Vote for parties that seek the common good

Almost a year ago we elected an assembly to deal with the pressing problems of budgets, health, education, employment, the environment and most urgently the effect of Brexit on our island.

The two dominant sectarian parties seem to be incapable of compromising for the better good.

They are pulling the people further apart instead of working for a shared integrated society.

Language acts would have little effect on most of our lives compared to the result of having no local assembly and executive to work on all the essential matters.

The other parties are willing to work together but have been excluded from the deliberations.

In elections we must vote for parties and people who are willing to work for the common good, not for those who play on out-dated intolerant attitudes.

Margaret Marshall, Belfast BT8