After two weeks of the strike, and after Rees had refused Faulkner’s call to him to open talks with the strike leaders, Faulkner concluded that there was no help for the executive and resigned. It was the end of a unique constitutional experiment which had taken almost two years of hard work to construct, but which survived for only five months. Following Faulkner’s resignation, Rees announced the winding-up of the executive, and the two governments and the powersharing parties trudged dispiritedly back to square one.
