Robinson & McGuinness' name calling shows government in disarray
22 February 2011
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-
“Peter Robinson has clearly been spending too much time in bully boy company. For any First Minister to stoop to describe another Minister’s fight for more health funding as “obscene”, says more about the First Minister than it does about the one against whom he directs his venom. If Mr Robinson wants to talk obscenity, maybe he should reflect on the obscenity of having bombers and convicted terrorists in his ‘Cabinet’.
“Unionists of all shades will have observed that Robinson and McGuinness, while studiously ignoring the gross incompetence of Conor Murphy and Caitriona Ruane, are as one in their coordinated attacks on a minister wanting to defend his health budget. It would seem that Sinn Fein’s Stalinist tendency towards the ruthless suppression of dissent has infected the entire approach to government in the Sinn Fein/DUP coalition.
“Meanwhile, they preside over squander and waste in their own bloated administration, particularly in terms of the £400m ringfenced for the useless North-South Bodies, which could be far better spent on giving us parity with the UK on health. They slash DETI’s capital spend budget by 64%, so that no new factories can be built, but preserve £20m plus for the Provo Project at the Maze and £80m for pet organizations in the community. They allow the water infrastructure and road maintenance budgets to be cut so that another sacred cow, the Dublin to Donegal motorway can be funded.
“The sad truth is that the DUP/Sinn Fein budget is hopelessly flawed – both in its exaggerated supply expectations and disjointed spending plans - and, like the regime itself, is utterly dysfunctional, being a collection of 12 separate plans, rather than a joined up master plan for recovery and growth."
