Sinn Fein blocks another Executive meeting…
It’s hard to see how this is going to end without someone losing face. The Executive meeting yesterday was cancelled under pressure from Sinn Fein, and according it led to the cancellation of the North South Ministerial Council. It’s a slow acting poison which is paralysing all meaningful government action in Northern Ireland. It remains to be seen whether it has the same fatal potency of thallium… that famous poison of historical fact and literary fiction. Thallium has a known antedote… as has, it seems, this internal civil disobedience campaign inside the Executive OFMDFM. I guess the question our politicians have to answer is whether the indigenous deal is actually worth saving?
I have relatives in Enniskillen so the North is very familiar to me. And this so called pipe dream could become reality very quickly if nationalist majorities in Fermanagh, Derry and Armagh voted for repartition. Their fate is in nationalist hands, in those counties at least.
No, repartition is off the table, and if it was back on you might get Newry and Derry (west of the Foyle.)
Direct rule is ok and Dublin civil servants up to stick their nose in will follow British law do what they are told, then go home
Ruane is a Connaught girl by birth and is not a bigot. That’s not saying she’s a perfect minister, but who is? …………
anyone who supports the provos, certainly is
[b]SLUG, I did not write post 13[/b]
“Sinn Fein blocks another Executive meeting…”
Half Pint “Scrap the whole thing now”
why should we scrap it when our own folk are laughing at us
Posted by Ulsters my homeland on Oct 03, 2008 @ 09:28 PM
Is this not against forum rules, posting under other peoples nicknames?
If you don’t know who you are how do you know what you believe
That’s not saying she’s a perfect minister, but who is? …………
anyone who supports the provos, certainly is
so you’re saying she is a perfect minister? How very non-partisan of you, and your reason is peculiar even to me
Driftwood:
You say there are more important issues for Stormont to deal with. Yes, the most important arguably being education. Now then, do you really think that Catriona Ruane and Mervyn Storey are the people to deal with this? I do not.
Based on the rules, I do not get to say who is qualified to do a certain job, that is up to the electorate. My personal opinion is that Ruane has made a real mess out of the job; she’s made enemies out of people who could well have been her allies, and she’s turning the teachers (who generally oppose selection) against her as well. They really need to get rid of her and replace her with someone who wants to take the time to make the change properly.
By right, the electorate should declare their position on Ruane’s work at the next election.
Even among the hopeless, shameless sloths in the assembly there must be better people that can carry this off. Michelle McIlveen seems better qualified for the DUP and anyone, bar Martina Anderson,to replace Ruane from SF.
Agreed. I think the selection thing will be damaging to SF, especially now that there are Catholic schools who are implementing their own entrance exams.