Death of Margaret Thatcher
08 April 2013
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“My thoughts are with the family of the late Baroness Thatcher.
“While many will remember her shameful decision to support the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the extent to which she regretted this in later life was to be welcomed.
“It is without question that there has been no Prime Minister of her strength since she left office. Who else would have stood with such iron will in defence of the Falklands?
“As I said in the Assembly today in response to Sinn Fein's venomous diatribe, "their bitterness and scurrilous attacks on Mrs Thatcher on the day of her death says more about them as mounthpieces of terrorism than it does about her, whom, of course, their IRA sought to murder."
“In common with devolved legislatures in Scotland and Wales Stormont should flag the Flag at half-mast on the day of the funeral.
“It is also only right that books of condolence should be opened across Northern Ireland.”
