http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/tv ... ndex.shtml
Margaret Ritchie - SDLP MLA Minister for Social Development
Arlene Foster - DUP MLA Environment Minister
Mike Nesbitt - Victims' Commissioner
Henry Kelly - Broadcaster
Interesting debtate surprisingly goes very smoothly on issues that would have created little more than finger pointing and anger in the past.
A sign of age old tensions dying ?
Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers.
I wud say its more to do with sf not being present
Economic Left/Right: -3.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.87
That both the parties were represented by Executive ministers might have something to do with it too, backbenchers might have done a little more fingerpointing.
Well if so then it is surely an outworking of the Peace Process and the GFA?Originally Posted by st333ve
RIRA not in my name-Traitors to Ireland MMcGuinness; People are entitled to cultural & social equality MLMcDonald; We have a length to go understanding unionism GAdams
Its about time that Ni politics was about the issues on the ground the electorate want sorted. As Mike Nesbitt said the constitutional issue is now resolved, lets get on with it...
No-one said anything is 'resolved', infact a united Ireland was mentioned many times alongside a smiling Arlene Foster.
I dont know what programme you were watching but you cannot 'resolve' republicanism.
Mike Nesbitt is a man who sits behind a desk and reads an autocue.
You cannot extinguish an idea, put it up against a wall and shoot it or pretend it doesnt exist especially when that idea is at its strongest point ever and will never cease to grow.
Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers.
Well good old mike nesbitt would say that, would,nt he.
He is the same old mike nesbitt who was in the paid employment of the
good old WASP ulster television. One of their anchors. Need i say more. Its amazing how these people fall in and out of these teriffic jobs. £65,000 grand per year this one. Many have their noses in the trough. Just look at the MLA,s, and the renting of offices from family members. My god, renting your offices off your wife! The gravy train express trumbles on and on and on.
You're right Stevey2005 the constitutional issue is resolved indeed. The Good Friday Agreement has been signed. As soon as there is a majority vote for United Ireland it will happen, and until then NI stays part of the UK. That's the framework with which Irish unity or partitional continuation will take place. There's no longer any point in mentioning such things while trying to discuss things like housing or education or the day to day affairs of making the north a sustainable place in which to live.
It's about time we were able to see more people moving towards this approach, especially those in government, to be able to more effectively deal with the everyday needs of people on the ground. Is that not what politicians are supposedly elected to do?
Arm of Erin, prove strong, but be gentle as brave, and, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save; Not one feeling of vengeance presume to defile the cause or the men of the Emerald Isle.
how can a leftist and rightist forced coalition government agree on policy
What does the Irish President spend their time doing. Work in progress
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That's the beauty of the D'Hondt system. Compromise.
And why is this thread resurrected after nearly a month?
"The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism. People are now prepared, I think, to confront the possibility that many Irish problems are, in a sense, indigenous to the Irish situation." Roy Foster (1989).
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