Beware of IOU from PM and triumphant McGuinness in Downing Street - Allister
09 October 2009
TUV Leader Jim Allister has forecast that if an IOU is accepted from the outgoing Prime Minister, then the combination of savage cuts after the election and an upsurge in republican terrorism will in coming years leave frontline services being starved of funds to pay for policing and justice.
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister QC:-
“For Traditional Unionists devolving policing and justice is not a mere matter of money, it is about the much deeper issue of the folly of gifting such vital and sensitive issues to an Executive and Assembly where IRA/Sinn Fein – the party which still justifies their IRA’s murder of policemen and judges - holds the power of veto.
“Ending British control of policing and justice has long been a strategic republican demand, as plainly set out in their 2005 Manifesto: ““Our strategy is for a new all-Ireland policing and justice system. That cannot be achieved without the transfer of policing and justice powers away from London, into an Executive and Assembly and the all-Ireland institutions.” No Unionist should be facilitating the attainment of their goal. A triumphant Martin McGuinness in Downing Street is warning in itself.
“On the issue of finance it would be utter folly to accept an IOU from an outgoing PM, who’ll be long gone when the bills have to be paid. Instead, we will see front line services in health and education starved of funds to pay for the prioritised costs of policing and justice, especially as republican terrorism increases. On the experience of the last 3 years who could have any confidence in this miserable failed Executive being able to handle any of this?”
