Young
Unionists

It appears the blog is experiencing some problems with Internet Explorer, apologies for any inconvenience we will sort these out soon. The site works fine on Firefox.

Rick and I were at the Slugger Awards this evening in W5.  Good to see that two out of the three blogs shortlisted for political blog of the year were UUP blogs, even if neither won!  Congratulations to both Brian and Chekov for standing out in an increasingly crowded field.

Congratulations also to UUP Deputy Leader Danny Kennedy on his well deserved win in the Committee Chair of the Year category.  Danny does a sterling job as Chairman of OFMDFM and fully deserves the recognition, as does Basil McCrea for his nomination of newcomer of the year.  A mention also for David Gordon of the Belfast Telegraph for his journalist of the year award which is also richly deserved.

It looks like there are a few problems viewing the site in Internet Explorer at the moment, we’ll have those sorted in the next few weeks.  The site views as intended in Firefox however.  I think there may be a small problem with the RSS feed as well, but am not sure about that.

The new blogging team should be in place within the next few days, after which output will increase steadily!

Welcome to the new Young Unionist blog.  We have been away for over a year now, and are looking forward to building a blog as successful as we had.  Things are very much in development at the moment, but expect to see a good range of debate and discussion written by members of the Ulster Unionist Party’s youth wing.