Belfast Port, worth £1 billion, has a huge for sale sign placed on it. Gordon Brown announced during the recent US-NI Investment conference that 100% of money raised from the sale of public assets would be retained by the Assembly as a one off payment.

While in Derry it has been announced that the Airport would “inevitably” be sold off. This should be a good deal for a private company as Belfast City Airport is now being resold for treble the price the government initially sold it for.

Big business representative where whisked around Belfast from Hillsborough Castle to Stormont, all charged to the tax payer. No expense was spared as delegates stayed in rooms at the Culloden and Europa Hotels.

While this elite group were living in extravagance ordinary families in Northern Ireland will see their average bills this year go up by £2,000.

As the saying goes you can tell a person by their friends. At the special session entitled “Why Northern Ireland, Why now?” key note speakers included John Spangler of Seagate – who last year closed down their Limavady plant with the loss of over 900 jobs for the area after taking £12million in government cash.

And Tony O’Reilly one of the richest men in Ireland who doesn’t pay tax on his $1.8 billion fortune. These are the type of people the Assembly politicians want to set up shop in Northern Ireland!