Do Stormont politics stifle the non-sectarian parties? | Letters

Responding to an editorial, Boyd Black deplores Labour’s policy of not fielding candidates in Northern Ireland. Plus a letter by Declan O’Neill Your editorial on the dysfunction in Northern Ireland politics ( 15 October ) does not mention the main cause: the denial of basic democratic rights to the people by the Labour party. The party national executive committee refuses to run Labour candidates in any Northern Ireland election, whether to district councils, the Stormont assembly or