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Gary Watton: commentator and satirist

Eye am an author, historian, misanthrope, psephologist, and statistician, amongst other things.

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Irish Unity?

It's hard to take the possibility of a 32-county state seriously when the Irish Republic don't take it seriously. None of them seem intent on competing in Northern Irish constituencies in a united state. As a consequence, we may well have nine or ten...

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Current Update

I realised several years ago that I am a little like Charlie George, the Arsenic legend (or Chelsea's Alan Hudson). Tis all the more surprising, since I dinnae support Arsenil. Our Charlie was one of the most talented players of his generation. If he...

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The BBC, the News Of The World, First Minister Peter Robinson, and Me! 

I'm a bit reluctant to tell this tale. I'm not sure that it puts me in a good light, but it is what it is. Besides, it's just over ten years ago, and I have made a lot of strides recently and am actually in a better frame of mind nowadays. I used to work...

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Greedy Pigs

MORE THAN SIXTY GREEDY PIGS The following individuals are named in recent annual reports for various Northern Ireland Executive departments. Some people might say that those below are selfish, overpaid money grabbers, but I couldn't possibly comment....

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You've Been Framed

Framed Certificate Copies Of The Ulster Covenant for sale, £8. Simply email gw930@yahoo.com with the names of your ancestors and I will dispatch a certificate on request. Also, framed certificate copies of the dead from the two world wars are also available,...

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Britain's Safest Seats (see also http://psephologist.blog.com)

What constitutes a safe seat? Let me throw the following suggestion out there. First of all, it is not sufficient to state that a seat is safe if the elected Member of Parliament possesses more than half of the vote. At Bristol North East in 1970, Robert...

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Britain's Fascist Regime by the commentator Gary Watton

Modern Britain is a fascist democracy. A what? I hear you say. Seriously, folks. Our parents, grandparents, and assorted ancestors went to war in the early 1940s seemingly to defeat the disease of fascism, or more particularly Nazism. However, fascism...

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A dark horse? Yes!

A dark horse? Yes!

Gary Watton, the world's least-known celebrity, is a prolific author, commentator and historian of informative, non-fiction reference books. He was born in Fulford Maternity Hospital because there was no room at the inn. An accomplished air guitarist,...

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BBC hypocrisy by the author and whistleblower Gary Watton

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Permit me to share the following information with you. I have previously worked for a Belfast taxi firm and as a consequence I had access to literally thousands of taxi bookings. This item refers to bookings that...

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Manifesto by the author and commentator Gary Watton

No this isn’t a homage to a Roxy Music album from the 1970s, but instead this page is my own vision for the Disunited Queendom. Tony Bennett once sang ‘If I Ruled The World’. Well here is my programme for government if I ruled Little Britain. [The following...

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