Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Monday 25 February 2008
Stormont: Like Westminster Used To Be
If Northern Ireland Assembly members are overpaid, then they are certainly not alone in that. But the voices to that effect are from those who would be the London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, or indeed Dublin-style Political Class in Belfast, if there were such a thing. Mercifully, there is not. Instead, the composition of those in and around the Northern Ireland Assembly is strikingly diverse, not just politically, but also socially, economically and generationally, like Parliament used to be. Long may it remain the case. These politicians are not "unqualified". They are your betters.
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