Another DUP assurance washed up as policing & justice north/southery initiated
09 July 2010
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“Repeatedly TUV warned that the devolution of policing and justice powers would have a north/south dimension and lead to input from the Irish Republic. Repeatedly the DUP responded by claiming we were lying and asserting there would be no north/southery on policing and justice.
“Before Hillsborough TUV warned that devolving policing and justice to Northern Ireland would amount to a “facilitating of republicans all-Ireland agenda” and in the wake of the agreement I warned that:
“Removing policing and justice from London onto the island of Ireland has long been a strategic republican objective. Their 2005 manifesto bluntly expressed it thus: “Our strategy is for a new all-Ireland policing and justice system. That cannot be achieved without the transfer of policing and justice powers away from London, into an Executive and Assembly and the all-Ireland institutions.””
“DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson responded to points such as these by saying “TUV told us that policing was going to come under North-South control – that was false.
“TUV needs to realise that it can never be morally right to tell downright lies for the purposes of scaring people into supporting their party.”
“Just who has been telling “downright lies” has now been exposed by the news that the cross-border criminal justice ministerial group has met for the first time today.
“Its time for the DUP and Mr Donaldson to apologise to the Unionist people for their duplicity on this subject”.
“It is quite clear that the North/South dimension of which we warned is now unfolding and will do so progressively as the orientation of our justice system away from its British connections is accelerated.”
