DUP take over Laurelhill College
20 March 2009
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister MEP
“I am in receipt of complaints from parents in the Lisburn area about the take-over of Laurelhill Community College today by the DUP for political propaganda purposes.
Under the guise of a “Citizenship Roadshow” pupils from Lisburn schools were today gathered at Laurelhill Community College to be subjected to a party political broadside from not one, but five DUP speakers, with no other Party invited. Peter Robinson, Jeffrey Donaldson, Diane Dodds, Jonathan Craig MLA and Edwin Poots MLA all participated in what was clearly a Party promotional event for the European elections.
This is one of the worst abuses of an educational establishment I have heard of in a long time. If Sinn Fein had taken over a school in this way, for the promotion of naked party politics, there would have been an outcry and the educationalists called upon to explain themselves. No less explanation is required from Laurelhill College and the Department of Education.”
