Time for the DUP to come clean - Allister
14 December 2010
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-
“Though now fully ensconced in government with IRA/Sinn Fein – to the very point where Peter Robinson must sit in embarrassed silence as McGuinness spins his fairy tale about the Northern Bank – light is being shed on the duplicity of how the DUP got there by the Wikileaks revelations.
“In the cable from the Irish Embassy on 31 May 2006 we now know that Dublin was able to report multiple direct contacts between the DUP and Sinn Fein before any decommissioning, in the run up to the Northern Bank robbery and at a time when the DUP Leader, Ian Paisley, was fiercely refuting any suggestion and blustering that any DUP member talking to Sinn Fein would be expelled! Yet, according to the Irish Embassy cable there had been “over 30 instances of quiet contact between the DUP and Sinn Fein during the December 2004 negotiations.”
“How could this be if the DUP was telling the truth, including to its officer team, of which at the time I was one? How would
“There are people, I believe, in high places today in the DUP who know the truth about these matters. It is time they told it.
“The Wikileaks papers also explode another DUP myth. At the time of the DUP’s somersault into government with IRA/Sinn Fein the figleaf deployed was the threat of ‘Plan B’. I said at the time it didn’t exist and was an excuse devised to cover their tracks. Now, we find confirmation in this same cable that a ‘Plan B had not been drafted’.
“So the double deception of the DUP that they were not negotiating with IRA/Sinn Fein and that Plan B forced them into submission, both stand exposed as false by the Wikileaks revelations.”
