With parading the new manufactured crisis on the hill you could be forgiven for believing the big two parties have the big issues of the day in hand.
It doesn’t seem to be the size of the public finance deficit or the crisis in education but the smallness of partisan bickering which is dominating our regional government.
Partisanship is the order of the day as narrow sectional interest is always put ahead of the shared regional one. Whilst The DUP obsesses about issues which most people don’t get, Sinn Fein’s President Gerry Adams is telling reporters “we’re not interested in managing the economy”.
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