Alex McGlone
The SNP leader Alex Salmond will be meeting our First and Deputy First at the British Irish Council in Edinburgh tomorrow. The fact that our top two are going could be interpreted as a bit of a straw in the wind that the DUP-Sinn Fein stand off might be easing - last week Peter Robinson listed the BIC as one of the institutions which would suffer a knock on effect from the failure to convene an Executive meeting.
During their trilateral meeting with Scotland and Wales, the FM and DFM may want to look closely at the Scottish representative just to make sure he is the SNP Chief Honcho and not the SDLP Chief Whip. After putting out his statement about a "part-time Assembly" earlier this week, Patsy McGlone was surprised to open up a copy of the Belfast Telegraph to see his comments and his name beside a picture of Alex Salmond. Roll on the SNP-SDLP Voluntary Coalition..
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