MEDIA reports are that the government(s) of Britain, the Republic and the mighty USA are becoming increasingly concerned with the childish, abysmal, impasse created by Sinn Fein and the DUP.
Several questions have to be asked: in the first instance, did not the brains that concocted up the St Andrews Agreement (some now departed from the political mess they created), not have the foresight to see that such eventualities could arise?
M
ore haste and less speed seems to be an apt description, with the electorate paying the price of the spin doctors of the agreement ignoring or dealing with the most contentious issues between two opposing foes. These should have been addressed in the beginning instead of the populace having to suffer now.
No Plan B was made, no safeguard against obstinacy was in place, albeit knowing the blinkered, bigoted stance and hard-held views of two such parties with differing ideologies, or in more simpler terms, a licence to print money as they waffle away at the taxpayers' expense – this is not democracy.
My answer is simple, suspend both parties from the Assembly, including suspension of their salaries, let them negotiate in their own time, until the cows come home, if need be. With the gravy train ground to a halt, the pompous glory of media attention gone and the realisation that no one is indispensable on this Earth, I have little doubt they will soon settle their differences.
Let them see that there are other very capable MLAs in the Assembly, with less stringent political views, who would willingly carry out their work. The electorate have suffered enough. We need a government that produces and earns its keep, this farce has gone on long enough.
Harry Stephenson
Kircubbin
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