TUV Confirms Unionist Unity Move on Marginal Seats
15 April 2010
As nominations open in the General Election, TUV has confirmed that it will not fight any of the marginal seats. It will fight only in eight safe unionist seats and two safe nationalist seats.Commenting Jim Allister said,
“With Province-wide support it is hard not to offer all our supporters the opportunity to vote TUV in this election, especially where our support is strong as in Upper Bann, but as a Party opposed to Sinn Fein at every level, in parliament or in government, we are the only unionist party prepared to take this stand. I can however assure our supporters that in the PR Assembly election we will have candidates in every constituency.
“It is not for me to prescribe how TUV supporters should vote in each constituency where TUV is not standing, but I’m sure they will weigh the circumstances and opportunities of each. Likewise, while there is little to choose between the two pro-Belfast Agreement parties, each of which support terrorists in government, I expect many will have regard to the recent gifting to Sinn Fein, by the DUP, of its strategic goal on policing and justice. At least the UUP did the right thing in voting against transferring such powers to the terrorist-inclusive Executive at Stormont.”
