UKIP announce that they are to stand in upcoming assembly elections

The Prime Minister David Cameron decides that charging the tax payer for photographers is not a good idea!

...only if a Minister does try to declare the power being surrendered to Europe as minor...

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Simply Belfast call on the Information Commissioner to step down....

New Alliance, Following her failure to get nominated by the UUP for the 2011 NI Assembly Elections

With Northern Ireland unemployment figures nearly  60, 000...

MLA Dawn Purvis has raised concerns that DUP will invoke a petition, to stop her Bill to halt double jobbing

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Is council spending going to be a political hot potato in the 2011 Northern Ireland Council Elections

With the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 2011 coming soon, are voters being played over water rates

Lawrence Walker has passed away following a period of illness

...but the subsidy costs you the tax payer £500,000. With the 2011 Northern Ireland Assembly Elections coming soon, are their chips up?

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After failing to get selected by the UUP for the 2011 Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Paula Bradshaw has 'UUP' & Gone

Remember the promises that Camilla would never be Queen, well now Charles says she will, what do you think?

Unionist politicians get electric shock treatment as NIE sold to Irish Firm

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The Ulster Unionist Leader Sir Reg Empey resigns following disastrous results in the 2010 General Election

First Minister and  DUP leader Peter Robinson loses Westminster seat to East Belfast Alliance MLA Naomi Long

Election Day 2010 has arrived and all our political parties and seeking a Big Kiss From You...

The election campaign for the 2010 General is well under way with mud slinging and allegations of bullying by PM Gordon Brown

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The Leader of the DUP Peter Robinson indicates those candidates elected to Westminster will give up Stormont Seats, except him

In an unusual and surprising move the UUP pact select a former Alliance Party candidate to stand against its own elected candidate 

The watchdog body conducting an inquiry into MPs' expenses arrived in Belfast today to hold public meetings with local politicians but the DUP will be missing

The Belfast News is all about Iris Robinson former MP, MLA & Councillor

...read our view 

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Campaigners take their message to the Northern Ireland Executive at Stormont

Belfast News
Peter Robinson DUP

MP, MLA, First Minister states  'I think if MP's slept on a Park Bench and starved themselves that would still be too much for some people'

See just some of what our MP's claimed & make your decision as to whether it is acceptable & whether you would get away with similar claims

Jackie Smith Porn Bill

The Home Secretary Jackie Smith has admitted claiming for her husbands adult films, a polite way of saying pornography, on expenses, which the taxpayer then paid 

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Empty Promises?  

Days after Sir Reg announces his new policy  ApprenticeshipsNI the first apprenticeship is advertised in the press:

WITH AGE RESTRICTIONS

Sir Reg, Empty Promise?

Will Jim Fix It For You?

Jim Allister MEP and QC stood at the last European Election as a Democratic Unionist candidate but now standing for the Traditional Unionist Voice - C can Jim FIX it for YOU! 

I've Done Nothing Wrong

The Edinburgh home, the London Flat, 11 Downing Street and the man like so many other New Labour Politicians that:
Has Done Nothing Wrong!

Two Jags Prescott's Petition

The former Deputy Prime Minister took to the airwaves to push his online petition to stop British Bankers from claiming their bonuses - here is our view!

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Is the UK a Nation In Distress?

As Gordon Brown and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson sat beside an upside down Union Flag, did this blunder hide a hidden truth that the Nation was In Distress?

Who would live in a house like this?

Home Secretary Jackie Smith states she has done nothing wrong amid public anger that she declared her family home where her children and husband reside, as her second home 

New Labour Employment Minister Tony McNulty claims for a house lived in by his parents.

Political News
DUP Double Jobbing

The Democratic Unionist Party which has long been dogged with damaging claims of Double-Jobbing - has announced its New Stormont team

The last hurdle to the Czechs signing the EU treaty is cleared and the UK is denied a referendum by both Labour and the Conservatives

speaks out on MP expenses as the crisis deepens into what MP's have been claiming at public expense

The New Labour government continues its trend of spin, with one hand claiming expenses through the nose whilst objecting to others...

The Northern Ireland Assembly road show wastes thousands, is the Assembly out of touch? 

The EU gain their YES in Ireland, but at what cost, the the people of Ireland had already said NO!

Belfast News
Violent Crime Is UP

The Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde has announced that violent crime is up 17.5% a small overall increase and that crime in general is down 1%

One of the greatest problems with the EU is the perception that when you say NO and they want you to say YES, they just plague you with referendums until you do

Following a deal between Jim Allister of the TUV and the DUP, Mr Allister cries fowl. Was Jim DUPed?

George Bush visits Belfast, Northern Ireland and meets politicians but does not do walk around

Following the departure of the Rev. Ian Paisley as leader of the DUP and as First Minister of northern Ireland - Peter Robinson has been elected as First Minister

Following the retirement as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Ian Paisley, the Deputy Peter Robinson has been elected