Naomi Long MLA @naomi_long@respublicae.eu
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RT @PatriciaOLynn: Delighted to see another new store, @Rituals come to #TowerCentreBallymena.
More importantly, it’s great to see a new employment opportunity for locals.
Ballymena always has been a fantastic place to shop.
@Politicorak In your view. Not in his. That's why I'd like conditions clarified.
@EarsAllex @MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news Oh, don't you worry. I am. I've faced worse than boos from all directions.
I just prefer my open and respectful dialogue to be just that.
@Anita0048 @ConcernedPers12 You wait 18 months to tell me to stop doing something?
Maybe stop trawling through and replying to old tweets?
@paulmurphy68 @gtmag10 @realLangerDan @MichaelHegart13 @cjcam85 @gaelmag @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news No-one is claiming it is. However, it's not a permanent setting.
@partikthist @EarsAllex @MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news We didn't attend their rallies. We turned up to oppose their hegemony.
@POCKETS1981 @MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news We haven't attended any "discussions" where some contributors were booed for expressing a view.
Our engagement with IF has been on the basis of open dialogue: our concern was that this wasn't framed in that way. And that seems to have been a valid concern on our part.
@gtmag10 @MichaelHegart13 @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news If nationalism is a majority, there is de facto a reason to believe change will happen in a poll (which is the actual GFA condition). It may happen without a nationalist majority, but it would be more likely (though not inevitable) with one.
@ConchobharC @paulmurphy68 @MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news I think we read it well. Open, welcoming discussions don't descend into pantomime booing of contributors.
@gtmag10 @realLangerDan @MichaelHegart13 @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news We don't support the Tories and never have. To suggest that disagreeing with the current government equates to requiring Constitutional change is a nonsense.
There are plenty of tories in the Dáil...
@emeraldeagle2 @paulmurphy68 @MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news The booing others experienced didn't feel like it was an open dialogue. I've been to plenty of duscussions and never experienced that kind of audience reaction to people putting forward their views.
@gtmag10 @realLangerDan @MichaelHegart13 @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news It says change must be likely ie a majority in favour of change.
Someone else waa making the case there was a majority of nationalists now: I was clarifying that's not accurate.
@Politicorak I'm not misquoting the GFA. The SoS is to call one when he believes change is likely.
We're not blocking anything: that case has not yet been made.
@EarsAllex @MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news I doubt they'd have been heard over the boos which seemed to accompany anyone daring to challenge the orthodoxy...
RT @DannyDonnelly1: This is great to see. Being able to use public transport opens up lots of opportunities for young people to work and socialise. @AccessEmployme1 are a brilliant organisation that help and support many people into employment.
@POCKETS1981 @MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news Lol. People have been using that jibe since Adam was in short trousers.
More and more people actually identify with the Alliance position. Maybe better to try to understand it than deride it, if you want their support.
@Heaney20Heaney @MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news Not what I said. If you need to misrepresent me to make your point, you don't have one.
@paulmurphy68 @MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news Happy to discuss the future and have participated in previous discussions and no doubt will again in future when appropriate. No-one's stopping anyone else continuing to talk either.
Feels increasingly like these discussions aren't so much open and welcoming as compulsory...
@Michael74126744 @MichaelHegart13 @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news There is no majority. Same in City Hall and in Stormont.
@MichaelHegart13 @long_friday @cjcam85 @gaelmag @paulmurphy68 @DalFiatach @EireNua_Think32 @politicsIN @irish_news I've explained how we would approach any referendum many times before.
It will be the people of NI who decide but the SoS will call the referendum only when they judge that change is likely.
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