TUV launches summer offensive
11 July 2008
Traditional Unionist Voice has launched a new leaflet dealing with current political issues. (Found here) On devolution it contrasts in table form “What you were promised” with “What you got”. It then deals with the argument “there is no alternative” by setting out two alternatives, one based on legislative and executive devolution, the other administrative devolution.
Drawing on democratic practice and precedent elsewhere it firmly rejects mandatory coalition but, instead, offers voluntary coalition as the route to shared government. If such is not attainable, then TUV advocates “enhanced local government” with extra powers to councils and a central super-council to administer education, health and roads.
The leaflet ends with the pointed question, “What did O’Neill, Faulkner and Trimble do that the DUP has not ended up doing – the only difference being they get to do it.”
Commenting, TUV leader Jim Allister, said
"A year into DUP/Sinn Fein government, it is timely to pause and reflect on the scale of the failure to deliver on the many promises made to the Northern Ireland electorate. This leaflet poignantly contrasts what Unionists were promised with what they have got under the DUP/Sinn Fein coalition. It makes stark reading. It also answers the nonsense that there is no alternative, which comes chiefly from those with a vested interest in sustaining the DUP/Sinn Fein regime.
We exist to challenge and defeat that axis and I believe this leaflet will greatly assist in spreading that Traditional Unionist message to a wider audience."
