Stormont Talks: Brokenshire To 'reflect' Amid Ongoing Deadlock

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40489510

How can Mrs May expect there to be a workable solution to power sharing at Stormont, when she is snug in bed with one of the main parties ?

The Good Friday Agreement was a marvellous outcome, after so many years of fear and violence, so I am at a loss to understand why a British PM should endanger it now ?

[Kromovaracun]

"I am at a loss to understand why a British PM should endanger it now ?"

Because they have a "duty" to cling desperately on to power, and hang the consequences.

Oh well, that's "the sensible party" for you.

[Islay]

Both parties are responsible for the failure to reach an agreement over Stormont - long before the PM got involved with the DUP - you can't keep blaming her for everything Mikey.

[New Judge]

Sinn Féin has stipulated (among many other ludicrous demands) that it won't share power with DUP leader Arlene Foster until an inquiry into her controversial and expensive RHI Renewable Heating Incentive (RHI) scheme is concluded and that inquiry is expected to take more than a year. So that’s that then. The DUP may have to share power (if it’s deemed necessary for anybody to do so) with somebody else.

My views on the devolved assemblies in the UK are well known. I am opposed to any devolved governments which make any part of the UK governed substantially
differently to any other. The “Good Friday Agreement” was a Pig-in-a-Poke which gave terrorists and murderers Get out of Jail Free cards and saw some of them promoted to government. A robust society does not do deals with terrorists.
Northern Ireland has been without its infamous “power sharing Executive” for more than six months. Nobody has died as a result and life goes on. So my suggestion would be to simply continue this situation as the norm as the Executive is clearly an unnecessary layer of government. The Six Counties can simply revert to being governed in the same way as the counties in England are.

And as Islay has correctly pointed out, the Northern Ireland arrangements broke down six months before the general election and has failed to be reconvened ever since. That failure has nothing to do with Mrs May's agreement with the DUP.

[albaqwerty]

' The “Good Friday Agreement” was a Pig-in-a-Poke which gave terrorists and murderers Get out of Jail Free cards and saw some of them promoted to government. A robust society does not do deals with terrorists. '

Yep , although I just keep hoping no-one else gets blown-up/blasted/knee-capped. The thought of returning to those days is not to bear thinking about

[New Judge]

Sectarian violence still goes on in NI. The difference is that many of those who arranged and perpetrated it previously now dine at the Top Table. This is not a suitable reward for years of terrorism and mayhem.

[Islay]

Whilst there is still violence NJ it is nothing compared to 12 years ago and the province is a far better place to live now because of the GF agreement.

[albaqwerty]

wish someone would have the nerve to do similar in the middle east.

[THECORBYLOON]

If you think the UK government will not be neutral, do you honestly believe that the Irish government has been neutral all these years and not fighting the Nationalists' corner?