ALLISTER ANSWERS DE BRUN
06 July 2006
This week in Strasbourg MEP de Brun attacked the DUP for having "shown no interest in power-sharing or in progress and it has been allowed by the two governments to prevent progress being made."
In response Jim Allister said, "As the DUP has made clear repeatedly there will be no power-sharing with those still wedded to paramilitarism and criminality. Such would not be progress but regression into the lamentable failures of the past.
Sinn Fein and de Brun know what has to be done, if they want "progress": irreversible abandonment of all things paramilitary. No one else can do this for them. With the IMC finding senior republicans are still mired in criminality, with continued opposition to the police, with persistent denial, never mind resolution, of the Northern Bank robbery, with on-going denial of justice to the McCartney family, with no progress on "the disappeared", it is clear that republicanism has much to do and is showing little inclination to do it. They continue to be the roadblock, even if an acceptable form of devolution was found."
