Naomi's Seating Plan
With MPs gathering this afternoon to choose their Speaker, our local representative with the toughest choice to make over where to sit is the new East Belfast MP Naomi Long. Alliance is the sister party of the Liberal Democrats who, as junior members in the Westminster coalition, will be sitting on the government benches alongside the government.
But when Ms Long was elected she was at pains to stress that, whilst she had good relations with the Lib Dems, she would be an independent Alliance MP.
So sit with the Lib Dems and enjoy a sisterly direct line to power or sit with the opposition, thereby distancing yourself from any responsibility for government imposed cuts?
Naomi, according to her Alliance colleagues, has made her choice and will sit with on the opposition benches.
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