Despite the continuing political paralysis in the British province of Northern Ireland, the London government will not call for immediate elections after Thursday’s deadline to form a regional government in Belfast. Northern Ireland Minister Chris Heaton-Harris announced his plans in an article published in the Irish Times on Thursday. Northern Ireland has not had a government since elections in May, when the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the main Protestant party, refused to restore a power-sharing agreement with Irish republican Sinn Féin, the main Catholic party. The unionist…