This week election posters have started to appear on lamposts all over the city. Anna Lo is standing for the non-sectarian Alliance Party in our local assembly elections on 7th March and, as far as I am aware, is the first person from an ethnic minority background to stand on behalf of a mainstream political party in Northern Ireland elections. This has got to be a good thing for our country, especially in a week when a University of Ulster report has announced that Northern Ireland is the most racist country in the western world.
(No post yesterday as, for some reason, blogger wasn't letting me in.)
6 comments:
Very interesting. That's the way it should be with everyone having an equal chance. Let us know what the outcome turns out to be.
I did not know that! Intersting.
I'll let you know how Anna does!
Wow! Interesting post!!
I am an American university student studying exactly this topic - the Chinese population in Northern Ireland! Would you be willing to email me: ftaeg@uaf.edu ?
Congratulations Anna Lo!
-Richard Bacchus, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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