Strangford Conservative and Unionist Association

07/03/2022

07/03/2022

HMS Prince of Wales set sail from Portsmouth Naval Base in the early hours of Monday to take part in Exercise Cold Response.

06/03/2022

Excellent speech by Steve Baker at East Belfast Conservative Association on Friday night.With renewed goodwill and respect in UK/EU relationships over Ukraine this is the time to sort the Protocol and restore Northern Ireland's place in UK single market.

SENIOR BREXITEER Steve Baker has called for the Government to go ahead with triggering Article 16, after Whitehall claimed the Ukraine invasion has made ministers hesitant to enter into conflict with the EU.

21/12/2021

Good luck 🤞 Liz,keep to the Command Paper

01/12/2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-59266116

A long-awaited report is made public but its proposals are unlikely to be implemented any time soon.

01/12/2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-59266116

The justice minister says nobody is taking responsibility for a long-awaited report on flags and identity.

26/10/2021

The NASUWT's Northern Ireland official Justin McCamphill said the exemption was "outdated and needs to be removed".

"We are calling on the first and deputy first minister to remove this and ensure that every teacher has equality of opportunity and is able to apply for work in any school regardless of their religion or perceived community background," he said.

The leaders of the five main political parties in Northern Ireland are also expected to speak at the ICTU conference at the Waterfront Hall on Tuesday.

The exemption allows schools to use religious background in deciding who to recruit to teaching posts.

04/09/2021

Bird life under threat not just arctic skua even the curlew!?
Garden birds in Ireland decline dramatic too some species by almost 90%.

Scotland’s breeding seabird population has almost halved since the 1980s, according to NatureScot.The Arctic skua, which breeds in the Northern Isles, has exp

17/08/2021

“Another good column from Owen Polley : "Since 1998 unionists have supported profound differences between NI and the rest of the country. This made it easier to justify treating us differently when it came to serious matters like the procotol" https://t.co/TKGI70uxn5”

16/08/2021

Some good achievements here sadly too many apply to England only but NI should get similar pro rata funding through Barnet consequentials.We need to ensure NI Executive spends correctly rather than be absorbed as so often the case in the bottomless pit of Stormont bureaucracy,quangocracy,carve up and waste.
Examples in England-safer Streets fund,High Street improvement fund, and freeports don't necessarily apply to NI.
Over and above all this perhaps most importantly, we must continue to work to scrap Protocol.

Two years on, we have delivered for Britain. Here's a list of some of our top achievements.

27/07/2021

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-aircraft-carrier-visits-singapore/

HMS Queen Elizabeth and elements of her Carrier Strike Group have arrived in Singapore.

27/07/2021

This special centenary exhibition explores the history of how Northern Ireland was established and puts it into the local context of the time. Like all historical narratives, the lead up to the partition of Ireland and the formation of Northern Ireland is complicated. The outcome was never straightf...