Brexit. NI Assembly

Citizens’ assemblies in Northern Ireland planned to influence the Brexit debate

Brian Walker on April 29, 2017, 11:41 am

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Three academics, John Garry and John Coakley of Queen’s and Brendan O’Leary of the University of Pennsylvania are planning citizens’ assemblies to feed into the Brexit debate in the absence of the elected Assembly. Good idea. We await an announcement which I hope will not be confined to academe, which is where I picked it up – you know, the liberal elite and all that. Their pitch is: How NI voted in the EU referendum – and what it means for …

The Supreme Court rules that devolved assembly consent is not legally required for Brexit. But the political battle is only just beginning

Brian Walker on January 24, 2017, 11:26 am

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. So the Westminster Parliament must vote on triggering Article 50 – but on what exactly and how often until Brexit is achieved? The battle has only just begun. It’s bad news for nationalists everywhere. The Court ruled that the consent of the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly of Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly is not legally required. The argument put forward by Sinn Fein, the SDLP and in the courts by Raymond McCord that under the GFA the …