Adams blames DUP for stormont crisis

[derry_ff]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7524271.stm

I believe him (haha), millions wouldnt.

[campbeca]

In other news- pot calls kettle black.

National immigration council are said to be investigating the incident

[Jargongrad]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7524271.stm

I believe him (haha), millions wouldnt.

I think the situation is a little ridiculous. The DUP are worried they are losing voters to the UUP who have been trying to take a harder line on certain issues of late, so the DUP are blocking the most crucial issues Sinn Fein want to get working on. In return Sinn Fein are refusing to play ball, which in my opinion is fair enough. They've tried for a long time now to get the DUP to negotiate and work on getting the Irish Language Act and the policing powers issue through Stormont and the DUP aren't having any of it.

Now there is a political deadlock, which isn't much of a big deal unless that political deadlock occurs in the unstable place known as northern Ireland.

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Maybe its time to stop the pretence of stormont working and go back to the joint authority of british and irish goverments running the six counties as the prima donna politicians up there are incapable of doing so.

[ArtyQueing]

It is an inherently unstable statelet - it is obvious that this latest incarnation of the partitionists solution will fail

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It is an inherently unstable statelet - it is obvious that this latest incarnation of the partitionists solution will fail

I believe that the dup were getting a bit carried away by their own importance and sinn fein decided to put the mockers on that.All politicians have problems controlling their egos.It seems to be part of their makeup.

[PatMcL]

Maybe its time to stop the pretence of stormont working and go back to the joint authority of british and irish goverments running the six counties as the prima donna politicians up there are incapable of doing so.

It is hard to go back to something that has never existed in the first place, there never has been joint authority.

[PatMcL]

the DUP are blocking the most crucial issues Sinn Fein want to get working on. In return Sinn Fein are refusing to play ball, which in my opinion is fair enough. They've tried for a long time now to get the DUP to negotiate and work on getting the Irish Language Act and the policing powers issue through Stormont and the DUP aren't having any of it.

Just about sums it all up.

[Slartibuckfast]

It is an inherently unstable statelet - it is obvious that this latest incarnation of the partitionists solution will fail

Hopefully. Baffles me how republicans can argue that it is a failed state which needs to be ended, while at the same time doing all they can to make the state a success.

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Maybe its time to stop the pretence of stormont working and go back to the joint authority of british and irish goverments running the six counties as the prima donna politicians up there are incapable of doing so.

It is hard to go back to something that has never existed in the first place, there never has been joint authority.

I was being a bit sneaky there.I believe that Major/Reynolds,Ahern/Blair had a defacto joint authority.If we are honest the nothern parties are incapable of governing themselves.If the british represent the unionists and the irish goverment the nationalists and when necessary use carrots and sticks to guide all the notherners to the right place then we have a system that seems to work.Often in the six counties you must unite both sides against a policy to achieve the right outcome.