Saturday at 12.45
is the time to set your watches for Inside Politics on Radio Ulster. I'm joined by the DUP Deputy Chief Whip Peter Weir and Sinn Fein's Mitchel McLaughlin for a discussion which ranges across Jim Allister's new unionist movement, the Paisley- McGuinness trip to the White House and Caitriona Ruane's vision for education.
P.S. I think Mr Allister has to be congratulated for finding an acronym that, so far as I can tell, has not been used before. Traditional Unionist Voice translates as TUV. Apparently in Germany that's an organisation which inspects industrial safety. But I can't think of a previous unionist or loyalist TUV. Maybe it could merge with "Love Ulster" to become TUV LUV.
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Mark, can you answer a question of the utmost political importance which has been gnawing away at me for a while, and which still, I'm sorry to say, has me baffled...
Who are the two guys called Mark and Alex, one of whom always appears to wear a lilac/lavender suit, in that wonderful comedy drama 'Folks on the Hill' ?
Perhaps you would also care to comment on whether there will be 'jockeying for position' by the minor parties next time there is an election by politicians keen to ensure that they are not left out of any future series of this satirical gem.
Wasn't it Oscar Wilde who said that the only thing worse than being talked about was not being talked about..
They are the leader and chair of NIs 3rd largest party no less! (in votes if not seats). Mark Durkan and Alex Attwood of the SDLP.
They were introduced to the program when the SDLP was the 2nd largest party and have survived in computerised form even after their party's decline.
By the way, something that is
baffling me, where is the drama in Folks on the Hill? But that doesn't matter.