official incompetence: This is not the HBO series and there are no dragons, according to The Guardian. It is Northern Ireland's cash-for-ash scandal, a farrago of official incompetence and alleged corruption relating to a renewable heat initiative RSI scheme which has paralysed the region's politics as Brexit looms. There is a vacant throne, a beleaguered female leader surrounded by backstabbers, a kingdom with a deep treasure chest across the sea and the risk that everything will be reduced to ash. The former first minister Arlene Foster appeared at a public inquiry this week to rebuff accusations that she was to blame for a fiasco which led to the collapse Northern Ireland's power-sharing government, and which may cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds. The televised testimony in a hushed, marbled chamber at Stormont, marked an attempt to stop her leadership of the Democratic Unionist party, and by extension her sway over Theresa May's government, which relies on DUP votes in Westminster, going up in smoke. I'm accountable but I'm not responsible, Foster said when asked about a special adviser's possible criminal conduct.
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