Talk:Anti H-Block

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[edit] Convicted felons

Use of scare quotes around convicted felons makes this NPOV. Perhaps a description of the process by which the UK govt. prevented the prisoners from standing as parliamentary candidates or a longer quotation from the bill in question would be better.71.166.129.50 08:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I've changed that, for various reasons. Firstly the UK doesn't even use the word felons anyway, and secondly the legislation doesn't prevent people with convictions standing as candidates. I'll check the full details and flesh it out a bit later. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 12:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Election box metadata

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[edit] Anti-H block - a label not a party

Anti-H block was a label not a political party and was simply a number of candidates backed by the anti-H block committee. These included members of Sinn Fein, the Irish Independence party, Independent councillors and even a couple of SDLP councillors in Dungannon who heeded the committees request to withdraw from local councils in support of the Hunger strikers. Sydney Elliott provided the full list in his book on the 1981 council elections. Valenciano 19:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)