“It is the politics of self-interest, exclusion, and fear…”
Less than a week after MLAs Basil McCrea and John McCallister announced the launch of their new party, NI21, and the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Business Committee has changed the number of MLAs a party requires to be eligible for a first round place in the order of party speaking rights in the assembly. A change that affects only the newly formed party… [“Meetings of the Committee are held in private” – Ed] From the BBC report From 2006, parties with two or more MLAs would be …