Allister calls on DUP to take a moral and reality check on where it is going in government with Sinn Fein
10 September 2010
“It really is a shocking commentary and insight into the operation and nature of government in Northern Ireland that in one breath the First Minister can call on his co-First Minister to tell the truth over Claudy, and in the next, without apparently any appreciation of the magnitude of what he is saying, declare that he has no expectation that he will ever do so. That is the essence of what Peter Robinson said yesterday: a perfunctory call to truth, before resuming government with those exposed as falling so far short on honesty and integrity, supposed imperatives under the principles governing those in public office. And that not over some trifling issue, but the premeditated murder of 9 innocent people.
“Imagine the uproar and fall-out if David Cameron called on his deputy to come clean on an issue, but declared he never thought he would and with a shrug of the shoulders returned to govern with him as if nothing of moment had ever happened.
“The ease with which Peter Robinson tries to move on from washing his hands of his partner’s mendacity typifies the need for the DUP to take a moral and reality check on where it is going in government with IRA/Sinn Fein! In spite of the fact that it is me who is saying it, I do wish those former colleagues who respect moral imperatives would quietly reflect on the moral quagmire of which, maybe through mere acquiesance, they have become a part.
“How can you those with ethical principles sustain in government those they believe to be liars and worse, much worse?”
