DUP double crossing on double jobbing
05 November 2010
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:
"For a party which likes to boast about the depth and breadth of its talent, the DUP is getting paranoid about the prospect of its MLAs having to give up their Council seats. Hence, their amendment to the Purvis Bill to delay the phasing out of double-jobbing till 2014. Clearly, the DUP is running scared of the end of double jobbing.
"For all its spin about commitment to ending it, when presented with the opportunity they baulk at the chance? So much for their empty rhetoric! And what of the promise that every MP, except the leader, would quit the Assembly. Sammy Wilson clings on as a triple jobber on the bogus pretext he is Finance Minister, but what is Gregory Campbell's excuse?
"Being an MLA is a full-time job, at least it is paid as such, and, therefore, should be done as such. Trying to swim against the public opinion tide on double jobbing only demonstrates that the mindset which initially defended their MPs multi-jobbing on public funds as Ministers, MLAs and councillors, still lives on within the DUP and is now trying to cling on to the last vestige of an era of greed and super-ego."
