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Unionist may refer to:
In the United Kingdom, British unionists are those people and political organisations who wish their constituent country to remain or in historical usage to become part of the United Kingdom. More specifically, it may refer to:
Alliance Party may refer to:
Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann [ˈt̪ˠuəʃcəɾˠt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]; Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the northeast of the island of Ireland. It is variously described as a country, province, region, or "part" of the United Kingdom, amongst other terms. Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the UK's population. Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government. Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in some areas, and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to "put forward views and proposals" with "determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments".
Anna Manwah Lo MBE (born 17 June 1950) is an Alliance Party politician in Northern Ireland. Born in Hong Kong, of Cantonese-Chinese ethnicity, Lo was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast South in the 2007 assembly election. She was the first ethnic-minority politician elected at a regional level in Northern Ireland, and the first politician born in East Asia elected to any legislative body in the United Kingdom.
In 2011, Anna Lo was appointed as the chair of the Northern Ireland Assembly's Environment Committee. She used this role to influence the Local Government Bill. As a result of her amendments, the new Councils will have greater levels of openness and transparency as the audio of the main Council meetings will be recorded and Council papers will be placed online. She has also further improved the freedom of the press at the new Councils by ensuring that journalists and the public will be able to use social media during meetings.
She was selected as the Alliance Party's candidate for the Northern Ireland constituency in the European Parliament election, 2014. She won the best ever European election performance for the party.
George Square is the principal civic square in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is named after King George III. Laid out in 1781, George Square is today home to the headquarters of Glasgow City Council, and boasts an important collection of statues and monuments, including those dedicated to Robert Burns, James Watt, Sir Robert Peel and Sir Walter Scott. It is generally regarded as the de facto centre of the city, although Blythswood Square (1 km to the west) is the true geographical centre of the city, whilst all distances are measured from nearby Glasgow Cross.
George Square was laid out in 1781, part of the innovative Georgian central grid plan that initially spanned from Stockwell Street east to Buchanan Street—which reflected the growing rational influence of the Scottish Enlightenment, along with the similar development of Edinburgh's New Town. This grid iron masterplan across the lands of Meadowflats and eventually as far west as Blythswood Hill, was largely the work of the notable contemporary architects James Barry, James Craig and James Gillespie Graham.
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The Uniting Ireland debate steps up a level with the participation of 2 unionist MLAs at a recent Uniting Ireland debate in Omagh.
In this video the Scottish Nationalists and the Unionists go head-to-head over Scotland’s potential independence from the UK. Get the latest headlines: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=telegraphtv Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/telegraph Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/102891355072777008500/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
The Alliance Party has been accused of abandoning its "middle ground position" after a high-profile member declared her preference for a united Ireland. Anna Lo described herself as "anti-colonial" and said the partition of Ireland was "artificial". Ms Lo, who is the party's European election candidate, made the comments in an interview for the Irish News. Alliance said its policy remained that it was up to the majority of people to determine the future status of NI. In the interview, published on Thursday, the South Belfast MLA said a united Ireland would be "better placed economically, socially and politically". Her comments come just weeks before the 22 May European election. In response, DUP MLA Arlene Foster called on Ms Lo to apologise for her "deeply insulting language". Ms F...
Derry was the outstanding example of the way local authority electoral boundaries had been drawn up to ensure that as many local authorities as possible were 'made safe for unionism'. Although Protestants comprised only 40 per cent of the city's population, they returned 12 councillors to the Catholic's 8. This ensured a majority and put them in power. This made it impossible to have a voice. This was called gerrymandering. Queen Victoria, the monarchy, and the British Empire are built on theft, bloodshed and murder. Shows the story for all to see. Simple. British, english, scottish, welsh, london, buckingham palace, castle, king, queen, tory, conservatives, liberal democrats, lib dems, labour, house of commons, lords, laws, monarch, prince, princess, wedding, royal, royalty, crown, fanc...
A work of satire: Uncovered under the freedom of information act this public service video was used to train high profile unionists in all walks of Scottish life on how best to undermine Scottish self determination and ensure the union was preserved. update: given the various comments made about this on various forums, at the time of making this i was not aware of this "wee unionist handbook" and based some of the speech on an article that has been available online since 2004.