Dual mandates short-change Unionists again!
20 May 2008
Statement by Traditional Unionist MEP Jim Allister:-
"Last night in the House of Commons we had another example of how dual mandates are short-changing the Unionist electorate. Quite appallingly both Peter Robinson MP and Jeffrey Donaldson MP were absent for the key votes in the embryology debate, and Sammy Wilson only made it for two of the votes.
These were vital issues of prime moral and public importance. If some DUP MPs were too busy to attend, then they are too busy.
Coming as this does on the heels of missing several key votes on the Lisbon Treaty Ratification Bill, it is clear that clinging to dual, even triple, mandates is robbing UIster of full and effective representation."
