Under the rigid peace process framework, neither community has an interest in doing anything but digging in, and both are put in a position where they are rewarded for keeping their respective communities mobilised around a competition for the spoils of government. What have Adams and McGuiness truly won for the nationalist community in northern Ireland? Jobs for Sinn Fein leaders, but no programme for the future, just more tactical manouevring and galvanising the foot-soldiers to keep on marching and canvassing for local elections.
It is not that surprising that the less rewarded parts of that constituency want to crank up the volume with some tactical innovation. The tragedy is that they have no strategy, other than a reheated Republicanism, a more intransigent version of Adams/McGuinness.