More trouble for Poots?
The Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams is to demand an Irish language act when he meets the Culture Minister Edwin Poots.
Mr Adams said he personally negotiated the Act at St Andrew's in talks with the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State.
Now that Tony Blair and Peter Hain have moved on, the issue has fallen into the lap of the DUP minister.
Time for another Edwin Bluster...
Ultimately we have to achieve cross-community consensus and cross community support to win this one," he said.
And ultimately whilst Sinn Fein remains the party most vocal in pushing the language there ain’t going to be none of that fabled "cross-community consensus".
For that to occur, the language needs to loses those mono-ethnic fascist supporters who’ve tagged on to its cause for solely narrow political reasons- after that happens, it probably won’t even need legislation to garner a whole new market of *non-traditional* speakers.
But while we’re waiting for that to happen, just to emphasise:
Without unionist support the legislation will not pass the assembly, even if it gets through the executive.
Yet another messy battle beginning shortly in The Department of Culture and Leisure....
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