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Ian Paisley Jr. has been taking the SDLP's Chief Whip Patsy McGlone to task over the SDLP's summer campaign for an emergency recall of the Assembly. The DUP North Antrim MLA has circulated Mr McGlone's letter to his fellow MLAs asking them to petition the Speaker for a return of Stormont. Ian Jr. points out that the Speaker's office has not received a single copy of the letter and argues that this reveals the initiative was "nothing more than a publicity stunt". Every other SDLP MLA, he says, "refused to be Mr. McGlone's Patsy."

The Chief Whip retorts that he asked his fellow MLAs to return their letters to his Stormont office. He has all 16, but knows there is no point forwarding them on to the Speaker until he reaches the magic figure of 30 required for a Stormont "petition of concern". A disgruntled Patsy McGlone adds "this is not a silly game...the people could be eating grass and the DUP and Sinn Fein would be arguing about the coco-pops."

Should that last turn of phrase win some kind of mixed metaphor award?

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