Moderates go south in Assembly elections

“THINGS fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” — well the fallout from the Belfast Assembly poll is not quite as bad as WB Yeats’s words suggest, but he was spot-on about the middle ground parties going south.

They were crushed as the DUP and Sinn Féin electoral juggernauts crashed headlong into each other, spreading their debris all the way to the steps of Stormont.

The UUP was pronounced dead at the scene, while hope lingers for the SDLP as it clings to life in intensive care.