Does the Citizens Assembly proposal pass the Tony Benn test?
The Green Party Leader, Steven Agnew has raised the issue of a Citizens Assembly as a possible route towards breaking the current impasse that we fact at Stormont. If you want to read a positive case for this proposal I would direct you towards Jamie Pow’s article on Northern Slant. For me, I remain cynical about such a proposal. As Jon Tonge pointed out on Talkback yesterday there are myriad of problems with such a proposal in divided society and …