DUP joined at the hip to Sinn Fein flag snatchers
21 January 2013
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-"The DUP needs to do much more over the fall-out from the flag issue than the First Minster decline to appear for photos with his co-equal McGuinness. Photographed together or not, the reality is that politically they are joined at the hip.
"Therein is an issue central to the flags controversy: the DUP is sustaining Sinn Fein in government as it wages its cultural war on unionism. Hence, the rising grassroots antipathy to the DUP, especially as it becomes clear that keeping itself and Sinn Fein in power is their top priority. Even in Stormont the tempo seems to have gone out of increasing the flying of the union flag from Parliament Buildings.
"You can't with credibility put Sinn Fein into power and then pretend surprise when they implement their anti-British agenda, of which removal of the flag is but a part. It is the implementation of the Belfast Agreement - which the DUP, despite its pathetic pretence, is overseeing day and daily - that is the dynamo driving the purge of our Britishness. Such is an essential part of its ultimate objective, Irish unification.
"For those looking for leadership out of the flag crisis it will require a willingness to face up to the failure and malevolent centrality of the Belfast Agreement and a political willingness to address this elephant in the room. It is hard to see the DUP or UUP making the sacrifice necessary to chart this course; hence, their overriding desire to calm things down and carry on as before."
