Policing and justice, Irish Language, what next?
28 January 2010
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister QC:-
"The manner in which the republican demand for a divisive Irish Language Act has been weaved into the policing and justice talks is a reminder of Sinn Fein’s insatiable agenda for destabilisation and conflict.
"This was an issue which the DUP boasted was dead and buried. Now, we find its back on the Hillsborough agenda.
"The manner in which Sinn Fein seeks to advance its agenda, not through accepting the processes within devolution, but by loading its gun to the DUP’s head with every pet project, is a reminder that even if the present Stormont crisis is sorted, Sinn Fein will be back for more, and more. Blackmail feeds off the success which foolish surrender to its demands produces.
"This is the inevitable outcome of the toxic veto gifted to Sinn Fein within the mandatory coalition: what they can’t get by fair means within the process, they will extract by the foul means of blackmailing the very existence of government. It is a sign of loss of moral compass when church leaders in particular urge resolution at any price."
