Northern Ireland election

Overheard

• Mark Devenport
• 5 Mar 07, 03:15 PM

At this morning's Alliance event. Party official Ian Parsley, rearranging the furniture, said "it's nice to have to add more seats at a function like this". His leader David Ford retorted "it's only the seats on Wednesday that will count".

And then he went and ruined it by adding "I only said that for Mark's election blog". Really David, this is not a time for soundbites....