TUV still setting the agenda
08 September 2009
Commenting on Peter Robinson's speech calling for rule changes at Stormont, TUV Leader Jim Allister QC said:-
"Having told us since 2007 that at St Andrews he righted the wrongs, Peter Robinson now has to admit the unworkability of Belfast Agreement devolution. But his utterances today are idle words, because the system in which he is ensnared gifts IRA/Sinn Fein the veto. What many journalists fail to point out is that Mr Robinson was not even able to speak as First Minister in making his speech, because his co-equal McGuinness hadn't approved it. So, he could only speak as DUP Leader.
But, if Mr Robinson is serious about the need to dismantle the folly of Belfast Agreement devolution, then let him stop operating it. Let him have the courage to break the shackles that bind him to McGuinness and admit his experiment at Stormont has failed. Then, there might be some hope for progress."
