AS the two main political parties of Sinn Féin and the DUP edge ever closer to the inevitable deal that saves both their blushes they can count on the Alliance party to tag along. The desperation of the Alliance party to cling to office wouldn’t be so unedifying if it was not for the fact that it was the DUP which demonised them over the flags issue in the first place. The Ulster Unionists under Mike Nesbitt will have calculated that being outside of the DUP/Sinn Féin cartel has done them no electoral harm. And that only leaves the SDLP to play their cards as to in or[...]