TUV challenges DUP to come clean
10 November 2009
TUV Leader Jim Allister, who at the weekend exposed the DUP’s complicity in the legislative change which allows Sinn Fein to become First Minister (Section 8 NI St Andrews Act 2006) and their refusal to vote against the change – an act which he described as the DUP handing over the Unionist title deeds to the First Minister’s office – has today challenged the DUP to confirm or deny that a DUP spokesman has told journalist Eamonn Mallie that “Peter Robinson would not serve as deputy first minister and neither would any other Unionist.”
“I trust this is right”, said Mr Allister “and, therefore, I call on the DUP, without equivocation, to publicly confirm this is correct and to follow through with the logical and inescapable conclusion that the present arrangements are built on sand, including the sand, which they helped shovel into place, of the possibility of the obscenity of Martin McGuinness as First Minister.
“The present collapsing shambles is inevitably leading to fresh negotiations; the sooner we have elections to trigger such the better.”
