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The Northern Ireland Election itself was mostly about water rates, with Paisley and Adams equally opposed to them on identical grounds. The fact is that the existing parties in Northern Ireland exist in order to answer a question which is no longer being asked.

As we seek to re-build proper political parties from the grassroots up (and if you are not doing this, then why not?), we should be mindful that those include the grassroots of Northern Ireland. Whatever come after Labour and the Tories should be the main parties there as surely as in England, Scotland and Wales.