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There are several problems:
1). Most Stormont ministers that are appointed are simply not up to the task of running a department.
2). The 2 major parties will continue to divide the spoils up between them, to ensure that their pet projects and wee local 'community' groups are fully funded, thus extending their power, patronage & influence.
I honestly don't see the talent's there & the 'we need an Executive' mantra will start to sound very hollow when they get ministers in place & then we suddenly remember how crap local politicians really are, when they're let loose.

Any truth in the rumour that Mr. O'Muilleoir is going to throw his toys out of the pram & do a Prince Andrew?

Ah...my prediction a month ago on here was spot on then!!!!

Why not? Makes it far easier for them to get to & from Ibrox & various LOL marches in Glasgow, where they can spit on priests & celebrate their culture to their heart's content.

Normal service will be resumed in next election.

Not really sure it will. There appears to be a certain degree of volatility abroad amongst the electorate at the minute. Whether that's here to stay or not is another matter. I think it's clear that people voted in ways that maybe they haven't before, but perhaps it was more to get rid of certain people, rather than actively being for the politician you were voting for. Maybe that's the shape of things to come....know what you're against & then see what's your best option, in terms of turfing them out.

Politicians ought to be magnanimous in victory & dignified in defeat. Very rarely that you could say that the DUP display either quality.

Just back in from working on the count at Titanic. Couple of spectacular results, in North & South Belfast.

I went out this morning & voted, for the first time in 20 years. Hanna got my vote, the only reason being that I want to see the bake on Little early tomorrow morning, when she gets some manners put on her.

Are "we" going to take N Belfast and hold Fermanagh Sth Tyrone?

N Belfast is on a knife edge. The priest at mass on Sunday in St Therese on Somerton Rd wasn't encouraging a SF vote anyway!

Probably a DUP fan.

Our moral guardians!!!

Add in Danny O'Connor + Pat Buckley to that mixture & bingo.

Are "we" going to take N Belfast and hold Fermanagh Sth Tyrone?

N Belfast is on a knife edge. The priest at mass on Sunday in St Therese on Somerton Rd wasn't encouraging a SF vote anyway!

Probably a DUP fan.

Generally the case that credit cards come with slightly superior consumer protection than debit cards.

One if the major problems is that for every individual that really thinks about their options, votes tactically there are 10 people who will lap up for any old shite.

See these Greeks & their fancy ideas, eh? Unfortunately, they didn't leave us a mechanism for disenfranchising the intellectually enfeebled, when they laid down their principles of democracy. A big oversight.

Ni said no to brexit though? Were there polls or something to say this?

Doesn't really matter. DUP wanted 'out' & 'out' it will be. EU, Treaty of Rome, ergo massive Papish plot, from the outset. That's democracy N Ireland style for ya.

Election posters up in the wrong constituency

Yeah Dodds is everywhere

Poor Lad is under pressure! 

Not as much pressure as the Manneken-Pis appeared to be under. He was busting.

The more you hear about "finance committees", "audit committees", "external auditors", "internal auditors", "governance"....then you automatically think something is afoot. Some of these people are being paid big money to watch out for irregularities taking place. The big 4 accountancy firms have been found to be coming up short time and time again. Are they in on it, or are they just shite at what they do? Why does financial regulation & oversight never work?

Thankfully we all get a break from it next Friday.