"Exonerated" (His Honour Judge Nathan Adams, Durham Crown Court, 8 May 2025). Two-time political prisoner. Beaten up in prison, so I fear only God. Activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach".
Monday, 8 February 2010
A Sinn Fein First Minister? So What?
The powers of the First and Deputy First Minister are precisely identical, and the distinction was only drawn as a sop to Unionists who assumed that one or other of their parties would always be the single largest, as well as because the original, pre-Saint Andrews, Good Friday Agreement gave the position of First Minister to a member of the Assembly's larger tradition rather than largest party, should the two have failed to coincide. But I say again, the powers are, and have always been, identical. A Sinn Fein First Minister? So what?
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