TUV Central Council meets
02 June 2010
At its Central Council meeting last night TUV delegates reviewed its disappointing General Election results, but determined that it would continue to give voice to Unionists who still rejected unrepentant terrorists in government and the rigged system of mandatory coalition which put them there.
A TUV spokesman said:
"The message from across the party was clear, the cause which brought TUV into existence remains right. Likewise the extension to Northern Ireland of the universal right to vote a party out of office and to have an Opposition is an unanswerable imperative which can only be attained through the replacement of unworkable compulsory coalition at Stormont with the democratic and viable alternative of voluntary coalition."
Speaking to the delegates TUV Leader Jim Alister said:
"With every day that passes we see the continuance of malfunctioning misgovernment at Stormont. Now, even the long overdue reform of local government is stalled and the long promised parading 'Code of Conduct' is delayed by DUP/Sinn Fein disagreement. Government by deadlock is not government at all. Yet, this is the certain product of the unworkable system imposed under the Belfast Agreement. The fact that not even an Opposition is permitted in Stormont adds not just to the democratic deficit but underscores the absurdity of the system. Change is imperative if progress is ever to be possible."
