Some of them are quite worrying especially when taken with his current bill to suspend the institutions of the Good Friday agreement. First of all he sees only one community here. He used the word 'community' several times but always in the singular. Diversity' is the other buzz word he couldn't omit. It's rubbish particularly since the Good Friday agreement which Mandelson was extolling throughout his speech is based on the existence of two communities.
Assembly members have to declare which they belong to.
Nothing of importance can be agreed unless there's 'cross-community' support. There has to be 'sufficient consensus' from both communities representatives. The phrase 'cross-community basis' pops up every couple of paragraphs. Our proconsul got himself into terrible confusion on the Irish dimension. In Mandelson's mind it seems Irish people only live in the Republic and he speaks on behalf of British people whoever they are nowadays.