Sam McBride
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first heard Jun 2026
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So it will not be a fast process.
It's also entirely unsurprising.
I'm not making light of the significance of what has happened there.
But both the TUV and Jimmy Bryson are anti-agreement unionists.
They don't agree with Sinn Féin being in government full stop.
So in that regard, this is entirely to be expected.
I think what is more significant today is the reaction of the DUP community.
We have seen Emma Little-Pengelly, the Deputy First Minister, speaking against Michelle O'Neill from the back benches in Stormont, not from the front bench as a government minister.
We've seen Michelle O'Neill responding from the back benches, defending everything that she has done.
And while she did that, there were...
I think three DUP MLAs in the chamber.
All of the rest of them got up and walked out, including Emma Little-Pengelly.
This is a joint office.
These are people who have to be able to work together if this system is to survive.
And so I think it's increasingly difficult to see how Stormont survives what has befallen us over this weekend.
It may limp along.
in a form which is so impotent that it almost doesn't matter that it's there.
But the idea that we are going to have a functioning government between now and the next election is almost unfathomable at this point, I think.
I think there is an extraordinary unity of purpose from nationalism.
I can't recall anything of this nature in my 20 years as a journalist.
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