Sammy and an Endangered Species
If you are a feeling a bit hot under your wooly collar, don't worry. You have nothing to be concerned about regarding global warming. You are thriving. Your future is safe.
How do I know this? Well I heard it today directly from our Environment Minister Sammy Wilson, answering Sinn Fein's Cathal Boylan. According to Sammy, the world's polar bear colonies have never had it so good.
After the revelations last week about that global warming advert, you might have expected today's Environment question time to be even better than usual knock about stuff. However the failure of the Assembly to adopt a system of topical questions once again rendered the exchanges less than gripping.
There were questions about planning (after having scolded his own officials about the rejection of the Aurora building in Belfast the Minister is commissioning a tall buildings policy for the city). Then some MLAs attacked Mr Wilson over his continuing membership of Belfast City Council (he rejected the argument that combining this role with responsibility for local government represented a conflict of interests and pointed out that other ministers had held on to their council seats).
But the great global warming story stayed largely untouched apart from attempts by Cathal Boylan and Daithi McKay to work it into other topics. Mr McKay welcomed Mr Wilson back from "the DUP sin bin". But the minister, alluding to a previous quote from Gerry Adams, insisted that "I'm not going away, you know".
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