Every election in Northern Ireland is the same. Voters are not invited to choose between right and left, between Conservative, Socialist and Liberal. They are asked to assert their national identity as either British or Irish.
Except this time.
Last week, the electorate was given the opportunity to say they’d had enough of the endless Green/Orange feud and were ready to lend their support to politicians who put bread and butter issues first, without regard to national labels.
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