Junior makes Patsy out of McGlone
Ian Paisley Jr. has been taking the SDLP's Chief Whip Patsy McGlone to task over the SDLP's summer campaign for an emergency recall of the Assembly. The DUP North Antrim MLA has circulated Mr McGlone's letter to his fellow MLAs asking them to petition the Speaker for a return of Stormont. Ian Jr. points out that the Speaker's office has not received a single copy of the letter and argues that this reveals the initiative was "nothing more than a publicity stunt". Every other SDLP MLA, he says, "refused to be Mr. McGlone's Patsy."
The Chief Whip retorts that he asked his fellow MLAs to return their letters to his Stormont office. He has all 16, but knows there is no point forwarding them on to the Speaker until he reaches the magic figure of 30 required for a Stormont "petition of concern". A disgruntled Patsy McGlone adds "this is not a silly game...the people could be eating grass and the DUP and Sinn Fein would be arguing about the coco-pops."
Should that last turn of phrase win some kind of mixed metaphor award?
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I have an idea. Let's have an Assembly election. It would certainly put the cat among the pigeons....
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Mark,
Talking of the SDLP did you hear Margaret Ritchie on Radio Ulster on Monday and Tuesday morning as well as Tuesday afternoon? With Margaret being a member of the Executive it was sickening to listen to someone who is meant to say to the world Northern Ireland is open for business and has the right people to do it. Margaret sounded like something from the Muppets road show.
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McGlone and most of his colleagues are capable of little more than childish stunts of this nature. Probably Declan O'loan is kicking himself that he didn't think of it first -- sad waffler that he is.
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What would be achieved calling Stormont back early since this group of MLA's have shown themselves as being incapable of making decisions/progress while Stormont is in session.
Other than our power hungry, often dual jobbing over-paid MLA's who else is benefiting from this growing compulsory coalition farce called Stormont.
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