Letter: Stormont MLAs' £14,000 pay rise is reward for a totally dysfunctional Northern Ireland Assembly
A letter from John Mulholland:
It is quite amazing that there are those who are making excuses to justify giving MLAs around £14,000 pay rise.
They are being rewarded for a totally dysfunctional assembly that is failing to do what is best for the people of Northern Ireland.
They would rather argue about foreign wars or try to defend the indefensible - that terrorists are victims. People are in government that want to see Northern Ireland fail!
When you have a fifth column in government, you end up with what we’ve got: people who want to dislodge us from the UK and take all the British freebies they can get before they do.
They have failed to make work pay, as many who could work find it more profitable not to. One of the results is that immigration gets out of control. Questions are even being asked as to an American firm pulling 300 jobs and the reason why. A foreign entity is making laws that we have no say in changing - all for political expediency.
I could go on about the failures. We have people not fit for the NI Assembly. Maybe if certain people are unable to take the rough and tumble of politics, they should consider doing something else. I doubt if many would get a job at the wages they now receive for the mess they are making of it.
It is also an assembly where unionists continue to operate the sea border that is detrimental to our place in the UK market and if it continues it will wedge us from our place in the UK.
Little doubt that money and power were the reasons for so-called unionists to walk back with their tails between their legs under the Windsor Framework.
For them to receive a reward for this would be to reward the betrayal of the unionist people. Yes, there is an argument that you get what you pay for but you are unlikely to see many jumping to join the debacle that is Stormont.
John Mulholland, Doagh