NI21 Still A Thing... apparently

In a shocking revelation that has shaken at least one MLA to his core it seems that collapsed Northern Ireland political party NI21 is still a thing apparently.

Most people's perception of an NI21 meeting.

The announcement came after the beleaguered leader of the party Basil McCrea MLA was seen spray painting "They haven't gone away you know" on the walls of an Ulster Unionist party office in Lisburn. Mr McCrea was unavailable for comment as he ran away.

An assistant to MrCrea also was unable to comment.

The party's only elected Councillor Johnny McCarthy was available for comment, "Well, yeah, NI21 is still about."

Former deputy leader to the party turned independent MLA John McCallister who left the party with the intent of damaging everyone ever associated with it has vowed to hunt and kill Johnny McCarthy so that his skull can become part of the permanent collection in his Newcastle office.

The McCallister Permanent Collection

Executive Confusion: Peter Robinson accidentally signs Martin McGuinness' rejection of DUP proposal, no one notices

The First and Deputy First Minister at the meeting were the initial mix up was made.

A recently uncovered blunder in the Executive has led to embarrassment in the Office of the First Minister.

In June 2010 First Minister Peter Robinson was mistakenly handed a rejection letter bound for the office of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, in it was detailed the reasons behind a Sinn Fein rejection of parading proposals put forth by a joint DUP/Orange Order conference that had hoped to break the parading impasse. Mr Robinson at the time had failed to fully read the document and signed off the rejection of his own party's proposal.

The blunder failed to go noticed until Christmas 2010 when Finance Minister Sammy Wilson who appeared to be doing some last minute photocopying in the Stormont copy room with Iris Robinson stumbled upon the article lodged behind the feed tray. Stormont aides noted that Iris appeared to be visibly flustered by the discovery and that Mr Wilson had broken out in a cold sweat.

The signature was authenticated by analysts who matched it to the broad strokes of the 'F' and 'T' in the FTP after Mr Robinson's name and his signature colon parenthesis 'smiley face'.

"In the run up to the Marching Season in 2010 things were hectic up on the Hill," an aide has said, "Ian Jr was out painting the kerbs and Jim Allister was driving everyone up the wall with his ideas about how we should all salute and give some kind of pledge of allegiance. Peter had a lot on his plate and to be honest if that's all that went wrong then I think we've dodged a bullet."

Martin McGuinness, hasn't stopped laughing yet.

Martin McGuinness was unavailable to comment at the time as the Sinn Fein cabinet had assembled for an emergency meeting in the Office of the Deputy First Minister. Muffled laughter could be heard from the room.