With the Northern Ireland Assembly many weeks deep into a very generous summer recess I felt compelled to capture the personal and political détente and the legislative freeze with some striking illustrative prose.
I look forward to hearing what captions come up.
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“Yawn”. Why am I alone here? Dammit, why didn’t someone wake me and tell me the summer recess had started?
The sandpit talking shop will do as much in July and August 2012 as it has done since its inception;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing
Direct rule ministers were cheap and took decisions.
RPA, ESA, removal of DEL. Nothing.
Wait… wasn’t there something about a paper bag tax a few years ago. Still a possibility. I suppose.
And the planned Ulster Scots GCSE and A Level.
At least it’s not raining.