Borderless thoughts on Politics, Public Affairs, the media and anything else that matters from Conall McDevitt, SDLP MLA for South Belfast
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  • Bad night for the BNP

    Posted on October 23rd, 2009 Conall McDevitt No comments

    Nick Griffin came, he saw the cameras, and he couped. No two ways about it he lost the debate, not because of Jack Straw’s performance but because of the pincer movement by English Asian woman and a black American one.

    Race, gender and ignorance caught this fascist out again and again.

    The BBC was right to let him on. It was a good night for politics and free speech and a bad one for the ultra right.

  • Vote for Sergeant’s return to the floor

    Posted on November 19th, 2008 Conall McDevitt No comments

    This is a travesty.

    The only Strictly contestant ever to enjoy support on O’Conall St is being waltzed off the show. There can be no doubt he has been bullied off the stage by people who actually think this is a serious programme.

    What a joke.

    We will now be reduced to the bland dancing with the bland and the pseudo beautiful pouting at a panel of questionable taste. Saturday night has lost its edge and the BBC stands guilty of presiding over an ‘Ugly Betty’ style vendetta against a man with more talent in his little finger then the rest of the constestants do in their perfectly formed bodies.

    Christine, Austin and Jodie are people of integrity. They should refuse to continue in a competition which is so clearly incapable of accommodating difference.

    Stand up for your rights John. Maggie, Tony and even David Cameron would not give in to this type of pressure from the Bling Brigade.