A man with the surname ‘Darling’ surely can’t be all bad? After all the ‘Darling’ who was the foil to Blackadder in the BBC was in essence a nice guy, if a little on the dim side of stupid.
And the Darling currently not paying rent on Number 11 Downing Street, seemed to be awfully nice to Northern Ireland.
He gave us all an extra £116 million over the next couple of years. Nice of him that!
Oh, but would cut existing funding by £123 million in 2010-11. One hand giveth and one hand taketh away…
All that running back and forward to Westminster appears to have paid off (well not in terms of expenses, but we’ll come to that).
And then came the scary news…the Government’s spending review will almost definitely mean a sizeable reduction in the £10 billion handed out to NI every year from the Treasury, admitted Finance Minister, Nigel Dodds.
His solution is a hack and slash raid on the number of Executive Ministers….sorry Departments. Of course, there’s no political agenda in cutting departments. The fact that the UUP and SDLP would almost certainly find themselves out of the Executive is an unfortunate side effect…
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