From the 2010 UK Election, a leaflet from DUP candidate Ian McCrae running in Mid Ulster. He polled 5,876 votes.
McCrae is an MLA and also is the son of DUP MP Willie McCrea.
Ian McCrae -DUP -Mid Ulster -2010 UK Election May 9, 2010
UK Election -The first Green MP -Caroline Lucas -Green Party -Brighton Pavillion May 8, 2010
A leaflet produced for Caroline Lucas, who became the Green Partys first Westminster MP when winning a seat in Brighton Pavillion in the 2010 UK election.
ASTI Ballot paper for Proposed Public Service Agreement (Croke Park Deal)
A quick shift away from the UK election stuff to an ASTI Ballot paper for Proposed Public Service Agreement (Croke Park Deal).
Nothing much too it, other than an awful lot of people never get to see Union ballot papers.
The ASTI document which outlines the reasons for recommending a rejection of the deal is here.
Declan O’Loan -SDLP -North Antrim -2010 UK General Election
From the 2010 UK Election. Declan O’Loan running for the SDLP in North Antrim. O’Loan polled 3738 votes.
On the front of the leaflet is a photo of Margaret Ritchie with arms outstretched. The fact that the SDLP take their seats gets a mention as does the fact that Declan O’Loan is the Honorary Consul for Romania in Northern Ireland.
Many thanks to the sender
Ian Butler -Alliance Party- Mid Ulster 2010 UK Election
From the 2010 Westminster Election. An election leaflet from Alliance Party candidate in Mid Ulster Ian Butler. Ian Butler polled 397 votes and lost his deposit.
It was though a successful election for the party as they had their first MP Naomi Long Elected. Of the material I have from the election (I’ve stuff from all the parties that contested in the North) the Alliance were the only ones to have anything other than English or Irish on their leaflets (I didn’t see any Ulster Scots anywhere). There are a number of languages on their leaflet, of which I think includes some Chinese (Cantonese?) and Polish.
Many thanks to the sender
David Harding -Conservative and Unionist -Foyle 2010 UK Election
From the 2010 Westminister Election, a leaflet from Conservative and Unionist candidate David Harding running in Foyle. David Harding polled
1,221 votes (3.22%) and lost his deposit.
In the leaflet a lot of emphasis is put on the partnership between the UUP and the Ulster Unionist Party and how ‘for the first time in a generation, people in Northern Ireland can have a decisive say in who forms the next UK government.’
Problem of course being that it may now be the DUP who have that say.
Harding is pictured all over Derry with a grey haired lady, anyone know who she is?
Adam McGibbon -Green Party -South Belfast 2010
A leaflet from Green Party candidate Adam McGibbon running in South Belfast in the 2010 UK Election. He polled 1,036 votes.
The leaflet mentions the creation of 33,000 Green Jobs (Green New Deal), Clean Politics and speed limit reductions.
Peter Robinson -DUP -East Belfast 2010 UK Election May 7, 2010
From the 2010 UK Election, the standard leaflet from DUP Leader Peter Robinson. Peter Robinson sensationally lost his seat to Naomi Long of the Alliance Party.
He is here pictured with Obama, with British soldiers serving in the Middle East, in the House of Commons but most strikingly hes pictured hard hat on a building site.
If one didn’t know better you’d think he it was with a group of smiling developers.
The Picture beside it is in my view foolish also as it pictures him beside a £ sign!
In fact that page has him in the House of commons first, then with developers and then beside the pound sign. Underneath we have the arrow!
So it could be seen as…. expenses + land deals = cash
Uk Election… Lyle Cubitt -Independent Unionist -North Antrim 2010
From the 2010 UK Election in North Antrim, a leaflet from Independent Unionist Lyle Cubitt.
Lyle wants the Assembly dropped and accuses Jim Allisters TUV and the Ian Paisleys DUP of telling lies to the Northern Electorate.
He polled 606 votes.
Bobby Sands -“Anti H-Block / Armagh Political Prisoner” – 1981 Fermanagh South Tyrone by election
Poster and Leaflet for Hunger Striker, Bobby Sands who stood in the Fermanagh South Tyrone by-election held on the 9 April 1981. He won by 30,493 votes to 29,046 for the Unionist candidate Harry West.
The Hunger Strike centred around the “Five Demands”:
1. the right not to wear a prison uniform;
2. the right not to do prison work;
3. the right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits;
4. the right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week;
5. full restoration of remission lost through the protest
Bobby Sands died on the 5th of May 1981.
many thanks to the donor.
‘Elect’ Aidan Culhane Leaflet -Labour Party -2007 GE Dublin South
From the 2007 General Election another leaflet from the Labour candidate Aidan Culhane. Aidan Culhane failed to get elected.
many thanks to the sender.
Hugh Smyth -Progressive Unionist Party -1998 Assembly Elections West Belfast
From the 1998 Assembly Elections, the Shankill Road based Hugh Smyth running in West Belfast for the Progressive Unionist Party. At the time Hugh Smyth was the leader of the party. He failed to win a seat.
Smyth was elected in 1973 to the Assembly as an Independent Unionist and was one of the founders of the PUP.
Green Alliance Membership form 1983 May 6, 2010
From 1983 a membership form for The Green Alliance/ Comhaontas Glas.
‘The Green Alliance/ Comhaontas Glas has adopted these seven principles by consensus.’
(at this stage the Party still made decisions by consensus)
1- The impact of society on the environment should not be ecologically disruptive.
2- Conservation of resources is vital to a sustainable society.
3- All political, social and economic decisions should be taken at the lowest effective level.
4- Society should be guided by self-reliance and co-operation at all levels.
5- As caretakers of the Earth, we have the responsibility to pass it on in a fit and healthy state.
6- The need for world peace overrides national and commercial interests.
7- The poverty of two-thirds of the world’s family demands a redistribution of the worlds resources.
2010 UK Election -He used to ignore immigration.. .. now he lives on a reservation -UKIP 2010 May 5, 2010
From the 2010 Westminster elections. From the UK Independence Party (UKIP) an incredible anti immigration leaflet
‘He used to ignore immigration.. .. now he lives on a reservation’
‘It’s time to change the government’ -Ciaran Cuffe -Green Party-Dun Laoghaire 2007 General Election
It’s time to change the government writes Ciaran Cuffe running for the Green Party in Dun Laoghaire in the 2007 General Election. A feeling many share with him 3 years on.
We have his decent record over the previous 5 years as a TD and the plans for the future.
Joseph Maguire – Labour Party -1967 Local Elections- Rathdown
From the 1967 Local Elections in the Rathdown ward for Dublin City Council a card from Labour Party candidate, the Shankill based Joseph Maguire.
The message of ‘THIS TIME: SWING TO LABOUR WITH Joseph Maguire‘
The other Labour Party candidates were Bernard Connolly, Vincent McDowell and Gerard O’Reilly.
David Gaynor, Charlie Ardagh -Fianna Fail -2004 LE Crumlin Kimmage
From the 2004 Local Elections in the Crumlin-Kimmage Ward, local Fianna Fail TDs Sean Ardagh and Michael Mulcahy make a plea with voters on behalf of Fianna Fail candidates Charlie Ardagh and David Gaynor. Charlie Ardagh is the son of Sean Ardagh. David Gaynor had been co opted to replace Michael Mulcahy on Dublin City Council.
Charlie Ardagh was elected.
Eamonn McCann -People Before Profit – Foyle -2010 Westminister Election May 4, 2010
The leaflet from veteran campaigner Eamonn McCann running for The People Before Profit Alliance in the 2010 Westminister Elections in Foyle.
This leaflet would have been delivered by volunteers rather than the postal service due to an Industrial dispute, of which details here.
The campaign Song Mentioned in the Leaflet is available HERE
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