Allister answers Robinson
02 January 2009
Statement by TUV MEP Jim Alister:
“In my New Year Message, with reference to the upcoming European election, I had included:
“I expect an avalanche of disingenuous propaganda, none greater than the audacious claim that only the DUP can keep Sinn Fein from topping the poll – not that they really care, because if they truly cared about thwarting the advance of Sinn Fein they would not have hoisted them to the top of the government pole. You can’t prop up Sinn Fein in government 9 to 5 and then go out, with credibility, at night to tell voters you are the ones to fight the Shinners. Voters will see right through such hypocrisy and know if they want 24/7 opposition to Sinn Fein and a principled stand both at home and abroad, then it is offered by TUV.”
Now, I see right on cue, Peter Robinson has started just such disingenuous propaganda in preparation for the DUP coming in to split the vote in Europe. I repeat, it is rank hypocrisy for the DUP to pretend concern about Sinn Fein advancing to the top of the poll when it was they who advanced them to the heart and very top of government. Hypocrisy which is compounded by their determination to split the vote against two sitting Unionist MEPs.”
