of having stable government. for the british government s part, it says it wants to renogotiate the northern ireland protocol deal that it struck with brussels. but the dup leader is still unimpressed. we have waited for months and months and months i for progress on the protocol. and we ve had monthsl since the may election, and no progress has been made in negotiations with the european union. |so, ratherthan apportion blame, i mj simply saying to our own government and to the european union, - it s time to redouble their efforts to get a negotiated solution and if that is not possible, . then the uk government should bring i forward the legislation to restore . northern ireland s place within united kingdom i internal market. so a political vacuum looms in northern ireland. at one minute past midnight, an election is likely to be triggered. caretaker ministers will be replaced by civil servants with limited powers.
to get a negotiated solution and if that is not possible, then the uk government should bring forward the legislation to restore northern ireland s place within united kingdom internal market. so, a political vacuum looms in northern ireland. at one minute past midnight an election is likely to be triggered. caretaker ministers will be replaced by civil servants with limited powers. the third biggest party in the assembly is the alliance led by naomi long. this is her position. what we face after an election is not a switch restoration but a protracted negotiation. i have no patient for that process and neither do the people that i represent. if there is an election alliance will fight it. we will fight it on our record of delivery, where we have had the power delivered. in our record of holding those two accounts who have limited those powers. i am ready for that and is party is ready
or the first and deputy first ministers who run the northern ireland government. well the biggest party in the assembly is the pro irish unity party sinn fein. its vice president is michelle 0 neill. most of us are here because we want to do thejob most of us are here because we want to do the job we were elected to do. today our caretaker ministers rallied to take positions in an impossible position dominate where they re expected to run their essential public services and yet have no budget and no powers to do so. jeffrey donaldson and the dup are in a perpetual standoff with the public. the majority of who they do not speak for indeed represent. they stood for election, they failed to show up. this is his mass in a failure of leadership by him and his party. jeffrey donaldson and the dup have left us all at the mercy of the heartless and dysfunctional tory government in his own survival is all that ever counts. northern ireland is part of the united kingdom and has devolved powers t
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