Allister speaks out on new Executive
12 June 2007
Extract from a speech at the weekend by Jim Allister MEP on the occasion of unfurling a new Orange banner at Gransha, near Dromara, County Down:-
“When this banner is unfurled it pictorially reveals the steadying, reliable truths upon which our Protestant culture is based. What a contrast with how the last few weeks have unfurled in our beloved Province.
Instead of government as the preserve of democrats, we get convicted terrorists and those still owing allegiance to an illegal Army Council to rule over us; instead of probity in high places, we get an unapologetic bomber on the Policing Board; instead of promised support for the rule of law, we get Ministers who condemn lawful arrests and refuse to urge reporting of illegal weapons; instead a handover of ill-gotten gains, we get the insult of forgotten gains; and instead of the promised “battle a day”, we get a “chuckle a day”. Photographs do indeed speak more than a thousand words, certainly more than the legions of words of broken promises that litter the road to 8th May.
Sadly, there is yet much more to come. We have yet to see the north/southery swing into action, because it must await a new government in the Republic. But once that is in place, stand by for more abandonment of principle and sycophantic photographs.
The only encouragement is that the more we see of DUP/Sinn Fein government in action, the more I find ordinary unionists are aghast and resolving to never again support those who betrayed their trust and gave us Sinn Fein in government without full delivery, tested and proved over a credible period.”
