In Official Opposition, the Ulster Unionist Party will presumably be adopting what is now the time-honoured position of whichever major Unionist party is not providing the First Minister at the given time.
That position is one of ever-so-slight scepticism about the whole arrangement, but nowhere near enough as might call it into question in principle.
Even Traditional Unionist Voice is like that, albeit to a more intense degree. Outright Unionist opposition is simply no longer a factor in the place where people would have to live with the consequences.
Meanwhile, what of the SDLP in Official Opposition?
The rising force in, for the time being, Nationalist areas is the People Before Profit Alliance, in reaction against the austerity programme of Sinn Féin.
There are clearly votes to be had there.
There are clearly votes to be had there.
You are frighteningly brilliant.
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