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Election Communication

Eileen Bell

North Down Constituency

“Improving community relations must be the biggest priority for our Assembly - not an optional extra. Only Alliance is providing credible answers to the problem of how we deal with our divisions.”

THURSDAY 29th MAY 2003 Label here

North Down

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Eileen Bell 2 Stephen Farry

Alliance Works ~ Tribal Politics Doesn’t www.allianceworks.org

“Only Alliance asks the awkward questions that need to be asked, and raises the difficult issues that need to be raised.” www.allianceworks.org Published by Derek Bell on behalf of Eileen Bell and Stephen Farry, all at 27 Maryville Avenue, Bangor, BT20 3RH. Printed by GPS Colour Graphics, Alexander Road, Belfast, BT6 9HF.

Stephen Farry

Eileen Bell Works • Alliance Deputy Leader, former Party President, Chair and General Secretary. • Spokesperson on Education, Equality and Community Relations, Victims, Women’s and Children’s Issues. • Sole voice for integrated education on the Assembly Education Committee. • Participated in the Multi-Party Talks, and every other Talks process in the past 15 years. • Public representative in North Down for over ten years. • Member of the Probation Board; has also served on the South Eastern Education and Library Board, the Bangor Citizen’s Advice Bureau board, and the Board of Visitors in the Crumlin Road Prison.

Stephen Farry Works • Ten years of local service as North Down Councillor, Deputy Mayor 2002-2003. • Age 32, PhD in International Relations, Alliance General Secretary and Justice Spokesperson. • Experienced talks negotiator and political analyst, with interests in community relations, economic development, and the environment. • Successfully led efforts to secure a developer for Bangor Seafront, and to attract Safeway to the town. • Acted to ensure the election of a pro-Agreement MP for North Down in 2001, and to secure the future of the Agreement. • Combines the fresh approach and new ideas, with the experience and knowledge of local issues.

North Down Working for North Down Alliance works for you all year round. While others are content to merely serve their time, Alliance representatives are prepared to do the practical work on behalf of constituents, raising issues on health and education, planning and policing, housing and transport. Alliance takes a stand on the important issues that matter to you. Only Alliance provides a strong pro-Agreement voice that can win seats in North Down. Your Alliance MLAs will work to: • Radically overhaul Planning Laws • Improve the Funding for the Ulster Hospital • Increase investment in our railway • Put more police officers on the street • Tackle bigotry and sectarianism

Stephen Farry

Five Years of Wasted Opportunities The Agreement has yet to be properly implemented. Traditional parties have pursued their own narrow agendas and bickered over issues such as policing reform rather than working together for the good of all. Even today, rather than looking to a shared future together, the UUP and the SDLP are moving to the extremes, looking over their shoulders at the DUP and Sinn Féin. Meanwhile on the streets, sectarianism, segregation and law and order remain major problems. Sectarianism Costs Sectarianism and segregation carry huge human and financial costs. More and more people are living almost parallel lives with a bare minimum of contact with those on ‘the other side’. Huge resources are wasted in providing separate facilities that could be better invested in improving public services. Why do we persist in forcing people into boxes called unionism and nationalism? Apartheid never worked in South Africa. It can never work here. Making the Difference Healing our community divisions must be the biggest priority for the Assembly. Unless we seriously address these problems, they will eventually destroy the Agreement and all that has been achieved so far. Alliance is the leading cross-community and anti-sectarian voice in Northern Ireland. Alliance is the political voice of those who work to create a united community, characterised by sharing not separation. Alliance offers everyone an invitation to join something different, something better than tribal politics – a genuinely shared and non-sectarian future. For Alliance, the Agreement is not the ceiling of our ambition. It is the foundation on which we can build a better future.

The full Assembly Manifesto, and detailed policy papers are available from www.allianceworks.org or by phoning 9032 4274

Eileen Bell

Alliance Works ~ Tribal Politics Doesn’t Back in 1998, people voted for a new beginning. While in many respects Northern Ireland is better than before, the progress that people had a right to expect has not occurred.

Election Communication

North Down Constituency

Stephen Farry “Improving community relations must be the biggest priority for our Assembly - not an optional extra. Only Alliance is providing credible answers to the problem of how we deal with our divisions.”

THURSDAY 29th MAY 2003 Label here

North Down

1

Stephen Farry 2 Eileen Bell

Alliance Works ~ Tribal Politics Doesn’t www.allianceworks.org

“Only Alliance asks the awkward questions that need to be asked, and raises the difficult issues that need to be raised.” www.allianceworks.org Published by Derek Bell on behalf of Stephen Farry and Eileen Bell, all at 27 Maryville Avenue, Bangor, BT20 3RH. Printed by GPS Colour Graphics, Alexander Road, Belfast, BT6 9HF.

Eileen Bell

Stephen Farry Works • Ten years of local service as North Down Councillor, Deputy Mayor 2002-2003. • Age 32, PhD in International Relations, Alliance General Secretary and Justice Spokesperson. • Experienced talks negotiator and political analyst, with interests in community relations, economic development, and the environment. • Successfully led efforts to secure a developer for Bangor Seafront, and to attract Safeway to the town. • Acted to ensure the election of a pro-Agreement MP for North Down in 2001, and to secure the future of the Agreement. • Combines the fresh approach and new ideas, with the experience and knowledge of local issues.

Eileen Bell Works • Alliance Deputy Leader, former Party President, Chair and General Secretary. • Spokesperson on Education, Equality and Community Relations, Victims, Women’s and Children’s Issues. • Sole voice for integrated education on the Assembly Education Committee. • Participated in the Multi-Party Talks, and every other Talks process in the past 15 years. • Public representative in North Down for over ten years. • Member of the Probation Board; has also served on the South Eastern Education and Library Board, the Bangor Citizen’s Advice Bureau board, and the Board of Visitors in the Crumlin Road Prison.

North Down Working for North Down Alliance works for you all year round. While others are content to merely serve their time, Alliance representatives are prepared to do the practical work on behalf of constituents, raising issues on health and education, planning and policing, housing and transport. Alliance takes a stand on the important issues that matter to you. Only Alliance provides a strong pro-Agreement voice that can win seats in North Down. Your Alliance MLAs will work to: • Radically overhaul Planning Laws • Improve the Funding for the Ulster Hospital • Increase investment in our railway • Put more police officers on the street • Tackle bigotry and sectarianism

Eileen Bell

Five Years of Wasted Opportunities The Agreement has yet to be properly implemented. Traditional parties have pursued their own narrow agendas and bickered over issues such as policing reform rather than working together for the good of all. Even today, rather than looking to a shared future together, the UUP and the SDLP are moving to the extremes, looking over their shoulders at the DUP and Sinn Féin. Meanwhile on the streets, sectarianism, segregation and law and order remain major problems. Sectarianism Costs Sectarianism and segregation carry huge human and financial costs. More and more people are living almost parallel lives with a bare minimum of contact with those on ‘the other side’. Huge resources are wasted in providing separate facilities that could be better invested in improving public services. Why do we persist in forcing people into boxes called unionism and nationalism? Apartheid never worked in South Africa. It can never work here. Making the Difference Healing our community divisions must be the biggest priority for the Assembly. Unless we seriously address these problems, they will eventually destroy the Agreement and all that has been achieved so far. Alliance is the leading cross-community and anti-sectarian voice in Northern Ireland. Alliance is the political voice of those who work to create a united community, characterised by sharing not separation. Alliance offers everyone an invitation to join something different, something better than tribal politics – a genuinely shared and non-sectarian future. For Alliance, the Agreement is not the ceiling of our ambition. It is the foundation on which we can build a better future.

The full Assembly Manifesto, and detailed policy papers are available from www.allianceworks.org or by phoning 9032 4274

Stephen Farry

Alliance Works ~ Tribal Politics Doesn’t Back in 1998, people voted for a new beginning. While in many respects Northern Ireland is better than before, the progress that people had a right to expect has not occurred.