The five-party coalition had entered office on the back of a series of confidence-building initiatives agreed by the previous interim government, which included a cross-party agreement on the 2008 budget and a modest package of devolution measures.
Since it is not the job of our friendly but gun-toting Sheriff to make legal determinations as to who-owns-what, a third-party claim effectively gums up the works of any levy, and the Sheriff cancelled the sale of the officebuilding.