Don't play fast and loose with victims - Allister
15 September 2009
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister QC
“It doesn’t need a public consultation to conclude the present obscene definition of a “victim” needs to be changed. Delay and obfuscation has attended this matter for too long already.
“The DUP, which brought the victim-makers into government, has long boasted it “controls Stormont”. If there was a scintilla of reality in that boast then the promised Bill would be a Government Bill, not a Private Members Bill subject to nationalist veto.
“Announcing, again, a promise to attempt necessary legislative change from La Mon, poignantly focuses attention, of course, on the DUP’s Jekyll and Hyde approach. They comfortably rub shoulders in government with those who know all about the La Mon atrocity, and many more, and then pose, without a blush, as concerned for the feelings of victims! One of the greatest slights on victims was to usher the victim-makers into government. Those who did that, by their actions have shown that their deeds speak louder, and matter more, than their words.”
