Using Stormont as a "prop"
That's something Mark Durkan expresses concern about, during our discussion of Gordon Brown's forthcoming visit on this weekend's Inside Politics. The programme covers energy prices, water charges and whether the SDLP will pull out of the Executive if they are passed over for the justice job. We also talk about the fallout from those remarks by the Foyle MP at last weekend's British Irish Association.
After we had finished recording, Mr Durkan pointed out that I had mixed up his metaphors when I paraphrased him by referring to the "ugly scaffolding at Stormont" biodegrading. For the record, he used both phrases, but in different sections of his Oxford speech. I know scaffolding won't ever biodegrade and take full responsibility for mangling the metaphors. I was, after all, the correspondent who once talked on air about "taking the mountain to Methuselah".
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