Reforming the agreement

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Robin Wilson of Democratic Dialogue has the op-ed slot in tonight’s Belfast Telegraph. He focuses on four things he believes could be changed to help promote a less sectarian field of play for politics in Northern Ireland: the consent principle; move from STV to AV for voting; discard the designation system in favour of a weighted majority coalition; and fourth which follows from the last, is ditch d’Hondt system, which gives all parties a seat in cabinet. It might work for most anti-Agreement unionists, though it’s immediately hard to see any nationalist giving much away on points 1, 3 or 4.

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