Winding up the SDLP
A DUP politician showed an SDLP colleague an official looking pamphlet today proclaiming "Morrow is Your Man for Europe". So was this the answer to the question mark over who the DUP will confirm, after some delay, as their candidate to take on Jim Allister?
No, my DUP sources tell me it was a wind up. The pamphlet dated from Maurice Morrow's unsuccessful candidacy , before Jim Allister's selection by the DUP.
On the topic of Mr Allister, the TUV leader appears to be competing with Iris Robinson for next year's "Stonewall" prize for anti-gay views.
In a debate on civil partnerships he told fellow Euro MPs, "the natural order is man and woman. We pervert it when we demand equality for its very antithesis. Unfashionable as it may be, I unashamedly declare that the unnatural partnership between same sex couples is not something to which I as a legislator consent."
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