Rewriting the Agreement 2
Martina Purdy has just recorded an interview with Martin McGuinness which once again vividly illustrates the difficulties within Stormont Castle. The Deputy First Minister suggests that the First Minister, having just returned from Florida, must be suffering from sun stroke.
He goes on to make clear that Sinn Fein will veto the DUP's suggestion for a system which might end the vetoes. So we have deadlock over resolving deadlocks.
It's also understood that the speech the First Minister delivered at the Ulster Hall differed from the one cleared by the Deputy First Minister's office last week.
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It's good reasoning by the DUP pity they didn't catch on to a thing called good relations earlier as this might have gone some way in getting to where the DUP wants to go, but can't.
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Mark,
When are the media going to realise that people think very little of the Assembly and Executive? With today's performances of several Ministers the question has to be asked why is fuss being made of this lot? What have any of them done for anyone bar themselves? The media circus should end and leave the clowns to their own devices.
Stormontspy
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Mark
ROBINSON'S SPEECH DENOTES FEAR
These are squeaky-bum times for the DUP. Menaced by the spectre of Jim Allister and frightful of finally agreeing to the transfer of P & J, Robinson is desperately reaching out to normally DUP loyalists who just cannot accept the Party's riding of two horses through cosying up to Sinn Féin on the one hand while at the same time deriding them when they get the chance. The DUP grassroots are also bemused at the disarray in the Assembly: lack of legislation; lack of progress on the big issues and lack of goodwill on all sides to make the institutions work.
On a more prosaic note, I thought Peter looked tired and edgy; there was a nervousness about his demeanour. Quite surprising really, given that he has just returned from a longish break at his $1.5 million luxurious holiday villa in Florida.
Maybe that holiday villa is another reason why the gap between the DUP and its grassroots is widening by the day.
Susie
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As an after though, funny how 65% is now good enough for Peter's DUP; but, when back in 1998 72% of the NI electorate favoured change it still wasn't good enough for the DUP to accept graciously.
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