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If you can't stand the heat

• Mark Devenport
• 19 Feb 07, 04:28 PM

Dozens of business people were at the Europa Hotel today to question the parties on their attitude to corporation tax, road pricing and the problems facing small shopkeepers. David Cameron was at a GP's surgery in Bangor. Not getting first aid, but fending off questions about what the government should do if there's no deal by March 26th. He refused to pile the pressure on the DUP insisting the onus remained on Sinn Fein to back up its words on policing with action on the ground.

Where was I? Putting the tough questions to the potential future Prime Minister? Analysing the politicians' ability to deliver a peace dividend?

No. I was dressing up as a commis-chef for a new 麻豆官网首页入口 Politics trail on the theme of us lovingly preparing our dishes for a couple of voters who have never tried eating out in an electoral restaurant before.

Embarrassing photo will be attached as soon as it becomes available. In my defence I was not alone. Jim Fitzpatrick, Martina Purdy and a whole rake of presenters were also guilty parties...

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You Tube

• Mark Devenport
• 19 Feb 07, 03:45 PM

I see over on Slugger O'Toole that the UK Unionist Bob McCartney has now taken to You Tube

This is fast becoming the You Tube election. But is it only in Northern Ireland and Scotland where "you tube!" is a term of abuse?

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This is not a party election broadcast....

• Mark Devenport
• 19 Feb 07, 10:39 AM

The Greens have told the broadcasters they are pulling their election broadcast featuring a spoof American televangelist. The broadcast hasn't yet been shown on terrestrial TV, but is already on Youtube on this link

Its style is in strong contrast to the video already posted on Youtube by one of the Greens' leading candidates, Brian Wilson. I don't know Brian's view on the Reverend Billy, but it seems some Green candidates must have taken cold feet at the thought of a New York based broadcast which might deter local evangelicals giving them a transfer vote.

The Greens aren't the only ones using the net in this election. The parties obviously have their own central websites, and some individual candidates like the UUP's Peter Munce have tried the webcam route to their potential voters' hearts.

On the topic of party election broadcasts, my colleagues at the 麻豆官网首页入口 have been beavering away trying to find slots for all the parties who are standing in more than three constituencies. It's no easy task, especially when you can meet the threshold by running the same candidate in mutliple seats. But does anyone out there really think voters in Northern Ireland make their minds up about how to fill in their ballot papers on the basis of the election broadcasts?

For an UPDATE read the extended entry

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