Jamie Pow, editor of Northern Slant, was our guest on today’s show. Jamie works as a researcher at Queen’s University Belfast and has been looking at ways in which Northern Ireland could use a Citizens’ Assembly to move forward with political issues that politicians seem unable to solve. We talked all about the way in which a Citizens’ Assembly would work in Northern Ireland, as well as the Irish Border issue and Brexit.

Resources

http://www.northernslant.com/

http://www.northernslant.com/if-politicians-fail-to-govern-send-in-the-citizens-instead/

https://twitter.com/northernslant

https://www.facebook.com/NorthernSlant/

https://thejist.co.uk/podcast/chatter-episode-2-niall-bakewell-on-the-dup-dark-money-scandal-and-transparency-in-politics/

https://www.irishnews.com/news/brexit/2017/11/29/news/watch-this-channel-4-video-of-british-people-struggling-to-draw-the-northern-ireland-border-1199556/

http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/documents/raise/knowledge_exchange/briefing_papers/series5/garry-briefing.pdf

Music by Just Jim – https://soundcloud.com/justjim

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