Democratic Unionist Party European election candidate, Jim Allister QC, has today made a stop in Lurgan whilst canvassing in the Upper Bann constituency.

Campaigning alongside local Assembly Members David Simpson and Stephen Moutray, Jim Allister said, “During this election campaign, I have met a reaction that unionism is not prepared to go back to the time of one-way concessions to Sinn Fein/IRA and the failed arrangements of the Belfast Agreement and I am convinced that unionists will vote on June 10^th to reinforce that view.

Unionists were sick, sore and tired of the almost daily drip, drip of giveaways to republicans which the Ulster Unionist Party were responsible for.  That’s why they overwhelmingly endorsed the Democratic Unionist Party last November.  There seems to be absolutely no appetite within the unionist community to return to those dark days when the UUP led unionism. 

It is evident in this European campaign, that unionism is showing all the signs of uniting around the Democratic Unionist Party.  There is every indication that people will vote to perfect unionist unity around the DUP standard bearer driven by the two fold realisation that the DUP delivers for its electors and that it alone in this election can thwart Sinn Fein’s ambition to top the poll.

Upper Bann is a constituency that is seeing an ever increasing move towards the Democratic Unionist Party and I trust that the embracing of the DUP by the unionist electorate will continue at the June 10^th poll”.