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Opinion: Persuading Northern Ireland to say Yes to Fairer Votes

By Stephen Glenn | Thu 7th April 2011 - 9:25 am

Some of you may have wondered where the prolific blogging from me has gone. However, in the words of Mark Twain, “The reports of my (blogging) death have been greatly exaggerated.”

I’ve had an awful lot to say these last few months but I’ve been saying it to a diverse political and non-political audience, all to get as many of them as possible to say the same thing at the ballot boxes on 5th May. That one word is sometimes thought to be alien to many in Northern Ireland and that word is “Yes!”

Yes, that’s …

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