Allister urges support for TUV candidate in Lurgan by-election
29 December 2009
Speaking in support of TUV candidate, David Calvert, in the Lurgan by-election, Party Leader Jim Allister said he looked forward to getting back on the doors of Upper Bann next week and talking to as many voters as possible about this important by-election.
“I am already aware from the constituency of a lot of resentment concerning the cost of this unnecessary election. I agree. It is scandalous that hard-pressed ratepayers have been put to this expense. Those responsible deserve to be punished at the polls. It is indisputably clear that this was a TUV held seat, yet when it required filling by co-option the Ulster Unionists objected and forced the by-election, yet last week, when a co-option arose in Portadown, the same UUP had no objection to make to the SDLP replacing a councillor. The fact that they object to a fellow Unionist being co-opted, but facilitate a nationalist co-option – in a Unionist area - is something which staggers many ordinary unionists. Voters rightly outraged by this behaviour and the cost inflicted on them, can best express their objection by voting TUV.
“Electors also in David Calvert have by far the most experienced candidate in the field and the only candidate opposed to terrorists in government and untarnished by the disastrous shambles at Stormont. A first preference vote for anyone other than David Calvert will count as endorsement of the Stormont Shambles and the gifting of the vital powers of policing and justice to an executive in which IRA/Sinn Fein holds the control of veto.”
