Allister responds to DUP satisfaction on Army Council
22 November 2008
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister MEP:-
“How pitiful that the DUP Leader has been reduced to peddling republican-friendly spin. How else could you describe the claim, “IRA Council ‘has gone away’ – DUP”.
Even Chamberlain had a piece of paper, all Peter has are “private assurances” from the republican leadership - the same leadership which assures us Gerry Adams was never even in the IRA! Now, Peter Robinson is reduced to a plaintiff, desperate plea that Marty says publicly what he claims he has told him in private. How pathetic! Is this the same Peter Robinson and the same DUP that used to tell us that the Army Council had to go, be seen to be gone, no ifs, no buts and no cons as in Trimble’s day? Sadly, it is, but then it’s the same party that told us photographic evidence of decommissioning was also a pre-condition at another time.
The sad truth is that the DUP has got so entangled in the web of Belfast Agreement devolution that it will say anything and do anything just to cling to power. And if that requires rolling over on Sinn Fein’s demands on policing and justice and pretending the wicked Army Council is gone, then so be it. In their parallel world it’s another victory for Unionism!”
