{"id":725820,"date":"2026-01-28T06:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/725820\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:51:27","slug":"expect-more-headlines-about-gordon-lyons-migrant-post-but-none-will-include-the-words-resigned-or-sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/725820\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect more headlines about Gordon Lyons\u2019 migrant post, but none will include the words \u2018resigned\u2019 or \u2018sacked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gordon Lyons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3e0ae006-635e-400c-8ba8-e8915eafd77a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gordon Lyons<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It must seem strange to the new Commissioner for Standards at the Assembly, Stephen Wright, that the local political news agenda has been dominated by a report from his predecessor who left office last September. But thanks to the unique system of government in Northern Ireland, \u201cstrange\u201d comes with the territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">To citizens, the way the commissioner and Assembly\u2019s Committee on Standards and Procedures work may seem baffling and strange, in that, the Commissioner investigates, the committee talks about it and then glosses it with their own report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gordon Lyons It must seem strange to the new Commissioner for Standards at the Assembly, Stephen Wright, that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[9311,216168,600,42497,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-725820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-angela-rayner","9":"tag-conor-burns","10":"tag-facebook","11":"tag-gordon-lyons","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115971403508109662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}