To be honest the SDLP’s response to the Lisburn case dissapointed me.

In my view they should have publically disowned the action of the Equality Commission. Is there no pride in consistency of principle anymore? The biggest tactical battle the party has faced in recent months has been the denial of d’Hondt to run in P&J powers which yes is a denial of democracy.

However for years the party cried for a power sharing mechanism in Unionist councils and when they employ the one the SDLP practically invented (to NI politics and parlance) and it bites a councillor on the ass then they are smug when the Equality Commission intervenes with redress.

It seems to me that the party has allowed its agenda to be driven by the petty parochial ambitions of a single councillor to obtain position on a committee that in reality matters little in the wider scheme of things.