Gridlock in Northern Ireland: Why the real crisis for the Union is not Scotland.
/Matthew Robbins is an undergraduate at St Benet’s Hall and the Whip for Michaelmas Term 2018.
Over a year ago, on March 2nd, 2017, Sinn Fein registered its best election result since the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Since then Northern Ireland has been in an undemocratic paralysis, as neither the DUP or Sinn Fein is able to agree to a government under the power-sharing mechanism that governs the constituent country. The result is rule imposed by the government at Westminster as endless rounds of talks fail to reach a resolution.
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