Tearing Down National Flag a Shame and Disgrace
03 December 2012
Commenting on the vote to take place tonight in Belfast City Hall TUV Leader Jim Allister said:-"The tearing down of the national flag from the prime civil building in our capital city is a shame and disgrace.
"It is yet another example of the insatiable demands of the DUP's republican partner in government, Sinn Fein. Once more we see that their perverse 'equality' agenda means the destruction of every semblance of our Britishness and the expression thereof. Having been brought in by compliant, push-over unionism to rule over us, IRA/Sinn Fein feels emboldened to push its agenda at every opportunity.
"I must also comment that whereas the DUP and UUP rightly oppose the removal of the Union flag from City Hall, they remain complicit in its absence from Parliament Buildings, where together they carry a majority on the controlling Assembly Commission, but fail to act. Why, because behind all their bluster they choose to operate the Stormont mantra, 'what Sinn Fein wants, Sinn Fein gets'.
"I must also point out that as part of their RPA deal with Sinn Fein the DUP sold out on the future control of Belfast. Instead of the obvious choice of expanding Belfast to include Castlereagh, and thereby guaranteeing its unionist majority and the flying of the flag, the DUP choose to fall into line with the Sinn Fein demand of no change to Belfast, apart from strengthening the republican grip by importing Dunmurry. Thereby, by deliberate choice, they have doomed Belfast to non-unionist control."
