Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Question time
Quick bit of blatant plagiarism from Mark Devenport’s blog, but I liked “Stormont spy’s” list of questions:
1. Will Sinn Fein fail to put forward McGuiness?
2. If it does happen will Robinson and McGuiness shakes hands?
3. Is this being done to bring Gerry Adams back to the spotlight?
4. What happens to MLA’s pay? Will it be suspended of the Assembly is dissolved?
5. Does the Executive members give up their departments to direct rule ministers?
6. What can Gordon Brown do?
7. Does the Civil Service go into “purdah”?
And finally to leave you with this… Who has more to lose? McGuiness or Robinson? My pension is on Robinson. Firstly he will lose seats to Sir Reg. Secondly he will lose seats to Jim Bowen (Allister). What happens then? What if Sinn Fein is the largest party? Will Robinson sit down in Government as a deputy?
What I think:
1: Probably, but I remain to be convinced that they’ll push it to an election.
2: Pretty unlikely, it’d be madness on Robinson’s part.
3: Not a bad call.
4: The same thing will happen as in normal election period circumstances - but only if SF refuse to nominate after the 7 day period I think.
5: I’m pretty sure not. I know that in Westminster during an election there are no MPs, but there are ministers. I assume it’s the same here.
6: Threaten to legislate over the DUP’s heads. The 42 day detention vote is looking more and more safe for him, so he will be more disposed to ignore the DUP.
7: No idea.
8: I couldn’t possibly comment.
Michael Shilliday @ 12:03 PM
The Continuity Traditional Unionist Voice?
Posted by on Jun 05, 2008 @ 10:46 AMDid they both do auditions for the series Allo Allo with their berets on?
Posted by on Jun 05, 2008 @ 10:47 AMI might actually be wrong on this.
Convictions in both juristictions?
But on reflection has the DFM ever been convicted of anything in the North?
Posted by on Jun 05, 2008 @ 11:03 AMBut on reflection has the DFM ever been convicted of anything in the North?
Nor has the proto-FM, IIRC.
Perhaps that’s it. They both have ‘records’ in the south, but not in the north.
Posted by on Jun 05, 2008 @ 11:05 AMYes he was convicted for obstruction on a bridge - I’ll look it up.
Posted by on Jun 05, 2008 @ 11:37 AM“Robinson and his DUP buddie Ruth Patterson were both found guilty of obstructing the Albertbridge Road in September 2002.”
That’s from an old Elblogador blog.
Posted by on Jun 05, 2008 @ 01:03 PM“Robinson and his DUP buddie Ruth Patterson were both found guilty of obstructing the Albertbridge Road in September 2002.”
Curiously enough, it is entirely absent from his bio on wikipedia, which deals with Clontibret in some detail.
But maybe El Blogador mixed him up with someone else?
Posted by on Jun 05, 2008 @ 01:11 PMIt seems I misjudged El Blogador. The BBC coverd that as well:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3373535.stm
”The deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Peter Robinson, has been found guilty of obstructing a public road while he was the Stormont minister responsible for roads.”
And this twit will be FM in a few hours ....
Posted by on Jun 05, 2008 @ 01:19 PM
