Genuine question @moneillsf - what additional powers will you have, that you didn't have as DFM, if you become FM? Can you set out what the actual difference in power is? Because under the law they are both joint and equal offices.

@Shellmccabe @NicholaMallon @moneillsf Are you just as "progressive"?

@EarlofLeuven @NicholaMallon @moneillsf what? am I just as progressive as who? and what's an 7 year old SF leaflet got to do with me?

@Shellmccabe @NicholaMallon @moneillsf sdlp are in danger of being swallowed by one of the bigger parties in the South as their vote share disintegrates.

@Shellmccabe @NicholaMallon @moneillsf Another transfer KILLER. Some going

@Shellmccabe @NicholaMallon @moneillsf Except the SDLP aren't nationalist. I got a leaflet in my South Belfast door. Totally in English the words 'Irish' and 'Ireland' did not appear. Was basically an English Labour party style waffle-job about 'local issues'. There's only one issue in any occupied territory.

@Shellmccabe @NicholaMallon @moneillsf Its not significant unless you're a shinner and its one over on the hated Huns

@Shellmccabe @NicholaMallon @moneillsf "You'd think as a unionist party you'd understand the significance of having unionism as the largest party & the FM title - even if it is in name only, it's still symbolic" That's what the DUP tells the UUP when the UUP criticises the DUP for going on and on about a unionist FM.

@Shellmccabe @NicholaMallon @moneillsf Agreed, but every swipe at the Shinners from the Stoopers ensures the vote goes to the former, so let them attack away...

@Shellmccabe @NicholaMallon @moneillsf The sdlp are not a nationalist party anymore

@Shellmccabe @NicholaMallon @moneillsf Well said Shellmçcabe