We could write a long article about David Vance but to be honest his posts speak for themselves. However I’ll provide a little background first.
David Vance ran for political office as the East Belfast candidate of Traditional Unionist Voice party in Northern Ireland in 2010. He achieved 1856 votes which was less than 6% of the votes in the candidacy.
2010 was to prove unlucky for Vance again when the Belfast Telegraph reported on a comment he had made in relation to the blockade of a Gaza port by Israeli forces and published their view that they interpreted Vance’s comment that he wanted ‘no more messing about‘ to suggest it “can only be taken as incitement to even tougher military action than that which left nine people dead and 35 injured.”
Vance runs a blog called A Tangled Web where he introduces himself to potential readers with this bio:
There has been a lot of controversy over the blog and numerous complaints made for it to be closed down due to hate speech. One forum claimed the blog was temporarily removed, however I have been unable to find evidence to support this.
The blog is still live as of the date of this article.
He has allegedly also written a book so I had a look on Amazon for it. I’m presuming this is not his Amazon author page as the front covers appear to contradict some of the views of his we see expressed below but who knows?
Of the six reviews of his actual book Unionism Decayed (six!) four were one star reviews.
He left the TUV in 2011 stating “I have a number of platforms in my blogs to express myself. I have no plans to stand for office in the future, but I will continue to be a political commentator.”
Vance has little media presence beyond Twitter and his own blog but did hit the papers in July 2015 when he was quoted saying ” [Derry (Londonderry in N.Ireland) was] an intolerant Irish republican hole full of work dodgers.”
This is David Vance in his own words.
Background in Investigative journalism. Mum. Christian. I’m better than nobody and nobody is better than me.
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Vance has posted far more obnoxious tweets than the one's you've quoted. For example he posted a tweet calling for a MOAB (mother of all bombs) to be dropped on Luton, Paris, Stockholm and Brussels. This was reported in the media if you want to check it out? He's also posted homophobic rants far worse than the ones you've cited
Trouble is he has deleted some of them. If you have any screenshots I will be more than delighted to add them to the article.
Vance's problems of racism on his hate blog were picked up by Slugger O'Toole. He later switched web provider. https://sluggerotoole.com/2010/06/29/tuv-candidates-website-faces-closure-over-hate-speech/
Very nasty man, 100% extremist. By the way, I'm pro Brexit, so not a usual contributor here.
He's just a pathetic attention seeker who likes the attention from sharing hate. Luckily for him, it's "cool" in some circles to appear intolerant, uneducated and lacking the potential to be educated. A very sad man.
Please point out that the picture of him on his Twitter seemingly addressing the UN is a fake. It was an abandoned lectern in a hotel lobby that both he and Katie Hopkins commandeered to get photos and video to suggest they actually have any clout at all.