Think it's actually a Housing Exec property if I remember rightly?

Largely moribund outside a few pockets, think the last chance to seriously revive it was probably the rush of new members it had post-2014, but it was too ossified to turn that into a new generation of activists. That said, I'm interested to see what happens if they manage to consolidate here.

Alba vote in the Southside in 2022 was mostly off the back of a split in the local SNP largely centred in the Pakistani community, so it's probably not from there. As to the SSP: they ran a pretty serious campaign w/ regular stalls, leafleting, community engagement, and a decent local candidate.

Don't have many illusions in the SSP as a national organisation in 2025 (still looks essentially moribund beyond a few small pockets), but I'm interested to see what might happen if there's a serious effort to consolidate and build up Olivia Murphy's profile in the area over the next few years.

Realised my knowledge on this is a lot more fragmented and anecdotal than it ought to be! It's an area a lot of work on anti-apartheid (inc. what I've done myself) has tended to elide.

(both from Daniel Geary's 2020 article 'From Belfast to Bob Jones: Ian Paisley, Protestant fundamentalism, and the transatlantic right')

On one hand there's Noel Edmonds-esque cosmic ordering to bring an ex-partner back, or encouraging what's essentially stalking 'to make them realise they miss you', on the other there's diagnosing extreme personality orders in statements like 'they claim they saw different reasons for the argument'.