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I’m so proud to be the poster girl for TUV, says Claire
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Claire Dickinson, who adorns a TUV election poster, at her home in Larne, where she has also been out canvassing for the party
enlargeShe's young, blonde, beautiful and smart.
She is also the new poster girl and real life campaigner for the Traditional Unionist Voice.
Trainee accountant Claire Dickinson is the new face of the TUV as the election poster battle hots up.
The Larne beauty (26), clad in a sexy off-the-shoulder red dress, is adorning a TUV election poster being circulated online, with the strapline “We’ve got real voters to appear on our election posters — I’m voting TUV” — a response to the claim that rival unionist parties, namely the DUP, are using models on their posters.
But Claire insists she is the true face of the TUV.
“I will be voting for Sammy Morrison (TUV east Antrim) because he is young and fresh,” she said. “I agreed to appear in the poster so that people know there are young people in the TUV. We are young people who are interested in government and want to know how they are using our money. Young people want a change and are fed up with all the lies and scandal in politics. I voted for the TUV in the European elections and I’ll be voting for them again.”
Married for four years, Claire, originally from Broughshane and educated at the University of Ulster in Coleraine insisted the poster is not exploiting her good looks to ‘sex up’ the TUV’s image.
“I don’t normally look that glamorous,” she said. “The picture is from a wedding I was at. I had my jeans on last night canvassing in Larne where we got a good response on the doors.”
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I am a 26 year old protestant orange man. It does concern me that lots of other young Protestants are thinking of voting for the TUV, like the lovely Claire. The DUP and UUP need to stand up and be counted. It’s time for unionists to stop repeating history, to stop looking back and to look forward.
Posted by Dave | 21.04.10, 14:21 GMT
Totally Unrealistic Vision. TUV are a throw back to the bad old days. Protect our hard won peace process. Vote for GFA parties.
Posted by Terence | 20.04.10, 16:49 GMT
Wrong Richard. No terrorists applies to all terrorists, not just one 'sort'.
Thats why you will find loyalist terrorists have miniscule support with the Unionist electorate.
It's time to move on and leave behind the people responsible for the dark days of the past and create a better future for our children, free from terrorist threats and violence.
Posted by stve | 19.04.10, 14:01 GMT
The unfortunate thing for Claire is that there is nothing Traditional about the TUV. It is merely a manifestation of parochial Ulsterists who have little understanding of being British or indeed any broader perspective on life. The more people vote for the TUV, the more it reinforces the view that people in Northern Ireland have lost a grip on understanding contemporary British life. As for the brigade that do not want to see terrorists in government, all very well as a moral principle; however, in reality many of them just don't want Republican terrorists in government but have no qualms about the so-called Loyalist variety.
Posted by Richard Haversham | 19.04.10, 09:54 GMT
Any reasonable person would agree with no terrorists in government. Good luck to Claire and I hope others examine their opinions and vote TUV.
Posted by stve | 17.04.10, 22:45 GMT
Yawn. Dear PR company/person that put this together, your 1970s approach to marketing is, well, pathetic. Unfortunately some folks will fall for it, as well you know.
Posted by Emma | 17.04.10, 22:43 GMT
She's not really that hot. I'm mean, she's o.k. but she doesn't even hold a candle to Toireasa Ferris.
Posted by doug | 17.04.10, 19:51 GMT
Good for Claire, 5 Stars.
Posted by UNIONCRUISER | 17.04.10, 19:46 GMT
She is an attractive woman but why she would want to get involved with such a reactionary unrealistic bunch as TUV is beyond me. Sad that such a young person is wasting her time on the politics of hate and division. Vote for Good Friday Agreement candidates. Scupper the begrudgers.
Posted by Terence | 17.04.10, 19:28 GMT
This girl is too young to remember the troubles. She is lucky enough to have grown up in a peaceful Northern Ireland, a truely transformed place. Like Republican dissidents, it seems the TUV is trying to distroying the peace process by conning our youth that their respective sides have somehow "sold out". The collapse of the NI Executive, or the ending of the peace process would be a spectacular own-goal for all the people of NI. Some people just don't realise how far we have come or how better life is here since violence ended. We must protect peace at all costs!
Posted by Jack | 17.04.10, 16:12 GMT
Northing traditional about diehard sectarianism. TUV has nothing to offer only greater division.
Posted by pragmatist | 17.04.10, 15:31 GMT
She is certainly young and blond, and yes beautiful, but smart? I doubt it.
How can she be, voting for a TUV candidate.
Posted by Jim | 17.04.10, 13:42 GMT
Happy? Right. You're happy that you're supporting an extremist right-wing party which seeks to plunge Northern Ireland back into the darkness of inter-community violence and oppression. A party which is intent on ignoring the votes of some 40 per cent plus of the population, and returning to the pre-1969 era where Unionists ruled with a tyrannical fist and the vile Orange Order controlled most of parliament.
Well done Madam, that education at the U of U (or was it the University of Colonial Bigotry?) clearly did you wonders.
Unfortunately for you and your ilk though, your wish for a return to circa 1950 just isn't going to happen. Democracy has finally come to Northern Ireland (after a long interregnum) and it isn't going away. Sinn Fein are a democratically elected party and fully merit their voice in government.
Reactionary philistines such as Jim Allister won't change that basic fact, however many models he employs on his election posters.
Posted by Euskial Herria | 17.04.10, 11:45 GMT
I wonder if she supports convicted mass murderer Torrens Knight's appeal against his latest conviction.
Just wonderin', like?
Posted by The Mighty Begorrah | 17.04.10, 11:28 GMT
'She's young, blonde, beautiful and smart.'
I'm afaid you've got the last one wrong. She can't be smart if she's voting for backward-looking grumpy TUV.
Posted by T J McClean | 17.04.10, 10:05 GMT
Well, she might be young and blonde - but her beauty is clearly hardly even skin-deep. And smart? To tie yourself to the future of the dinosaurs? I think not.
Posted by Tony Newlove | 17.04.10, 10:02 GMT