Allister Spells out his Mission
11 June 2009
Speaking to the Central Council of TUV tonight, Jim Allister focused on the growth of Traditional Unionist Voice as the next stage of its development.
In the course of his remarks Mr Allister said:-
"While others reel in dis-connection from the voters and clutch at the figleaves of "think-ins", "focus groups" and re-shuffles, TUV is in the happy position of being able to focus on growth, as we take forward our mission to rid Ulster of terrorists in government. The DUP deludes itself - as it did after Dromore - if it thinks changing personnel and reheating the same old diet of power-sharing with IRA/Sinn Fein will revive its fortunes. It is a party in decline, brought there by abandonment of principle and double-crossing its voters. With power - though passing - still mattering more than principle there is no prospect of the root and branch change of policy which is required. Changing the packaging doesn't alter the product - it's still IRA rule, courtesy of the DUP.
IRA/Sinn Fein remains as unfit for government as ever. Whatever the cosmetics of the DUP's response to defeat, we will still have the poison at the heart of government of a republican revolutionary party which is dedicated to the destruction of the state which they govern, which holds tenaciously to an illegal Army Council, which retains a military wing and which you can never vote out of office because of the pernicious system of mandatory coalition which guarantees them places in government for as long as it takes them to deliver the all-Ireland outcome which is the Belfast Agreement’s ultimate destination. It is all of this which it is our mission to destroy.
Monday's result has provided further hope to many dispirited by betrayal. We will build upon this foundation to give a Province-wide voice to unionists who know its right to hold to traditional unionist values and know its wrong to be governed by those who murdered so many of our kith and kin, and who still retain a military wing and a wicked Army Council.
Whatever the venomous attacks of those smarting from defeat, I do not intend to be distracted from the task in hand."
