SDLP Campaign Gaining Momentum. It Really Is Game On
Published by SDLP Youth on Wednesday 20th May 2009Hello all – me again.
When I posted last week – I had a fairly tenuous quote from an Alliance Party source upon which I hung my assertion that Alban Maginness is in the race for a seat in this election. I admit now that I was stretching things somewhat. Ever since, I’ve been hoping that I’d be able to e-mail you again with something more substantive to underline my deeply held belief that the wind is at the SDLP’s back.
Then the sitting Ulster Conservative and Unionist MEP, Jim Nicholson, went on BBC Radio Ulster on Sunday and said:
“The Unionist people of Northern Ireland are in danger of losing one of the two seats that they hold in the European Parliament. No one can call the outcome of this election. This is one election you cannot predict in any way, shape or form. But there is a great danger out there that with the Unionist vote being shredded three ways that two of the seats would not go to Unionists.”
And today, TUV MEP, Jim Allister went further still:
“There is a danger then that the SDLP could slip into a second seat…”
Add these to Liam Clarke’s comment in the Sunday Times:
“…Nicholson, who traditionally fights with the SDLP for the last seat, could become an also ran.”
People: it really is game on. The SDLP campaign is gaining momentum. Alban is playing an absolute blinder. We have 17 days to win back the SDLP seat in Europe. That is the prize. Let’s keep going.
Best wishes
Ronan McCay
Director of Organisation & Election Planning
