Unionists Don't Buy Spin
19 November 2009
Commenting on the DUP's latest publicity document, TUV leader Jim Allister said
"It will take a lot more than 35 pages of disingenuous spin to rid the DUP of the stain of bringing unrepentant terrorists into the heart and top of government. Nor will people, who everyday see and suffer the miserable failure of Stormont, be hoodwinked into believing that DUP/Sinn Fein coalition has brought them anything approaching good government.
"As for the pretence that structural changes will yet be made to the Belfast Agreement devolution which the DUP day and daily operates, the document utterly fails to explain how they will overcome the Sinn Fein veto gifted to them at St Andrews in any review. Change will only come when the present unworkable charade is brought to its knees and that will not happen through working it, but through thwarting it by electoral rejection.
"The DUP could hasten the day of change by ceasing forthwith to operate that which they know has failed and can never succeed, but sadly the lure and love of office provides the greater pull than the desire for meaningful democratic change."
