It's Over

So the Mid-Ulster By-Election is over and Sinn Fein have won with over 17,000 votes. Nigel Lutton the camera shy Unionist Unity candidate can go back to undertaking as it suits him better than frontline politics. Patsy McGlone did well for the SDLP and fought a good honest campaign. The less said about Alliance Party the better but let's face it they never do well outside Belfast or North Down. Maybe it is time for a change at the top of the party.

One Big Happy Family

No one in the Unionist family should speak out of turn about Nigel Lutton so says David McNarry the UKIP MLA. What he means of course is no one should mention Nigel's uncle Joey. Joey was a member of the Glenanne Gang which was made up of rogue members of the RUC and UDR as well as the UVF. They carried out the bombing of Dublin and Monaghan in May 1974.Joey Lutton was in the UVF which was illegal as well as the UDR which was legal.So Mr Nigel Lutton who has the support of the Ulster Unionists and the Democratic Unionists the Orange Order and Traditional Unionist Voice as well as UKIP. All one big happy family.

The Three Amigos

Nigel Lutton the Unionist Unity Candidate for Mid-Ulster has been keeping a low profile of late.Considering he is running for Parliament you would think he would be running towards the media not running away from it.The BBC offered Nigel and the other candidates a televised debate but he declined the offer. And he also has been missing in action when it comes to the candidate profiles which the media do at election time.Some people have suggested that this may have something to do with Nigel's family tree. Nigel is running as a victim of political violence in our country as his father a former RUC officer was shot dead by the IRA. But it turns out Nigel's uncle may have been convicted of involvement in the murder of a Catholic man by the UVF. Another great success for Unionist Unity and its chief sponsors Mike Nesbitt and Peter Robinson.