'Vote DUP or McGuinness is First Minister' - Arlene Foster's big pitch to unionists

Mar 07, 2016, 10:13 AM

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'Vote DUP - or Martin McGuinness gets the First Minister job.' Is that what May's Assembly election is going to be about? Arlene Foster spelt out her view of the battleground in a speech to a DUP conference at the weekend. She said: "Make no mistake, this election is very close. "A swing of only two votes in every hundred from the DUP to Sinn Fein would see Martin McGuinness become the next First Minister." Is this bogeyman politics by the DUP and its new leader? Or sensible tactics? And what do people think of the idea of Martin McGuinness as FM? Stephen was joined by blogger Alan Meban who received a sharp reply from the First Minister herself at the weekend on this issue and political commentator Alex Kane