Reforms

John McCallister’s generous plans for some kind of Opposition in Stormont…

Mick Fealty on October 14, 2015, 10:56 am

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Sam McBride has a good overview of John McCallister’s proposals for new arrangements for an Opposition at Stormont: Once an Opposition is formed, all MLAs not in the Executive are immediately classed as members of the Opposition. The Opposition will be led by a leader and deputy leader, who would be chosen by Opposition MLAs and who would get the first questions to the First Minister and Deputy First Minister at Assembly question time, moving the Assembly slightly closer to …

Villiers: What Stormont needs is the revitalising influence of an opposition…

Mick Fealty on April 16, 2014, 7:30 am

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Another day in Northern Ireland, another Groundhog.. Theresa Villiers is make a speech today saying it is time to make progress on the past and on a future that could bring NI political life back to the cryogenically sealed democracy unit currently operating at Stormont.. “Political institutions the world over adapt and change. As the founding father of modern Conservatism… the Irishman Edmund Burke… once put it: ‘A State without the means of change is without means of preservation’. And …

Where’s Stormont’s incentive for being good at Politics…?

Mick Fealty on August 22, 2011, 10:21 pm

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I noticed a tweet from Eamonn earlier on noting how both Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness managed to keep their holidays intact whilst David Cameron had no such luck. It’s been a strange inversion of past realities to see the British PM running to keep up with the multiple crises besetting his country, whilst our boys take it easy in Florida, or by some fast flowing river in Donegal. Spare a thought too for Enda Kenny et al, whose feet …