RE: Return to Stormont?28 Jan 2024 12:15
DUP meeting this week to tentatively pencil in return to Stormont - depends on the UK Govt cast iron legislation. Rishi soon be gone to be replace by Gove's puppet Baddie ! Will be watching Wellingborough for the next popcorn fill.
Re NI - all business as usual as it has been throughout. Hasn't Stormont been shut down for 9.7/24 year (40%) !!!!!
Stormont history
The first locally-elected ministers took charge on 2 December 1999, which was just over 23 years
Timeline of stand-offs and suspensions:
11 February 2000 - After just nine weeks, suspended by Secretary of State Peter Mandelson because of the lack of progress on IRA decommissioning.
30 May 2000 - Devolution is restored after three and a half months as the IRA pledges to put its weapons beyond use.
1 July 2001 - First Minister David Trimble resigns over IRA decommissioning but nominates UUP colleague Sir Reg Empey as acting first minister, triggering a six-week deadline to fix the impasse.
11 August 2001-Secretary of State John Reid suspends the devolved institutions for 24 hours, giving the parties a further six-week window to resolve the decommissioning dispute.
22 September 2001- A second 24-hour suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly comes into force as John Reid warns parties it is the last chance to break the decommissioning deadlock.
15 October 2002 - John Reid suspends devolution again after police raid Sinn Fein's Stormont offices as part of an investigation into allegations republicans were spying on the government.
8 May 2007 - Devolution is restored after a gap of almost five years (1,666 calendar days), during which Northern Ireland was governed via direct rule from London.
10 September 2015 - The DUP's Peter Robinson steps aside as first minister and pulls all but one of his ministers out of the executive amid accusations of IRA involvement in a 2015 murder.
September - October 2015 - The executive continues working through the crisis so reappointed DUP ministers begin a policy of rolling resignations, staying in office for only a few hours each week to prevent other parties from taking over their departments.
9 January 2017 - Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness resigns as deputy first minister in protest over the DUP's role in a controversial renewable energy scheme, causing the executive to lose its powers.
11 January 2020 - Devolution is restored again after three years of paralysis as the parties sign up to the New Decade, New Approach agreement, to stabilise power sharing.
14 June 2021 - Arlene Foster resigns as first minister due to an internal DUP revolt but Sinn Féin refuse to go back into government with her replacement unless there is progress on Irish language legislation. A deal is done and the DUP's Paul Givan becomes first minister three days later.
4 February 2022 - Paul Givan resigns as first minister in protest over the Irish Sea border, triggering the automatic resignation of the
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