“I think it’s a very uncontentious issue.”

Mick’s already mentioned this but the assertion by the Northern Ireland deputy First Minister, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness, that “I don’t think that policing and justice transfer is a contentious issue”, must have been news to this Martin McGuinness, “It’s a big issue for Sinn Féin.” And this one. And to a few others as well. Let’s hope Peter Robinson doesn’t intend to learn lessons from Sinn Féin’s communications on that particular issue. Meanwhile, still no answers to those other questions.

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