We need joint authority over NI

Your Morning View on the political situation at present ('˜Direct rule entails risks but it might just have to happen,' Nov 3) stated to the effect that there will be nationalist uproar if London introduces direct rule and that there is no plausible alternative because of the present Sinn Fein strategy.

Well, let me say this as a nationalist voter and like most nationalists who hold a European/international/Irish passport: There is a plausible alternative and that is the implementation by London/Dublin of joint authority and joint sovereignty over Northern Ireland because both the British government and the DUP are together in total breach and contravention of the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement and the St Andrew’s accords.

No-one should know this better than Nigel Dodds, and the present leadership of his party.

Both the British and Irish governments are signatories and at the end of the day both governments do have an overall responsibility to take control of a by now interminable political and constitutional crisis. Both nationalists and unionists must now recognise the fact that this state is now a failed political/constitutional entity and should now prepare for a radical joint London/Dublin intervention.

Mr M Singh, Londonderry