Durkan slams 'screensaver' government
SDLP leader Mark Durkan poured scorn on the DUP-Sinn Fein partnership government at his party's annual conference.
Addressing party members in Armagh on Saturday, the Foyle MP was critical of the five month logjam which ensued between the two parties last year over policing and justice, meaning the Stormont administration was rudderless during a time of economic peril.
"In this new regime, they (the DUP and Sinn Fein) strut and boast their power status, only to plead that they are powerless on the issues besetting our economy," he said.
"They are giving a screensaver government."
Mr Durkan condemned both parties for campaigning at the last election on a ticket of opposing water charges.
Deferring them for one year was an admission they would be imposed, he said.
SDLP candidate for the forthcoming European election, Alban Maginness, also addressed delegates.
The party is looking to reclaim the seat once held by former leader, John Hume, which it lost in 2004 to Sinn Fein.
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