Position of First Minister of NI has been vacant for over a year. (View Post)

The current VP would be a perfectly capable President. That doesn't mean she should or will get the nomination in future, or that she is a popular VP. But Agnew was a spiv who was very fortunate… (View Post)

I agree. It's quite plausible that they took a slightly more precautionary approach than they would have with Joe Bloggs (see also Trump being hospitalised). But I get why they'd do that fo… (View Post)

It isn't automatically the DPM. Indeed, I believe the Coalition Agreement was explicit that Clegg would step in when Cameron was unavailable for planned reasons but NOT if he was incapacitated. … (View Post)

On topic, my impression is that he's screwed, and looking at a something like a six week suspension (and, inevitably, recall petition). Not massively confident on that prediction, I must say, bu… (View Post)