Mid Ulster Constituency

[mutley]

Sandra Overend has been elected for the UUP

[5intheface]

Shifty has announced that he is resigning his Westminster seat to concentrate on his DFM job.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18396327

SF's other 4 MPs are to resign their Stormont jobs.

This will mean the co-option of 4 new MLAs and a by-election in Mid-Ulster.

That'll only be marginally more exciting than the West Belfast poll after Adams resigned....marginally.

[C. Flower]

Shifty has announced that he is resigning his Westminster seat to concentrate on his DFM job.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18396327

SF's other 4 MPs are to resign their Stormont jobs.

This will mean the co-option of 4 new MLAs and a by-election in Mid-Ulster.

That'll only be marginally more exciting than the West Belfast poll after Adams resigned....marginally.

Is this something to do with gearing up to form a Government in Dublin ?

[5intheface]

Is this something to do with gearing up to form a Government in Dublin ?

They are about to ban double-jobbing so all the parties have to get it done. Puts a bit of pressure on the Dupers and Alasdair McDonnell.

From what they were saying, it seems like the other 4 would have preferred to stay in Stormont but they didn't fancy the jip they'd get for causing 5 by-elections.

No real prospect that they would have lost any of the seats.