The time Haass come.

The draft document on the way forward on flags, parades and the past "has good and bad" parts, a DUP MP has said.

Jeffrey Donaldson was speaking after an initial reading of the proposals drawn up by US diplomat Richard Haass. The five main Stormont parties have been examining the document.

One of the scariest things about Stormont and those who run it is that between them they do not represent nearly *50% of the electorate who did not cast a vote in the 2011 Assembly elections. Now you could argue that people had their opportunity to vote but didn’t, however maybe like me they didn’t feel there was anyone standing for election that warranted a vote.

The major problem with voter apathy, and I include myself in this is that it kinda lets those dimwits in Stormont off the hook, and truth be told it maybe does play into their hands as they have their troops galvanised and ready to vote for them not matter what, especially with the $hinners. 

Although I have to admit I was as surprised as anyone when Peter Robinson lost his seat to the Alliance Party, but then again the DUP have been blaming the Alliance party for the flegs debacle in what could be considered an attempt to undermine them in Belfast to regain lost ground.

I firmly believe that those in Stormont, like the majority of politicians and political figures across the globe are nothing but a bunch of self serving knobheads who want you to vote for their ideology. And it doesn’t matter who is in power, the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer.

The Haass document should be interesting reading, but what concerns me is that the parties will be looking to carve out their own section that protects their interests. But the sheer fact that 15 years after the Good Friday Agreement that the knobheads in Stormont have to run to ‘an outsider’ because they’re just not capable on their own should worry any right thinking person.

As with the Good Friday Agreement, St Andrews Agreement and the Weston Park Agreement it won’t be long before the parties will be back tracking and reinterpreting it, or just ignoring the Haas document when it suits their own needs it's inevitable.

The British Government will be happily playing their usual honest broker role (honestly Guv’nor we had nothing to do with the political situation in the North, it was just sectarianism), and the Irish Government will be playing their usual poor relation role and the people (on both sides of the Irish Sea)  will be stuck in the middle suffering whatever shite comes their way as their respective Governments bankroll the bankers, excuse the tax avoidance of multinational companies and continue to shaft the ordinary people at every turn.

We need good honest political leadership (now there's an oxymoron), we need people power irrespective of what colour you think your fleg is, your children and grand children will continue to deal with this shit long after we are gone. Cancer doesn’t care what colour you are, what way you vote, and unless you’re rich or Gerry Adams (or both) you’ll not have an all expenses paid trip to a private medical clinic in Manhattan to have your arse examined.

What we need is political leadership free of backward thinking creationism and stagnant middle class Catholicism and their associated political designations.

And no before you think it I’m not advocating a left alliance or the latest incarnation of the Socialist Workers Party after they disband People Before Profit, in favour of the SEA, or the ARSE or some other acronym that will vanish as sure as they do after each election.

Two things before I sign off can we ensure that Bono is kept as far away as possible from Northern Iron and maybe just maybe it’s time to let the Bahá'í’s run the show?

* Turnout in the 2011 Assembly election was 54.5%, a decline of almost eight percentage points from the previous Assembly election and down over 15 percentage points from the first election to the Assembly in 1998.