Martina Anderson has just topped the poll in Northern Ireland. But 25 years ago, she was in Durham Prison, as one of only two female Category A prisoners in England at the time; the other, Ella O'Dwyer, had been arrested, tried and convicted with her and with others including Patrick Magee, the Brighton Bomber.
In the meantime, Anderson has served on the Policing Board, and also as Junior Minister in the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. The First Minister when she was in his Office was Peter Robinson.
Martina Anderson, Policing Board member, Minister in the Office of Peter Robinson, and poll-topper in Northern Ireland as a whole, who was arrested, tried and convicted with Patrick Magee, the Brighton Bomber. Claire Fox, for whom most of the North West's more than a million Tories have just voted. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, who led their party to 40 per cent of the vote at the last General Election, forcing a hung Parliament.
Anybody would think that, even if there were still people who dimly remembered that there had ever been a war in Northern Ireland, then nobody cared. Anybody would think that even mentioning it about an opponent were now considered downright ill-mannered, and were liable to prove downright counterproductive at the polls.
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