Poots village idiot remarks showed poor handling from the Speaker…
It’s not always easy to judge when something useful or interesting or important is going on in any parliamentary body. But given how glacial progress is through Stormont it is a hard station squeezing anything consequential. Last week the big controversary was the Minister for Health’s failure to apologise for calling his parliamentary colleague a ‘village idiot’. However that story sort of died when Stephen Nolan brought in Matthew Parris in to talk about the matter, who was frankly surprised …