youth, Politics, International

 A member has asked R8 Your Politician could they nominate Tom Elliott MLA for Politician of the Month.  R8 your Politician were not considering starting the Politician of the month section until we had a resaonable size of Politicians on board.  

However this evening while browsing Twitter, infact when responding to a tweet from Sadiq Khan MP.  The link to Mr Elliott's profile was sent to Mr Khan as an example of a Politician who has endorsed his profile.  

Then when browsing Mr Elliotts profile I noticed on his latest twitter feed a message to his constitutients asking them to "Please let me know how you think I am doing - 

 

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03 June 2009
The New Lord Mayor of Belfast R8s the Executive
By @ 19:51 :: 276 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Politics

First of all congratulations to Naomi Long on her new appointment as the new Lord Mayor of Belfast although it’s a pity it were not in different circumstances.  We have all heard the old saying that only women can multi-task, it’s sad to see that Naomi is a firm believer in this.

 

After the recent public outcry in regards to Politicians expenses which hasn’t gone away you know, and multi-jobbing in Northern Ireland one must question Naomi Longs decision to accept this post.

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13 February 2009
Northern Ireland Youth Forum meets the First Minister
By @ 18:24 :: 415 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Youth

This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the Northern Ireland Youth Forum, and today there was great excitement when they got a visit from Northern Ireland’s first minister Peter Robinson.

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06 February 2010
Official Report 4 February 2010
By Paul Cannop @ 08:28 :: 20 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Scotland, Politics

Official Report 4 February 2010

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16 October 2009
The R8 Your Politician Song ( background )
By R8 Your Politician @ 10:06 :: 237 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland

Some people have asked "Whats the story behind the R8 Your Politician song?"

I had met this guy with his daughter he had noticed the R8 Your Politician T-Shirt and said I like your T-Shirt.  I proceeded to explain the logo on the T-Shirt was the same logo in the website.  

I explained about the website allowing the public to rate politicians and engage with politicians.

The singer said if you give me one of those T-Shirts I will write you a song and sing it for you.  To which I replied sure.

click on read more to listen to the song ( raw unedited )

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03 June 2009
Let the people vote!
By @ 19:58 :: 279 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Politics, International

The Polls for Europe will open in 7 hours.  People from all over Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England will be out to exercise their democratic right.

Voting is at the heart of the democratic system, its the electorate that have the real power.  If a politican or political parties is not doing the job right then its up to the people at times like today to stand up and exercise their democratic right.

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15 May 2009
Northern Ireland: Amnesty makes Bill of Rights call to United Nations
By @ 20:17 :: 315 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Youth, Politics, International

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Northern Ireland: Amnesty makes Bill of Rights call to United Nations

Posted: 12 May 2009

* Call on United Nations to back proposals for Northern Ireland Bill of Rights
* New research reveals strong Northern Ireland public support for rights bill

Amnesty International has today asked the United Nations to back proposals for a Northern Ireland Bill of Rights.

The call was made by Amnesty representatives in Geneva, as a powerful United Nations committee began an examination of the UK's human rights record

 

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